In San Francisco, the local media has vowed to see the issue of homelessness addressed effectively. Their strategy involves keeping the pressure in an unusual coordinated effort.
In San Rafael, California, where the cost of space is extraordinary to the extent that it’s seen as a threat to the future of nonprofits, the Marin Community Foundation has decided to sell two buildings it bought more than ten years ago specifically to house local nonprofits in need of affordable space.
As the War on Terror consistently evades the rules of war, outrage over the bombing of an MSF hospital is met with international bureaucratic rhetoric.
Despair provokes a chain reaction in a community of dispossessed indigenous people where the idea of suicide becomes contagious.
When trying to solve difficult problems, one would think knowledge and facts would be important to politicians, policymakers, and funders. When it comes to the ongoing national effort to strengthen public education, though, it seems knowledge is much less important than political philosophy.
Concerns about the ability of the Red Cross to respond to large disasters like the current flooding in Louisiana flow from complaints about a disconnectedness that may be related to their massive national consolidation of chapters.
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.
