Activists are organizing Virginia ex-inmates as they sign up to vote in time for the November general election, but the benefits of registration extend beyond checking a box in a voting booth. It’s time the criminal reform movement invests in educating ex-offenders on their voting rights.
An administrative error resulted in thousands of monthly donors being charged a hundred times what they had pledged to an aid organization.
Another exec has left the building at Wounded Warrior Project. Adam Silva was most recently the chief program officer at WWP, but he has at various times been in charge of culture and of fundraising at the organization—and those are the precise issues in the spotlight.
For years the difficulty of tracking the flow of international aid has been an issue, do we need a full on campaign to promote consistent standards of transparency?
Unlike food stamps, housing vouchers are strictly rationed. Ending the rationing would help more eligible recipients and reduce current local and federal administrative overhead associated with the program at a cost of $40 billion a year.
The Obama administration has been systematically auditing the states on their adherence to the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the findings are disturbing. People with disabilities have the legal right to be served in the least restrictive environment possible, but the U.S. Justice Department says states like South Dakota are failing to assure access.
For the first time in Olympic history, a refugee team of 10 athletes will participate in the games and will march behind the Olympic flag in the opening ceremonies before the host team, Brazil.
Eight high-profile Silicon Valley women have formed the nonprofit Project Include to demand less talk and more action on diversity from the tech sector.
A community living in the disintegrating wetlands in Southern Louisiana will be relocating within the next six years due to land erosion and rising sea levels.
It has become almost standard for cities to “sweep” the area of an impending large event of homeless people and institute often-controversial measures to contain demonstrators. The Republican National Convention does not promise to be any different, so Cleveland nonprofits are trying to plan.
A Philadelphia study that compares black-led nonprofits with white-led groups finds systemic financial vulnerabilities.
The Chicago Public Schools’ troubles seem to have no end. Even seemingly simple things, like knowing how many low-income students attend its schools, have become problematic.