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...
The NC Grants Roundup can be a helpful tool when researching grant opportunities for your organization. For more tips read Becoming a “Grant Detective”: Best Practices for Grantseekers by Sarah Mann Willcox of the NC Network for Grantmakers.News about grants,...
News about grants, gifts TrueCar and AutoNation donated a 2018 Honda Ridgeline to Ret. U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Goodrich on May 18th. The Boeing Company pledged $1.5 million to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans on May 21st. The Cummings Foundation will announce...
News about grants, gifts Charlotte Bilingual Preschool received Apparo’s Mission Possible Economic Opportunity Grant on May 12th at the 12th Annual ConnectivIT Ball. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina awarded a $250,000 grant to Leadership North Carolina...
News about grants, gifts Emmaus Cambridge sent a 40 foot shipping container with over more than 200 boxes of household items, large items of furniture, and clothing worth approximately £10,000 to the Romanian Emmaus community based in Satu Mare. On May 3rd San Miniato...
