News and information on the role that government, small business, the nonprofit sector and philanthropy play in creating healthy and vibrant communities.
Steve Kraus, director of the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific, calls on a more authentic partnership with the civil society to battle against HIV/AIDS.
According to Kraus, in...more
Citi Microfinance and Citi Commercial Bank allot $2,000,000 in financing loans to support nonprofit social enterprise KickStart International.
With support from Skoll Foundation, the loans will...more
The Reinventors Network, a network of innovators, focuses on philanthropic trends done in the past decade. These include "crowdfunding, scan-to-give technology, social impact bonds, impact...more
Social entrepreneurs Jessica O. Matthews and Julia Silverman were Harvard University social science students who hooked up to change the world through soccer and their for-profit social enterprise,...more
Seniors rely on government-funded services such as free rides, hot meals and caregiver "companions".
But the recent federal budget cuts put those services on hold, which are key to independent...more
Intersections, an international organization dedicated to forming positive relationships between individuals and their communities, holds workshop for Coalition for the Homeless' First Step Job...more
Sally Arcolio, a former home economics teacher from rural Tuston, California, is often seen leading and working with members of the Ville Quilters on the quilt they are designing and will make to ...more
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin has recently unveiled his economic development proposal which included a $75 million economic development loan fund.
Also, Walker unveiled some parts of his agenda...more
In the October 2013 issue of Educational Researcher (ER), it examines the role of sorting between boys and girls across public U.S. high schools in explaining the gender gap of college enrollment...more
