Reflecting changes in healthcare delivery, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is moving away from medicine-centered program support and embracing community wellness efforts and the importance of allied health professionals. One challenge with the new focus on a “Culture of Health” is the increased difficulty in measuring success.
The result of a year of in-depth reporting in spite of limited access by many facilities, CIR recently released a new documentary that looks at the different ways that prisons, jails, and juvenile halls in the U.S. use solitary confinement with teens.
Two sheltering programs in the Greater Atlanta metropolitan area are merging and their situation provides a “classic case” of the factors that often underlie a successful merger.
Drug Court says an independent nonprofit that helps offenders deal with the stresses and strains of life could cut recidivism and reduce costs to society.
Opportunities for international volunteering have increased over the years, but do these opportunities benefit the host country as much as the volunteer?
San Diego Opera is on the rebound from its near-death experience. The Metropolitan Opera labor dispute is still simmering, with contracts that will expire in another month. As opera companies across the United States continue to explore new business models and ways of remaining relevant to 21st-century audiences, there’s been a discernible shift toward contemporary American works.
This United Way set a lower campaign goal this year because the community had not yet recovered its footing after the recession, but even that goal was not reached. What will this mean for local nonprofits?
Detroit’s revitalization and rebirth as it emerges from municipal bankruptcy should not be done on the backs of the city’s poorest citizens. Representative John Conyers has called on President Obama to step in and stem the inhumane water shutoffs that are affecting thousands of low-income Detroiters.
India’s perennial social problems continue to challenge public authorities. In Delhi, the Indian capital region, the supply of clean water is one of the most pressing.
The latest mayor to realize that nonprofit donations provide city government some extra flexibility in pursuing difficult-to-fund projects is Los Angeles’s Eric Garcetti. The challenge is to make sure the nonprofit doesn’t devolve into a venue for special interests to buy face time and favors from politicians.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Massachusetts law that provided for a 35-foot “buffer zone” around clinics providing abortions. The Saturday after, protestors showed up in greater numbers in Boston and Worcester, pushing beyond that previously established line.
It has been a very consequential run of decisions by the Supreme Court. This week, expect the court to make a momentous statement about the future of public sector unions.