Homeless Muppet Has a Message of Hope for Kids
Lily, a bilingual seven-year-old muppet with no fixed address, is among the growing cast of characters the program features who represent children dealing with a variety of circumstances.
By Julian Wyllie
Contributor
Chicago Activist Shares Tips for Running a Faith-Based Advocacy Organization
Make people feel respected. Embrace your Identity. Celebrate success.
By Michael Anft
Contributor
The Fight for Better Corner Stores
Rami Nashashibi explains how he tackled longstanding complaints about some of the few successful businesses in Chicago’s downtrodden South Side: corner grocery stores owned by Muslim immigrants.
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Rami Nashashibi is skilled at organizing people from different backgrounds, and grant makers are taking notice.
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Packard Foundation CEO Plans to Step Down (Transitions)
In other news about people in philanthropy, the Skoll Foundation names a new president and Michelle Obama’s former policy director has been named CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Nonprofit Helps Low-Income Women Become Financially Secure (Podcast)
Women’s World Banking urges financial institutions and other companies around the world to make their products available to poor women and educates bank executives on the importance of gender diversity and financial inclusion.
Nonprofit Brings Job Training to Impoverished Areas (Podcast)
Becky Straw, CEO of the Adventure Project, discusses how the organization provides job-training programs to people living on less than $2 a day.
Nonprofit Helps Underpriviledged Students Train for Technology Jobs (Podcast)
Per Scholas has helped train more than 9,000 students — many of them low-income or women or minorities — for careers in technology.
Toilets and Textbooks: Bill and Melinda Gates Outline Their Future Giving
In the 11th annual letter, the couple outline nine things they say they didn’t see coming — and explain how that will affect their giving.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Young Stars Are Born: a Theater for Life Lessons
Tada Youth Theater offers programs to get kids involved in singing, dancing, and acting.
By Ariella Phillips
Contributor
Evan Marwell started a charity with a specific goal and an inflexible eight-year deadline. Here’s what other charities can learn from him.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
Nonprofit ‘Nest’ Helps Women Around the World Make a Living Through Handwork (Podcast)
By establishing industrywide ethical standards and quality guidelines, Nest has helped provide artisans access to new retail partners and brands that aspire to offer authentic, sustainable fashion.
Council on Foundations Staff Continues to Shrink as More Leaders Depart
The group’s top policy and communications executives were laid off as the group prepares for the arrival of its new president, Kathleen Enright.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Rockefeller Daughter’s Nonprofit Aims to Create Sustainable Solutions to Poverty (Podcast)
Peggy Dulany, founder of nonprofit Synergos, says philanthropy requires more than money.
Nonprofits and Donors Worry About Long-Term Impact of Shutdown
Big companies are donating money, as are individual donors who want to help community foundations, United Ways, and other organizations helping people who have lost pay because many federal agencies have been closed for five weeks.
By Julian Wyllie
Contributor
The END Fund Works to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases (Podcast)
Ellen Agler, CEO of the END Fund, discusses progress in reducing diseases that often affect the poorest, most vulnerable people in developing countries.