Lessons from America’s pastime: Support organized labor

The Minor League’s unionization is a win for all workers.

Minor League baseball players from the Tri-City ValleyCats' AJ Lee gets a high five from teammates.

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Investing in change: Why we must support women and gender-diverse leaders

The numbers don’t lie: There are tremendous economic advantages to elevating women and gender-diverse leaders—and equally large costs to bear if we don’t.

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Democracy at a crossroads: A call for courageous leadership

The only way to protect democracy, to preserve democracy, is through the give and take—through the slow, sometimes-frustrating, consensus-building machinery that our founders engineered.

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Ford Foundation Announces 26 New Members of Ford Global Fellowship

The Ford Foundation announced today the 2024 cohort of the Ford Global Fellowship, a program which aims to connect and support the next generation of leaders from around the world…

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Endangered Eden: The fight to protect Ghana’s Atewa Forest

Ghana’s Atewa Forest is a paradise of biodiversity and a source of clean water for 5 million people. It’s now at the center of a global dispute as the government plans to mine its natural resources. A Rocha Ghana’s team of conservationists is on a mission to save the land.

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Raising the bar: The social justice leaders making history at the Supreme Court

Five grantees tell us about their work in pivotal cases that went before the Court.

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The Future Is Hers

Around the world, women have become an unstoppable force. They are rewriting the rules, redefining power, and reimagining what equality looks like. With their collective power, anything is possible. Inequality will be a thing of the past—the future is hers.

Disability demands justice.

There Is No Justice Without Love

There are one billion people living with disabilities who experience inequality in all its forms. To build a world where everyone is equal, we need to recognize how disability intersects with social justice and work together to create a future of opportunity for all.

An update from Detroit

We catch up with some of our Motor City grantees and the big impacts they’re making in their communities.

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