Spotlight folks and organizations big and small making positive differences
For 18 years Centro de los Derechos del Migrantes, Inc. has been working for and advocating for justice for migrant workers. Rachel Micah-Jones interned for Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, and then worked on the Senate campaign of Oregon’s Ron Wyden, which stoked her interest in the law. While working in the Washington, …
According to the GirlTREK website the organization is “the largest health movement and nonprofit organization for Black women and girls in the United States.” Founders Vanessa Garrison and T. Morgan Dixon met in Los Angeles as college students in 1996. They say they bonded over 2PAC, Nikki Giovanni and their mutual inability to say no …
Modest Needs is a small but ambitious nonprofit, founded in 2002. It has a three-fold mission; ·Provide responsible effective short-term financial assistance to families and individuals in temporary crisis Lessen the burden on state and federal agencies to care for the truly indigent by stopping at-risk households from slipping into a cycle of poverty Promote compassion …
Roslyn Young-Daniels is Founder and Director of The Daniels Network, LLC, a marketing solutions and strategic insight consultancy serving the pharmaceutical and health care sectors. She is also President and Founder of, Black Health Matters (BHM) launched in 2003 and the BHM website, a video centric educational network that provides health care professionals and consumers …
Watsi is a nonprofit healthcare crowdsourcing platform that enables individual donors to directly fund medical care for individuals in developing countries without access to affordable medical care. Their small team believes everyone deserve healthcare and they are on a mission to make healthcare accessible to everyone. How it works is that a Watsi medical service provider partner submits …
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I am not sure of the source of this quote, “No One knows everything, everyone knows something and all knowledge resides in humanity.” It is perfect for incapsulating the principle of crowdsourcing. If you haven’t realized it crowdsourcing has proven to be a dynamic and powerful resource. And it has greatly influenced the development of …
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The non-profit Pencils of Promise (PoP) asks a simple question, “Can you imagine not being able to read this sentence?” And then points to the fact that 250 million children cannot. In other words, 250 million children of primary school age lack basic reading, writing and math skills. The organization was founded by Adam Braun. He recalls that …
Pillars Fund was founded in 2010 with a mission of amplifying the leadership, narratives, and talents of Muslims in the United States in order to advance opportunity and justice for all. The organizational vision is of a society where Muslims have access to every opportunity, are free to fully embody all of their identities, and …
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Room to Read believes that world change starts with children’s education. According to CEO Geetha Murali, “We are not giving up on educating the world’s most vulnerable children.” And Room to Read’s commitment to this mission is demonstrated by their accomplishments. · Globally 32 million children have benefited from their literacy programs · 36 million books have …
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The Hidden Genius Project, founded in Oakland, California in 2012 is changing the paradigm of high black male unemployment coexisting in a job market with a plethora of available high paying, high tech jobs. The founders, five black male entrepreneurs and technologists, made this their mission. And in the years since the organization’s founding the …
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