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Creating a Prosocial Emergency Shelter Culture column

Dec. 13, 2022 10:10 pm

Creating a Prosocial Emergency Shelter Culture

Prosocial behavior is the intent to benefit others, such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering. Since 2016, Bethesda Project’s Church Shelter Program (CSP) for chronically homeless men has committed to proactively including shelter guests in program management in order to encourage a prosocial culture. As peer leaders, guests help staff create the agendas for […]
How to support ‘newcomer immigrant youth’ in Philadelphia column

Oct. 12, 2022 8:00 am

How to support ‘newcomer immigrant youth’ in Philadelphia

Nearly 60,000 Philadelphians immigrated to the United States in the last five years. Nearly 1 in 4 are 18 or younger. Julie Whalen McIntyre of the Stoneleigh Foundation shares how to support them.
A nonprofit must have community seats on its board. Here’s how column

Sep. 7, 2022 4:24 pm

A nonprofit must have community seats on its board. Here’s how

If you’d like to add community members to your board, here's a playbook from one nonprofit that just did it.
Want to fund hope? Fund organizing column

Aug. 5, 2022 10:10 am

Want to fund hope? Fund organizing

How can we create hope? Samuel S Fels Fund program officer Shanell Ransom says organizing is that hope.
The “homeless hero” trope won’t save us column

Feb. 21, 2022 6:30 am

The “homeless hero” trope won’t save us

Surrounded by stories of economic success, it's a cheat to wait for a superhero, writes this homeless advocate.
The problem with homelessness ‘innovation’ column

Jan. 24, 2022 6:45 am

The problem with homelessness ‘innovation’

In the context of homeless services, innovation needs to move us closer to a fully realized human right to housing—not more tents, pods, or makeshift shelters.
An Omicron plan from a Philadelphia public school teacher column

Jan. 18, 2022 8:54 am

An Omicron plan from a Philadelphia public school teacher

I am now writing to you as a School District of Philadelphia (SDP) teacher and parent of two young children who are not eligible for vaccination. 
Philadelphia’s crises of 2022 column

Jan. 10, 2022 7:00 am

Philadelphia’s crises of 2022

Gun violence is its own epidemic. We all choose what we're willing to do.
Youth mental health is a crisis. We need radical prevention column

Dec. 23, 2021 6:30 am

Youth mental health is a crisis. We need radical prevention

Timed with the release of a new report by the U.S. Surgeon General, two foundation executives call for out-of-the-box thinking.
Nonprofit fundraisers: this is your moment column

Dec. 6, 2021 7:00 am

Nonprofit fundraisers: this is your moment

A third of all annual giving takes place in the average December, and it's rare that both need and funds are high. They are now.