As geopolitical shifts and domestic pressures in donor countries increasingly dictate the future of global health assistance, smaller nonprofits, like Sick Pikin in Sierra Leone, continue relying on the communities they serve for support. With limited healthcare infrastructure and ongoing funding challenges, it’s clear that more sustainable solutions are needed.
Given the historical, inherent biases in society generally and healthcare specifically, AI-driven advancements are not going to serve minority groups as a matter of course. Unless they are tailored to represent and serve all communities equally, they will exacerbate existing biases and disparities. We need representative data. How do we get there?
At REI, two union-backed candidates are excluded from the co-op board’s ballot. Workers respond with a membership-based campaign and in the state legislature.
While AI can be a powerful tool, its environmental impact—through immense energy and water consumption—demands transparency from tech companies and intentional, mindful use from consumers.
Attacks on the press by the Trump administration are all part of the authoritarian playbook, which seeks to discredit journalism to control information, evade accountability, and consolidate power. The free press must resist.
It took the Biden administration four years to make the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program functional. The Trump administration has already started to weaken it.
In Colorado, a new co-op that acts as a ride-hailing alternative to Lyft and Uber shows the power of social cooperatives to empower workers and meet community needs.
White House attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion may be new, but in Texas, this attack has been going on for some time. Advocates in Texas share lessons in organizing for DEI and academic freedom.
Limited equity housing co-ops are a tool that makes homeownership affordable to many more people by creating co-owned and co-managed housing communities.
How can you build democratic economies from the ground up? In their recent book, Beautiful Solutions, four editors and over 70 contributors team up to provide a toolkit.
Increasingly, Black workers and workers of color in the South are finding powerful new ways to organize—and win! These efforts merit far greater support.
Nonprofits are a $1 trillion pillar of the economy whose work touches nearly aspect of American life.