One-on-One tutoring

Back on Track is a company that supplies tutoring for k-12 students for free. I think this is an awesome company because many students need this but can not afford it.
Back on Track is a free one-on-one tutoring and academic mentorship program for K-12 students. Students and volunteer tutors meet once a week for a two-hour session. They come together from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to learn together and promote cross-cultural understanding. Back on Track also provides student with a variety of enrichment activities and field trips. Families are given resources and training, encouraging them to become active partners in their children's growth.
http://www.backontracksf.org/

Give Children a Safe Home!!

Yet, each year in Colorado, more than 10,000 children are victims of abuse and neglect. A CASA -- Court Appointed Special Advocate -- is a community volunteer who gets to know these children and stands up for them in court to help ensure their best interests are served. This is a website trying to provide safe homes for children who have been abused and neglected!
http://www.adv4children.org/

A How To....

This video is the 1st of many to give a step by step guide on how to form a nonprofit organization.

N.F.I.A (nonprofit organization)

Here is a link to a nonprofit organization called the N.F.I.A. It is not a large or well-known establishment, but it is a township hall that resides close to home. The Neshaminy Falls Improvement Association, the N.F.I.A., is a building in the suburbs of Trevose, that strictly runs on nonprofit. It is available for rent for parties, or events, and gains the funds to maintain running through fundraising. Recently there has been less interest in the historical building and the threat of closing down is becoming more eminent. I am posting the link to the site, so others can learn more about the buildng, and to try and aquire some ideas for fundraising.
http://www.neshaminyfalls.org/

MercyCorps

"Mercy Corps is a team of 3700 professionals helping turn crisis into opportunity for millions around the world. By trade, we are engineers, financial analysts, drivers, community organizers, project managers, public health experts, administrators, social entrepreneurs and logisticians. In spirit, we are activists, optimists, innovators and proud partners of the people we serve."

These are some pictures on their site of some children they helped benefit.

Pride Foundation

This foundation is very cool in the fact that they're a LGBT (Lesbian, gay, bi, transgender) organization bringing equality and tolerance to improve our communities.

There mission statement includes:

"Pride Foundation connects, inspires and strengthens the Pacific Northwest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in pursuit of equality. We accomplish this in rural and urban areas by awarding grants and scholarships and cultivating leaders."

http://www.pridefoundation.org

Non-profit Corporations

This video gives a brief description on what a non-profit corporation is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4K620KW_Is

Sr. Communications Officer - Media & Partner Comm

This is an ideal opportunity for a self-starter to establish and grow the media function within a pre-eminent organization in the global health space. Serving as the thought leader for the communications function, this position will play a critical role in meeting organizational goals, benefiting marketing, fundraising and program initiatives throughout the organization.
http://marketing-jobs.theladders.com/job/jobboard?pl=od-M1&cr=1731331

Financial Crisis

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Financial Crisis

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Livengrin Rehab Non-profit

Headquartered in Bensalem, Bucks County, the nonprofitLivengrin Foundation provides on-site and ambulatory detoxification,variable length of stay residential rehabilitation, intensive day andevening outpatient programs, transitional support groups, dual diagnosis programs, and adolescent care. This is a rehab to help addicted people recover. They are all non-profit which is awesome because it helps people recover if they do not have the money to get into a good hospital. Also they have AA and NA meetings outpatient so the inpatients can stick with the program when they are discharged.
Here are the websites:
http://www.schizophrenia.com/news/dualdiagnosis.html
and
http://www.livengrin.org/liv_html/admissions_guide.html

Jobless rate

http://www.usatoday.com/money/default.htm

The Perks of Non-Profit!

This video is a commeration of the world of business surrounding non-profit organizations and their members, including the personal benefits that come from this line of work.

A Social Solution, Without Going the Non-profit Route

This article reveals how many investors start companies, rather than non profit businesses to help a cause. Most take this approach to raise money, and make a change faster rather than over a long span of time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/business/smallbusiness/05sbiz.html?_r=2&ref=smallbusiness

SchoolHeart

http://www.schoolheart.com/main/

Schoolheart is a nonprofit organization dedicated towards fundraising for schools and other nonprofit organizations.

Second life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=synxFmQJ_0A

Dance production uniting Bucks County and Kenya communities

http://philadelphiadance.org/blog/2008/06/07/local-non-profit-dance-company-mounts-powerful-production-uniting-bucks-county-and-kenya-communities/

The Spirit In Motion Dance Theater, a non profit dance company, premiered their “Dances of Hope & Madeline” at BCCC a year ago to raise awareness in Kenya and help build water wells for them. The money raised from the performance paid teachers salaries for three months, bought firewood to cook food at an orphanage, and repaid debt to farmers who fed orphans even though they had extra money.

SmartPower Video Clip

Smartpower is the nations leading nonprofit organization that is dedicated to promoting clean energy and energy efficiency. This is brief advertising clip, with a humorous twist, for this company.

Save A Family

Our Mission is to help children in homeless families by treating the whole family with programs to break the negative cycles of poverty, abuse, and homelessness. We strengthen the Valley's communities by facilitating the transition of families to financial and emotional self-sufficiency.
This non-profit business is to help out the homeless people. People send just fifteen dollars and it helps them out. They are predicting that there will be atleast 1.5 million increase in people that will be homeless in the next two years.

http://www.savethefamily.org/

Deriving Money

This article revolves around the issues of state regulators or the IRS gaining monetary funds from Non-Profit Charities or organizations.
http://www.nptimes.com/instantfund/09Mar/IF-090305-1.html

NFL, Make-A-Wish Foundation® Granting All-Pro Wishes for 12 Kids to Attend Super Bowl XLIII

http://www.wish.org/news/news_releases/super_bowl_09

The Make-A-Wish Foundation and the NFL had partnered together to give a dozen young children who have serious medical conditions the opportunity to attend the Super Bowl Feb, 1. They received a "welcome home" party sponsered by TGI Fridays, a meet-and-greet with past and present NFL players, as well as testing their abilities to play football-oriented games. The dozen children were selected from all over the US.

"Short Attention Spans"

February 15, 2009

Short Attention Spans
Charities hope banner ads catch up to donors

By Michele Donohue

http://www.nptimes.com/09Feb/npt-090215-3.html


"We live in a first-look society -- you need to get the point across quicker," said Wendy MacGregor, chief marketing officer at the Chicago-based Feeding America, which until this past September was called America's Second Harvest."

This article is about the trouble of advertising charities encounter. Many well known charities and non-profit organizations are changing their overall image to attract different target markets mostly through online advertising.

Men against Breast Cancer

This a non profit organization to teach men how to cope with breast cancer. The program educates men to be effective caregivers in the fight against breast cancer. They do excercises to see differences between men and women. They invited anyone from any backround and came with the same problem and left as one. Check the article out about what they did in this non profit organaztion.

http://www.menagainstbreastcancer.org/about/news_events.php

Adopt a Soldier

http://www.arng.army.mil/default.aspx

This article is about a volunteer organization similar to the Adopt A Child foundation except for the US troops. Anyone in the organation sends care packages and letters to the troops in Iraq, as well as running errands for family members. Volunteers who take part in caring for the troops develop a lifelong connection with them and once they come home, a part of their family comes home too.

Non-Profit News Clip with CBS

This is a brief video clip on how the economic crisis surrounding our country is affecting non-profit organizations just as much as other business. Well-known charities such as the Salvation Army and Race for the Cure, are laying off employees, and running low on resources, at a time when our nation's families need help the most.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4636639n