Barbara and I were deeply saddened when we read that Sandy Berry’s dream child “the Pantry” was closing. Although we have not been involved in how this has come to pass, we reflected how Flagstaff Family Food Center and St Mary’s Food Bank forced the same fate on us and the People’s Pantry nearly seven years ago. There was and is an amazing amount of food donated everyday by restaurants, wholesalers, and supermarkets. Much of it is wasted and lost...

by Mathew Packard
Communities across the country continue to grapple with the growing crisis of homelessness, its impact on the community and on the lives of individuals, questioning the effectiveness of our current response and what, if anything [...]

April is an important month for Nonprofits in Arizona, the 2nd is Arizona Gives Day and it’s the last chance for donors to nonprofits to benefit from the 2023 Qualifying [...]

If you have ever thought about writing your memoir, Do It. Don’t do it to get rich, I can almost guarantee you it will cost more than you’ll receive in [...]

When people ban together as volunteers to help their neighbors we see people at their best. Neighbor helping neighbor. That desire to help those who suffer any type of misfortune [...]

Arizona and Phoenix in particular have an opportunity to take a leadership role in finding solutions to the homelessness issue as they start cleaning up “The Zone. Nearly two decades [...]

A little over a year ago when we decided to apply some of the principles we outlined in our books to see if we could double Tennies for Tots budget [...]

Over the past several weeks information and events have unfolded that should have caused everyone who runs or cares about a small to medium sized nonprofit to take heart and [...]

I first met Becky, at the time Kanis, Margiotta at a Homeless or Housing conference, over two decades ago in Phoenix Arizona. I was new to nonprofit leadership having spent [...]

We have all had someone smile at us in a difficult situation and say ”It’s not a problem, it’s an opportunity. “ Arizona nonprofits have suffered through two difficult years, publicly hosted fund raising events were scuttled. And the volunteer workforce we used to complete many of our tasks stayed home, because they worried about contact with the virus. And the “Great Resignation” has made filling low paying job openings even more difficult...

As a former member of the St Vincent de Paul Society, a Vincentian I watched this year’s iteration of Turkey Tuesday with great interest. Turkey Tuesday is a state wide event and is a small part of Eddie Basha’s amazing legacy. He and and the St Vincent de Pau Society started the program as a means of providing Christmas dinner, for those who without help may not have had a real Christmas dinner. The turkeys were collected...