Social Service/Public Welfare/Human Services
May 1, 2017 at 12:53 am
Each year, the Mount Vernon Presbyterian School community and its partner, Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church, hold its Share the Well Food Drive to benefit the Community Assistance Center located in Sandy Springs. And like many organizations, the partners held their annual drive around Thanksgiving. But all of that changed after a challenge was presented to…
May 1, 2017 at 12:26 am
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...
April 28, 2017 at 10:05 am
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic investment vehicle created by Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, MD, will fund an effort to allow biologists to share drafts of papers before they are published in peer-reviewed scientific journals like Nature or Science. Financial terms were not disclosed. Cori Bargmann, the president…
April 28, 2017 at 9:56 am
I was thinking of an old friend and colleague, Henry “Hank” Rosso, recently when I was doing research on fundraising. I decided to look at Rosso’s obituary. On Feb. 1, 1999, Hank died at the age of 81 in Petaluma, Calif...
April 27, 2017 at 10:23 am
One couple decided to do something to help the families affected by the increase in the number of police killed in the line of duty. The Rice family said the tragedy of Deputy Geer's death inspired them to create a nonprofit organization to help families of fallen heroes across the country. The nonprofit is called the…
April 27, 2017 at 10:02 am
The National Park Foundation is commemorating the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary with its $350 million Centennial Campaign for America’s National Parks...
April 25, 2017 at 11:10 am
A $5 million donation to a university in Northeast Ohio will enable construction of a museum centering on Native American artifacts and research. University of Akron president Matthew Wilson said the donation from Jim and Vanita Oelschlager will be used to construct The Oak Native American Museum, as part of the Institute for Human Science…
April 24, 2017 at 9:22 am
A nonprofit organization that has orchestrated a wide-reaching campaign against foreign drug imports has deep ties to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America or PhRMA, the powerful lobbying group that includes Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Bayer. The nonprofit called the Partnership for Safe Medicines has recently emerged as a leading voice against Senate bills…
April 20, 2017 at 3:29 pm
A nonprofit corporation announced Wednesday that it's signed an agreement with federal officials to raise $30 million for a new veterans outpatient clinic in Omaha. Officials said it's the first of five public-private pilot projects nationwide for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The local money will be added to $56 million already appropriated for the…
April 18, 2017 at 9:25 am
On Apr. 17, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) offered its backing for a special $300 million fund in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to contain and eradicate future emerging infectious disease epidemics. “When an outbreak of an infectious disease occurs, time is of the essence. We learned a tragic lesson 30 years ago,…
