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Making the World Feel Loved
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Amelia Currin Angela Fusco never imagined herself as an international liaison and ambassador to some of the world’s most needy and underprivileged citizens. “Neither did I imagine that Little Phillip’s disability would impact the...
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Transforming a Community’s Trajectory Through STEM
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 The Daniel Center for Math and Science that first published in January 2017. Special to the...
Moms Against Poverty Bring Nutrition and Stability to Underprivileged Children
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Ladan Judge In 1999, Delfarib Fanaie and her husband Farshid Samsami traveled to Iran, the country of their birth, with the intent of adopting a child. Over the years spent in Iran, the couple witnessed firsthand the plight of...
Gun Sense Advocates Showing Up on Ballot Boxes
By Cara Lewis Six years after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Americans have continued to experience the heartache caused by gun violence. But one mom’s outrage organized moms around the country to fight for public safety measures that...
Moving Past Loss and Building Opportunity
Instead of creating another avenue for Gold Star Teens to grieve their loss, Gold Star Teen Adventures uses continued mentorship and teens’ own networks to help them build self-esteem and define themselves outside of their loss.
Just Like Home: SECU Family House
SECU, a statewide credit union, has adopted as one of its charitable causes the establishment of Hospital Hospitality Houses in selected North Carolina communities that are home to regional medical centers. The Family House provides a home away from home for families.
Heart Math Tutoring: The Formula for Classroom Success
For students who are from low-income households, education is often used to bridge the economic gap and alleviate them out of poverty. Heart Math Tutoring is dedicated to not only developing math skills to ensure children from high-poverty concentrated schools are successful but building academic confidence – all of which is needed to transform children’s lives.
Crisis Center of Tampa Bay: Ensuring No One In Its Community Has To Face A Crisis Alone
Crisis can happen to anyone and Crisis Center of Tampa Bay ensures those they serve never have to endure a crisis alone by providing comfort and care.
Breedlove Foods: Spreading Hope One Meal at a Time
As the population continues to grow, food insecurity is on the rise, leading to malnutrition and harmful health outcomes. Breedlove’s innovation and partnership with international organizations has led to a campaign to end world hunger.
Informing and Involving Community Through Advocacy, Service, and Entrepreneurship
Housing Works is a vibrant, healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Their mission is to end the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain their efforts.
When These Nonprofits Came Together, More Families Stayed Together
With one of the largest nonprofit mergers Durham, North Carolina’s history, Families Moving Forward came together to benefit more families.
The Expectation of Inclusion
Founded on Clay Aiken and Diane Bubel’s shared a vision of a world where children with disabilities can be fully immersed in society, the National Inclusion Project works tirelessly to ensure that recreational and social inclusion becomes the expectation, and not simply the exception.
Success Takes Persistence
Starting a non-profit can be difficult, even in your home country where you understand the customs and language, know how to mail things, and know where offices are located. But in a different country where you don’t speak the language well or understand the cultural nuances, it takes persistence.
Making Change by Changing the Story
Brown University seniors and New York City natives Khary Lazarre-White and Jason Warwin founded Bro/Sis in 1995. The organization provides comprehensive, long-term support to New York City youth, ages eight to twenty-two with services such as an intensive four-six year Rites of Passage program, five-day a week after-school care, counseling, summer camp, job training, college preparation, employment opportunities and international study programs in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Bro/Sis’s evidence-based model is built on a theory of change that proves that a personal narrative can help overcome the lowest of odds.