Prosecutors, prison officials, and the journalists who cover them have a habit of suggesting that incarcerated people commonly live lavishly off of enormous trust account balances, the source of which…
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Apollo Beach, Florida, is a maze of canals lined with hundreds of houses perched right near the water’s edge. The whole community, just south of Tampa, is only about 3…
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Click here for more.The disgraceful, failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 made clear the consequences of our country’s history of white privilege: a threat to democracy itself. We must hold…
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Click here for more.Artificial intelligence holds great promise for improving human health by helping doctors make accurate diagnoses and treatment decisions. It can also lead to discrimination that can harm minorities, women and…
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Due to an effect called the “urban heat island,” temperatures are often ten degrees higher in cities than in surrounding areas due to the heat absorption and retention of materials…
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The pandemic’s traumas and isolation spurred a mental health crisis among children — and an unprecedented reckoning about the role schools can and should play in tending to the mental…
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Despite some progress toward ending mass incarceration in recent years, the U.S. still has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Racial and gender disparities and inequitable policies within the…
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Click here for more.Nationally, violence against Indigenous women is a constant threat. According to the National Institute of Justice, four out of five (84.3%) of American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced…
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Tornadoes tore up homes in New Orleans and its suburbs and were reported in communities from Texas to Mississippi and Alabama as severe storms swept across the South in late…
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Click here for more.Co-leadership is not a new model. To the contrary, nonprofit organizations have used co-CEO and co-executive director models to divide and conquer senior leadership responsibilities and to share power for…
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Click here for more.This is the first in a series of posts contributed by the Feedback Incentives Learning Group, a group of funders dedicated to encouraging peer funders to listen to the people most…
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What is National Voter Registration Day? National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) is a nonpartisan holiday that’s recognized annually on the fourth Tuesday of September to observe our collective efforts to address…