 Headlines
OMB Watch Posts Recommendations for Strengthening
Nonprofit Sector
Aspen Institute Releases Statement on Nonprofit
Advocacy Role
Robin Hood Foundation Honors Heroes in Fight Against
Poverty
More Dot-Commers Seeking
Nonprofit Jobs
Falling Stock Market Begins to Affect Charities
Cause-Related Marketing Catches on During Holiday
Season
New Report Grades States on College Opportunities
World Health Organization and OSI Launch Health Network
for Developing World
International Trachoma Initiative Expands Efforts
British University to Establish Research Center on
Corporate Social Responsibility
• • • • • • |
PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
This year's winners, each of whom will receive a $50,000
award for their organization, are Nancy Addison Altman, a
former soap opera star who is now battling cancer and
volunteers her time at the Incarnation Children's Center,
where she works with children with AIDS who have been
orphaned, abandoned, or removed from their families;
Alexie Torres-Fleming, the director of Youth Ministries
for Peace and Justice, who quit a high-paying job in
Manhattan to move back to the Bronx and establish a youth
program that works to break the hold of drug dealers and
gangs on embattled neighborhoods; Verona Middleton-Jeter,
a social worker at the Henry Street Settlement who has
pioneered efforts to improve conditions and services for
homeless families and battered women for almost three
decades; and Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, a pediatrician and
director of the Touchpoints Project, who is working with
families in Harlem to improve the lives of young children
through improved parenting skills.
Since its inception in 1988, the Robin Hood Foundation has
distributed more than $100 million in grants, goods, and
services to organizations fighting poverty in New York
City. Because the group's board of directors underwrites
all administrative costs, all donations go directly to
help those in need.
"The Robin Hood Foundation Honors New York Heroes." Robin
Hood Foundation News Release 12/5/2000.
FC003830
|
