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#BreakTheBias: Empower Women Leaders
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Stanley Clark Women’s History Month 2022 continues a yearly national celebration whose origins date back four decades ago to 1982 and the launch of Women’s History Week. Women’s History Month celebrates the achievements of women...
Passion, Generosity and Experience in Action
Special to the Philanthropy Journal by Erin Cannon Every six months, Dr. Kristin Schroeder says goodbye to her husband Todd and all the high-tech “comforts” that Duke University has to offer and boards a plane for what is a 36-hour trip to Mwanza, Tanzania. Schroeder...
Try Again Next Year
By Sandy Cyr Nonprofit work is hard. Practitioners often pour their heart and soul into the work, wearing multiple hats within an organization for salaries that are more often than not lower than comparable positions within the private sector. When funders focus on...
Shop, Get Rebates, Grow the Economy
Loyalty shopping and rewards programs come and go in many cities but Shop Newark is slowly proving that it can provide equitable solutions with real rebates where people can begin to see a bit of relief on their property taxes or utilities.
Honoring a Life Well-Lived
When the face of the average person changes, so too must our memorialization practices. That’s what the Funeral Service Foundation has learned in over 70 years of service, that in order to honor a life well lived, funeral service professionals must reflect who it is they serve.
Managing Dedication
The Guardians of the National Cemetery coordinate their volunteers not only based on organization needs; they consider what skills and desires brings their volunteers to the cause.
Saving Money to Achieve Your Mission
PowerOptions offers the best energy supply arrangements available in the market today. It’s a reciprocal arrangement—the greater the number of their members, the larger PowerOptions’ leverage in the market, which allows nonprofits to direct resources toward their own important missions.
Re-imagining a Historical Legacy
The Give Me a Chance Learning Center, a program of the Daughters of Charity Foundation, seeks to serve the needs of the whole family. Like the settlement houses of a century ago, Give Me A Chance is a space where people from different backgrounds build community, learning and growing into whatever they desire to be.
Transformation Together: The Journey of StepUp Parents and Their Children
Please enjoy this piece from the archives from March 2017. When thinking about how to alleviate generational poverty StepUp Ministry learned that, despite economic conditions, parents’ aspire and dream for their children to have an opportunity to fare better than they had. But, it is difficult to serve parents without serving their children or to serve the children without also offering services to their parents.
Justice Derived from Faith
The NC Council of Churches prides itself on developing programs based on the issues that scripture says are important, as well as what speaks to our contemporary climate.
Getting Their Internal House in Order: A Day of Conversation Prepares Clergy to Help Congregants Face End of Life Issues
While 90 percent of Americans think having conversations about what it means to live well until the very end are important, most of us don’t know how to begin them—or wait too long, which can be too late.
Mentoring Made the Methodology for Global Health Nonprofit
Based on repeated success around the world, Curamericas Global is scaling its programs using a proven methodology and focusing on prevention, health education, and establishing relationships with existing health facilities.
Addressing Immediate and Long-Term Needs
By being able to address immediate needs and focus on long-term issues, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is able to support post 9/11 veterans, as well as those of previous and future conflicts.