A photographer who just happened to be hanging out by the Manhattan Criminal Court last month managed to snap a potentially award-winning pic of two young lovers engaged in a tender exchange while being brought to the courthouse in handcuffs.
The Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington in Seattle is dedicated to understanding the ways people communicate in order to promote citizen engagement and effective participation in local, national, and global affairs.
Nonpartisan economic and social policy research
Our mission: the Urban Institute gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues — to foster sound public policy and effective government.
The Urban Institute builds knowledge about the nation’s social and fiscal challenges, practicing open-minded, evidence-based research to diagnose problems and figure out which policies and programs work best, for whom, and how.
Tra i Gruppi di acquisto solidale, i loro corrispondenti statunitensi, le Community-Supported Agriculture (Csa), e alcune esperienze di orti urbani nel mondo ci sono realtà che tentano di favorire cittadini a basso reddito in molti modi. Ad esempio, ci sono gruppi che prevedono oltre all’acquisto collettivo di cibo sano presso contadini locali anche la partecipazione…
Creative Resistance is an online showcase for activist artwork providing a daily stream of photos including puppets, protest signs and other activist visual
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.
A new video from Culturunners, "Khaled's Ladder," documents multidisciplinary artist Khaled Jarrar's journey along the U.S.-Mexico border and the making his new work that takes the border wall as its raw material.
Luminos is University of California Press' new Open Access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as our traditional program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared..
A nonprofit human rights advocacy organization that works to realize Senator Robert F. Kennedy's dream of a peaceful and just world by advancing human rights.
We’ve come a long way in the last couple of centuries and our lives have improved significantly. But the path to get to where we are now was not always
As I have posted before, the definition of advocacy that I use when talking with direct service organizations about how they can ease into it comes from the Latin root word, advocare, which means "to call to aid". It's about how you build a constituency around your cause, even more broadly than around your organization.…
È uscito per PS4 in alta risoluzione Journey, il capolavoro fatto di estetica ed emozioni inedite di Jenova Chen. Dopo che ci avrete giocato, non avrete più la stessa opinione dei videogiochi (e forse anche di voi stessi). Leggi