Eillie Anzilotti

COVID-19 has upended communities and individuals’ lives across the world. While the focus is now on flattening the curve of the disease and keeping people healthy, it’s also important to understand the many other impacts of the virus. For the World Food Programme (WFP), the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world’s largest hunger-relief agency, program leaders immediately knew that the pandemic would pose a challenge to their programs—specifically, to schoolchildren’s access to food.

With the coronavirus continuing to spread through communities across the world, people are seeking information they can trust. And public officials are working as quickly as they can to make sure that people are able to access that information at the same time that they’re conducting their own internal data analysis to understand need and craft policies and strategies to respond to it.

The coronavirus is spreading quickly through the United States, and many elected officials across the country are reacting with policies designed to slow the transmission of the pandemic, otherwise known as “flattening the curve.”

As the COVID-19 outbreak progresses, people are looking for information they can trust. They want to know where the disease is spiking and how widely it's spreading; if they’ll be told to work from home or limit travel, as many around the world already have been; if their symptoms warrant getting tested; if they should stock up on supplies.

Tackling hunger in America is no small task. More than 37 million people in the U.S. struggle to put food on the table —that’s one in nine people. As you walk down the street, you probably pass someone who is facing hunger.

Over the past year, we’ve deepened our existing partnerships for climate action and begun working with several more organizations to further our impact. Here are some of the key insights that we’ve learned through these partnerships.

We know that in societies around the world, people are not treated equally. Over the past year, our partner organizations in the equity space have reminded us just how broad and entrenched various inequities are, both in the U.S. and around the world. Here are four of the biggest insights we’ve gained through our work with non-profits advancing equity.

At Tableau Foundation, our partners are working in the midst of these issues to close the gaps between treatments and those most in need of them. A good health system is a well-networked one. In this blog, we dive deeper into this, and other, powerful insights our partners have shared with us over the last year.

At Tableau Foundation, we’ve learned from our grant partners that while solving poverty on a broad scale may be their goal, it’s not how they go about their work. Instead, they’re using data to see deep into the issue and understand the needs of the people they’re trying to serve. Here are some of the key insights that have come out of our grant partnerships to end poverty in the past year.