Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Richard Hackett In the South Pacific there are no roads, power lines, or phone systems to connect the thousands of smaller, less populated, islands to the same health care, educational and economic development services offered on...
By Krystin Gollihue In 2010, a magnitude 7.0Mw earthquake hit Haiti. Nearly 1.5 million lost their homes, but in the immediate aftermath, nonprofits were on the ground filling the gap between disaster and international aid. Kerri Murray was on the ground in 2010, and...
By Sandy Cyr In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two brothers traveled to the storm-ravaged area to help in one of the ways that they know best: feeding people. But what started out as one intention ended up changing the way they thought about giving back....
By David Mueller When the Boxing Day Tsunami hit Thailand in 2004, David Campbell knew he wanted to help, he just wasn’t sure how. With a long career as a leader in the technology sector, Campbell had a hunch that if he could get to the affected areas, he could use...
As the Philanthropy Journal moves through a second cycle of our editorial calendar, we will periodically republish articles from our archive. Please enjoy this piece on Islamic Relief USA that first published in April 2016. By Charlena Wynn Natural and...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Zack Rosenberg, Co-Founder & CEO, SBP Why do organizations exist? Naturally, organizations exist to solve a need. That’s probably close to the rhetoric used by business schools to describe the purpose of any nongovernmental...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Dan Daniel What do you do, what do you say, when you are the nurse, or the doctor, or the family member that has to tell new parents that their baby isn’t the healthy bundle of joy they had planned for? Or that their teenager...
By Kevin Mercer David Rout, the Executive Director of Homeless Gear, remembers that conversation with Ken John like it was yesterday, although it was 2012. Rout had just left the world of government contracting to join the team of the nonprofit based in Fort Collins,...
As the Philanthropy Journal moves through a new cycle on our editorial calendar, we will periodically republish articles from our archive. Please enjoy this piece on Rebuilding Together from March 2016. Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Susan Hawfield...
By Haily Jones “When someone is unemployed or dealing with medical matters they can’t focus on solving those problems if they are dedicating all of their time and energy to figuring out where to sleep that night.” Homelessness is an issue that many are faced with,...
