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Classic 1939 photo of an Oklahoma homeless migrant family in a camp in California may again become a common scene in America. (Photo by Ashley Wilson)

Why are 1 in 30 children are homeless?

The number of homeless children in the U.S. has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child in every 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report that blames the nation’s high poverty rate.

Equal Voice

Yankees’ Cashman sleeping on streets for homeless charity

Bloomberg

How foreign policy’s 100 global thinkers affect civil society and you

Foreign Policy’s annual list of global thinkers is out, and we always look through the nonprofit or NGO lens to see where these thinkers, activists, healers, and troublemakers connect to our sector.

NonProfit Quarterly

Snakebites, diarrhoea and violence: why India’s rural women need toilets

In India’s Sheohar district, women are keen to talk about the safety that comes with having a toilet at home.

Guardian

‘Miniskirt’ assault protest draws thousands

Al Jazeera

Guarding the Ebola border

On a map, a border is a solid black line. On the ground, it can feel like a fiction. I’m standing on the edge of a shallow stream through the forest that separates two West African countries: Ivory Coast and Liberia.

NPR

Billionaire Paul Allen donates 10,000 smartphones to the Ebola battle

FOX News

Palestinians kill Israeli worshippers

Four Israelis were killed and several injured as two men armed with pistols and meat cleavers attacked a West Jerusalem synagogue. Jerusalem has seen weeks of unrest, partly fuelled by tension over a holy site.

BBC News

Blog:

Israel vows harsh response to synagogue attack

Yahoo! News

Why are Asian students suing Harvard for affirmative action policies?

The role of affirmative action in college admissions is under fire as two lawsuits filed call into question whether Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill give priority to use race-neutral admissions criteria.

Christian Science Monitor

Snow blankets parts of New York; US feels chill

A ferocious storm dumped massive piles of snow on parts of upstate New York, trapping residents in their homes and stranding motorists on roadways, as temperatures in all 50 states fell to freezing or below.

SFGate

Blog:

Totally insane! Buffalo suburbs may have set a record for 24-Hour snowfall in a populated area

Discover Magazine

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

US ranks 9th in the world in giving to charity

The United States climbed into the top 10 on an annual ranking of the countries with the most charitable people but still lags behind smaller and poorer nations like Myanmar, Malta, and Thailand.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

With a big campus give, spotlight falls on the philanthropy of a low-profile couple

John and Tashia Morgridge are not exactly household names in philanthropy, in part because they have mastered the art of low-profile giving. But they loom large here at Inside Philanthropy.

Inside Philanthropy

HUMAN RIGHTS

DR Congo: police operation kills 51 young men and boys

Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo summarily killed at least 51 youth and forcibly disappeared 33 others during an anti-crime campaign that began a year ago.

Human Rights Watch

Families in shock as Islamic State lures sons into ‘barbaric madness’

“Do you know how much it hurts to raise someone and watch them grow and suddenly they’re just gone?” says Ahmed Muthana, a retired engineer in Wales whose sons Nasser and Aseel went to fight for Islamic State.

Reuters

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Indonesia slammed over police virginity tests

Indonesia must stop subjecting female police recruits to physical tests in an effort to determine whether they are virgins, a leading human rights group said, describing the practice as degrading and discriminatory.

CBS News

Virginity tests on Indonesia police condemned

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong protesters break into government building as tensions flare again

A group of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters broke into the city’s legislature, and police stopped others forcing their way in as tensions in the Chinese-controlled city escalated after a period of calm.

Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Why a looming world chocolate shortage might be a good thing

A global chocolate shortage (and higher prices) looms, according to a Swiss chocolate producer. The manufacturer is warning that the company can’t keep up with the soaring demand for its confectionary.

Christian Science Monitor

Platinum groups form investment council

Six leading South African platinum companies have launched the World Platinum Investment Council to provide the market with data and insight into the industry to stimulate investment.

Business Day

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Amazing NASA simulation shows a year’s worth of carbon emissions

The video models gases from 2006 and Nasa say it will be used in conjunction with the recently-launched Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 satellite “to better understand both human emissions and natural fluxes”.

The Independent

Dark matter can be spotted though GPS satellites

YouTube

New York City to offer free gigabit Wi-Fi in 2015

New York City unveiled an ambitious plan to roll out a free city-wide municipal Wi-Fi network that officials say will be the fastest and most wide-reaching network of its kind in the world.

CNBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (John Bell):

Jerusalem: the ignored conflict

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Keystone’s just another pipeline: Our view

USA TODAY

Column (Eva Cossee):

Dispatches: Greece - No excuse for caging children

Human Rights Watch

Site edited by: Pallavi Sukhia, Nisha Dubey, Jameson O'Neal, Lukas Dregne, Conrad Hain and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

African musicians band together to raise Ebola awareness

Song lyrics give clear advice on protection from the disease as international NGOs make unprecedented appeal for funds.

Guardian

Former convict cooks up social change with restaurant chain

A high school dropout, Mr. Se Teo runs Eighteen Chefs, a restaurant chain that hires ex-offenders and troubled youths, and turns over $10m a year.

BBC

NONPROFITS & NGOS

A nonprofit not-so-shaggy dog tale: rescuing lab beagles

Companies often use beagles for chemical and pharmaceutical testing, but CBS’s Los Angeles affiliate reported on a local group giving some of those dogs a life outside of a cage and in “forever homes.”

Nonprofit Quarterly

Beagles see sun and grass for the first time after a life in a laboratory

YouTube

Special features on YouTube earmarked for nonprofits

What is your nonprofit video strategy? YouTube is the #2 search engine, which means people are going directly to YouTube to learn about your nonprofit.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Chemical plant where 4 workers died hadn’t had workplace safety inspection in 7 years

The DuPont chemical plant where four workers died after a leak of the poisonous gas methyl mercaptan hasn’t been visited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 2007.

Think Progress

Fracking gets green light in largest national forest on East Coast

Over the objection of environmental groups and Virginia’s governor, a federal management plan will allow a form of natural gas drilling known as fracking in parts of the largest national forest on the East Coast.

CBS News

Photo of the Day

Relocating people with families in DR Congo and elsewhere is a major challenge for the Red Cross. (Photo by ICRC/B. Heger)

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