Non Profits

“Moodoff Day” Raises Awareness of Smartphone Addiction

February 27, 2012

An Australian non-profit has struck a small blow against the pervasive use of smartphones. For five hours on Sunday morning, people around the world stopped using their phones to text, call, email or browse the Internet. How many participated in “Moodoff Day” on February 26th may never be known, but organizers say they had supporters in [...]

Trade Insanity

January 9, 2012

The U.S. has lost nearly two million jobs because of NAFTA.

President Obama pushed free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Columbia as part of his jobs-creating legislation. Congress went along for the ride because this was the only path where Republicans and Democrats could agree. But this path is the wrong path. This is trade insanity. Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same [...]

Jobs Jobs Jobs

January 4, 2012

Steve Jobs was brilliant, creative and successful. But under his leadership, Apple shipped hundreds of thousands of jobs overseas.

It’s all about Jobs. Steve Jobs. Although he was brilliant, creative and a successful CEO, he had one flaw: he outsourced Apple. Mr. Jobs could have created a hundred thousand jobs in the United States, but instead he created them in China and Korea. Apple can still move many of those jobs back to the [...]

UNCF’s CESA Program Helping Minority Students Graduate

December 12, 2011

The CESA funds have been a god send. Over 20% of our graduates could be helped by CESA funding.

There’s a young woman in the senior class at Tougaloo College in Mississippi who has hit the financial wall. “She’s a high honor student, a leader on campus who has done everything right. But she and her family are simply out of money,” said Dr. Beverly Hogan, President of Tougaloo, which is one of the [...]

Telescopes, Encyclopedias, Books on Tape in the Classroom – DonorsChoose.org

December 5, 2011

Teacher Sabrina Adler and her 4th grade class at Knollwood Elementary School in Decatur, Georgia.

When Charles Best was a young high school history teacher in the Bronx, New York, he found himself and his fellow teachers having conversations in the lunchroom about what they’d love to do with their students – if they had the resources to do them. Best came up with an idea to seek what he [...]

Keeping A Promise to Minority College Students

December 1, 2011

Dr. Wesley McClure in front of Lane College Building

Imagine this. You are in your senior year at college, you are the first person in your family ever to go to college and you’ve run out of money. Your family can’t help and the credit crunch has squeezed private school loans off the market. If you are Dr. Wesley McClure, President of Lane College [...]

Penn State Sex Scandal Fueling Parental Paranoia

November 22, 2011

A national child advocacy organization says the sex scandal at Penn State is fueling parental paranoia, along with phony statistics and over the top warnings about child abuse. “We don’t need hype that turns every adult into a potential threat,” says Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. According to [...]

Sierra Club Disputes the Reason Carl Pope Left

November 22, 2011

Follow Up The Sierra Club has taken issue with media reports of the reasons why Carl Pope stepped down as the organization’s chairman. In a letter to the Los Angeles Times, the Sierra Club indicated there was nothing surprising about Pope’s departure and that its board had known for three years that he was planning [...]

What’s Going On In the Environmental Movement?

November 20, 2011

Two major national environmental organizations are undergoing big changes. The Sierra Club announced that its chairman has stepped down. Carl Pope’s departure comes as the Sierra Club faces declining membership, internal dissent and opposition to many of its programs in Congress. Meanwhile, the Wilderness Society announced it is going to lay off 17 percent of [...]