The state and quality of maternal health in Africa is facing a dispiriting battle caused by the aftereffects of the Ebola outbreak. While on a global scale the emergency seems to have subsided, many expectant and new mothers are still feeling the terrible effects.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the act of bombing hospitals “shameful.” Dr. Joanne Liu of Doctors Without Borders reminded the world’s powers that this merits more than mere shame.
Nonprofits have tailored programs to the needs of vets but have failed to develop programs serving the needs of their spouses and partners, leading to dangerous, sometimes fatal consequences.
It’s May, and many schools are preparing to graduate their seniors. To mark the occasion, Simone Joyaux concludes her multipart column and takes a moment to revisit what they are being graduated into—an environment that challenges us each day to step up, even when it makes us uncomfortable or a laughingstock. Those are the tolls of real leadership.
In the middle of the much-hyped Day of Giving, Kimbia’s crowdfunding platform failed, leaving community foundations and nonprofits scrambling to limit the damage to donor relationships and their own reputations.
In this “Voices from the Field,” Pi Investments’ Morgan Simon considers whether the drive for global scale in impact investment will leave silent the people who will be affected by the social enterprises being funded.
Bill de Blasio says that his now-closed Campaign for One New York complied with the directives laid out by the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board.
An alternative to mortgage financing is being used by predatory investment companies to fleece low-income homebuyers, offering to sell them on land contracts aimed at families who cannot obtain conventional mortgages. Sound familiar?
For decades, we have seen one bright-eyed young thing after another come up with a social enterprise in the sphere of homelessness, get a bunch of press and then, presumably move on. Most of these ideas exist outside the realm of what most people would long for in their own housing and communities.
Princeton has been in a long struggle with its locality about its taxability, and now the same judge who made the judgment about the “modern nonprofit hospital as legal fiction” is hearing the case.
With the country’s first major exhibit on mass incarceration, the Eastern State Penitentiary museum asks a big question of our criminal justice system: what is the purpose of prisons, and are they successful?
The number of deaths annually caused by medical error may be as high as 251,000—more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke, breast cancer, and Alzheimer’s.