India remains firmly committed to the WHO anti-tobacco treaty even as corporate pressure has intensified, citing the rights of farmers and industry jobs as the rationale for flouting the treaty.
The nonprofit sector is by default a privileged construct, in that it maintains the status quo and reproduces dominant power relations between racialized social groups. What would an alternative construct, built for making radical and transformational changes for the people impacted, by the people impacted, look like?
One organization makes it its goal to find the tough to track money flowing to judicial races.
In response to an editorial encouraging a Texas school system to accept a large philanthropic gift, two foundation presidents caution against replacing a health public investment in public resources with philanthropy.
Most pledges from major donors eventually become completed gifts. However, charities and the media often breathlessly report pledges as though they were gifts already made. In some situations, that leads to being played.
When the term “innovation” is used in this country, it’s often linked to the idea of entrepreneurial behavior, as in single-leader-led. But real innovation in the social sphere tends to flow from a multi-disciplinary meeting of the minds.
As the countries that recently ratified the Paris Agreement gather in Morocco, a new UNICEF report will keep the pressure on for the parties to embrace alternative sources of energy.
Even as some senators put more emphasis on housing choice vouchers and recognize the social value of mobility, state governments are raising roadblocks to source-of-income protections for HCV households.
What motivates nonprofit employees, and are our employment contracts in the right shape to attract the best workforce possible?
Jaime-Jin Lewis, Development Director at Caring Across Generations in NYC
“What motivates me is being a part of that change, being a part of the small steps it takes to create the bigger victories we need to create a more just and equitable world.”
Charity and Halloween have become as much of a duo as PB&J, and each effort gives it their own special twist.