Category: News

During the month of October, we experienced one of the largest mobilizations in US history with the No Kings marches around the country and world; and this article from Harvard’s...

September has been a particularly frenetic month for all of us as the fight for democracy continues to be waged on several fronts. As Nonprofit AF reminds us, Let’s Try...

At the beginning of the month, a new report released by Civicus placed the US on its civil society watchlist following sustained attacks on civic freedoms. “Civicus pointed to three...

Across philanthropic, academic, and policy landscapes, a growing national discourse is emerging around the well-being of men and boys. What was once seen as a peripheral concern is now gaining...

This month we celebrated the Fourth of July with thousands of people expressing their wishes for the future of our country at an art installation at the Smithsonian National Museum...

During the month of June, Pride celebrations continued to unfold, with important new resources on the global struggle over gender rights provided by our friends at the Carnegie Endowment. The...

In the month of May, we reflected on the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and the progress, backlash, and lessons since that summer of reckoning. The first hundred days...

By Mónica Roa, Puentes In the first part of this blog, I explored how the narrative of interconnection can serve as an antidote to authoritarianism by challenging fear-based stories that...

April 2025 has been a month when many new voices have been waking up and openly decrying the serious crisis facing U.S. democracy; and, at the same time we see...

By Mónica Roa, Puentes In a world where public spaces for social interaction are vanishing and digital platforms promote isolation through hyper-personalized consumption of entertainment and services, at Puentes, we...