Harvard eliminates community service hub, scales back staffing to support student- and community-facing programming, including volunteerism activities. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Nearly Half of Phillips Brooks House Staff Positions Impacted by FAS Restructuring | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Phillips Brooks House was the hardest-hit Harvard College unit by share of staff positions in a recent round of layoffs tied to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ sweeping administrative overhaul, ...

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My time volunteering with a Phillips Brook House program--becoming a big brother figure for a middle schooler in Boston's Mission Hill community--was one of the best parts by far of my @harvard.edu experience. Fuck the consultants who recommended this, & the administration for going along with it.

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 5d ago

The latest, heartbreaking casualty of austerity & reorganization at my home institution: Phillips Brooks House was set up 126 years ago, in the recognition that community service could & should be central to undergraduate education. Now it's being dismantled. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

ID physician Anthony Fauci, MD, FIDSA has led with courage, scientific integrity and an unwavering commitment to improving public health. These qualities inspired IDSA to establish the Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award. We thank him for his service to patients, science & the ID community.

And I say again - what nonprofit is going to accommodate this person who needs to do 250 hours of community service? I really, really hope the volunteers at that nonprofit say NO.

WBUR@wbur.org · 5d ago

Under the terms of the settlement, Christopher Hood, the founder of NSC-131 who is from Massachusetts, will pay $2,500 and perform 250 hours of community service after admitting he violated the state’s antidiscrimination laws.

She was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, was placed on probation and ordered to complete 200 hours of community service. I wonder what nonprofit is going to accommodate her as a volunteer.

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 2w ago

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A Portland, Oregon city councilor burned debris in his back yard. He claims he didn't know about the city AND county’s YEAR-ROUND bans on burning yard debris. Never mind that Oregon is burning down all around us & our air quality is some of the worst in the WORLD. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

City Councilor Mitch Green Violated Burn Ban by Starting Backyard Brush Fire

Just before 8 pm on July 26, a 911 dispatcher received a call concerning a fire in the backyard of a Southwest Portland home. It was the home of Councilor Mitch Green.

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“young woman from disadvantaged community targeted by recruiters and likely exposed to a lifetime of propaganda about the nobility of military service” != “dude who signed up to go shoot foreigners as an ‘adventure’” and it is frustrating to see them conflated

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 2w ago

I'm seeing really ugly stuff in the replies on how she chose this and I want you to take a beat to understand how the military disproportionately targets certain communities, including and especially in Texas, for recruitment.

The National Governor's Association seems to be recreating AmeriCorps. What's up with that? Why not just leverage the amazing national community service program that already exists (but is horrifically under funded?). #ServiceUnited www.nga.org/service-unit...

Service United

Service from All, Opportunity for All Roughly 5 million Americans between 16 and 24 are neither in school nor employed. Structural workforce shortages persist in key sectors like health care, educatio...

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Regarding adolescents (& probably all people), "Sleep was the strongest lifestyle factor linking mental health symptoms to lower grades, accounting for 18.5% of the association with depression, 36.3% with anxiety and 8.3% with psychotic-like disturbances." health.ucdavis.edu/medical-scho...

A good night’s sleep may help adolescents thrive in school and with friends

Sleep may matter more than screen time, exercise or diet for young people to succeed in school and maintain healthy friendships.

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UN: Afghanistan’s dire hunger crisis now affects 14 million people including babies fed on little more than weak tea and bread by their despairing and dirt-poor parents.

Hear the Earliest Recorded Customer Complaint Letter: From Ancient Sumeria 1750 BC

Hear the Earliest Recorded Customer Complaint Letter: From Ancient Sumeria 1750 BC

Three-thousand, seven-hundred, and seventy-one years ago, in the city of Dilmun, near Ur in Mesopotamia, there was a merchant named Ea-nasir. His business was in selling metal ingots that he purchased...

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& that's a wrap on my day of posting about court-ordered community service. Hope some probation officer out there, some court judge, some nonprofit organization asked to host these folks, or someone that has to do such service, finds these resources & finds them helpful.

Finally found some excellent, new research on nonprofits engaging volunteers doing court-ordered community service. Have a look at my resources on the subject & scroll down to "resources from others." The citations on the papers provide even more research. www.coyotebroad.com/volunteer/co...

Your nonprofit can involve court-ordered community service volunteers without lowering your standards for volunteers. Put the person through all the same screening & orienting you do for any volunteer candidate. If they make the cut, bring them on board. coyotecommunications.com/coyoteblog/2...

Alternative sentencing, where law breakers are assigned community service instead of jail time, is a standard practice in the USA & has started in India, Ghana, Kenya, Malaysia, Malawi, Tanzania & more. What does it take for these programs to be successful? www.coyotebroad.com/volunteer/co...

Resources for those involved in court-ordered community service

Please see the disclaimer at the end of this page.

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Almost put a link to an AI resource into a presentation for nonprofits, just based on the title & description. Then I did a deeper dive. So glad I check first. It's yet another "fire your communications person, let AI tell your story!" plan. Nope.

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An Oregon nonprofit founded by state Sen. Christine Drazan, R-Canby, did not maintain a conflict of interest policy when it paid nearly $100,000 to a consulting firm she owns with her husband, missing a key step to help prove the transaction complied with tax law, records show.  buff.ly/3FAT91f

How Drazan’s consulting firm pocketed nearly $100k from her nonprofit with little oversight  • Oregon Capital Chronicle

The situation offers insight into how one of Oregon’s most successful recent Republican politicians handled her finances ahead of a campaign.

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“The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes …They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...

Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’

The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.

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No wonder people pay for subscriptions to Spotify: the ads for podcasts are horrible. Who actually listens to these people?!?

I can't find people or organizations providing advice to nonprofits regarding how to host people doing mandatory community service, nor advising courts on how to work with nonprofits on this subject. So I've compiled my own resources here: www.coyotebroad.com/volunteer/co...

Resources for those involved in court-ordered community service

Please see the disclaimer at the end of this page.

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We rightfully talk about Ruby Bridges being the first Black child to integrate an all-white school in the South at 6-years-old. But we don’t talk nearly enough about Lucille Bridges, her mom ✨

One of the geeky thrills of my life was getting to see this in person back in 2007.

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10 Hidden Details in the Bayeux Tapestry www.medievalists.net/2026/05/10-h... #BayeuxTapestry

I have a LOT of resources regarding court-ordered / mandatory community service, for those assigning such, those hosting such volunteers (yes, they are volunteers) & those that have to do it. & now you can find it all in one place. Free, no sign in required: www.coyotebroad.com/volunteer/co...

Resources for those involved in court-ordered community service

Please see the disclaimer at the end of this page.

coyotebroad.com

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

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Smoke fills the air in the town in Oregon where I live, though fires are far away . My head is pounding. The taste in my mouth is disgusting. Small suffering compared to the loss of homes, lives and livelihoods, of course.

Obama played 333 rounds of golf during his two terms, about 11.4 % of 2,922 days as president. Trump has played at his courses for 20.05 % of his first-term days & 26.4 % of his second-term so far. Taxpayer cost of Trump's golf travel & security: nearly $115 million. www.newsweek.com/trump-golf-t...

Trump's golf trips cost taxpayers $100M—Here's how much Obama spent

Trump's golf habits have long been compared with Obama’s, whom Trump criticized for spending time on the course as president.

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Todd Blanche watched The Handmaid’s Tale and saw it as a blueprint instead of a warning.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...