When Nancy Stimson retired from youth ministry in 2004, she had no intention of starting her own non-profit.
THE PHILANTHROPIC ENTERPRISE
Cataloguing the Creative Powers of Community Entrepreneurs Tell us about a Social Innovator
Education
No Grades, No Tests, Lots of Learning
Ariel Miller aced high school chemistry. “I got a 100 on a test, but didn’t learn a thing,” she admits.
Education alternative education learner-centered education
Students don’t always need teachers to learn. Sometimes they just need each other. That was definitely true in the case of a group of high schoolers from Texas who saw their classmates struggling to get the tutoring they needed.
A Q&A with Founder of The Soleil School
Similar to Skybridge Academy but for elementary school children, The Soleil School operates around the idea that each child is the center of the learning experience.
For-Profit Solutions
CleanTurn provides general labor services to local businesses and organizations in Columbus, Ohio. While fulfilling market demand, CleanTurn also provides market-wage employment opportunities to individuals who have high obstacles to employment, including prior incarceration.
For-Profit Solutions recidivism social entrepreneurshipHealth and Vitality
Reprinted with permission from Outreach, Inc. Everyone else is finished, but one young man hangs from a bar, only halfway done with the morning’s exercise routine at the CrossFit gym at the corner of 10th and Post Road on Indianapolis’ eastside.
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Jane Werner was having heart trouble. She had no energy and felt like sleeping all the time.
When SueAnne Bassett learned that she had stage four cervical cancer eight years ago, her doctors gave her a 20 percent chance that she would live five years, and that was with full-blown chemo and radiation treatment.
Like any woman with her lifestyle and demographics, she would never have anticipated the diagnosis. Stage 1 breast cancer.
Household Economics
How Microenterprise is Creating Personal Resilience While Eliminating Poverty
Eleven years ago, Bruno Rivas left Mexico City to make a better living for his family in San Francisco.
Every Friday, India Ghee receives a paycheck, and like most other Americans, she must decide how much of it she will spend, save, and give.
Nourishment
Bringing Life to a Food Desert
“What do you love about your grocery store?” an interviewer asks California locals on a Youtube video.
In the heart of Denver on Colfax Avenue, you enter a cheery storefront café and step in line to see what’s on the menu today.
The Garden That Gives Together
In the heart of Austin, Texas, a sprawling three-acre community garden teems with life: young couples and retirees work alongside each other, planting their first plot or harvesting their 30th season of heirloom tomatoes.
The Papers of Richard C. Cornuelle at the Hoover Institution
Conversations on Philanthropy
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