Common Sense Media (CSM) is a national leader in digital and media literacy curricula and training. We spoke with Eisha Buch, CSM’s Head of Teaching and Learning, about “digital citizenship.” She commented, “You can't fully participate in civic life today without digital literacy—the ability to engage with those spaces responsibly, safely, and meaningfully. And that's the lens our curriculum brings to the topic.”

Creating Citizens is Commonwealth Club World Affairs’ (CCWA) civics education initiative. We recently had an opportunity to chat with Lauren Silver, who developed and leads the program, about bringing high school students and teachers into the compelling conversations for which CCWA is widely renowned.

Dozens of the Bay Area’s smaller arts organizations credit their well-being and optimism to the pro-borrower expertise of a resource that flies under many people’s radar. The Arts Loan Fund (ALF), housed at the Northern California Grantmakers, was created specifically to lend essential funding, offsetting temporary cash-flow emergencies. Close to 1,500 loans (and over $36 million) later, we wish ALF a very vibrant 45th!