Health and Well being

I didn’t enter the social sector thinking sports could be one of the strongest teachers. Like many others, I associated development work with classrooms, community meetings, long discussions, and carefully designed training modules. Sports, at best, felt like an add-on-useful, but not central. That assumption didn’t last very long. Over the years, through evaluations, field visits, and conversations with practitioners far more rooted than me, sports quietly but firmly reshape

There’s a growing body of research proving the tangible and measurable outcomes of diversity and inclusion initiatives in organizations: whether it is achieving better financial returns , or capturing new  markets of customers. Visibility is another highly touted outcome of these initiatives: a brand’s perception changes based on their inclusion practices. As this study  shows, 64% of people surveyed would take action if the ad they saw was inclusive.  But diversity & inclusi

The spotlight on disability inclusion needs to be brightened. According to Return on Disability’s research , only 25.7% of the 1283 firms they surveyed indicated an interest in disability inclusion, with only 3.6% of the firms making a measurable effort towards it. This includes pursuing inclusion for their own employees, or as a customer base. It’s a far cry from what can actually be achieved if efforts are put towards actively pursuing disability inclusion. We’ve derived th