Ultimately, food sovereignty reflects unique cultural values and histories while returning control of food systems to local actors. Efforts that emphasize local policy and regulation are effective tools for facilitating increased capacity and bolstering efforts.
In the nation’s capital, a creative writing nonprofit gets creative in its fundraising. Why raise money at the gala dinner table when you can raise it at the ping pong table instead?
The Washington State Department of Corrections banned nonprofits from sending books to people in prison. The public is rising up in response.
While the Trump administration quickly walked back its proposal to cut federal funding of the Special Olympics, other US Department of Education programs may be less secure.
Safety concerns top an extensive list of Mariner East Pipeline grievances. The project will carry highly combustible liquids through densely populated Pennsylvania areas.
The review’s findings were damning, calling out a laissez-faire culture about high priced conflicts of interest that extended from the boardroom out into the practices among leading doctors and administrators.
Over the last few years, nonprofits have been urged to tell stories to ensure their work is both memorable and fundable. This propensity for storytelling in the sector has created concerns about what many call “poverty porn”—the portrayal of people as helpless victims, such as the classic shot of a small child whose eyes are brimming with tears.
In an odd display of “leadership,” Rockefeller pulls the plug on its signature 100 Resilient Cities program—just as the program was beginning to show results.
A mayoral race in Chicago upends a city’s machine politics and the nation’s third-largest city now has a Black lesbian as its mayor. It will be interesting times.
A trove of information gathered by citizen scientists over four decades has added to the picture of how quickly climate change is affecting the Long Island Sound.
New Mexico voted this week to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day. It is the fifth state to do so.
How much responsibility should be borne by residents of Gage County for a case of false imprisonment that robbed six men and women of their freedom?