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In March 2025, US President Donald Trump penned a public letter to Michael Kratsios, his incoming director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, outlining a vision to “usher in ...

One evening in the early 1970s, Michael Pachovas and a few friends wheeled themselves to a curb in Berkeley, Calif., poured cement into the form of a crude ramp, and rolled off into the night. 1 For ...

Mary Kay Gugerty is the Nancy Bell Evans Professor of Nonprofit Management & Philanthropy at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington and is the ...

How an innovative public-private partnership responded rapidly to keep 82,000 families fed during a government shutdown.