When money comes with strings attached, it doesn’t always do the most good.
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Nonprofits rarely get money they are free to spend on any purpose.
Highlander founder Myles Horton (right) with civil rights leader Rosa Parks and labor leader Ralph Helstein in 1957.
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The training center, which welcomed Rosa Parks and John Lewis before they became famous, still empowers and inspires marginalized Americans to use their own voices and talents.
Who’s giving to whom just became less transparent.
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In a 6-3 ruling, the court’s majority said the requirements violated donors’ First Amendment rights by subjecting them to potential harassment.
Federal funding for human rights has declined, while funding for environmental issues has increased only incrementally since 2000.
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More than most other countries, the non-profit sector in Canada relies on government funding. Yet there is a shocking lack of transparency.
Evidence of the gun group’s mismanagement under Wayne LaPierre’s leadership is mounting.
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The gun group violates four key legal and management principles, a scholar of nonprofits explains.
Litigation against the gun group, which had been on hold, may now proceed.
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Judge Harlin Hale found that the gun group wasn’t acting in ‘good faith’ when it filed for bankruptcy.
Training for service dogs starts very early.
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Traditional treatments for PTSD, such as talk therapy and medication, do work for some veterans. But service dogs can make a difference when those methods fall short.
Paris Hilton, front left, is the most visible leader of a movement to crack down on alleged abuses at treatment centers.
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A former student at a therapeutic boarding school, who is now a scholar, explains why she believes a growing outcry is making a difference.
A woman visits New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art in September.
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Arts organizations have been particularly hard hit, but many may benefit from new sources of emergency government funding.
Waiting in line in freezing rain to fill propane tanks in Houston, Texas, Feb. 17, 2021.
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The Texas electric power market is designed to give energy companies incentive to sell electricity at the lowest possible cost. That focus helps explain why it collapsed during a historic cold wave.
Students often cannot afford to take unpaid internships.
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With the COVID-19 pandemic making inequalities worse, has the time come to make sure all interns are paid?
U.S. reliance on food assistance is rising during the coronavirus pandemic as more people grapple with economic hardship.
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A food policy researcher helps make sense of the lexicon of US food policy terms, and explains how they relate to racial justice.
Racial justice demonstrations became much more frequent in 2020 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Professors explained how the topics they research are being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and racial injustice in real time and as history unfolded.
Facing legal and financial challenges, the NRA wants to exit New York.
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While declaring bankruptcy, the gun group confusingly said it was in great financial shape.
Before hundreds of angry Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, thousands took part in a nearby rally.
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It’s unclear whether Women for America First, the ‘social welfare group’ that obtained a permit for the pro-Trump rally that let to a siege on the Capitol, could be held liable.
Despite help from the government and charities, the number of food-insecure kids is rising.
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An estimated 1 in 4 US children have trouble getting enough to eat at least sometimes. We asked four scholars for their insights..
Food pantries can be a source of fresh produce.
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The boxes and bags people get from food pantries contain healthier food than you might suspect.
Henry Bergh (in top hat) stopping an overcrowded horsecar, from Harper’s Weekly, Sept. 21, 1872.
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A fast-moving equine flu cratered the US economy in the fall of 1872, showing all too clearly that horses were essential and deserved better treatment.
Jeff Bezos is pouring $10 billion into the fight against climate change.
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Rather than pump money into a broken system, people like Jeff Bezos and Charles Koch could use their money to help fix it – by insulating politics from money.
A volunteer hands out food boxes in Los Angeles before Thanksgiving.
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Nonprofits are being forced to do more with less money, which may force many of them to close within the next couple of years.