Bob Filbin: Counting Texts, Saving Lives
His early research related to extraterrestrial life was fun, but this scientist found more fulfillment analyzing crisis-line data to multiply the efficiency of counselors.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Dominik Mjartan, Money in the Bank for All
The leader of a community finance nonprofit serving one of the poorest regions in the nation takes extra steps to make sure the people most in need are getting help.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Fagan Harris: Mobilizing the Young for Baltimore
After serving at the White House Council for Community Solutions, he returned to his hometown and helped found an organization that recruits young professionals to improve life in Baltimore.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Jena Lee Nardella: Faith in the Mission
With help from the Christian rock band Jars of Clay, she started “Blood: Water, a nonprofit that has helped build more than 1,000 wells in Africa, and she is now a celebrated author and sought-after speaker.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
David Lubell: Putting Out the Welcome Mat for Immigrants
The founder of Welcoming America is helping Dayton, Ohio, and other communities see the value in embracing newcomers.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Ryan Friedrichs: Detroit’s Philanthropy Point Man
The Army veteran was appointed chief development officer for the city after demonstrating his leadership at three civic-engagement groups.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Doug Ulman: Grace Under Pressure
The leader who guided Livestrong through its darkest days has moved on to a nonprofit in Ohio, where he is working to turn a regional cycling event into a national fundraising powerhouse.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Trish Tchume: Community Builder Looks for New Ways to Serve
She is exploring her next career steps and exploring interests, including racial justice, after building the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network into a national powerhouse.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Lateefah Simon: ‘Moving at the Speed of Twitter’
The teen mother got her first nonprofit job at 17, counseling young women on the streets of San Francisco. At 26, she won a MacArthur “genius” grant for her methods of helping poor young women of color.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
40 Under 40: Young Leaders Who Are Solving the Problems of Today — and Tomorrow
Philanthropy has long suffered the reputation, rightly or wrongly, that it is a stuffy, formal field of conservative approaches. No more. The nonprofit world today is getting pulled in all directions by a host of new ideas about how work for the common good can be carried out and financed.
In the Time of Trump, Philanthropy Must Find Its Voice
Foundations and nonprofits are staying out of the election fray, but the presidential candidate’s statements about minorities are too inflammatory to ignore.
By Maxwell King
Contributor
Banking Giant HSBC Cuts Links With Big Muslim Aid Charity
The global bank halted services a year ago to international humanitarian agency Islamic Relief, allegedly over concerns that the nonprofit’s funds could end up in the hands of terrorist groups, Economic Times writes, citing reporting by London’s Sunday Times.
Right Plans Hiatus in Planned Parenthood Funding Fight
A largely symbolic House vote next week to halt federal payments to the women’s health nonprofit will likely be the last on the issue until a Republican moves into the White House, conservative activists tell The New York Times.
Prison and Climate Divestment Activists Unite on Campuses
Student activists who have mounted parallel campaigns seeking to redirect their colleges’ investments are increasingly forming alliances to ratchet up pressure on behalf of their causes, reports the Associated Press.
Twin Cities Foundations Part of Influential Civic Effort
The New York Times looks at the Itasca Project, a network of Minneapolis and St. Paul business and philanthropic leaders that over the past dozen years has a played a key behind-the-scenes role in shaping the Twin Cities’ economic agenda.
Literacy Nonprofit Expands With Book Sales and More Goods
First Book, a charity founded 23 years ago in Washington, D.C., to foster early reading among low-income children, has grown into a sophisticated national organization offering discounted as well as donated books and a growing array of supplies for disadvantaged households, The Washington Post writes.