As with his fellow billionaires, the entry of Jeff Bezos into education philanthropy poses difficult questions about how to maintain democratic control over public education.
Nonprofits interested in expanding their perspective on discrimination and food insecurity can review five reports released last week by Drexel University’s Center for Hunger-Free Communities.
A controversial Chattanooga school advocacy nonprofit takes the membership plunge.
Wisconsin and Michigan Republican legislators move to limit power of newly elected state executives.
Len Blavatnik left Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, turning to philanthropy as a channel to respectability.
Arizona provides another example of the benefits of taking a public health approach to treating opioids. Increasingly, the evidence shows that government action can bring down opioid use.
“I never was good at asking for help,” Chiquita Paschal admits. But, after she fractured her fibula while on a Memorial Day trip, she struggled as the financial pressures began to add up. A friend finally talked her into setting up a GoFundMe campaign. “It brought to light this very uncomfortable truth for me which
The idea of a “Green New Deal” has gained popularity, with Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative-Elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being among its leading advocates. Of course, President Obama once promised a Green New Deal of his own. But could this time be different?
In October, Nadia Murad became the first Iraqi to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her campaign to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Why has there been so little note of it? The massacre of gender has deep roots.
The backlash against Marc Lamont Hill for his support of the Palestinian liberation movement is an attempt to limit the boundaries of “revolutionary desire.”
USA Gymnastics is still very much scrambling to recover from the havoc wreaked by the revelations of abuse by team doctor Larry Nassar. They’ve recently filed for bankruptcy; what effect does that have on the transition supposedly in progress?
Nonprofits are helping to democratize business ownership through cooperatives and employee stock ownership plans that give workers the opportunity to share in the wealth they are creating.