If you ask climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, climate change isn’t just a problem for polar bears or future generations anymore—it’s affecting us all, here and now. Not only that, but the choices we make today will have a profound impact on our future—and we all have a role to play. Luckily, she says, we don't …
This interview originally appeared in The Chronicle of Philanthropy and is reprinted here with full permission. Leading up to the global climate summit this week in Glasgow, the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation each announced that they would begin to remove fossil-fuel investments from their endowments, joining nearly 1,500 organizations worldwide that have also …
Passer yog tus kws tshaj lij txoj cai tswj hwm lub zog thiab lees paub tus kws tshaj lij ntawm kev ncaj ncees hauv Minnesota qhov chaw huab cua thiab lub zog. Nws yuav pib nws lub luag haujlwm tshiab rau lub Cuaj Hlis 14.
Ib Daim Ntawv Qhia Qhib rau Lub Zej Zog Raws li peb pib lub xyoo tshiab, peb zoo siab tau koom nrog koj lub McKnight Foundation tus Xaiv Tsav Txheej Tshiab 2019-2021. Peb lub rooj tsavxwm ntawm cov thawj coj sawv daws tau pom zoo rau daim ntawv kawg hauv lub Kaum Ib Hlis. Nws qhia txog peb txoj kev paub txog kev mob siab sai uas tau muab rau kev sib tw ntawm lub zej zog thiab kev sib tw ntawm peb lub caij nyoog. Nws kuj qhia txog ...
Tsev neeg txheeb xyuas kev koom tes hauv kev kawm ntawv li cas? Raws li kev sib koom tes "lub hwj chim ntawm cov neeg hloov lub zog, tsis yog lwm txoj hau kev." Los yog ua lwm yam, hloov kev txiav txim siab rau tsev neeg thiab cov zej zog. Qhov ntawd yog lub ntsiab lus uas peb tau hnov los ntawm cov neeg zej zog ze li ntawm peb tau sau lub Kaum Ib Hlis dhau los los tshawb txog lub ntsiab lus ntawm kev koom tes ntawm tsev neeg, ...
Huda Zoghbi tau ua nws txoj hauv kev los ua tus kws kho mob thaum nws ntsib nrog cov me nyuam uas muaj qhov tsis txawv ntawm lub paj hlwb hloov nws txoj hauj lwm - thiab tob zuj zus peb txoj kev to taub txog tib neeg lub hlwb ua haujlwm li cas. "Tib neeg ua cov kws tshawb fawb rau txhua hom kev xav," hais tias Dr. Zoghbi, yog ib tug neeg muaj kev vam meej nyob rau ...
Tsuas yog tawm ntawm tsev kawm ntawv high school, Jay Petre tau txais txoj hauj lwm ripping lub tsheb ciav hlau qub nyob ze nws lub tsev nyob hauv West Virginia. "Peb tau stacking li tag nrho cov no ntoo," Petre recalls. "Thiab tus txiv leej tub no tau los ntawm thiab hais tias, 'Kuv puas yuav tau nws?' Kuv twb tau txais ib qho ntxiv $ 10,000, thiab kuv paub kuv ...
Cov Zej Zos Cov Zaj Lub Zog Thaum Jim thiab LeeAnn VanDerPol thiab lawv cov tub Yauj pib siv lub caij ntuj sov rau kev hloov tshiab rau lawv ua liaj ua teb, lawv cov neeg zej zog tau txais daim ntawv ceeb toom. Lub VanDerPols, peb lub tsev neeg ntawm cov tsiaj nyuj thiab cov neeg ua liaj ua teb hauv Kerkhoven, Minnesota yog siv los kuaj xyuas cov tswv yim tshiab thiab raising pob muag ...
Reflecting on My First Year at the Foundation This March, I marked a year of service at the McKnight Foundation. I came to the Foundation at a specific moment in time—an urgent moment. It was the middle of a pandemic, on the cusp of the George Floyd murder trial, six weeks before the senseless murder …
The McKnight Foundation is pleased to announce that Beyene Gessesse will join the International team as its program officer. Gessesse has extensive experience in rural development and food security initiatives, working with farmers, researchers, development practitioners, and funders. He will start his new role on November 29. “We are thrilled to welcome Beyene to our …