Toward a World that Works for Everyone
A Mama-Tee refrigerator in Philadelphia. (Heather Long/The Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/28/hunger-philadelphia-free-fridges/ PHILADELPHIA — Darrell Brokenborough opened the bright yellow refrigerator that stood on the sidewalk outside a row home at 308 N. 39th St., smiled and said, “It’s full.” He balanced on his cane so he could take a closer look at the apples, yogurt, greens, […]
How this Queens community built $1,000 college savings accounts for all its kids Kristin Toussaint, Fast Company, Feb. 25, 2021 (https://www.fastcompany.com/90606164/how-this-queens-community-built-1000-college-savings-accounts-for-all-its-kids) It’s part of a new program to build wealth for low-income kids across New York City—with a little help from their communities. In 1949, when she was 14 years old, Claudia Coger dropped out […]
By Good News Network, January 16, 2021 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/amazon-launches-2bil-housing-fund-in-3-cities/ Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund will help preserve existing housing and help create housing developments through below-market loans and grants to housing partners, public agencies, and minority-led organizations. The Fund seeks to “ensure that moderate- to low-income families can afford housing in resource-rich communities with easy access to […]
Tricia sends in an interesting article with advice on charitable giving. Since that will be the “business” of most currency holders after the Reval, we post the discussion. Perhaps file this one away. The Ultimate Guide to Supporting Charities on a Budget Patrick Placzkowski, CouponChief, n.d. (https://www.couponchief.com/guides/support_charities_on_a_budget) In it’s 2019 report on philanthropy, Giving USA, […]
This organization contacted us and inquired whether we’d like to post their article on philanthropy. I’d like to post it not so much for its advice on charity on a budget as for its insights into philanthropy today and the charity research it provides. Many of us, after the Reval, will become humanitarian philanthropists and […]
