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  • Disability Rights Activism: Honoring and Continuing Alice Wong’s Legacy

    Nonprofit Quarterly Dec 25, 2025

    My fiancé left me a few months after I recovered from COVID-19. Recovered is probably the wrong word. I could remember my birthdate again. I no longer spoke nonsense when…

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    Study Shows Climate Policies that Incentivize and Penalize Can Advance Clean Energy

    UC San Diego Today Dec 25, 2025

    Anew study from a team of researchers that includes faculty from the University of California San Diego and Princeton University shows how climate policies involving a mix of subsidies for clean energy…

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    Rapid Response Funds: Empowering Movement Organizers to Act Now

    Borealis Philanthropy Dec 25, 2025

    In times of extraordinary uncertainty, grief, and antagonism, we find strength in regrounding in our values, fortifying our strategies, and taking action toward the future we know is possible. In…

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    USPS Network Changes Put Prescription Drug Access for Vulnerable Populations at Risk

    Brookings Dec 24, 2025

    Mail-order pharmacies are a cornerstone of the nation’s prescription delivery network, particularly for chronic conditions that require consistent access to medication. By eliminating travel barriers and providing longer-fill prescriptions—usually 60-…

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  • Why Principals Must Lead the Future of High School Redesign

    Getting Smart Dec 23, 2025

    Amid growing calls for redefining the high school experience, there’s a critical missing link that is often overlooked: principals and assistant principals. Why must principals lead, and what has prevented many…

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  • Local Democracy Is Holding Strong, But Rural Communities Are Falling Behind, New Survey of Michigan Officials Shows

    The Conversation Dec 23, 2025

    According to our recent survey of officials in Michigan communities, local democracy is humming along and city hall is taking care of business. The federal government was shut down in…

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    How State Psychiatric Hospitals Became Overflow Jails

    The Marshall Project Dec 23, 2025

    Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old son will kill or be killed in a state psychiatric hospital. “That’s what I’m trying to avoid,” said Ferguson, who still calls Quincy Jackson III…

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    Free Speech Zones Help Colleges Manage Protests. Are They Constitutional?

    PEN America Dec 19, 2025

    As college campuses grapple with protests, “free speech zones,” where schools limit activities such as pamphleteering or demonstrations to contained areas on campus, may sound like a good thing. And…

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  • Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis: Profit-Driven Conflict Exacerbated by Aid Cuts

    Devex Dec 18, 2025

    For the past three years, Sudan’s war has killed more than 150,000 people. It’s pushed 33 million into need of humanitarian assistance and plunged parts of the country into famine.…

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    Indigenous Fisherfolk Speak Out Amidst Attacks on Their Sovereignty in Panama

    Food Tank Dec 10, 2025

    The Panamanian Indigenous Ngäbe Buglé Peoples and fisherfolk have practiced ancestral fishing in the provinces of Veraguas, Bocas del Toro, and Chiriquí for more than a hundred years. In February…

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  • What Nonprofits Need Most From Funders Right Now: Solidarity, Support, and Courage

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Dec 10, 2025

    I don’t need to tell you that 2025 has been an extremely challenging year. Let me offer up an incomplete list of actions of the current presidential administration that should…

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    Curbing Global Democratic Backsliding: How Funders Can Invest in Democracy

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Dec 10, 2025

    Across the world, the progress of democracy has slowed, if not reversed. According to Freedom House’s ratings, 23 countries became less free between 2013 and 2024—including India, Turkey, Hungary, and Indonesia—while…

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