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Seven things nonprofit executives can begin saying to set boundaries with funders and say no without consequences.

Women who gave birth during the COVID pandemic filled significantly more opioid prescriptions, and at higher strength, for postpartum pain.

Generative AI, those astonishingly powerful language- and image-generating tools taking the world by storm, come at a price: a big carbon footprint. But not all AIs are equally dirty.

When U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman visited his childhood home in Harlem’s East River Houses last winter, he was struck by a piece of graffiti at the entrance. The tag read, simply, “Help.”…

For years, harmful anti-immigrant, anti-Black, and anti-Indigenous narratives have proliferated public discourse from online forums to Congressional legislatures. The lives of millions of immigrants and people of color are at…

APEN’s Christine Cordero discusses the groups history and climate funders and organizers can create a healthier world by centering the wisdom of Asian immigrant refugee peoples.   In the previous entry in…

In 787 communities served by the United States’ largest utilities, 17% of households struggle to afford basic water services, an analysis finds.

Without purposeful guidance on choosing the right classes or taking advantage of available resources, students can easily get lost and end up “making decisions that don’t get them to a degree,” said Josh Wyner, who leads higher education programs at The Aspen Institute.

Detention facilities run by tribal nations or the Bureau of Indian Affairs are often left out of research, making the tribal prisoner population one of the most vulnerable in the country.

New documents show Energy Transfer spent big on police gear and worked with spin doctors to counter Standing Rock protesters.

Fires in Canada have sent smoke across several US states, leaving cities like Denver with some of the worst air quality in the world – even far from the actual flames.