Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Risha Bailey, MPA It’s a fact that today’s nonprofit organization is not like the nonprofit organizations in the past. Or, at the very least, the nonprofit environment is so much more different. Today, nonprofits are faced with...
Special to The Philanthropy Journal By Kathryn Weenig “I am really happy I was able to speak,” says ‘Y,’ a participant in Footage Foundation’s Girl-talk-Girl program in St. Petersburg, Russia. Using a mobile phone application, which she helped redesign, Y constructed...
News about grants, gifts Rise Against Hunger (formerly Stop Hunger Now) received a $56,875 grant from the PMI Educational Foundation to build its organizational capacity through project management. The Chanda Plan Foundation received a $15,000 grant from...
News about grants, gifts Nearly 100 Women's Fund supporters gathered last month for the second annual Fund Do Party and raised over $13,500 for the Women's Fund of Winston-Salem. The Foundation for a Healthy High Point approved $393,842 in grants to local...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Jamie Nunnelly Many membership-based associations promote best practices in their field, yet find it difficult to balance promotion of their work while also emphasizing the quality of their programs. The National...
By Jack Ahern At a recent Jewish family education class, Sarah Lefton, Founder and Creative Director of BimBam, had a chance to chat with a mom and her ten-year-old daughter. The mother was Jewish (although nonobservant and not well versed in Jewish literature or...
By Jack Ahern It is no secret that success in nonprofits is a joint effort. Following through on your organization’s mission requires focused the staff and board and from the population and communities you serve. Maureen Joy Charter School located in Durham, NC...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Beth Stevenson Philanthropists build careers rooted in their passion for improving the lives, conditions and welfare of others. The profession requires long hours, hard work, dedication, passion and most of all—heart. If you stop...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Christopher Kelly Board composition is a crucial component of a successful nonprofit organization. The individuals who serve can enhance the charitable mission through their own efforts and contributions or severely deter...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Sarah Mann Willcox The job of grant writer should include a fair amount of detective work. Much of the work in seeking grants comes before the pen hits the paper (or maybe, before you even start typing into an online grant...
