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Soundbites: The Metrics That Matter in Housing Development

Maggie Grieve of Success Measures discusses a collaborative approach to building powerful metrics and serving more than 600 community-based organizations.

Thinking On: Workers are Assets not Expenses

Could changing company disclosures on skills improvement lead to more investment in workers?

Field Notes: Filling the Youth Employment Gap

Bridgespan researchers share new hiring practices aimed at improving future job opportunities and income for "disconnected" youths.

Photo of the Month: September 2016

Farm workers tend a field in California, as the state passes historic legislation for agricultural overtime pay.

Soundbites: Investing in Your Own Backyard

Toni Johnson discusses building communities and growing small businesses with Jennifer Pryce of the Calvert Foundation.

Election Primer: The Candidates’ Kitchen-Table Economics

As the presidential candidates gear up for the final leg of the election race, a look at what they've included in their plans for poverty and economic opportunity.

Field Notes: Inequality in the Age of Financialization

With the gap between rich and poor growing, a new paper offers four potential avenues investors might consider to bridge the economic divide.

Soundbites: A New Way to Measure Success

Jennifer Tescher of CFSI discusses how the financial industry is learning to evaluate its own success by measuring its impacts on consumers’ financial health.

Thinking On: Theory of Change or Civic Dumpster Diving?

Turning outward, beyond the boundaries of foundation logics and program areas is not only sensible, it’s common-sense risk management.

Soundbites: Bringing Dignity to the New Working Class

Toni Johnson spoke with Tamara Draut of Demos about her new book, the shifting demographics and conditions of the working class and upcoming work from Demos.