Hunger/Homelessness
January 14, 2022 at 3:10 pm
Share Our Strength, a national anti-hunger organization has appointed Lillian D. Singh as Senior VP of Family Economic Opportunity.
December 7, 2021 at 8:45 am
Atul Tandon may have started his career in the for-profit world, but his decision to serve the world’s extreme poor has led to NonProfit PRO recognizing him with 2021’s Lifetime Achievement award.
June 30, 2020 at 12:26 pm
Erik Cooke from Feed the Children shares how the organization is addressing the increasing rates of food insecurity.
May 4, 2020 at 1:12 pm
The Dwelling Place of New York is not a fancy place. It is located in the last building on a street in Manhattan.
February 13, 2017 at 12:00 pm
How can you get a donor to support your mission? With an email like this one, which puts the spotlight on the right place.
February 12, 2017 at 4:53 pm
Share Our Strength, a national anti-hunger organization has appointed Lillian D. Singh as its new Senior Vice President of Family Economic Opportunity. As part of Share Our Strength’s executive team, Singh will lead the organization’s initiative to engage structural inequities that create, sustain, and perpetuate food insecurity and persistent poverty for families. In this role, […]
December 9, 2015 at 10:42 am
The Pittsburgh Foundation raised more than $1 million to fight homelessness Tuesday in record time—four hours. This week marks the foundation's third Critical Needs Alert fundraising campaign. The focus is on solutions to addressing homelessness and housing insecurity. The online donation portal PittsburghGives.org opened at 8 a.m. By noon, more than 1,200 individual donors had…
July 9, 2015 at 1:57 pm
For donors who want to know exactly how their money’s being spent, there’s a new transparent nonprofit that allows its supporters to rest easy. New Story, an Atlanta-based group, identifies families in need, shares their struggles via moving video stories and then solicits donations from supporters. But what distinguishes this initiative from other similar-sounding ones…
June 11, 2015 at 1:58 pm
One in every six people in America is food insecure. Meaning their access to food is limited by a lack of money. A new local nonprofit called 1Family 1Restaurant is trying to change that. 1Family 1Restaurant is a innovative new Web-based/mobile app program with a goal to cure family hunger in America.
June 8, 2015 at 2:20 pm
On Thursday, June 4, a nonprofit grocery store called the Daily Table opened in Dorchester, Mass. The new store is notable for two main reasons: 1) It’s the baby of Doug Rauch, the former president of Trader Joe’s, which was recently named among America’s favorite supermarkets; and 2) The prices of many items are incredibly…
