We can't fight for reproductive rights without confronting racial injustice

We do our work to foster a better, safer, less-crowded living planet where all can have decent lives. We’ve long known that the consequences of rapid population growth tend to fall most heavily on those who have the fewest resources, and that people of color face especially daunting challenges. Systemic racism is deeply entrenched in American society, including in our health care system. We can't fight for reproductive rights without upholding racial justice.

Join a call with Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

Dr. Gladys is a wildlife veterinarian and the founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), which promotes coexistence of people, gorillas and other wildlife. CTPH addresses human and wildlife health together, using the One Health approach. Improving people’s health allows communities to thrive while protecting the gorillas from zoonotic diseases.

Join us for a Zoom presentation on Thursday, June 18th, to hear her discuss how CTPH is confronting the COVID-19 pandemic through its innovative public health approach to gorilla conservation.

PopEd unveils curriculum for 330 million of us

A census year is a great opportunity to take stock of national population trends, as well as indicators of national progress over the sweep of U.S. history. The PopEd team has created a new set of lessons for this decennial census year. The lessons not only examine trends for our nation’s population growth and settlement patterns, but they also explore so many other aspects of American life, from family size and education to health, immigration, gender roles, political representation and environmental policies.

Urgent update on new CGA rates

If you have considered initiating a Charitable Gift Annuity with Population Connection, now might be the right time. Based on current circumstances, the American Council on Gift Annuities will lower payout rates starting July 1, 2020:

"In general, the suggested maximum payout rates will be lowered by 0.3 to 0.5 percentage points, based on the annuitant(s) age(s) (e.g., payout reduction of $30 to $50 on a $10,000 donation). The new ACGA suggested maximum charitable gift annuity rates will become effective on July 1, 2020.”
(from https://www.acga-web.org/)

If you’d like to take advantage of the current higher rate, please get in touch with us at [email protected] immediately to begin setting up your CGA. We can honor current, more favorable annuity rates through the end of June. Remember, once you set up your CGA, your annuity rate and payments are guaranteed for life and will never change.