“Aside from the honor, I’d rather not have been on the list.” -Lee Hays, folksinger and advocate for peace, equality and racial justice, on being blacklisted during the 1950s McCarthy-era Red Scare The U.S. Office of Management and Budget recently requested information from federal agencies about 49 nonprofits across the country. (See: Organizations | Federal […]
Advocacy Spotlight: Community Legal Aid Society, Inc.
Together Delaware’s three civil legal aid agencies—Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI), Delaware Volunteer Legal Services (DVLS), and Legal Services Corporation of Delaware (LSCD)—handle almost 8,000 cases a year, serving over 18,000 Delawareans. The vast majority of our cases involve helping individuals and their families stay housed, fed, and safe from domestic violence. The housing […]
The Connection Between Physical and Economic Health
This is a great piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) written by Patrick Harker, formerly president of the University of Delaware, currently head of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve. Given all that he could write about, it’s wonderful that he would focus on this problem that is so fundamentally important […]
