Articles Tagged "Philanthropy"

Future Leaders of Our Community was born from a brief conversation in a stairwell. Shawn Wehan was talking with a friend about the huge gap between the for-profit business world and the nonprofit sector. Young professionals who were looking to get involved in the community had no idea...

Lindsey Nebeker knows she’s different. Having suffered from autism her whole life, she may not realize what life without autism is like, but a sense of separation and a feeling of being out-of-place remain.

“Living with autism, or having a loved one with autism, is not easy,” Nebeker...

A young mother sits in a hospital, desperately holding onto the lifeless body of her beautiful little boy who has just drowned in the pool. As the doctor disconnects him from life support, his father sits with his head in his knees, sobbing uncontrollably. Joanne Cacciatore sits quietly...

In the spirit of Earth Day, ecological and environmental organizations everywhere are coming together for the sole purpose of helping to save the earth. Trees for the Future is one of these organizations that remind everyone that Earth Day symbolizes environmental hope and that the act...

Pet food may be an odd inspiration for a line of socially conscious mints, gum and bottled water, but for Tyler Merrick, it just clicked. After graduating from college, Merrick hooked up with the family pet food business, an opportunity he found both lucrative and providential. After...

Oceana is at it again, this time with an inaugural Oceana Ball, to be held April 8. The largest global organization purely devoted to protecting our planet’s oceans, Oceana will also play host to a companion auction with endless once-in-a-lifetime packages from its sponsors,...

With GiveBackMail, you can give back with ease. The free email service donates 25 percent of its proceeds to charities, paid for by the site’s advertising. You simply take your current email provider – say Yahoo, AOL or Gmail – and switch while keeping the same email address. Sound...

It’s won a Cool Site of the Year Award and a People's Voice winner at the Webby Awards. Now it might just have won your attention too. And with good reason. Since its inception in 1999, The Hunger Site has offered an easy way to help the poor: Simply visit its website, click a button...

Before you throw away that bit of pasta left on your plate, think twice. Everyone knows that plastic, glass and aluminum can be recycled. But Food Recovery Network is here to tell you that you should add food to that list – particularly for college students trashing that last remainder...

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Habitat For Humanity Masquerade Ball: March 2

Join Habitat for Humanity for an evening of dinner, dancing and surprises at the Second Annual Masquerade Ball. The evening will feature a cocktail “mix and mingle” hour, silent auction with many lux items, and a live band...