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A 29-year-old Michigan man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison in Bureau County court for dealing methamphetamine.

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The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine is heartbreaking. No words can console people who have had to flee their homes. No medicine can mend their hearts and souls or erase their trauma. Many humanitarian…

Judging the DMAs is always an enjoyable experience. Not only do you get to see all the great work from the year, but the awards ceremony in December tends to feel like the start of the festive season – ‘tis the season of goodwill and all that.

Episode 40: The Great DAF Debate May 21, 2021 Donor-advised funds (DAF) have dominated philanthropy in any number of ways over the past decade, whether it’s increasing charitable contributions, boosting assets, or simply garnering attention within the public square. That could be why it takes a super sized episode of Fresh Research tackle the topic. This episode diverges from the usual format; instead of one interview there are two interviews, each taking a side on the subject of DAFs and pr...

New Report Says Charities Lost $300 Billion in 5 Years in Part Because Donors Stashed Money in Advised Funds May 4, 2021 New research from two scholars who are advocating for new rules on foundations and donor-advised funds suggests “working charities” lost $300 billion in recent years due in large part to the proliferation of donor-advised funds. According to a new data analysis from Boston College law professor Ray Madoff and James Andreoni, an economist at the University...

Yves here. While this paper pursues a very important question about norms, I have strong doubts about its conclusions, which is basically that there are clear tipping points and they are durable. For instance, abortion rights are far from settled in the US. The women’s liberation movement made the huge tactical error of not getting abortion rights enshrined in legislation, and instead relied on the Supreme Court to hold their win. Richard Nixon made sure that abortion rights meant less than t...

The Surprising Mental Health Benefits of Volunteering A program in Connecticut offers psychotherapy in exchange for voluntary service in the community. But the act of volunteering itself can have mental health benefits of its own. 33 Empowerment, agency, and control. Impact, self-esteem, and social connections. A sense of meaning, a sense of purpose, a sense of contributing — and with all that, a feeling of reward. All are elements in the psychological impact of volunteering. And all are crit...