Word: nonprofiteers
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...imprint he would one day leave on the world. He was 56. The kids were grown. "I was never really motivated by money," he says. "I like to make things happen." So he gave up a six-figure salary in the food-distribution business and launched the nonprofit Farm to Family, which this year will deliver 34 million lbs. of fresh produce for free to low-income neighborhoods throughout California...
...last year alone his organization says the program touched 3 million lives. "So many people think if they don't have an enormous sum of money to leave to a philanthropic group, they can't leave an important legacy," says Marc Freedman, CEO of Civic Ventures, a nonprofit that promotes active aging. "But the way we use our experience--something we all have--may be a more enduring gift to future generations than money." Civic Ventures is recognizing Maxworthy this month with a Purpose Prize grant...
...fast-growing nonprofit sector faces a shortage of senior leaders estimated at 640,000 over the next decade, reports executive search firm Bridgestar. You may not be able to leave a financial legacy, but here are three ways you can live a fulfilling...
...SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR. Start your own nonprofit, if you've got the energy and see a need that isn't being served...
...success, and he's opted to stop taking hormone treatment, a relief, he says, because he found the side-effects, including hot flashes, unpleasant. Today he tries to answer questions from male breast-cancer patients in online cancer forums, and talks with people who contact him through the U.K. nonprofit Breast Cancer Care. But there's no doubt that even a relatively positive experience with male breast cancer can be isolating - even for women. As Place looked for information in online forums, he found that women were used to treating breast cancer sites as women's-only safehouses, a place...