For the NBA and St. Jude Children’s Hospital, the first week of March marked Hoops for St. Jude Week; a week in which NBA players, coaches and fans joined together in efforts to raise funds and awareness for the work of St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN. Hoops for St. Jude Week was part [...]
On February 22, the Louisiana-Haiti Sustainable Village Project sent a barge filled with earthquake relief supplies bound for the Port of Jacmel on the south coast of Haiti. With the help of local residents and volunteers, 100,000 total cubic tons of supplies donated to the Louisiana-Haiti Sustainable Village Project’s warehouse in Elmwood, Louisiana were sorted [...]
Founded in 1971 by a French group of doctors and journalists, Doctors Without Borders is a leading nonprofit organization in providing urgent medical care internationally at no cost to patients in need. Doctors Without Borders works to provide relief where shortages of medical care exist due to natural disasters, widespread plague, military conflict or exclusion [...]
The recent 8.8 earthquake that struck in Chile near the city of Concepción is the latest emergency response effort of the nonprofit organization Direct Relief International. Direct Relief International works to provide disaster relief in coordination with local organizations best suited to provide for the needs of the community. Direct Relief International has been involved [...]
Immediately following the magnitude 8.8 earthquake which struck on February 27, 2010 just off the coast of Chile near the city of Concepción, the U.K.-based nonprofit humanitarian organization, Oxfam International was among the first to step up to the obligation for assistance. Despite being a developed country with more than its share of past experience with earthquakes—including [...]
One of the most active nonprofit organizations in helping to revitalize the city of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina has been HandsOn New Orleans. Begun in March of 2006, volunteers for HandsOn New Orleans have collectively pitched in more than 542,000 hours to a variety of projects. HandsOn New Orleans takes an [...]
Through networking with numerous community outreach organizations NBA Cares has made it possible for players, employees and even fans to become more directly involved in taking positive action in the well-being of a vast number of communities. A recent example of the community outreach efforts of NBA Cares took place on January 25, 2010, the morning [...]
In less than five years after its founding in 2005 by Bob and Suzanne Wright, Autism Speaks has grown to become the largest organization for autism advocacy in the United States. The efforts of Autism Speaks have made unprecedented progress in raising awareness and funding for autism research, and in providing support for families of [...]
One month ago today, the severely impoverished nation of Haiti was devastated by an unprecedented magnitude 7.0 earthquake, and more than 50 powerful aftershocks, crippling infrastructure and leaving more than 230,000 dead, 300,000 injured, and one million of the population homeless. Along with a considerable volume of other nonprofit philanthropic organizations, the American Red Cross [...]
New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity has provided an invaluable service in the recovery effort and around the city of New Orleans following the devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. With the support of 18,000 volunteers and more than 301,000 volunteer hours worked the organization has built 93 new homes in New Orleans and in [...]
