Nonprofit Chronicles

Journalism about foundations, nonprofits and their impact

Civil rights. Feminism. Gay rights. Environmentalism. Meditation. Yoga. Natural childbirth. Much of the politics and culture of the 1960s has been absorbed into mainstream America. Not psychedelic drugs — not yet, anyway. That will soon change if David Bronner, the CEO of family-owned soap-maker Dr. Bronner’s, has his way. “Psychedelic medicine is the last and arguably the …

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This is a strange and deeply disturbing time. I’d like to be writing more about racial justice and Covid-19 and, in an indirect way, I did just this morning, at Medium. My story looks at two progressive, criminal-justice ballot initiatives that are all but certain to be on the November ballot in the state of …

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