Mattoon Community Food Center

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

10 Ways to Practice Institutional Racism at your Non-profit Organization

I realize that institutional racism may not be your goal or intention. You may not even be aware of the complexities of racism at your organization.

Make less than $58,450? You may qualify for low-income housing

See what your income qualifies you for in New York City.

Petition launched to change 'racist' name of Lynchburg, Virginia — which was named after an...

John Lynch was a Quaker who believed in emancipation and freed all of his slaves

The Practical Case for Parole for Violent Offenders

This is one way to fix an unsustainable criminal justice system, and make it more humane.

The Quest for Transgender Equality

Being transgender today is still unreasonably hard, but it is far from hopeless. This is the first in a series looking at the challenges ahead.

Nonprofits, hospitals partner to keep New Yorkers healthy

State Medicaid reform is beginning to pay health care providers to prevent hospitalization.

My first time using a food pantry—One moms story

This past holiday season was the first after my mid-spring divorce, and also the first time my children and I ate from a food pantry said Cynthia—the woman who wishes …

5 Foodies: The Connecting Nature of Food

5 Foodies: What Do Five Folks from Varying Backgrounds and Careers All have in Common? A Love for Food, of Course.

How To Build A Local Food System, To Make Local Food Actually Work

If good, local food is going to compete with industrial giants, it’s going to have to do more than just have people making small batches by themselves. A new project in Vermont is finding ways to expand the power of local producers.

This Nonprofit is Enabling Doctors to Write Prescriptions for Healthy Food

It is a sad reality that in one of the richest nations in the world 60 million people struggle to put healthy food on the table. As of 2010, diet has surpassed smoking as the leading cause of death and disease in the U.S., which results in $500 billion a year spent on diet related illnesses.In ...

Cooking up new friendships

10 Blog Ideas For Your Weight Loss Center

Weight loss is never easy no matter who you are. When you run a professional medical weight loss center it pays to have a blog on your website with helpful articles about weight loss to guide people along the difficult road. This means articles about diet, recipes, exercise, and techniques that make losing weight easier. Blogs provide patients with useful information that promotes your weight loss…

Are you hungry for another kind of community?

See if Group Spiritual Direction is for you! Group Spiritual Direction Are you hungry for another kind of community? Or, a safe place to share your heart and soul journey with others? Group Spiritual

Reach Out and Read partners with food shelf

BEMIDJI -- Reach Out and Read Minnesota recently provided 1,000 gently used children’s books for distribution at the Bemidji Community Food Shelf.

How to Beat Food Insecurity with Chickens, Gardens and Moms

No stranger to extreme drought, Compassion in Central America develop sustainable solutions tailored for individual communities to fight food insecurity.