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How Her Childhood and Passion Shaped Edna Ogwangi’s Commitment to Alleviating Global Hunger
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Hannah Payne If you ask Edna Ogwangi’s colleagues at international nonprofit Rise Against Hunger to describe her, you’ll hear words like “inspiring,” “passionate,” “humble” and “kind.” These qualities — as well as extensive...
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Managing Dedication
By Krystin Gollihue In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the Washington Crossing National Cemetery, a cemetery dedicated to military veterans, their spouses, and dependent children, operated by the National Cemetery Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs,...
Saving Money to Achieve Your Mission
By Krystin Gollihue In 1996, Massachusetts began the process of deregulating its energy market, opening up electricity and natural gas supply to competition. This meant that for the first time businesses would be able to shop around for their energy supply,...
Re-imagining a Historical Legacy
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Kristine Ashton Gunnell, Ph.D. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant women reached out to women and children in immigrant neighborhoods, offering opportunities to develop...
Engaging Academia to Shape Policy
SPSSI is committed to strategically leveraging resources to promote the public good and social justice through science, practice, and policy that can change attitudes, behaviors, and social systems in positive ways.
Community Commitment: A Collaboration to Equitize Breastfeeding
The North Omaha Advisory Team has used a collective impact framework to which is impacting health and has become a powerful reminder of the importance of community empowerment and including those at the table who are impacted by the decisions.
Transforming a Community’s Trajectory Through STEM
The Daniel Center for Math and Science aims to break the cycle of generational poverty by giving children the tools to become academically and personally successful.
Old Friends and New Tricks: Finding Simple Conservation Innovations
Working Dogs for Conservation is the world’s leading conservation detection dog organization. The organization was built upon a straightforward innovation to existing expensive and time intensive conservation practices.
The LEAGUE of Amazing Programmers: Mentoring the Next Generation of Programming
The LEAGUE of Amazing Programmers is a 501c(3) non-profit programming school with the mission of igniting young minds through programming. The LEAGUE has learned that a unique mentorship model is the key to achieving their larger goal of preparing students for science and technology careers of the 21st century.
Finding Solutions in a New Light
Through the adaptations made to technology and resources to measure the effectiveness of their products, Design that Matters is able to solve considerable health care issues in developing countries. In many cases the solution already exists, it just taking looking at solutions in a new light.
Don’t Be Shy – Develop It
Girl Develop It provides affordable and judgment-free opportunities for adult women interested in learning web and software development through accessible in-person programs. Through affordable classes, GDI remains true to their mission of helping women of diverse backgrounds achieve their technology goals and build confidence.
Supporting the Next Generation of Technology Pioneers
4-H, the nation’s largest youth development organization, grows confident young people who are empowered for life today and prepared for career tomorrow.
Operations vs. Advocacy: A Foundation’s Role in Building Both
The Ruderman Family Foundation combines business-minded grantmaking with public relations and advocacy work in order to show nonprofits that communication about issues goes hand in hand with the services that address them.
Robin Hood’s “Band of Merry Men”: How Data Helps Solve Poverty
While metrics aren’t everything, Robin Hood Foundation has been able to use data to create a more nuanced and effective view on the fight against poverty.