Places serve as natural vehicles for memorialization; psychologists hypothesize that we lock in memories of significant events by linking them to a location, and that integrating many stimuli together helps us remember.
Harvard University’s endowment manager, Harvard Management Co., is buying up arable land with water reserves in drought-stricken California. What does this mean for the distribution of resources?
This month, Minneapolis became the first major US city to abolish R-1 (single-family home) zoning. By doing so, the city hopes to increase housing affordability while also reducing residential segregation.
For the leadership of the Broward County School System, tragedy struck last February when a former student went on a lethal shooting rampage in one of their schools. At that moment, the job and the life of the district’s superintendent, Robert Runcie, was forever changed.
Has the NRA finally gotten too ambitious for its own—and definitely the country’s—good?
Colorado’s attorney general is part of a group founding a central fund that will be available to receive donations in the wake of additional tragedies in that state.
A playbook seems to be emerging for managing one’s mega-nonprofit after charges of multiple instances of sexual abuse. BSA’s statement sounds eerily familiar to that of USAG’s when it filed for bankruptcy earlier this month.
Human rights have been overlooked by our sector as an important anchor for our work. It’s a strong attractor, but we don’t use it.
To the names of such education philanthropists as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, we can now add the heavy metal band Metallica. Armed with at most a limited theory of change, they may have succeeded in sending their dollars to where they are actually needed most.
Two small paintings and a demand to oust the vice chair of the board popped up on an exhibition wall in the museum, and then the staff sent a letter. This has turned into a stakeholder revolt at the museum.
In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act, which banned the previously common practice of public officials forcibly taking Native American children from their families and placing them in non-Native families and institutions. A new court ruling keeps these protections in place for the moment, but the law remains at risk.
Today, the movement for universal Pre-K is highly prominent. But the movement did not appear overnight. Rather, it involved a decades-long effort that combined deep scientific research on brain development with communications and advocacy work.