Janelle Monáe's Fem The Future nonprofit is paving the way for a "fem-forward" future.
Tonya Veasey, the newly appointed president and CEO of the CBCF, shares that mentoring, advocacy and education are the focal points of the organization.
Akinloye closed her hair salon and opened a nonprofit offering styling services to the underprivileged.
Sheena Wright becomes the first woman, and first African-American woman ,to be president of the United Way of New York City.
(NY Times) — Artistic success has never been Harlem Stage’s problem. Even before its Gatehouse theater became the first new performing arts space in Harlem in 20 years when it opened, in 2006, it had presented emerging artists, and seemingly everyone from Tito Puente to Abbey Lincoln. Its programs for school children were lauded as […]
Thanks to the efforts of 27-year-old Southern California native Kushal Chakrabarti, a nonprofit is tapping the microcredit market to fund loans for low-income college students in developing nations — a need that has been largely unmet by traditional banks. Vittana, named after a Telugu word for “seed,” pools funds from Internet users all over the […]
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Derreck Kayonga noticed something strange during a hotel stay in Philadelphia several years ago. His hotel room contained three bars of soap. On top of that, after just one use, the hotel’s housekeeping staff replaced the used bar with a new one. He started hiding the soap in his luggage, but […]
Most celebrity charities are merely tax shelters for their megastar owners.