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Thank you, funders. During the worst of the pandemic in 2020-2021, you pumped out an extra $29.3 billion to support the work of charitable nonprofits. To get money out quickly, many of…

An engineer who managed dams for years explains the tradeoffs operators make as they decide when to release water and how much to stay safe.

The climate crisis is everywhere we look with record heatwaves, extreme cold snaps, floods, wildfires, droughts, and storms. Natural disasters continue to increase in frequency and scale, with hundreds of…

The Detroit Food Commons, a $22 million community project that will house shared use kitchens, a community meeting space, offices, outdoor vendor booths, and The Detroit People’s Food Co-op (a Black-led,…

The years of traumatic experiences put foster youth in a vulnerable position when they age out of the system at age 18. This blog post explores several approaches that the federal government, states, and other organizations have deployed to address […]…

People with dementia end up in hospital ERs 1.4 million times a year. Better caregiver support could prevent future crises.

The shortages, which have been going on for years, have typically affected only low-cost generics rather than profitable brand-name drugs.

The controversial – and often misunderstood – extracurricular groups tend to raise controversy. But under equal access laws, schools can’t discriminate against a club based on its point of view.

Many experienced professionals want to continue working in the years and even decades that follow the traditional retirement age. They want to stay engaged and productive and, in many cases,…

NCRP: Farhad, I wanted to meet with you to essentially talk about the story of Chorus Foundation that you, you know, have some involvement in [laughs]. And Chorus is still…

We could do more to allow these children to stay at home, instead of being forced into institutionalized care.