On May 19, 2012, the Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution cause launched “Food Revolution Day” – a global campaign to “stand up for real food.” Cause leader Jo Creed chatted with us last week about JOFR and their work on Causes.com. Jo explained that food education is an important, global conversation that everyone should be having. ...
Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun is full of big ideas. His nonprofit has built 56 schools in rural communities in Laos, Nicaragua and Guatemala since 2009. Beginning this year, PoP made it a goal to hit 100 schools in these countries because education in rural areas is vitally important to the stability and growth of these ...
Advocating for arts education in public schools across the United States is a tough fight. Cause leader MacEwen Patterson remembers the day he joined that fight through the Keep Arts in Public Schools cause on Causes.com. “I pestered the administrators who led the cause because I just couldn’t imagine a world without arts education… A lot ...
There is a crisis in our educational system right now: One in four teenagers in the United States will not graduate from high school. That’s 1.3 million students who fall short of reaching one of life’s greatest milestones. The number comes from a recent report compiled by the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, ...
This past spring Causes launched a new way for companies to sponsor all nonprofits on our platform through watching short advertisement that earn between $.10 and $.50 per activity. This tool, called “Give a Minute,” invites users to earn money for a cause without having to take out their wallets. You might think that $.10 or ...