At 14, High-School Freshman Already Is a Seasoned Fund Raiser
At 14, Michael Munds has already been instrumental in raising more than $150,000 for 10 causes, ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles including a Denver children’s hospital, and a library for a homeless shelter. Michael doggedly canvasses households and…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Florida Sisters Raise Big Money for a Food Bank
When the director of the Religious Community Services food pantry in Clearwater, Fla., ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles spoke at Margo and Katherine Sultenfuss’s church one Sunday in 2001, the two sisters learned that donations were lagging but demand…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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A Washington Teenager Gives Peace a Chance
Nickole M. Evans started volunteering at age 6, but her commitment to good works was shaped seven years ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles later, by an incident that she says left her bruised but emboldened. She and a friend were hurt, she recalls, when…
By Elizabeth Greene
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South Bronx Sophomores Take the Role of Urban Environmentalists
Anthony Thomas, a high-school sophomore, spends almost every afternoon and weekend working as an environmental ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles activist in his blighted neighborhood in New York’s South Bronx. He is one of an estimated 50,000 teenagers --…
By DAVID WHELAN
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California Teenager Sends Aid to Africa
As an American child living in Zimbabwe, Alexandra Govere, now 15, says she tried to do what little ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles she could to help the many AIDS orphans who approached her on the streets. She especially remembers the time she gave a…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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School-Supply Charity Helps to Lighten the Load for Needy Kids
Joshua Marcus was only 10 when he conceived of a charity that would provide children with the ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles basics he had taken for granted: backpacks and school supplies. By age 11, he had the group, Sack It to You, up and running,…
By Elizabeth Greene
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High-School Activist Seeks to Quell Video-Game Violence
When Danielle Shimotakahara heard that the two boys who had shot their classmates at Colorado’s ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles Columbine High School were avid players of violent video games, she believed their hobby had something to do with their…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Youthful Grant Makers Seek Ways to Bridge Troubled Racial Waters
As one of the only biracial students in her suburban Washington, D.C., middle school, Jennifer ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles Occean says she used to come home from school crying because kids teased her about having a black father and Hispanic mother.…
By Brad Wolverton
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Foundations Putting Money Into Campaign led by Youths
In the past two decades, foundations have poured tens of millions of dollars into efforts to help ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articlesFunders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing: A Sampling of 2002 Grants inspire young people to volunteer, distribute…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Children and teenagers take on nonprofit leadership rolesAubyn Burnside had a simple reason for starting her charity, Suitcases for Kids -- to provide the ALSO SEE:The Young and the Generous: Related articles 300 or so foster-care children in her home of Catawba County, N.C., with their own luggage…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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American Education Services (Harrisburg, Pa.): Appointed Richard E. Willey, chief operating officer, ALSO SEE:A Museum Adminstrator Learns What It’s Like to Be CEO to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Michael H. Herschock, who is retiring. Lance Armstrong Foundation (Austin,…
Like For-Profit Managers, Charity Leaders Turn to Career Coaches for Fresh Perspective and Support
JOB MARKET By Marilyn Dickey At age 30, Leigh Marecek became executive director of Physicians for a Violence-Free Society, in San Francisco, a nonprofit organization with a staff of five. Her 10 years of experience working at crisis centers as an advocate, fund raiser, public speaker, and manager…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Shy Student Finds Her Niche as Seamstress for the Homeless
A teacher inspired Shifra Mincer, 16, to start volunteering in a New York soup kitchen, ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles but it was Shifra who carved her own niche there. The granddaughter of a seamstress, Shifra went to the soup kitchen to help set the…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Seeking Nonprofit Work Without a College Degree
In some specific fields, a college education may be far less important than in others.
By Sandy Asirvatham
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A Nonprofit Group Helps Tiny New York Charities Drum Up Big Fund-Raising Galas
BRAINSTORMS By Alison Stein Wellner At Webster Hall, a trendy nightclub in New York’s Greenwich Village, the dress code for people who come to dance every weekend is a notch above casual: no athletic wear, no sneakers, no hats. But on a weeknight in late October, the more than 500 people who packed…
By Alison Stein Wellner
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