Across the country, nonprofits and other public-serving institutions are redeploying to adapt to their communities’ needs. Here’s one library’s remarkable story.
The Problem with Resilience
Resilience can be deceptive because it is framed as a win-win for all, when it actually serves to hide inequities.
Pandemic Lays Bare Inhumanity of Mass Incarceration
It’s hardly news that the US system of mass incarceration is racist and inhumane. But can the COVID-19 pandemic finally lead to systemic change?
Report Finds Evidence of Flint Water Cover-Up in Michigan Statehouse
An investigative report by Vice alleges that former Michigan governor Rick Snyder knew about lead infiltration in Flint’s water more than a year before he says he did.
COVID-19 Shutdown Freezes Out Citizen Ballot Initiatives
How do you collect signatures to get a measure on a state ballot during a pandemic? Not very easily.
Doctors Get Creative with Pandemic Translations
To counter the COVID-19 pandemic, Arizona health providers are creating informational videos in the languages of refugee and immigrant communities.
The PPP: The Experience of It All and Advice for New Nonprofit Applicants
As a second round of the Paycheck Protection Program is nigh, nonprofit applicants would do well to take in the lessons from their first-round colleagues.
Remaking the Economy in Buffalo
A community land trust director, an immigrant marketplace manager, and a co-op developer discuss their work in Buffalo—and how it has been upended by COVID-19.
Scaling Economic Solidarity: The Pandemic, Nonprofits, and Power
COVID-19 has shown how a disease can reveal underlying societal ills. But it has also revealed another basic truth: Our economy is fundamentally built on social connection.
Reconsidering Charitable Tax Exemption: A Modest Proposal for the “Nonprofit 1000”
As large nonprofits grow in power and influence, they must work to earn the public’s trust, or else risk seeing their tax-exemption privileges fade away.
What Did Paycheck Protection Loans Go Toward—and Who Gave Theirs Back?
The first round of award data from the paycheck protection program are now available. Many nonprofits and small businesses got support, but many more did not.
Racial Disparities Prominent in Pandemic Layoffs, Survey Finds
According to a University of Southern California study, roughly 15 percent of whites have lost jobs, compared to 18 percent of Latinxs and 21 percent of Blacks.