When a few staff at a small nonprofit conducted a minor experiment in the name of sharing power, the outcome was a new way to bring voices once unheard into the fold.
Rotating the Clipboard Built Our Workplace Democracy
How to Counsel for Climate Anxiety
The need for climate-related mental health support is urgent, but many mental health professionals are not climate aware.
What’s Really at Stake When Funders Abandon Transgender Communities?
Across the country, lawmakers have introduced hundreds of bills that block transgender people from receiving basic healthcare, education, legal recognition, and the right to exist publicly. Funders are partnering with faith and grassroots networks to fund movement infrastructure—not just services—so communities can withstand the political cycles designed to exhaust them.
New Student Loan Limits Could Threaten Diversity in Nursing and Public Health Programs
The proposal, which is expected to undermine treatment for vulnerable people, marks a severe escalation in what experts say is the erosion of the country’s healthcare system under Trump.
The 2026 Election Could Be a Game Changer—Advocates Are Prepared to Fight
The 2026 midterm election has the opportunity to be a game changer. Voting rights groups are working to ensure a safe and secure election.
The End of Mass-Market Paperbacks Is an Issue of Justice
The end of the cheapest book format makes reading less affordable, less accessible, and means one less home for genre writers, queer writers, and writers of color.
‘I’m Heartbroken’: Trans Kansans Reckon with Their Driver’s Licenses Being Invalidated
The Kansas Department of Revenue this week sent a letter to Kansans affected by a new law that requires the gender marker on a driver’s license to match a person’s sex at birth.
After Years of Waiting, She Wanted to Start Gender-Affirming Care. Politics Interfered.
Planned Parenthood is a major health care provider for transgender people, but many Medicaid patients are now cut off.
90 Percent of Student Discrimination and Harassment Complaints Were Dismissed Last Year. Here’s Why.
Students with disabilities and survivors of sexual misconduct can’t rely on the Department of Education—the target of budget cuts and staff reductions—to intervene for them, new reports find.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund on Trial: Implications for Racial Equity Organizations
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund is being sued by the American Alliance for Equal Rights. This is the latest case in a larger anti-diversity agenda, one that stands out for its potentially sweeping implications.
Information as Civic Infrastructure—and How Philanthropy Can Support the Ecosystem
Philanthropy funds solutions but less often invests in the fundamental conditions that make those solutions possible. Among the most fragile of those conditions is the shared information ecosystem on which collective decision-making depends today.
What Ohio—and Other States—Can Learn from Minnesota’s ICE Resistance
As the Trump administration targets Springfield’s Haitian community, Ohio and the rest of the country can learn from the organizing that took place in Minnesota.