Sheena Wright Becomes First African-American Female President & CEO of United...
Sheena Wright becomes the first woman, and first African-American woman ,to be president of the United Way of New York City.
View ArticleHairstylist Tanisha Akinloye Answers A Beautiful Calling, Leaving Behind The...
Akinloye closed her hair salon and opened a nonprofit offering styling services to the underprivileged.
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Congressional Black Caucus Foundation President Tonya Veasey Is Dedicated To...
Source: Tonya Veasey / CBCF Earlier this month, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) announced a new leader in Tonya Veasey, who will head the organization as its latest president and CEO....
View ArticleBuyer Beware: Celebrity Pet Charities are All Bark, No Bite
Singer Wyclef Jean found himself on the defensive after copies of tax returns for his Yele Haiti Foundation were made public by website, The Smoking Gun. The documents revealed that Yele purchased...
View ArticleNonprofit Uses Discarded Hotel Soap to Stop Spread of Disease in Africa
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Derreck Kayonga noticed something strange during a hotel stay in Philadelphia several years ago. His hotel room contained three bars of soap. On top of that, after...
View ArticleTurning Your $25 Into Loans for Students in Developing Nations
Thanks to the efforts of 27-year-old Southern California native Kushal Chakrabarti, a nonprofit is tapping the microcredit market to fund loans for low-income college students in developing nations — a...
View ArticleA Harlem Arts Group Exhales
(NY Times) — Artistic success has never been Harlem Stage’s problem. Even before its Gatehouse theater became the first new performing arts space in Harlem in 20 years when it opened, in 2006, it had...
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