A year ago, Hurricane Harvey flooded much of Houston and surrounding Harris County. A bond measure passed last week will help finance flood management, but equally important will be developing housing and social supports to meet Houston residents’ long-term needs.

A foundation puts all of its money on the table to clean Florida’s Everglades region.

A union representing faculty and librarians at the University of California tabled a contract provision that would clarify that librarians have the same rights of “academic freedom” as professors. But university negotiators have demurred.

Has the Gates Foundation learned from its mistakes? Its latest round of education grants gives some cause for guarded optimism.

Rather than wait for residents in the Big Easy to come to the art museum, the museum has launched a pop-up museum that visits neighborhoods throughout the city.

Just weeks after Congress passed landmark legislation to support the conversion of businesses to employee ownership, a nonprofit co-op developer in the Pacific Northwest is poised to barnstorm rural communities in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho to educate small business owners regarding how to sell businesses to their employees.

Federal data indicate that one in five school children need mental health services. As this article from Tennessee demonstrates, however, many schools fall short of providing the support their students need. Referrals to outside nonprofits help, but do not fully make up for the shortfall.

In Chicago, a nonprofit succeeds in collecting millions in housing development and management fees but fails to provide quality affordable housing.

A former Vatican ambassador denounced Pope Francis in a 11-page letter for failing to act more swiftly to protect children from predatory priests. But the letter’s author himself stands similarly accused.

Student loan debt has become a profit center for universities, a significant obstacle to the upward mobility of younger low- and moderate-income people, and a growing drag on housing-related sectors of the economy.

A foundation dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of television has been branching out to promote greater diversity, equity, and inclusion in television’s future.

Y Combinator plans to run a test involving 3,000 families in Oakland, California to assess the impact of providing families a “basic income” of $1,000 a month.  The pilot’s launch has been complicated, but the trial is now slated to begin next year.