A Salvation Army kettle outside of a Kmart in York, Pennsylvania, earned an unexpected bounty last week as the donation bin was found to contain a Sou...
Posted 11.26.2009 | Impact
In an era in American history when much attention is paid to the plight of the unemployed, impoverished and hungry, one Illinois high school is a caus...
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 11.26.2009 | Impact
Ten years ago my student, went off to Princeton with a goal of working on Wall Street. It took only one summer of Wall Street work for him to realize that was not where he wanted to spend his life.
Rachel Sterne | Posted 11.26.2009 | Impact
A fascinating experiment in digital philanthropy is brewing at Robin Hood Foundation, a New York City charity that has raised more than $1 billion for poverty-focused nonprofits.
GroundReport | Posted 11.25.2009 | Impact
Over the past two months, a skunkworks team of young internet influencers has met, brainstormed, emailed and twittered -- all in the pursuit of feeding more than 100,000 of the city's hungry.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact
Facebook's user base now totals over 300 million people. The social media network thus has the potential to reach more people in a single month than l...
Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact
From The Case Foundation: Well, the easy answer is that it's hard to make people give because people don't really want to. The logic is simple and co...
Posted 10.30.2009 | Impact
I grew up under the impression that I was the best trick-or-treater in the whole wide world, because my grandmother invented it!...
K'naan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact
In our crooked humanity and its glory, I do think that certain selfishness is good selfishness. In fact, we can say it is necessary to be selfish in order to give.
Joel Epstein | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
According to a recent report the number of millionaire households around the world fell from around 11 million in 2007 to 9 million last year. The only region going the other way -- Latin America.
Nick Mwaluko | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
An ear, a meal, a conversation, a strategy, a small but much needed service at the right time--isn't that what we all can give?
Halle Tecco | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living
We're seeing "pinkwashing," when corporations try to boost sales by turning their products pink in the fight against breast cancer. But will your pretty pink purchase really have an impact?
Judith Ellis | Posted 11.27.2009 | Impact
The BOMA Fund works to alleviate poverty by building self-sustaining communities amid a rugged and beautiful landscape.
Halle Tecco | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
So where does your gift have the most impact? How do you find that group of people working to fix that issue you most care about? Here are some great tools for navigating the non-profitsphere.
Posted 11.23.2009 | Impact
Chris Martin is sending a message to Bono: We can make an impact too! This week Martin's band Coldplay donated one million pounds to British organiza...
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Style
I had the opportunity to talk with this philanthropic jewelry designer about what inspired her to start Joan Hornig Jewelry and the lessons she learned along the way.
Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact
It's like Sarah Palin's eBay page read my mind! For the next week, you can bid on a private dinner for five with Sarah Palin. As of this writing, the ...
Lisa Honig Buksbaum | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
My latest experiment in empathy has truly given me more appreciation of the little things, such as the person who gives me a seat in the subway, or holds a door open for me.
David Jones | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
A 5 percent threshold of free medical care to qualify a nonprofit hospital for tax exemptions and public funding is not unreasonable. Or else, why call it charity care?
David Donell | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business
With courts unwilling to interpret the law as affording some defense for charities, there have been efforts to persuade legislators to amend existing laws to provide such a defense. But little has come of these efforts.
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 07.14.2009 | New York
The skies were grey and the event was Blue but guests at the annual Riverkeeper fundraiser were feeling neither as they mingled on the pool deck of the Empire Hotel to support the charity.
Kristi York Wooten | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment
A philanthropist is a philanthropist, no matter the level of his fame or whether his contribution is monetary, artistic, or simply a PowerPoint grid of ideas about how to save the world.
Gail Lynne Goodwin | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living
When you look at life with such big purpose, monumental things happen; as a group, we can change the world.
Valerie Tarico | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living
Nonbelievers are coalescing into moral communities which, when freed from the constraints of dogma or proselytism, invest themselves in doing good for goodness sake.
Marissa Moss | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment
Conor and I had a conversation back before the election about his activism, politics, and, of course, the music.
Posted 11.30.2009 | Impact