June’s top reads: MacKenzie Scott's grant recipients, top USAID contractors, and the 28-hour work week

This month, we released “A Globaldev Guide to New Social Media,” our latest report exploring how development organizations and NGOs are evolving their work within the new social media landscape.

For our Pro subscribers, we took our coverage deeper and spoke with UN Global Compact Executive Director Sanda Ojiambo, to get an inside look at the organization's new strategy and latest corporate sustainability trends.

We also tuned in to USAID’s business call for the third quarter of 2021 and rounded up the business opportunity trends by region and sector and learned more about the agency's plans to increase supplier diversity. And as part of our ongoing Devex Pro series, The State of Global Health Security, we examined how the GHSA could be strengthened and improved.

Here’s a look at our top-read Devex Pro stories for June:

1. Global nonprofits among grantees in MacKenzie Scott's $2.7B donation. Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced a new multi-billion dollar round of grants to international organizations, saying she wants to amplify neglected voices instead of centering herself.

2. Top USAID contractors in 2020: Who received COVID-19 funding? In fiscal year 2020, USAID obligated $6.2 billion through contracts. We find out who the top contractors were and how much COVID-19 funding they received.

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3. The NGO working a 28-hour week. The pandemic has left staff burned out and frazzled, but one NGO has an unorthodox solution: Work less.

4. How climate change and gender-based violence are connected. As donors begin to explore the links between environmental issues and GBV, experts say "we can't close our eyes" to the issue anymore.

5. De-risking health through blended finance. Agencies, financial institutions, and private firms are using blended finance to prove that health care companies are bankable.

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