Leadership Change in Health Care: Vermont’s VNAs of Vermont names Eric Covey executive director, aiming to keep home health and hospice access strong during the state’s health care transformation. Community Safety & Crime Prevention: Crime Stoppers of Haldimand and Norfolk reports 499 new tips in 2025, helping drive 31 arrests and 143 charges, funded by donations and grants. NGO Advocacy & Civil Space: In Kazakhstan, rights groups say civic space deteriorated during constitutional reform, with critics facing intimidation, detention, and penalties. Humanitarian Health Crisis: DRC Ebola deaths pass 1,000 as the outbreak spreads fastest on record, with no approved vaccine or specific treatment for the Bundibugyo strain. Housing Support: Kamloops CMHA says a 55-bed modular facility will move people from shelters toward permanent homes, with provincial and federal grants funding construction. Homelessness Services Expansion: Downstreet Housing’s Speranza Inn opens in Barre, a 41-room service-integrated hotel built from an occupied rehabilitation. Environmental Restoration: Tanzania’s TUNZA project, co-developed by IUCN and OCP Foundation, will restore East Usambara ecosystems with community-led resilience work. Public Health & Accessibility: Springfield, Mo. expands NaviLens QR accessibility tools across major public sites, translating content into users’ phone languages. Arts Funding Pressure: CalMatters reports San Diego’s arts scene is losing momentum as public funding drops and artists’ pay falls behind rising costs.