Years before the Trump Administration started systematically rolling back DEI policies on a federal level, the Oregon State Parks department was stymied when it came to its own efforts to promote inclusion. For at least seven years, the Oregon Parks department – the manager of millions of acres of land in the progressive state – has acknowledged that the vast ...
The New Bedford Light in Massachusetts continued investigating a local for-profit nursing home chain that has been accused of deliberately understaffing its facilities, which can endanger residents. The company reached a $4 million settlement with the state last year to resolve claims that it put patient health and safety at risk because of deliberate understaffing. With support from the Fund, ...
With support from the Fund, reporters for the Center for Collaborative for Investigative Journalism and the Forbidden Stories Deportation Project probed a secret deal that Uganda signed with the U.S. to receive people who were being deported, even though they had no connection to the country. The story, published in New Lines, spotlights the case of eight people from different ...
Hurricane Helen, in 2025, was the deadliest storm to hit the U.S. since 2017, and it hit Western North Carolina hardest. With support from the Fund, Chris Kromm dug into recovery efforts over the last two years for a story for Facing South, co-published in The Nation. His reporting found that North Carolina’s recovery remains painfully slow and uneven, hampered ...
Grantee examines why mental-health courts in NY are reaching just a fraction of people who need them
With the support of a seed grant from the Fund, Eliza Fawcett explored the obscure world of New York’s mental health courts, which aim to divert people with serious mental illness from jail and into treatment. More than 40 mental health courts have emerged across New York State since the early 2000s, and the state court system is focused on ...
KHNS, the NPR affiliate in the Alaska panhandle, is airing a second season of Molly McCluskey’s award-winning series examining how the cruise-ship industry created a housing crunch in a tiny Alaska town. With support from the Fund, McCluskey dug into changes to local housing in the aftermath of the first season – and found that, while some important steps have ...
Five years before immigration agents made international news for the shooting of Renée Good, they shot another 37-year-old mother of three in the head through a car windshield. The previous victim, Marisol García Alcántara, miraculously survived and was sent to an ICE jail with the bullet still in her forehead. With support from the Fund, S.C. Cornell dug into Alcántara’s ...
With support from the Fund, Lourdes Medrano dug into the impact of new federal rules intended to crack down on cartel money-laundering – which are devastating small businesses along the U.S./Mexico border that immigrant families rely on to pay rent and support each other. Last year, the federal government required any businesses providing financial services in the region to report ...
In the second part of an investigation into a case that highlights lengthy pretrial detention in San Francisco, Amy Martyn uncovered information that a witness’s testimony was misrepresented and that the prosecutor delayed the case nine times in the final three years that Kenyon and Kishawn Norbert were in jail awaiting trial. With support from the Fund, Martyn used court ...
For an investigation in TechCity, Anibe Idakili uncovered how digital lenders, smartphone ecosystems, data brokers, and artificial intelligence contractors extract money, personal information, and labor from people with limited economic and regulatory power. Interviews revealed a pattern of loan apps weaponizing contact lists, platforms offering weaker consent protections in Nigeria than in the U.S., low-cost phones carrying software with documented ...