Poverty

When the AIDS Healthcare Foundation waged an unsuccessful campaign this spring to crack down on “mega projects,” affordable housing developers argued its ballot measure would hurt poor renters and thwart sorely needed construction. Now the huge nonprofit is getting into affordable housing itself, saying it can provide it quicker and cheaper than such groups. “The…

The donors and volunteers were moved by the images and stories of need. In one photo, nine-year-old Aya, who fled war-torn Syria for a tent in Lebanon, wears a pink Minnie Mouse T-shirt as she stands along a dirt road, mounds of garbage behind her. What she would like more than anything would be to…

The proposed 11th Street Bridge Park that would cross the Anacostia River continues to inspire big-name philanthropists to write big checks to revitalize some of the District’s poorest neighborhoods and help low-income residents prepare should an economic turnaround arrive. The latest is JPMorgan Chase. Over the next 3 years, the financial giant agreed to donate $10 million…

Young guys in dusty polo shirts. New moms holding their babies. Grandmas in bright head wraps. They've all gathered in a clearing for one of the village meetings when something remarkable happens. Practically every person's cellphone starts tinkling. It's a text alert from an American charity called GiveDirectly. Last fall, GiveDirectly announced that it will…

I’m sure you have all heard of Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani female activist and Noble Prize laureate who was shot in the head by a member of the Taliban for advocating the education for women...

DonorsChoose.org, the nonprofit organization dedicated to funding children’s educational needs, launched its Student Life Essentials Program earlier this year. Prior to the launch, DonorsChoose conducted a survey that included 2,000 teachers who were from high-poverty schools throughout the nation...

The Texas Hunger Initiative at Baylor University has received a $3 million grant from the Walmart Foundation, the university announced this week. The grant will fund child-nutrition programs and university-based research, along with new Hunger Free Coalitions meant to bolster the Texas Hunger Initiative’s eight state offices. “[The Walmart Foundation] enjoys funding innovation, and that’s…

Hunger affects 42.4 million people (one in eight Americans), 13.1 million of whom are children and 5.7 million of whom are the elderly. The organization launched its most recent initiative, “This is Hunger.” With this initiative, MAZON is touring the country and giving people the opportunity to participate in a two-part solution to end world hunger...

President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress calls for eliminating social programs dating to President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and would cut spending on assistance to needy counties in Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta, as well as hungry schoolchildren in Cambodia. Grants for rural water projects, funds for local transit systems and a host…

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation oversees a global philanthropic empire that extends from its Hollywood headquarters to 15 states and 38 countries. The 30-year-old nonprofit organization treats hundreds of thousands of patients. It hands out tens of millions of condoms annually, and it puts up provocative billboards urging people to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases.…