Y Combinator plans to run a test involving 3,000 families in Oakland, California to assess the impact of providing families a “basic income” of $1,000 a month. The pilot’s launch has been complicated, but the trial is now slated to begin next year.
Two years in, and the program is starting to gain traction within the Ford Foundation and the philanthropy sector at large.
Nonprofits like Fatal Encounters provide a healthy third-party look at police homicide data and, hopefully, paint a better picture of the world as it is.
Nonprofit-driven research and alternative models indicate that the evidence supports eliminating the systematically discriminatory practices of the cash bail system.
In Los Angeles, the city operates under an ordinance that says the city should only deposit its money in banks that are socially responsible. But some activists in Los Angeles and elsewhere suggest a more radical alternative—namely, that the city should deposit its money in a bank that it owns.
The AT&T-Time Warner merger is record-setting, but forms part of a larger trend of media consolidation. In this environment, the role of nonprofits as stewards of the commons becomes more important than ever.
Socialism is often thought of as a national economic system, but the Labour Party in the UK is taking a radical step of piloting Municipal Socialism in the town of Preston.
As a growing number of museums diversify their collections to include works and collections from voices outside the historically Eurocentric canon, a Chicago nonprofit that digitally archives photos and articles from historically black newspapers is teaming with Google to reach a wider audience.
Incubators in Silicon Valley and other high-tech, startup-heavy areas are common. Less common are incubators in struggling areas like Stowe and McKees Rocks, two struggling suburbs of Pittsburgh. That, however, is the space where Launch Sto-Rox is operating in the hopes of revitalizing the communities.
Big nonprofit bets on facilities are always risky, but especially when what will fill those facilities fails to inspire.
