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The Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire was easily visible from space. ( NASA photo) After two runaway fires set by the U.S. Forest Service destr…

In Nigeria, the realities on the ground don’t always match up with the way funders operate. What would it look like if there was a system that supported small and local groups doing direct action?……

Two activists from Direct Action Everywhere were just acquitted for taking factory-farmed chickens worth $16.

The work done by big-data scholars is helping to call attention to the challenges of improving upward mobility and is creating a bright future for active changes in socioeconomic challenges in communities today.

Research into the lack of data adoption in the social sector has largely focused on the organizational level. But what if there’s something more systemic going on?

The Agriculture Department’s support of rural universities and colleges underscores how important they are to rural America. It’s also raised questions about risking taxpayer money to delay the seemingly inevitable closings of many of these institutions.

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While working for the City of Lansing’s Department of Neighborhoods and Citizen Engagement (DNCE) back in summer 2018, my colleagues and I realized something was amiss with our Neighborhood Advisory Board Grants program. The…

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that zoonotic diseases – infections that pass from animals to humans – can present tremendous threats to global health. More than 70% of emerging and…

When children walk through a school’s doors, counselor Tinisha Parker, Ph.D., understands that they’re not just carrying backpacks and lunchboxes. She knows that kids are also shouldering invisible burdens like…

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