This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Recent data show that only four cents of every $100 dollars of foundation funding goes to trans organizations and causes. Only four cents. This historic disinvestment in our communities comes…
Solar panels, heat pumps and hydrogen are all building blocks of a clean energy economy. But are they truly “essential to the national defense”? President Joe Biden proclaimed that they…
Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices and industry consolidation. The price of synthetic fertilizer has more than doubled since 2021, causing great…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Renters making the leap to homeownership need two distinct types of help: pre-purchase assistance, which explains to people the new responsibilities they’re taking on, and post-purchase counseling for those at…
“When one door closes, another door opens.” So goes the popular adage. But if the door is a metaphor for access and opportunity, then an implicit truth of this adage…
In a new study, anxiety was significantly lower among cancer patients who viewed art at their bedside. The daughter of an artist and former fashion designer, Emily Gore, a fourth-year…
At the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, journalism educator and researcher Clay Carey of Samford University said one way journalists in academia can help the news business is case studies…
Highway 7 runs north-south through western Washington, carving its way through a landscape sparsely dotted with residences, farms, and a general store. The flush of late winter rain characteristic of the Pacific…
Philanthropy, as well as other service-based work, place even more demands on our strained capacity. Plenty of data reveal increased stress levels on nonprofits since the pandemic. Yet, we have…
Philanthropy is becoming part of the business model at many American newspapers, but not so much among rural weeklies and dailies. Rural philanthropy has always been something of an oxymoron,…
Currently, patients in seven states can tell their physicians they don’t want to be treated with opioids in any health care setting, even during surgery. While unnecessary opioid exposure is…
Tomorrow is Asian American and Pacific Islander Women’s Equal Pay Day.1 The day marks the point in 2021 until which, on average, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women had to…