Hunger/Homelessness

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Cities revamp parking meters as donation stations

October 5, 2010

If you passed a homeless person and a metal, donation-collecting machine on your way home, which would get your spare change?

A growing number of cities have begun encouraging the latter by providing revamped parking meters for donations.

The program has been established in at least 16 cities, according to Neil Donovan, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. Donations deposited in meters go to local charity organizations to provide services such as housing, meals, counseling and job training to the city's homeless, he says.

Development, Sectors

Common Ground Receives $200,000 Grant From Bank Of America Charitable Foundation To Help House Homeless Via National "100,000 Homes Campaign"

September 27, 2010

Common Ground National, one of the nation’s largest providers of supportive housing, announced it has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation for its 100,000 Homes Campaign, a three year effort to house 100,000 long term and vulnerable homeless by July of 2013. This is among the largest grants received to date for the 100,000 Homes Campaign, which works with communities across the nation to organize local volunteer survey teams who administer public health surveys to identify the homeless with the most serious health needs.

Sectors, Direct Marketing

Profits for nonprofits? Goodwill blazes path

August 26, 2010

These are still grim times for many nonprofit organizations.

And then there's Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit, a $22 million "business that happens to be a nonprofit," President Lorna Utley, a former General Motors Co. executive, told me this week. "About half of our revenue is earned. Very little of ours is philanthropic. A lot of our sources (for revenue) are changing."

Because they have to.

Sectors

An Interview With Meryl Sheriden, Chief Development Officer, Horizons for Homeless Children

August 1, 2010

Since 1988, the Roxbury, Mass.-based Horizons for Homeless Children has worked to "improve the lives of homeless children and their families."

With 102 employees and a $9 million annual operating budget, the organization provides opportunities for early childhood education to homeless children and, for families served long-term, "it connects their parents with the tools they need to achieve social and economic self-sufficiency."

Sectors

Founding a Charity at 6, and Walking Across the Country for It at 12

July 30, 2010

Zachary L. Bonner has walked nearly 1,950 miles from his home outside Tampa, Fla., to this spot in the desert, and he intends to walk another 500 miles or so to the Pacific Ocean, all to raise money for homeless children.

At 12 years old, he is something of a prodigy among do-gooders. This is the third and longest trek he has organized to raise money for the Little Red Wagon Foundation, the charity he started when he was 6 to help get water to people after Hurricane Charley hit Florida in 2004.

Sectors, Direct Marketing

Starved for Attention: A Radical New Vision of Malnutrition

June 3, 2010

NEW YORK, JUNE 2, 2010 – The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the VII Photo agency today launched “Starved for Attention,” a global multimedia campaign presenting a unique and new perspective of childhood malnutrition, a preventable and treatable condition that nonetheless claims the lives of millions of children each year.

The collaboration challenges established notions of malnutrition through a seven-part mini-documentary series; clichéd images are substituted with those of parents and health workers struggling to meet the nutritional needs of young, growing children. Starved for Attention highlights how increased childhood sickness and early death can be prevented with effective nutritional interventions. The campaign launch coincides with the onset of a particularly harsh “hunger gap” season in Africa’s Sahel region, the period when staple food crops run out before the next harvest and malnutrition typically increases.

Development, Sectors

NeighborWorks America Receives $1 Million Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation

May 25, 2010

Washington, D.C. — NeighborWorks America today announced that it received $1 million from The Rockefeller Foundation in support of infrastructure development and upgraded technical support for nonprofit housing counseling organizations. The grant will help to strengthen and supplement nonprofit housing counseling capacity and increase their efficiency and ability to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.

Leadership Management, Development, Sectors

Reinventing the Meal

May 24, 2010

A recent report by the Johns Hopkins Listening Post Project, Nonprofits, Innovation, and Performance Measurement: Separating Fact From Fiction, reveals that there are widespread efforts in U.S. nonprofits to innovate. Driving that point home is the recent phenomenon of nonprofit restaurants.

Sectors

Wal-Mart Gives $2 Billion to Fight Hunger

May 13, 2010

The Wal-Mart Corporation announced plans Wednesday to contribute $2 billion in cash and food to the nation’s food banks, one of the largest corporate gifts on record.

Over the next five years, the giant retail company will distribute some 1.1 billion pounds of food to food banks and provide $250 million to help them buy refrigerated trucks, improve storage and develop better logistics.

Sectors

Postal Carriers Will Collect Food for Pantries, Nonprofit Groups on Saturday

May 6, 2010

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The National Association of Letter Carriers will hold its 18th annual nationwide food drive on Saturday. The union asks postal patrons to leave non-perishable food items in or near their mailboxes for their letter carriers to pick up as they deliver their routes.

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