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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Grand Jury: City Needs to Buck Up Nonprofits and Get Out of Its Own Way to Better Help Vulnerable San Franciscans
2024–2025 San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Report calls out obstacles to effective social services grantmaking. SAN FRANCISCO, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- San Francisco spends more than a billion dollars per year on grants to social services nonprofits. The provision of critical services with this money, such as housing, mental health treatment, childcare, and senior services, is hamstrung by weak organizational capacity and an overly complex procurement process, the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury reported today. The Jury found that nonprofit grantees often lack the skills to manage city funds effectively and that the city's lengthy, over-complicated and under-resourced procurement process further impedes service provision. Moreover, the city's monitoring programs do not lead to timely correction of mismanagement problems, aggravating inefficiency and undermining public trust. Investigation Committee Chair Nicholas Weininger said, "Social services nonprofits struggle to do their best for vulnerable San Franciscans. The city fails these nonprofits, and their own employees, by entangling them in layers of over-complicated, time-consuming bureaucracy. As a result, city residents are denied timely, effective delivery on specific promises to make the city a better, healthier place. This erodes both quality of life and trust in government." The Jury's report details the management problems commonly experienced by social services nonprofits and the inefficiencies in the city's process for awarding grants to these nonprofits. The report's recommendations include: Starting up a dedicated team to proactively help nonprofits manage themselves better. Simplifying and speeding up the granting process through comprehensive reform that eliminates unnecessary review steps and sets clear deadline goals. Investing in training and tools to help city employees make grants efficiently. Monitoring nonprofits for mismanagement risks and addressing those risks before they turn into expensive problems. Weininger added: "The Jury presents in its report clear analysis of how we got here and prudent, budget-sensitive recommendations for improvement. As it stands, inadequate risk management and byzantine processes are setting money on fire. In a time of budget austerity, the city must step up and reform, for the sake of every taxpayer and every vulnerable San Franciscan." To read the full report, Capacity to Serve–Setting Social Services Nonprofits Up for Success, please visit: About the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury The Superior Court selects 19 San Franciscans to serve year-long terms as Civil Grand Jurors. The Jury has the authority to investigate City and County government by reviewing documents and interviewing public officials and private individuals. At the end of its inquiries, the Jury issues reports of its findings and recommendations. Agencies identified in the report must respond to these findings and recommendations within either 60 or 90 days, and the Board of Supervisors conducts a public hearing on each Civil Grand Jury report after those responses are submitted. For more information, visit the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury website: View original content: SOURCE San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Janus Films Acquires Bi Gan's Cannes Prize-winner ‘Resurrection' For North America
Janus Films has acquired North American rights to Bi Gan's Resurrection, with the film winning the Special Jury prize at the recently-concluded Cannes Film Festival. Marking Bi's third feature, Resurrection stars Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao and Li Gengxi. More from Deadline Sergei Loznitsa's 'Two Prosecutors' Scores Fresh Deals For Coproduction Office - Cannes Netflix Buys Richard Linklater's 'Breathless' Homage & Love Letter To Cinema 'Nouvelle Vague' In Record Domestic Deal For A French-Language Movie Breaking Baz @ Cannes: "Even If I'm Fired, I Stay," Declares Defiant Thierry Frémaux; Festival Victors Dance The Night Away After Strongest Selection In Years The deal was negotiated by Janus Films and Losange Films. Resurrection unfolds in six parts spanning a century, set in a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream. However, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. Bi previously directed Kaili Blues and Long Day's Journey into Night — with the latter premiering in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section in 2018. Resurrection was produced by China's Huace Pictures and Dangmai Films with France's CG Cinema, and features a score by French band M83. 'Bi Gan's Resurrection is a kaleidoscopic, time-skipping, genre-mashing odyssey through cinema and dreams that will thrill fans of daring, visionary filmmakers like David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, Leos Carax and Wong Kar-wai,' said Janus Films. 'We're very proud and excited to bring this surreal, provocative, epic experience to screens across North America and to champion the work of Bi Gan, a director we have long admired.' Losange Films added: 'Losange Films is delighted to embark on this new collaboration with the Janus Films team. Resurrection is a powerful and singular film that has been sparking passionate reactions from festival audiences, international buyers, and the press. It's a film that truly calls for a tailored, original, and ambitious release strategy. With their impeccable taste and exceptional vision, Janus Films are the ideal partners for us.' Best of Deadline 'Hacks' Season 4 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? Everything We Know About 'Hacks' Season 4 So Far 'The Last Of Us': Differences Between HBO Series & Video Game Across Seasons 1 And 2
The Hindu
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Stories from the heart: on Heart Lamp and the Booker Prize 2025
The marginalised have come to the fore with Banu Mushtaq winning the International Booker Prize for 2025. In a first for Kannada, Mushtaq and her translator Deepa Bhasthi walked away with the top honours on Tuesday night in London for Heart Lamp. This is also the first time in the history of the prize that a collection of short stories has won. Breaching walls, breaking ceilings, and enduring angry outbursts, Mushtaq chronicles the lives of Muslim women and their anxieties. Her stories are also peopled by clueless husbands, children who are like 'monkeys without tails', loving and, sometimes overbearing, grandmothers, muscular brothers and maulvis. But as Mushtaq has said in interviews, the narratives are primarily about women and how 'religion, society, and politics demand unquestioning obedience from them, and in doing so, inflict inhumane cruelty upon them'. She writes with candour and wry humour, even as the women are often struggling to stay afloat with their backs against the wall. In her moving acceptance speech, Mushtaq harped on the power of words to 'create a world where every voice is heard, every story matters, and every person belongs'. Showering praise on Kannada, she said that it is a language that sings of resilience and nuance — 'to write in Kannada is to inherit a legacy of cosmic wonder and earthly wisdom'. The 77-year-old Mushtaq hails from Hassan in Karnataka, like another illustrious writer, Raja Rao, who wrote in Kannada, English and French. Mushtaq, a lawyer and activist, was inspired to write after hearing of the 'pain, suffering, and helpless lives' of the women she interacted with. The 'radical translation' by Bhasthi was praised by the Jury chair Max Porter who said it 'ruffles language to create new textures in a plurality of Englishes'. Heart Lamp's Booker, just three years after Geetanjali Shree won for Tomb of Sand, should open doors for India's rich regional languages to gain a wider readership. Mushtaq follows a trail of writers such as Perumal Murugan, Vivek Shanbhag, Bama, Jayant Kaikini, M. Mukundan and S. Hareesh who observe the human condition in a socio-political context with their translators ensuring the rhythms of the original language are not lost. In a world that often tries to divide people, Mushtaq said that literature remains one of the 'last sacred spaces where we can live inside each other's minds if only for a few pages'. It is the only place that can embrace stories from unheard corners and translations that defy borders.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Celebrities defy new red carpet dress code at Cannes Film Festival
The red carpet has officially been rolled out across the Promenade de Croisette, welcoming stars to the French Riviera for the annual Cannes Film Festival. Now in its 78th year, the event is a jewel in the calendar of both lofty cinephiles and polished fashionistas. Over 12 days, actors, directors, producers, influencers and the like will descend onto the carpeted steps — not just to promote their latest feature film at the high temple of world cinema, but also to turn a look. This year, the fashion stakes were upped before the festival even opened its doors — after a change in the official dress code just hours before kick-off. Nudity has been explicitly banned (presumably also prohibiting the current celebrity favorite 'naked' dress trend that has dominated the red carpet in recent years); as has 'voluminous outfits' with large trains for the sake of traffic control. Some, like Halle Berry, dutifully obeyed the restrictions. 'I had an amazing dress by (Gaurav) Gupta that I cannot wear tonight because it's too big of a train,' the actor said at a news conference. 'I'm not going to break the rules.' Others brazenly persevered with their original wardrobe plans. Heidi Klum and Wan QianHui were the first rebels of the year, arriving in high-octane frocks with defiantly cascading trains. Elsewhere at the opening ceremony, Bella Hadid wore a slinky Saint Laurent dress, debuting honey-blonde tresses. Jeremy Strong opted for a dusty rose tuxedo (the Jury photocall earlier in the day revealed he also owns a full tracksuit, and matching bucket hat, in the same color). Scroll down for more sartorial highlights as we continue to update our coverage throughout the festival.
CNN
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Celebrities defy new red carpet dress code at Cannes Film Festival
The red carpet has officially been rolled out across the Promenade de Croisette, welcoming stars to the French Riviera for the annual Cannes Film Festival. Now in its 78th year, the event is a jewel in the calendar of both lofty cinephiles and polished fashionistas. Over 12 days, actors, directors, producers, influencers and the like will descend onto the carpeted steps — not just to promote their latest feature film at the high temple of world cinema, but also to turn a look. This year, the fashion stakes were upped before the festival even opened its doors — after a change in the official dress code just hours before kick-off. Nudity has been explicitly banned (presumably also prohibiting the current celebrity favorite 'naked' dress trend that has dominated the red carpet in recent years); as has 'voluminous outfits' with large trains for the sake of traffic control. Some, like Halle Berry, dutifully obeyed the restrictions. 'I had an amazing dress by (Gaurav) Gupta that I cannot wear tonight because it's too big of a train,' the actor said at a news conference. 'I'm not going to break the rules.' Others brazenly persevered with their original wardrobe plans. Heidi Klum and Wan QianHui were the first rebels of the year, arriving in high-octane frocks with defiantly cascading trains. Elsewhere at the opening ceremony, Bella Hadid wore a slinky Saint Laurent dress, debuting honey-blonde tresses. Jeremy Strong opted for a dusty rose tuxedo (the Jury photocall earlier in the day revealed he also owns a full tracksuit, and matching bucket hat, in the same color). Scroll down for more sartorial highlights as we continue to update our coverage throughout the festival.
