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Empower Women, Eliminate Racism
[Recorded on International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2022] Craig Martin – Co-Host The Good RoadWe haven’t known each other long but everything about you inspires me. Tell me about the passion you have for your music and your community, why am I so inspired? Rupa Murthy,...
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Challenging the Status Quo
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Amy Baird The Amboseli ecosystem is generally regarded as one of the richest wildlife areas in Africa. Located in Kenya on the border with Tanzania, Mt Kilimanjaro looms beyond. Teeming with biodiversity, the ecosystem boasts...
Strengthening Commitment to Housing, Healing Survivors of Human Trafficking
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Heather Bridges “Am I coming home with you? Do you have a safe place for me?” These words, spoken by a victim of human trafficking, are seared into Rodney Hammer’s memory. “What about my children? What about a job? How am I...
A New Place to Call Home
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Becky Gundrum In the early spring of March 2019, Urban Peak Colorado Springs (UPCS) was faced with an organizational changing decision. A decision that no matter the outcome, would fundamentally and permanently change the...
Playing the Long Game
Please enjoy this feature from our archives that originally published in January 2016. While the scope of the work that MDC does is vast, ultimately what it does is identify people and communities in need, and then align resources and infrastructure in order for the people and communities to be successful. In working with leadership, infrastructure and institutions, MDC is making permanent change in institutions or systems that will continue long after they are gone.
Partnering with Communal Knowledge to a Create Safe Space
Please enjoy this feature from our archives published December 2015. To see the positive outcomes of diversity and adapt to an increasingly-globalized society, Roanoke-based Local Colors works with local police and cultural groups to create a safe space and welcoming environment for all.
The Power of Relationships: Bringing People Together to Improve Public Safety
For Safe & Sound, outputs, metrics and evaluation have all been critical in determining the organization’s success. The true measure, however, is in the relationships they’ve created within their own community.
Connecting Advocates and Survivors, At Home and Abroad
The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence is a national resource center on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and other forms of gender-based violence in Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Understanding Your Own Power
You Have The Power was created from a place of isolation and silence. Since then, YHTP has spread awareness of violent crimes across all ages and classes, sparking dialogue from universities to prisons.
Room to Mess-Up: Nonprofits and Innovation
Inmates to Entrepreneurs isn’t a nonprofit, but its innovative work and mission focus bring to light a need for flexibility and innovation as nonprofits seek to grow and create a larger impact in their communities and the world.
A Community Based Approach to Criminal Justice Reform
Since their founding in 2007, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice has become a leading voice in the South seeking with justice within communities, particularly on issues where race, class, and politics intersect.
Giving Medical Researchers Unprecedented Freedom Yields Groundbreaking Results
Please enjoy this feature from our archives published November 2015. Sometimes the greatest scientific innovations aren’t the result of a new finding in a lab, but rather, the very way the research itself is directed – or not directed. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s goal is to support “people, not projects,” and it has yielded some dramatic results.
Gaining Traction with Citizen Science
By creating a culture that emphasizes the needs of individual patients, LymeDisease.org’s MyLymeData has grown to become the largest operational research study on Lyme Disease and in the top five percent of patient registries in America.
A Nonprofit’s Role in Medical Research
In today’s environment of uncertain federal funding, medical research foundations must be flexible and creative in finding ways to allow unseen volunteers and donors not only to save and change lives, but experience the joy of it all.