US prisons have been replacing in-person visits to inmates with video chats run by for-profit companies that exploit families desperate to connect with their loved ones. In response, families have vowed to boycott the video service.
In a rare bright spot for the US labor movement, unionization drives have succeeded at over 60 campuses across the country, helping lift often-depressed wages and working conditions.
As a growing number of museums diversify their collections to include works and collections from voices outside the historically Eurocentric canon, a Chicago nonprofit that digitally archives photos and articles from historically black newspapers is teaming with Google to reach a wider audience.
June 11, 2018; New York Times and Washington Post In January 2018, NPQ published an article suggesting that nonprofits brace for another attack on voting rights. The gist of that article was the case being heard by the Supreme Court about Ohio’s efforts to purge its voter rolls of people who had not voted in
This weekend, thousands of naked Irish women of all ages and sizes braved 53-degree waters to break the world skinny-dipping record and raise money to fight cancer.
Food incubators are proving to be a promising approach for helping refugee and immigrant populations achieve economic independence and social integration.
In San Francisco, a city with a runaway housing market and a nationally recognized library system, a member of the city’s board of supervisors asks if the library can partner with developers to address a severe affordable housing shortage.
A New York nonprofit gets fined for fundraising that crosses a legal and tasteful line.
While it would be wise to keep our expectations of impact investing’s ability to improve social outcomes in check, some forms of socially responsible investment are virtually cost-free.
A Conservative student seeks understanding in spite of her white-dominant views. Is there something more sinister at play?
This new research institute is structured to get new treatments to those who need them rather than profit from technical marvels.
In the time of #MeToo, Michigan State University president Lou Anna K. Simon was determined to stay in her position, despite calls for her resignation from Dr. Larry Nassar’s victims and others.