At The Elmezzi Foundation, we understand the role good health plays in sustaining a productive and fulfilling life. At the same time, however, we are also aware of the difficulties associated with maintaining ‘good health’ — from access to healthy food, the necessary time it takes to exercise, and the cost of health insurance. A little… Read more

With more and more information becoming available in digital form — from newspapers, to movies, to eBooks — it can be easy to dismiss older paper iterations of information as unnecessary and cumbersome to work with. In the same vein, it would be understandable to think that public libraries may begin to be phased out…. Read more

We love reading about new ways to address/mitigate longstanding social problems, and a recent article on technology to deal with homelessness intrigued us. In a New York Times article, Claire Cain Miller, documents the way that access to technology has the ability to combat homelessness. For many homeless folks, their priorities lie in securing shelter,… Read more

Here’ an interesting article on the now infamous word gap research. While it is widely understood that there is an academic achievement gap between low-income students and their more well-served peers, one of the contributing factors to this is what is known as the “word gap.” In short, it estimates that children from low-income families… Read more