Supporting Immigrant Youth - Removing Obstacles and Building on Strengths
Does the process of “becoming American” threaten immigrant success?
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Second Mile Plans to Close and Transfer Funds
The Second Mile Foundation, marred by alleged scandal, intends to disband and transfer approximately $2 million to the Houston, Texas-based Arrow Child and Family Ministries.
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Mirroring Overarching Trend, Teach for America Struggles to Attract Male...
Teach for America is flooded with job applicants from top colleges and universities, but that flood at the high-profile teaching nonprofit includes a disproportionately small number of males.
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Demystifying Nonprofits: Helping College Grads See a Career of Service
VOICES FROM THE FIELD Brock Yetso, the president and CEO of a young adult cancer nonprofit organization, finds many graduating college students overlook the possibility of a nonprofit sector career.
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University of Arkansas Adjusts to Transgender Students
A civil rights complaint prompts the University of Arkansas to accommodate transgender students.
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Melee at Nonprofit Serving Homeless Youth Raises Oversight Questions
The charges and countercharges between Kathleen Boutin Vermillion and the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth continue to fly as the conflict works its way through the courts.
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How Soccer Can Drive Social Change
Soccer speaks to many people in other lands and increasingly to people here in the U.S., and several international projects demonstrate its ability to be a vehicle for social change.
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Awe-Inspiring Humanity: Philanthropy Hero Is Factory Worker
Chao Wen-cheng, the father of five children and a factory cleaner, has given three quarters of his salary away to charity since the age of 35, largely to orphanages.
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Another Northern Kentucky Facility in Hot Water
An investigation by the Office of Inspector General of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services found numerous violations at the Campbell Lodge Boys’ Home.
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Education Development Center gets Facebook Grant to Research Cyberbullying
The Education Development Center has been chosen as one of four organizations working with Facebook to study how to protect youth from cyberbullying.
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Geoffrey Canada to Ask Penn Grads to Consider Nonprofit Careers Today
President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone Geoffrey Canada will include a pitch for nonprofit work in his commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania.
View ArticleEvolution–Not Revolution–Is the Course of Online Giving
The Web has become a key feature of the modern-philanthropy equation.
View ArticleUndocumented but Undaunted: Immigrant Youth at Work in the Nonprofit Sector
Undocumented immigrant children raised in the United States face innumerable barriers to success. Will new immigration policy help these immigrants realize their dreams?
View ArticleYouth Leadership: The Engine of Immigrant Civic Participation
Among the lessons of the 2008 presidential election was the importance of immigrant youth groups in fueling civic engagement.
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Foreign Exchange Students Report Abuse by Host Families
NBC says it has found more than a dozen foreign exchange organizations in the U.S. whose exchange students have alleged sexual abuse or harassment by their host families.
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As U.S. Military Leaves Iraq, 4-H Stays Behind
Mary Kerstetter, a USDA employee who brought the 4-H program to Iraq, says that participants are learning “how not to hate each other” and “are accepting each other as normal people.”
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Nonprofit Aiding Kids of Prisoners Sees Success, But Funding Does Not Follow
In El Paso, Texas, Community Solutions has a strong track record of helping the children of prisoners avoid their parent’s path, but as its federal funding dies, the nonprofit is struggling.
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Sendak Tells Us Where the Wild Things Are
Rather than waxing on about Sendak, who was nothing if not plainspoken yet profound, I want to share a few snippets from his interview with Bill Moyers after describing a childhood that was full of...
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Bloomberg’s Proposed NYC Budget Sparks Homeless Youth Shelter Campaign
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposes a balanced budget, but some nonprofit advocates say it comes at the expense of homeless youth, many of whom are LGBT teens.
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“No Kisses for Hershey” after Boy with HIV Denied Admission to School
Over the past few months, AIDS activists have been protesting a decision of the Milton Hershey School to deny admission to an HIV-positive 13-year-old boy.
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