The students looked as if they could be getting ready for a Harry Styles concert, sprawled out across the carpet in the University of South Dakota’s student center. Early 2000s…
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A new model of giving, dubbed “crypto philanthropy” by the burgeoning web3 movement, is changing the way donors fund nonprofit work focused on their favorite causes. Crypto philanthropy is setting…
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Throughout history, competitions have produced innovative ideas, creative solutions, and even new industries. In 1795, for example, Napoleon Bonaparte launched the Food Preservation Prize seeking a safe way to store…
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Law schools have increasingly sorted along gender lines, and the makeup of faculties has become a reflection of schools’ student population, according to preprint research published on the SSRN, an open-access platform…
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In rural enclaves and city centers, in red states and blue, school districts share the same top priority for federal COVID relief aid: spending on teachers and other staff who…
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California law mandates standards-based instruction from kindergarten through high school in dance, music, theater and visual art. Yet, according to a recent report by SRI Education, nearly 90% of our public schools…
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The nonprofit Front Porch Investments is preparing to launch a “Greenlining Fund” to help reverse the historic and ill effects of local redlining. The organization, supported by major philanthropic foundations…
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Before we had high-powered science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, academic departments with fancy laboratories, there was just teacher, student and basic apprenticeship. At Xavier University of Louisiana, as…
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Nonprofit organizations face at least four major gaps in engaging with retirement services and are hindered from offering equitable retirements, a study from Just Futures finds. According to the report, Reclaiming Retirement for…
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This summer, Americans have seen severe flooding in Kentucky, droughts spurring wildfires in the West and oppressive heat setting records across the U.S. and Europe. Yet as they return to…
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Click here for more.Over the past few years throughout the social sector, we’ve witnessed an unprecedented number of what many have termed, transformational gifts. These contributions span widely. Depending on the size of the…
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Hurricane Ian left an extraordinarily broad path of destruction across much of South Florida. That was evident in reports from the ground, but it also shows up in satellite data.…