Mirae Kim, George Mason University and Bo Li, Georgia State University
A study of more than 200 social services and arts groups points to the severity of structural barriers.
Frances Willard stands behind her mother, at left, and Anna B. Gordon, who worked as a secretary and lived in the Willard household.
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A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
James O'Keefe stands accused of financial misdeeds.
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A scholar of the laws governing tax-exempt groups explains why trustees showed James O'Keefe the door and what the consequences might be if their concerns prove to be accurate.
A pedestrian walking along the BeltLine in Atlanta on Feb. 17, 2016, passes townhomes under construction.
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A longtime critic of Atlanta’s BeltLine explains how the popular network of parks has increased inequality in the city and driven out lower-income residents.
Volunteers pitch in at the Second Harvest Food Bank in Irvine, Calif. in December 2022.
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A little more than 1 in 10 Americans can’t get enough to eat – around the same share of the country that was experiencing food insecurity before the COVID-19 pandemic.
In most cases, these leaders don’t chart their professional trajectories.
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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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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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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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Judith Keller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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.