NOVEMBER 2022

Nov 02 2022
Field Note
Supporting India’s Farmers To Regenerate the Soil
Naandi Foundation creates compost hubs to supply small farmers while fighting topsoil erosion.

OCTOBER 2022

Oct 31 2022
Human Impact
A Farmer Takes a Stand for Soil Health—And Pays a Steep Price
A Kansas farmer won his battle with the crop insurance company, but not before he went bankrupt.
Oct 27 2022
Human Impact
Using Data From 1000 Farms To Heal the Soil
Scientist/farmers collect and compile data to analyze the impact of sustainable farming.
Oct 26 2022
Field Note
Democratizing Grantmaking To Support Climate, Health and Equity
A new fund shifts the power to make resource decisions directly to practitioners while changing the food procurement system.
Oct 10 2022
Human Impact
An Unusual Partnership Advances a More Democratic Way To Vote
Burkley Allen, budget committee chairwoman of the Nashville City Council, faced a challenge: how to gather useful feedback on more than 50 spending proposals. “When you have 40 council members, many …

SEPTEMBER 2022

Sep 19 2022
Blueprint
A Bold Path to an Inclusive, Thriving Economy: Employee Ownership
Cameron Stevens’ wife drew a line in the sand. She was tired of “the other woman,” she said a laugh, referring to the company he’d founded in college. It was time …
Sep 16 2022
Field Note
Fighting Together To End Forced Labor and Modern Slavery
When Kristen Leanderson Abrams, Senior Director for Combatting Human Trafficking at the McCain Institute, received an email from 17 Rooms asking her to co-lead a discussion on partnerships with a …
Sep 14 2022
Field Note
Advancing a Model To Tackle Disparities With Effective Listening
The data started rolling in and it wasn’t good. Wakiso, Uganda’s most densely populated district, was peaking in two worrying categories: hardest hit by Covid-19 infections and among the lowest vaccination …
Sep 12 2022
Field Note
Leaves From a New Rice Variety Fuel a More Nourished People and Planet
Just before dawn, baker Sasipen Pan rises and slips into her kitchen in central Thailand. On a sparkling clean counter, she begins making bread—or sometimes brownies or meringue cookies—with a …

AUGUST 2022

Aug 26 2022
Human Impact
Rethinking School Lunches to Boost Health, Environment and Economic Equity
Growing up, Arlethia Brown never once ate in the school cafeteria. Her mom, a single parent in Camden, N.J., didn’t apply for free lunches because she didn’t want outsiders to know …