Human Services

As storms get warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up.

Nearly 900 governments—including county, municipal, and township governments—include a community disaster resilience zone, which could lead to overlapping administrative responsibilities.

Wildfires in the American West are getting larger, more frequent and more severe. Although efforts are underway to create fire-adapted communities, it’s important to realize that we cannot simply design…

Over the past year and a half, the United States has reckoned with the pandemic, a breakdown of race relations, rising wealth inequality, the looming threat of climate change and…

New Point-in-Time count data from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development show homelessness has increased 12.1 percent from 2022 to 2023.

A report from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy finds that disaster funding by the top 1,000 U.S. foundations plunged from $4.3 billion in 2020—in …

Solar Sister, a Cisco nonprofit partner, invests in women’s clean energy businesses to empower female entrepreneurs and build community resilience, lifting people out of the cycle of poverty. Solar Sister…

Christine Thurman is a mother of three. She’s engaged and is the breadwinner in her Chicago household. She also works as a waitress, living primarily off of tips because she’s…

For homeless students, chronic absenteeism is dismayingly high.The number of students who regularly miss school has risen since the pandemic, but for …

These three topics were top of mind in 2023 for sustainable food professionals — and will move the field forward in the year ahead.

A new report outlines key recommendations for mission-driven food businesses to improve the sustainability of their operations.

In 2021, communities worldwide grappled with the impacts of COVID-19 and numerous other devastating disasters, including Hurricane Ida, winter storms and tornado outbreaks in the U.S., Haiti earthquake, Typhoon Rai…