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Help Create a Tobacco-Free Generation by Shopping Tobacco-Free
Tobacco use is the nation’s number one preventable cause of death, killing 480,000 Americans and costing the nation $289 billion in health care bills and…
How the Down Syndrome Community Sugarcoats Difficult Realities About the Condition
By David Perry Thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan declared October Down Syndrome Awareness Month. Ever since, too many efforts at awareness have relied on pictures of people…
Is Your Company Running a “Healthy” Food Drive?
Each year, millions of food drives are run to support more than 50,000 food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and other organizations in the United States. …
What’s the Best Way to Market Your Charitable Giving?
By David Hagenbuch From the red Dell laptops for AIDS awareness to pink Nike high-tops for breast cancer research, more companies are embracing social causes…
Changing Children’s Lives by Teaching Financial Literacy
Young students from a suburban Chicago elementary school drew pictures of their morning with a special classroom visitor. On each page they commented on the…
Pro Bono Week: A Time For Skills to Shine
By Ryan Scott What’s so special about pro bono? According to Taproot, the leading national advocate for pro bono service, pro bono has been a quiet…
A Treasure of Not Only Black History, But American History as a Whole
By Demetria Irwin Black History Month was always an exciting time for me when I was in elementary school. As the child and grandchild of…
The Children’s Inn At NIH CEO, Kathy Russell, Featured in People Magazine
By Tara Fowler When Kathy Russell was a young hospital administrator, she saw something she didn’t like. “Every day I’d come up on the elevator…
GuideStar Unveils Online Tool to Gauge Nonprofits’ Diversity
By Alex Daniels Charities can rate their diversity efforts with a new yardstick being offered by GuideStar, an organization that compiles data on nonprofits. Using…
Increasing Participation in Your Volunteer Program
By Ryan Scott A question that corporate philanthropy leaders and volunteer program managers ask me all the time is this: “How can we increase and improve volunteer…
‘Alzheimer’s in a Dish’ Expected To Hasten Drug Development
Currently taking the science world by storm are Harvard neuroscientist Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, a past recipient of several BrightFocus grants, and 2013-15 BrightFocus Grantee…
Food Pantry Helps Family Get Through Tough Time Dealing With Cancer
I spent my youth in the Navy, and when I got out I began working as a chef. I knew nothing and so I taught…