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When staff members learn how to acknowledge and talk about their social differences, nonprofits can get better at developing strategies, forming alliances and mobilizing people, a recent study found.
The iconic image may have originated with a meat supplier named Samuel Wilson. Or not.
New research shows people experience the ‘endowment effect’ of valuing an object more when they can touch it, even in virtual settings.
As many as two-thirds of couples do it.
This finding suggests public health efforts will have to address the treatment barriers these men face – like poverty or homophobia – to meet the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.
Little comprehensive research about what the charitable accounts, known as DAFs, are supporting has been conducted until now.
Video games are everywhere. So who was the first person to come up with the idea of playing a game on a computer screen?
Students from low-income backgrounds fare better when they are able to take career and technical classes in STEM, new research shows.
Barns are practical buildings, designed to safeguard farm animals and equipment. Why are so many of them painted to stand out from the landscape?
The study found that ticks were unable to feed on guinea pigs vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine, preventing transmission of the pathogen that causes Lyme disease.
The pandemic brought about a sharp rise in mental health concerns, deep unemployment and an unprecedented amount of social isolation – a potentially deadly combination alongside rising gun sales.
Zakat, or charity, is a fundamental practice within the Islamic faith.
Regulatory loopholes for research conducted off US soil allow for questionable trials and misleading data to slip under the FDA’s radar.
Decades of data indicate that over time, the foundations gave less to the founder’s own community and religious causes. But the share of their donations supporting social movements rose.
Of the big pledges so far at the UN climate conference, cutting methane could have the most immediate impact.
Muslims also gave more to causes tied to relief from economic and health problems that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asking for input is more common than letting stakeholders help set a foundation’s priorities or giving them any say where grant money flows.
Vaccination campaigns like the ones that eventually eliminated polio and measles in the United States required decades of education and awareness in order to achieve herd immunity in the U.S. population.
Some suggest women’s lack of competitiveness relative to men is one reason for the persistent gap between how much men and women earn.
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