Posted in Nonprofit on Feb 28th, 2007
But almost 18 months after storms destroyed more than 250,000 homes, Habitat for Humanity says it has built just 10 houses for poor hurricane victims here, 36 in New Orleans, and a total of 416 along the entire coast, from Alabama to Texas. More are under construction, for a total of 702. That slower pace [...]
Drawing on government data on the American workforce, labor economists highlight several patterns in the low-wage workforce: Most workers don’t work the minimum wage for very long. Of workers who are 10 years into their careers, only about 13 percent have spent half or more of their career earning within $1.50 of the minimum wage, [...]
Posted in Nonprofit on Jan 6th, 2007
DUKE (NON) RAPE UPDATE: Lots of new developments at K.C. Johnson’s blog…. Link to Over the last couple of weeks I have been reading some of the background material on the Duke Rape case. The dropping of the rape charge coincided with questions about how far I was willing to go with social activism. I was [...]
Posted in Nonprofit on Dec 30th, 2006
Last week I was asked if I wanted to be interviewed by a television reporter about an upsurge in shootings in a local neighborhood. I am on the Board of Directors for the Habitat for Humanity affiliate that builds in this neighborhood. Half of all of the homes we have built over the last seventeen [...]
Posted in Nonprofit on Nov 28th, 2006
Link to The Enquirer – Audio photo gallery: Habitat for Humanity The Enquirer put together a great audio photo gallery of the house dedications for Brandi Moon and Mike and Darlene Rutledge. Click on the link above and see if you agree.
Posted in Nonprofit on Nov 28th, 2006
Link to Esquire:Feature Story:Three Things You Don’t Know About Aids In Africa Here are the three things: It’s the wrong disease to attack. It won’t disappear until poverty does. There is less of it than we thought, but it’s spreading as fast as ever. Curious about which disease should be attacked? Read the article.
Posted in Nonprofit on Nov 28th, 2006
Recent research shows some unexpected links between income and giving. Link to America the charitable: a few surprises Here are the highlights: Charitable giving plays an even larger role in the economy than is suggested by some $260 billion in annual contributions. Each dollar of giving appears to create $19 of extra national income, according [...]
Posted in Nonprofit on Nov 18th, 2006
We’ve moved from 14.7% poverty rate in 1966 to a 13.3% poverty rate in 1997 (5th year of Clinton) to a 12.6% poverty rate in 2005 (5th year of Bush). Trends of poverty are interesting: In the past, the poverty… Link to Poverty (Baklava) Despite doing a fair amount of work in the poverty area, [...]
Posted in Nonprofit on Nov 15th, 2006
Last night was a disaster at our board meeting for Habitat for Humanity. We had been feeling pretty proud of ourselves recently. We had five partner families in the queue for new houses and we had ten lots to work with. We had been focusing on raising funds and coalitions to build the houses. Then [...]
On this day, the Virginia Tech community reflects on the vibrant lives of the 32 students and faculty who were tragically taken from us a year ago. Through light, art, and music we pay tribute to each and every person we lost. We gather to honor our friends, colleagues, and family members. We will never forget.