The Prep for Prep organization works to develop leadership skills and educational opportunities for students of color in New York City. It was started in 1978 by South Bronx teacher Gary Simons and has grown since then to support 225 students a year. Fifth, sixth, and seventh graders who scored in the top ten percent […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the oldest newspapers in the country, is going non-profit. Specifically, it and it’s sister publications, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com, have been donated to Institute for Journalism in New Media, which itself is part of the Philadelphia Foundation. The move is an attempt to ease the financial burden that […]
Vorkuta Mining and Economic College, in the city of Vorkuta in the Komi Republic, a part of Russia, recently burned 53 books from their own library. They confiscated another 427 books in order to shred them. The books were related to a “Renewal of Humanitarian Education” program that is linked to charities run by George […]
(Image by Ritu Manoj Jethani / Shutterstock.com) Among his many other talents and accomplishments, musician David Bowie was also a dedicated servant of the fight against AIDS. Together with his wife, model Iman Abdulmajid, Bowie helped raise AIDS awareness around the globe as well as tackle the problems of famine in Africa. His history of philanthropic […]
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has stated that credit ratings agencies should be nonprofit, and that they should not be reliant on Wall Street. He argued that companies such as Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch have too close a relationship to Wall Street, which creates a conflict of interest. Under such a model, those groups […]
Despite the hard work of NGOs and other nonprofits in the area, South Sudan is currently reporting 1.6 million cases of malaria. Aweil, a rural area in the northwest corner of the country, has been hit the hardest, according to recent reports. Organizations like Chris Flowers’s J.C. Flowers Foundation have made progress—saving 736,700 lives and […]
Social media certainly lit up during Christmas when photos began circulating of lights coming from an abandoned Charity Hospital in New Orleans. The picture is the perfect type of image to go viral: it resides in Charity Hospital, which has been shut down since 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina. Given that the location around it […]
Harvard University has officially raised more than $6 billion in gifts, pledges, and donations through its Capital Campaign, according to members of the college’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The university is two years into its public fundraising phase, and it now appears to be forging ahead robustly. The campaign’s goal is to raise $6.5 […]
If you live in or near a big city, chances are you’re fairly accustomed to seeing homeless people. With colder weather already settled in and the holidays coming up, now would be a good time to spend some time putting together care packages for the homeless people in your area who could really use your […]
It probably comes as no surprise that many parolees return to society without much of a support network—and certainly without a job. But businesses and organizations around the country are aiming to change all that. In New York City, the J.C. Flowers Foundation’s Circles of Support program provides moral support and job-readiness training for parolees […]
