With aggressive immigration enforcement under the Trump administration making many immigrants reluctant to go to court or healthcare providers for fear of arrest, nonprofit organizations serving immigrant populations should know its rights to protect their clients and establish best practices, a guide from the New York Lawyers for the Public...

There is an acute shortage of adequate, secure, and affordable urban housing in the global south, a crisis that is projected to affect 1.6 billion people by 2025, a report from the World Resources Institute finds. According to the report, Confronting the Urban Housing Crisis in the Global South: Adequate, Secure, and Affordable Housing (40 pages,...

While the arts have the potential to boost economic development in rural America, arts education in rural schools faces a number of challenges, including the difficulty of recruiting and retaining arts teachers, inadequate funding, and lack of supportive policies, a report from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts finds. Based on a...

Engaging parents and community members can help improve student outcomes and advance school improvement, a report from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation finds. Based on a literature and data review, the report, How Family, School, and Community Engagement Can Improve Student Achievement and Influence School Reform (24 pages, PDF), found that...

Healthcare organizations and community-based organizations that provide human services are forming various partnerships that lead to better health outcomes, a report from the Nonprofit Finance Fund, the Center for Health Care Strategies, and the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities finds. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and...

Thanks to the "justice gap" — the difference between the civil legal needs of low-income Americans and the resources available to meet those needs — low-income Americans received inadequate or no legal help for 86 percent of their civil legal problems in the last year, a report from the Legal Services Corporation finds. Based on a survey...

The cost of operating and maintaining school principal pipelines in large urban districts averages about $5.6 million a year, or just 0.4 percent of annual expenditures, a report commissioned by the Wallace Foundation finds. Conducted by the RAND Corporation, the study, What It Takes to Operate and Maintain Principal Pipelines: Costs and Other...

The Latino community is helping to drive the growth and demographics of the population in the greater Boston region as well as its economy, a report from the Boston Foundation and the Boston Planning and Development Agency finds. According to the report, Powering Greater Boston's Economy: Why the Latino Community Is Critical to Our Shared Future...

Although police departments often face unique challenges in building trust-based relationships with recently resettled refugees, case studies show that proactive officers can bridge those gaps, a report from the Police Executive Research Forum finds. Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the report, Refugee Outreach and Engagement...

Passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May, the American Health Care Act (AHCA) could result in as many as 14.8 million people losing Medicaid coverage, a report from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds. The report, The Impact of the AHCA on Federal and State Medicaid Spending and Medicaid Coverage (24 pages,...

There is a substantial and consistent correlation between arts participation and civic engagement, a report from the James Irvine Foundation finds. Based on a literature review, the report, Hearts and Minds: The Arts and Civic Engagement (21 pages, PDF), found that people who participate in the arts are more likely than those who don't to...

Cuts in state funding for public flagship universities are forcing many schools to admit more out-of-state students who pay higher tuition — to the point of shutting out moderate- and low-income in-state students, a report from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation finds. The report, State University No More: Out-of-State Enrollment and the Growing...

Financial returns on so-called real asset impact investments funds focused on real estate, timber, and infrastructure are comparable to returns on conventional real asset funds, a report from the Global Impact Investing Network finds. The report, The Financial Performance of Real Assets Impact Investments (34 pages, PDF), analyzed fifty-five...

A report from Polaris identifies twenty-five types of human trafficking in the United States — each characterized by its own "business" model, recruitment strategies, and methods of control. Based on an analysis of more than thirty-two thousand cases of labor and sex trafficking cases documented between December 2007 and December 2016, The...