The 6-member Frederick Funders Group—including the Community Foundation of Frederick County (MD), United Way of Frederick County, Frederick County Government, and three private foundations—came together in 2016 with the belief Read Story
The Melville Charitable Trust has been funding in the area of homelessness for nearly 25 years, with a primary focus on Connecticut and on national policy. When its new executive Read Story
The Barbara and Stephen Miller Foundation didn’t start out with a mission to combat homelessness. “When we opened the foundation in 2008, our thought was to do work on education,” Read Story
Before Al Gore and filmmaker David Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth popularized the term “global warming,” Diana Barrett, president and founder of The Fledgling Fund, was already focused on visual storytelling Read Story
At the Bigglesworth Family Foundation in San Francisco, legal services have been a passion and priority since day one. “Legal services provide the best tool to reduce poverty, and everyone Read Story
Twenty-eight years ago, Patrick (Pat) DeMoon, co-founder of the Kara Foundation in Las Vegas, thought philanthropy was little more than writing a check and waiting for a warm and fuzzy thank Read Story
You could say that Ann Lovell has centered her philanthropic career around collaborating and convening people. It’s the act of coming together with others—and supporting others to do the same—that Read Story
Amy Liebman Rapp is no stranger to loss. “As a teen, I saw firsthand how loss affects families—how the loss of one person can cause a whole family to fall Read Story
John Richardson never considered himself an environmentalist. Yet he spent earlier decades traveling for the United Nations, investigating some of the world’s most complex humanitarian relief operations. He has seen Read Story
Bill Young isn’t new to humanitarian work. He’s been doing it for several decades, including 14 visits to Vietnam and 16 trips to Myanmar (Burma), where he participated in projects Read Story