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Philanthropy Helps Boost Manufacturing in Areas With High Job Vacancies

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Tom Breckenridge CLEVELAND Mariana Edelman Photography; Courtesy of Towards Employment Mary Lamar got her job with a Cleveland manufacturer through a program developed by business and community leaders — with help from philanthropy — to match people of color, women, and formerly incarcerated people with manufacturing jobs.

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Industry Overviews: Online Grocery Sales & Cough & Cold Medicine Manufacturing OTC

Selfish Giving

Cough & Cold Medicine Manufacturing OTC This industry manufactures over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold treatments and suppressants. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon drivers delivered more than 9 million meals to people in need in 25 cities across America.

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Why Resident Ownership Matters

NonProfit Quarterly

Emily Thaden: What’s happening in manufactured housing communities, across the country, is that increasingly there are private equity investors moving into the space. And so, this is putting pressure on communities, because owners are putting manufactured housing communities up for sale. View the full webinar here.

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Nonprofit IT Security: 5 Inexpensive Ways to Secure Your Organization

NonProfit PRO

Hackers tend not to deliberately target nonprofits the way they do manufacturers and financial institutions, for example. If you're not concerned about data security as a nonprofit, you should be.

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Manufactured 'Truth' and the Merchants of Outrage

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

How can we agree when we can’t separate fact from conspiracy? A Giving Pledge member champions nonprofits that are honest information brokers By Melanie Lundquist How can we agree when we can’t separate fact from conspiracy? A Giving Pledge member champions nonprofits that are honest information brokers

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Harmony in Work & Life: Founder, Innovator in Manufacturing, Marketing on Passion For Change

Fundraising Leadership

“Having trusted relationships is how I got here today,” says Kara Demirjian Huss, vice president of T/CCI Manufacturing and recently appointed to the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board, overseeing the Unified State Plan for Illinois workforce development system. ” Manufacturing is undergoing major shifts. Borg Warner Corp.,

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Comment on Why Do Women Leaders Lag? And What You Can Do About It by Pamela Belyea

Amy Eisenstein

A clothing manufacturing company that makes uniforms for high school athletic teams? Please give examples of women-owned business that “serve” the nonprofit sector? This is not a definition that I am familiar with. A publisher of books for hospital personnel? A food service company that supplies local colleges?