SELECTED FEATURES
Fund focuses on empowering women for social change (National Catholic Reporter)
In downtown Asheville, N.C., across the street from the unemployment office, a couple of blocks away from the social services agency and less than a mile from the county jail, there is an old yellow house where everyone is welcome. By day it is a shelter for the city’s homeless — a place to rest, eat a meal, find a friend and escape the heat — and by night a home to Amy Cantrell, her partner, Lauren White, and a few others who help out with chores, cooking and maintenance.
The True Cost of Domestic Violence (New York Nonprofit Media)
Signs of trouble began to surface from the beginning of their 15-year marriage—he tried to control her schedule, her spending and her every move—but Martha said she only decided to separate from her husband about four years ago, when he began to use his tactics of intimidation on their children. About a year ago, when her son’s social worker referred her to a counseling program at the nonprofit organization Children’s Aid Society, she began to understand what she was dealing with.
SAGE Helps LGBT seniors manage chronic disease (New York Nonprofit Media)
When Nora-Ann Thompson, 66, learned about a new chronic disease management program at the SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) center where she regularly participates in activities, in Harlem, she thought she was going to receive the same advice she’s heard before: quit smoking and lose weight.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES
Helping LGBTQ teens stay off the streets (New York Nonprofit Media)
Lessons from the Robin Hood Foundation’s fundraising “boot camp” (New York Nonprofit Media)
Helping nonprofits build from the inside out (New York Nonprofit Media)
Cashing in on a Promising Fundraising Year (New York Nonprofit Media)
The Cost of Kosher (New York Nonprofit Media)
“Enough is Enough”: Nonprofits Seek to Partner with Colleges to Increase Sexual Assault Transparency (New York Nonprofit Media)
Kids ‘coming apart at the seams’ (New York Nonprofit Media)