The survey results are in: Equality and LGBTQ nondiscrimination across America

Despite significant victories for equality in recent years, LGBTQ Americans continue to face discrimination in many parts of our country. That’s why, this Pride Month, we teamed up with our June grantee Freedom For All Americans to survey …

Your phone apps are tracking you. Here’s how to stop them.

Have you ever searched for something on your phone, like a new shirt, plane ticket or computer, then get the sinking feeling you’re being followed online with ads for the same product for the next few days? You’re …

AT&T donated more than $1.1 million to anti-LGBTQ lawmakers

This Pride Month, as it always has, AT&T changed its corporate logo to a rainbow, issued statements for equality and tweeted out support for LGBTQ youth — all for a month-long marketing campaign. But a stunning new report …

5 ways to celebrate Juneteenth this year

This week, Americans across the country will celebrate Juneteenth, the day more than a century and a half ago that enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas were finally told they were free. The day has been celebrated by …

How to safely sanitize your phone and keep it germ-free

Let’s face it: Our phones are filthy. We touch contaminated surfaces then touch our devices. We speak right into our phones, transferring germs from our mouth. We have our phones when we eat and — let’s be honest …

CREDO funding helped Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières respond to the global pandemic

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that provides emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from health care, regardless of race, religion, gender or political …

Freedom For All Americans fighting for Equality

Did you know that across America, 13 million LGBTQ people are vulnerable to discrimination in their everyday lives? It’s true—we hear these stories of discrimination every day: In Michigan, a pediatrician refused to see Krista and Jami’s 6-day-old …

To Protect Our Rainforests, Protect Rainforest Dwellers

If you destroy an ecosystem, you destroy the people who live there. But too often, the plight of indigenous peoples is ignored by conservationists. As indigenous leader Gregorio Díaz Mirabal recently told the New York Times, “If you’re …

World Refugee Day – Celebrating the Courage of Refugees Through Art

This upcoming June 20th marks World Refugee Day, a moment to recognize the strength, courage, and resilience of refugees, asylum seekers, and all displaced people whose lives have been uprooted by crisis.  From the conflict zones of Syria, …

Park equity must be focus of COVID-19 recovery

As restaurants, movie theaters, and gyms closed their doors over the past year, local park use increased. It’s easy to understand why. Parks, trails, and open space provided locked-down and stressed-out families with rare opportunities to exercise, get …