The world at large is making great strides at reducing poverty. India, for example, cut the number of its citizens living in poverty in half from 1994 to 2012. In a country that size, the impact is enormous: at least 133 million people crossed above the poverty line in less than two decades, according to the World Bank. The trend is similar in places like China, Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, Botswana, and Tanzania. But there is of course much work left to be done. While many countries and … [Read more...]
Nonprofit Career Month celebrated in October!
September 29, 2013 by
Have you ever contemplated joining the world of philanthropy? A nonprofit organization (US and UK), or not-for-profit organization (UK and others), often called an NPO or simply a nonprofit and non-commercial organization (Russia and CIS), often called an NCO, is an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals rather than distributing them as profit or dividends. States in the United States defer to the IRS designation conferred under United States Internal Revenue Code … [Read more...]
