The rebuilding in places like Matlacha, Fla., won’t happen overnight.
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Many government agencies help people whose lives are thrown off course, but not everyone is eligible or able to access that aid.
Bucking conventions can be wise.
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A new study adds to a body of work that casts doubt on the wisdom of the standard rulebook many donors expect charities to follow.
Ade Osadolor-Hernandez of Students Demand Action speaks at a rally outside the U.S. Capitol in May 2022.
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Congress tends to be most likely to act after an assassination or assassination attempt of historic proportions or mass shootings. But sometimes lawmakers do nothing beyond debate new measures.
Sexual harassment is a common workplace hazard for nonprofit fundraisers.
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After studying this #MeToo problem for years, two researchers have drafted a toolkit to help nonprofits address it.
NRA conventiongoers, like these at the gun group’s 2018 big meeting, browse firearms exhibits.
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The group, founded in 1871, didn’t try to smother virtually all gun control efforts until the mid-1970s.
The Canadian charity sector has significant social impact and is committed to providing unwavering support to every aspect of people’s lives.
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The 2022 federal budget implements long needed regulations to support the charitable sector.
High insulin prices are leaving some people who need the drug without access.
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About 1 in 4 Americans with diabetes who need insulin struggle to pay for this lifesaving drug.
Not everyone’s up for converting this vegetable into a side or main dish.
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Efforts to make donated food as healthy as possible backfire if the recipients throw it out.
Women still have a long way to go to reach parity in the boardroom.
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A study of 3,000 companies found a correlation between local ‘social capital’ – which measures such variables as voter turnout and census response rates – and more women on corporate boards.
Mohammad Attaie and his wife, Deena, newly arrived from Afghanistan, get assistance from medical translator Jahannaz Afshar at the Valley Health Center TB/Refugee Program in San Jose, Calif., on Dec. 9, 2021.
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Nine agencies, most of them faith-based, are resettling Afghan evacuees in the US. But the system is under strain.
Brad Pitt walks past one of the first homes built in New Orleans by his Make It Right Foundation in this 2008 photo.
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So much went wrong with the homes built by the Make It Right Foundation that its low-income homebuyers were deprived of the financial security they were promised.
Most nonprofits must file this paperwork with the IRS every year.
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The government makes the information nonprofits report on this form available to the public, enhancing transparency and accountability.
It’s good to get insights from different perspectives.
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The lack of racial and ethnic diversity among nonprofit leaders could make it hard for their organizations to achieve their goals.
Volunteers across the U.S. tag and count monarchs during the insects’ annual migrations.
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Informed data donations are different from the usual online data experience. They’re easier to manage because of technological advances.
The National Rifle Association may soon get a major legal victory.
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America’s love-hate relationship with guns is reaching a new level.
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of the national Feeding America anti-hunger network, meets with Jay Worrall, president of a Pennsylvania food bank.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s latest ranking indicates that the coronavirus and heightened awareness about racism made a difference, but not necessarily a lasting one.
Many women with metastatic breast cancer feel left out of annual ‘Pinktober’ awareness drives because these campaigns tend to focus on earlier, more curable stages of the disease.
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A diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer means having cancer for the rest of one’s life – a situation with very different needs and concerns compared to earlier stages of the disease.
Usher, shown speaking in 2019 at an event hosted by the nonprofit he started, and two other celebrities shot five episodes of the canceled series.
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The producers are recasting the show as a documentary. The original version would have done more harm than good for the causes being showcased, two scholars argue.
Students had demanded for years that Harvard University divest from fossil fuels.
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The announcement didn’t use the word ‘divest.’ A legal scholar explains why that shouldn’t matter.
A Delta Health Center worker at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic in rural Mississippi in April 2021.
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Achieving widespread immunity to COVID-19 through vaccination requires as many people as possible to get their shots, including those who object or haven’t bothered.