A hospital as housing developer? In Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide Children’s Hospital has invested $6.6 million in housing. Why? Because the hospital believes that providing better housing for residents will keep the people it serves healthier.
It may be that one of the reasons that mergers are not approached with more enthusiasm is because they are being sold more negatively than they should be. Approaching them as a strength-promoting proposition might work better, no? That said…
In our nation’s second Gilded Age, like the first, what the wealthy give philanthropy with one hand is often taken with the other.
Even as federal support for environmental protection declines, at the grassroots, community members are coming together in new ways to support a greener planet, as this story from Oswego, Illinois reveals.
A group of US residents whose federal “temporary protected status” is under threat embarked on a tour across the country that will end in Washington, DC, where they will ask Congress to pass legislation allowing them a chance to stay in the country.
In Oregon, wildfires have dislocated many, but for the state’s homeless population in particular, there is often nowhere to go.
Near Nashville, Tennessee, a college shuts its doors, but a historic preservation foundation steps in to preserve a historic home on its campus, originally owned by a Southern family that had opposed secession.
It’s not every day when the ACLU and the bail bond industry are on the same side, but, even as California moves to abolish bail, the way it is doing so leaves bail abolition advocates aghast.
The Church knows it has an ongoing child sexual abuse problem. Now, it also knows it has a more difficult structural problem as well.
Men and women incarcerated in US prisons across 17 states launched a 20-day strike yesterday and issued demands for humane conditions and basic political rights.
After four months of bargaining—not to mention picketing and a one-day walkout—a union representing much of the museum’s staff secured raises and some improved benefits and claimed the new contract as a victory for arts workers.
An Australian government grant of $444 million to a nonprofit with six full-time employees raises concerns about the government’s grant process, as well as its strategy for limiting damage to the Great Barrier Reef.