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...whose courageous work is the subject of Burma VJ, a documentary by Danish director Anders ?stergaard. It is narrated by Joshua, a soft-spoken 27-year-old who, after being fired from a Burmese government newspaper, joins DVB's small but tenacious team. Founded in 1992, DVB is a nonprofit media organization that broadcasts news in English and Burmese via radio, satellite television and the Internet. Sixty of its 140 staff are undercover reporters in Burma. Despite the risks, and probably because of them too, Joshua's new job makes him feel purposeful and alive. "When I pick...
...punctuated by the occasional suicide, has seldom let up since the 1980s. But one of the malaise's most excruciating aspects is regularly overlooked: rural pastors are disappearing even faster than the general population, leaving graying congregations helpless in their time of greatest need. Trace Haythorn, president of the nonprofit Fund for Theological Education (FTE), says fewer than half the rural churches in the U.S. have a full-time seminary-trained pastor; in parts of the Midwest, the figure drops to 1 in 5. "It's a religious crisis, for sure," says Daniel Wolpert, pastor of First Presbyterian in Crookston...
Schwartz said she will study the emerging role of nonprofit entities in providing content for newspapers struggling to cope with the financial pressures of the digital...
...Rockwell didn't want to limit the fun to just one place. So he came up with a portable version that is meant to complement existing play structures, not replace them. Through a partnership with kid-focused nonprofit Kaboom!, Imagination Playground in a Box is expected to arrive at more than 1,000 parks and schools nationwide within the next five years. "Demand is also tremendous from day-care centers, pediatricians' offices and children's museums," says Kaboom! founder Darrell Hammond. "This could fundamentally change adults' ideas of how children play...
...childhood-obesity epidemic - one-third of American children are now overweight, compared with 4% in 1970 - as well as the movement to make playgrounds more accessible to disabled and autistic kids. About 150 playgrounds in 29 states and Canada have been constructed to the standards of Connecticut-based nonprofit Boundless Playgrounds, which secures grants for some simple improvements - like raising up sandboxes to accommodate children in wheelchairs and installing recliner-shaped swings for kids who need help sitting up - to more complicated ones, such as adding padded nooks for kids who need enclosed spaces or substituting a rubber ground...