Special to the Philanthropy Journal Opinion by: Advance Carolina Today marks the grim anniversary of the 2015 mass shooting at Emmanual African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which took the lives of nine Black worshippers, including state...
Haitians Respond to “Stay Out of Haiti”
Special to the Philanthropy Journal The recent Philanthropy Journal opinion piece by Overture International Executive Director Lisa Hyatt, “Stay Out of Haiti,” has elicited considerable response from readers. Most of the feedback has agreed with the premise of Hyatt’s...
Want a Democratic Future? Invest in youth.
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Shari Turitz Forget quaint picket signs and bullhorns. Today’s youth activists are taking to the streets by the thousands, challenging the Russian invasion of Ukraine, demanding democratic rights in Thailand, rallying against...
How to Help Ukraine
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Sarah Dawn Petrin When you see images of people fleeing Ukraine, you may wonder, how can I help? Watching a war over television and social media can make you feel helpless, like there’s nothing you can do. But there is always...
The Web of Life
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Amanda de Luis When Herbert Spencer coined the expression survival of the fittest as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection, little did Charles Darwin know this concept would have an expansive influence in the...
Stay Out of Haiti!!
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Lisa Hyatt - Overture International Here’s a hard truth some of our colleagues in the NGO world may not like…STAY OUT OF HAITI! And it’s not because of the reasons that immediately come to mind such as the political unrest, gang...
Diversity in Music, Streaming Services and the “Starving Artist”
By Craig Martin The conversation about Joe Rogan and Spotify shifted from COVID vaccinations to racism and artist equity once a review of Rogan’s podcast revealed that he had repeatedly used the “n” word on his show. Suddenly, buzz words like “cancel culture” began...
Letter from the Editor – Black Lives Matter.
Black lives matter. We shouldn’t even need such a statement. And yet here we are. Police brutality and systematic racism continue to overwhelmingly affect the Black community. The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 with the social media hashtag,...
You Think You Know
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Melanie Davis-Jones In typical icebreaker games, one of the questions inevitably is, “If you were a superhero, what would your superpower be?” I usually choose flying because it seems like fun. Now, what I would do facing the bad...
Letter from the Editor – Reboot
Welcome back! First of all, I would like to take a moment and thank all of our champions and supporters; to those of you who have reached out during our hiatus and checked in; to those of you who have shared in our excitement throughout the process of bringing PJ...