A massive, mile-wide tornado with winds up to 200 mph spent 40 minutes on the ground as it devastated homes, schools and businesses across southern Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday afternoon.

The state medical examiner confirmed at least 37 deaths and said the toll was expected to rise.

Catastrophic damage was reported in Moore, where two elementary schools were destroyed, including one that took a direct hit. Several…

Tomorrow I have the privilege of serving as the keynote speaker at the Youth, I.N.C. 2013 Venture Forward Conference in New York City.  In preparing my remarks, I’ve been thinking about how pro bono is ultimately not about getting a “wish list” deliverable, but rather, solving an underlying organizational need.

I remember well the first time I went to Taproot Foundation for help when I was serving as the Executive Director of Cabrini Green Legal Aid (CGLA) in Chicago.  My first…

There are plenty of reasons employees jump from nonprofits to work in the private sector. While the benefit of improving a community through a nonprofit’s work is unparalleled in the corporate space, long hours and pay differences can prompt nonprofit employees to start exploring private sector job opportunities. So why is this important to your recruitment strategy? The answer, in short, is corporate responsibility.…

http://jeffhoffmanassociates.com/Blog/............How to build and grow cross-sector partnerships.

These days people consolidate everything: The phone bill with the cable bill. The water bill with the gas bill. Car insurance with homeowner’s insurance. Anyway you slice it, it just makes more sense to combine like things. Still, many companies have failed to have an “a-ha!” moment about consolidating…

http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/2013/04/youre-meant-to-be-a-parent/…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nell-edgington/5-reasons-your-nonprofit-_b_3102845.html

I thought this was a great article concerning one of the great preachers and ministers, especially in the early 1900's. I hope you enjoy it as well.

Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) is synonymous with one of the most enduring legacies of Christian reform, the Social Gospel. The Social Gospel was a movement in American Christianity from approximately 1880 to 1920, represented by church leaders who applied Christian teachings to the social-economic problems of that…

Preventing violence against children through children's rights education,the arts and the media-

Seeking partnership opportunities…

“Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”

John F. Kennedy’s inaugural words will never ring as true than during National Volunteer Week, which this year falls on April 21-27. First instituted in 1974 by President Nixon, National Volunteer Week is a time to celebrate the power and…

As with most of us, there is something that provokes within that calls us to deliberate about things that we would rather not. For the most part, we already know that if we take our beliefs and bond them together with any sense of coherent reasoning, we will end up at a place where we start to question everything, including our relationship to others, the social order, humanity, our pursuits and ourselves. We fear that if we journey too far into some pretty complicated areas, we might be…

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865578356/Adoption-often-leaves-older-children-behind-alone-but-waiting-families-change-the-future.html