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What Do Public Libraries Have to Do with Climate Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Across the United States, public libraries are under attack. In the face of escalating disasters caused by climate change, public libraries don’t only provide access to urgently needed print and digital resources; they are increasingly becoming places to go for safety, security, and community.

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Remaking the Economy: Redefining Journalism

NonProfit Quarterly

In this Remaking the Economy webinar conversation, developed in partnership with the Institute for Nonprofit News the panelists discuss the state of journalism and explore how it can advance economic justice. How can community and nonprofit media effective address the growing menace of disinformation?

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Walmart Heirs Bet Big on Journalism

NonProfit Quarterly

Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts. The Waltons aren’t the only philanthropists pumping money into the news industry, and the family, America’s richest, gives even larger sums to other interests.

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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. It’s this last type of bad news that is affecting people so severely that researchers have coined new terms to describe it.

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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions. Around 2,200 local newspapers have closed since 2005, resulting in 20 percent of Americans living in “news deserts” with little to no reliable coverage of important local events.

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The Five Most Popular Nonprofit Articles of 2022

NonProfit Leadership Center

Financial management can be intimidating for many nonprofit professionals, especially those new to oversight roles in nonprofit organizations. Receive the Latest News, Resources & Events from the Nonprofit Leadership Center. We’ll send you the latest news and resources directly to your inbox once a week.

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A $500 Million Pledge to Support Local News

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Jon Tyson on Unsplash The decades-long decimation of local news—and the dangers that the trend poses for public oversight, an informed citizenry, and democracy itself—remains very much underway. The MacArthur Foundation itself pledged $150 million to the new fund. And the way to do that is through journalism.”