The Hidden Health Toll of Where We Spend 90% of Our Lives
We spend 90% of our lives in buildings. Ishita Das of the Milken Institute explains why that number should change how funders think.
A growing body of evidence shows that specific design features move our stress hormones, focus, and brain activity. The science exists in pockets. What has been missing is a field to hold it together, and the capital to build one.
If this bottleneck vanished tomorrow, what would break that nobody’s watching right now?
Why Cheap Generic Drugs Never Make It to Cancer Patients
Some of the most promising cancer treatments are not multibillion-dollar new discoveries. They are affordable generics already sitting on pharmacy shelves, backed by published data but lacking a commercial sponsor to bring them forward.
Dr. Laura Kleiman of Reboot Rx built a nonprofit to fix this market failure, using AI to sift through half a million studies and surface high-potential treatments. Proof that a treatment works does not guarantee it reaches patients, meaning clinical adoption requires its own deliberate investment.
What decision are you about to lock in that isn’t really yours to make?
What almost happened at your organization that no record anywhere will ever show?
What Humanitarian Aid Often Misses
A man in a field office once applied for a micro-grant to open a wedding photo studio because people were still falling in love, getting married, and wanting to remember it.
As Jocelyn Wyatt, CEO of Alight, reminds us, human desires do not disappear during displacement. People need love, belonging, and joy right alongside basic survival.