FEATURED NEWS
Donors secure $100M to benefit minorities on climate change
A group of financial donors committed to racial equity plans to announce Tuesday that it has secured at least $100 million annually to benefit minority groups that are disproportionately harmed by extreme weather events.
RECENT NEWS
Nonprofit News 3-28-22
Special Update: Humanitarian Crisis in UkraineThe United States and European Union are creating a new partnership to reduce the European continent’s reliance on Russian energy. This partnership is a step top officials characterized as the start of a years-long...
Nonprofit News 3-21-22
Special Update: Humanitarian Crisis in UkraineThe World Bank is providing an additional US$ 200 million in financing to bolster Ukraine’s social services for vulnerable people. This financing is part of the $3 billion package of support that the World Bank Group...
Time to retool census? Some think so after minorities missed
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Is it time to rethink the census and other surveys that measure changes in the U.S. population? Policymakers and demographers have been asking that question since results released by the U.S. Census Bureau this month showed Black,...
In Ukraine, female war reporters build on legacy of pioneers
Clarissa Ward interrupted her live TV report on Ukrainian refugees to help a distraught older man, then a woman, down a steep and explosion-mangled path, gently urging them on in their language.
Nonprofit News 3-14-22
Organizations continue to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, Easterseals receives grant of US$ 368,000, Dress for Success Worldwide names Scarlett Johansson as a global ambassador, and more.
‘Some kind of terrible dream’ for Ukrainian women refugees
On the global day to celebrate women, many fleeing Ukraine on Tuesday felt only the stress of finding a new life for their children as husbands, brothers and fathers stayed behind to defend their country from Russia’s invasion.
War silenced violin for refugee as 1.7M have fled Ukraine
The violin was so beloved by Myroslava Sherbina it was the one item she took as she fled Ukraine, along with the clothes she wore. But the instrument has remained silent since the start of Russia’s invasion of her country.
Met Opera to stage March 14 benefit for Ukraine relief
NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera will stage a benefit concert on March 14 for Ukraine relief efforts that will be broadcast on radio worldwide.
Zelenskyy launches daily calls to action with Global Citizen
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has an unusual new partner in his campaign to defend his country — Global Citizen, the international nonprofit fighting extreme poverty.
Nonprofit News 3-07-22
Organizations continue to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative visits Somaliland, Yale University creates US$ 250 million endowment funds, and more.
At Ukraine’s largest art museum, a race to protect heritage
The director of Ukraine’s largest art museum walked its hallways, supervising as staff packed away its collections to protect their national heritage in case the Russian invasion advances west.
UN: 1.5 million refugees from Ukraine worst post-WWII crisis
The Ukrainian father of two took off with a sprint when he saw the GPS coordinates from his wife’s cellphone draw nearer to the border crossing into Poland.
Refugees fleeing Ukraine grab documents, pets, some photos
Life or death choices leave little time for sentiment. War refugees fleeing Russian ordnance in Ukraine grabbed only the essentials for their journeys to safety: key documents, a beloved pet, often not even a change of clothes.