L.A.’s first Creative Catalyst will spend a year embedded in the Department of Transportation supporting Vision Zero, an effort to eliminate traffic deaths in the city by 2025.
In Arkansas, a strange state collaboration offers prisoners a chance at early release in exchange for exposure to asbestos, which can trigger more than a dozen health complications, including lung cancer. This labor force was already both captive and practically cost-free, and now they may also be poisoned.
How many times have we seen an inspired leader attract volunteers and start a nonprofit, only to discover they need to run an organization as well as help people in need?
One after another, universities are confronting their own racist artifacts—and sometimes doing so comes with a cost.
On the brink of economic collapse, desperate citizens wildcatting in illegal gold mines in Venezuela’s jungles spread malaria to the cities.
Dick Mendel, an expert on juvenile justice, believes that nonprofits may be to blame for Arkansas’ regressiveness in institutionalizing young people.
Is banning social media the only way to avert chaos in a charged political environment? Ghana’s police chief thinks so. If a government bans social media access on Election Day because it has security concerns, when else could online free speech be abridged?
Charity, business, or both? This Alaska blood bank’s business practices focus attention on fee-for-service activity by nonprofits under financial stress.
Just when you think that the notion of the worthy vs. unworthy poor has passed out of our lexicon—here it comes again!
In a city that brought national attention to the issue of commercialization in public schools, a gift from a corporate donor leads to new questions.
Two nonprofits advocating for African American education opportunity square off over the importance and success of charter schools.