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What is the ideal role of the U.S. Government in connecting with rural, poor African communities? Does the U.S. Foreign Service have a responsibility to American citizens to know what is going on in the field?
Steve Larosiliere | Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact
I've seen firsthand that we need alternative forms of teaching, inspiring and collaborating with youth. If we do not give them skills to compete on a global level, our society will diminish.
Bob Giloth | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
Are theses nonprofit ventures harbingers of bigger and better things to come? It's hard to scale these businesses or even to replicate them.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact
Starting this week, New York Magazine reported, a newly formed group of do-gooder designers are launching a project to lend worthy social projects som...
Eric Klein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
CAN-DO was born out of my own frustration with the system and the critical need I saw to hold charitable organizations accountable for hard-earned donations and to the communities they serve.
Akhtar Badshah | Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact
To celebrate the launch of Windows 7 tomorrow, Microsoft is launching a new online competition: 7 Ways to Change the World. We'll choose the best and give you, and a nonprofit, the resources to implement change.
Max Lugavere | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
Jason and I stopped in to visit Douglas Caballero on Current Exposed to fill him in on our favorite charity causes and non-profits that need your help -- despite the economic downturn.
Joel Arquillos | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact
What helps the young people we serve is one-on-one attention. If we're going to level the playing field for students attending public schools, it's essential for more volunteers to fill the gaps.
Richard Walden | Posted 10.10.2009 | World
Just $7,700 was contributed online to Operation USA a full week after the recent natural disasters. This compares with over $1 million donated online within 24 hours in 2004 after the Asia tsunami.
Joe Territo | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York
Do you ever feel like way too many kid-oriented groups are shaking you down for way too much money?
Michael Parrish DuDell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
The truth is the future of our society lies in the apathetic hands of my generation and the one below. And quite honestly that frightens me.
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Jeff Horwitz and Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
Before the housing boom got underway in the late 1990s, a California nonprofit group hatched an idea to help families who qualified for government-bac...
Maria Eitel | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
For the first time in its five-year history, CGI included a cross-cutting focus called "Investing in Girls and Women." Now this isn't a total win. That said, this is an enormous step in the right direction.
Posted 09.30.2009 | Impact
This Thursday, October 1, don't miss Oprah as she embarks on an incredible hour of The Oprah Winfrey Show, featuring New York Times columnist Nicholas...
Gordon Campbell | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
The jobless rate is at a 16-year high and we are seeing an ever-increasing demand for basic human services nonprofits provide as families lose their health care or their homes.
Stephen Macfarlane | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media
A picture taken on film has advantages -- for viewer and subject alike -- that simply don't exist in the world of digital photography.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
It's officially Climate Week. In case you feel discouraged that you can't do enough, remember Gandhi's words: "Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
Fran Barrett | Posted 09.26.2009 | New York
Increasingly over the last few years, more and more nonprofits have asked staff to share health care costs, and while we have no numbers yet, we hear frequently about nonprofits that fear they will have to eliminate health coverage as a benefit.
Calandra Cruickshank | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
As countless organizations are being forced to close their doors this year, it is clear that more emphasis must be placed on building strong and sustainable funding models for nonprofits.
Rick Smith | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business
When you're young, your objective is to learn as much as possible, and thus build up your perceived potential in the marketplace.
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?
Melissa Bradley | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
The Right is intensifying their attacks on the nonprofit organizations. These attacks are no longer just the sphere of the right wing blogosphere; now they're going mainstream.
John Thornton | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
In Micro 101, we learn that such "public goods" as clean air and national defense will not be produced in sufficient supply exclusively by market forces. Allow for the sake of argument that journalism is such a good.
Toan Lam | Posted 08.25.2009 | Living
While Phoebe does not fully comprehend the complicated problems of world hunger, she did know that seeing hungry people made her sad. So she did what she could, and the rest, well... Oprah, are you listening?
Marilyn Machlowitz | Posted 08.02.2009 | New York
In these days of 9.4% unemployment we're asked why NY employers should still turn to search firms.
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Saul Garlick | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact