By Krystin Gollihue In 2010, New York City programmers Vanessa Hurst and Sara Chipps were asking themselves, “How can I help just one other woman learn to code?” The ongoing conversation about diversity and gender equity in the technology industry was prompting them...
By Krystin Gollihue While the vast majority of young people feel the desire and responsibility to lead, most of them don’t feel they are prepared with the right skills to lead, according to the 2016 4-H National Youth Survey on Leadership. As they prepare to enter a...
By Krystin Gollihue In the day-to-day, nonprofit organizations focus a large amount of energy on operations – the how of what they do to serve their communities. Sometimes nonprofits don’t have the resources to carry out their services well, even when they are funded....
By Krystin Gollihue We all know the story of Robin Hood and his band of merry men: a group of plucky outlaws who take from the rich to give to the poor. “While Robin Hood is the central figure of the well-known myth,” says Victoria Grantham, Managing Director of...
Special to The Philanthropy Journal By Rachel Litcofsky “We know that the IRS receives tens of thousands of applications each year and can safely assume that a significant number, perhaps a majority, run on budgets less than $500,000,” explains Naomi Eisenberger,...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Darcy Madden Meet Jeff Kushner. Jeff, 56, is a recently retired executive residing in a Boston-area suburb with his wife and two daughters. During his career, he held a number of leadership roles in the financial services sector,...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Paula Caligiuri, PhD In November 2014, John Staines, the human resources officer for global information technology at Cigna, had a problem. Cigna, one of the biggest health insurers in the U.S., was shifting its strategy, moving...
By Jack Ahern Walker Sanders, President of Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro (CFGG), describes community foundations as natural conveners. They oversee over 650 charitable funds and manage them for the best use for the community. But what happens when a...
By Sandra Cyr Despite numerous initiatives in Forsyth County, North Carolina, poverty has increased by 70% over the last ten years in Winston-Salem. Out of the 100 largest metro areas in the country, Winston-Salem ranks 7th in the largest increase in the number of...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Julie Livingston, Communications Director, MedShadow Foundation It’s crowded and cluttered out there in the media space, which doesn’t make it easy for the more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S. to...
