Social Responsibility & Philanthropy

GAYLE HARRELL represents Florida Senate District 25, soon to be District 31, which includes Martin and St. Lucie Counties and part of Palm Beach County. She was elected to the…

The Honorable KAREN D. CAMPER is the first African-American woman to lead a caucus in the history of Tennessee’s General Assembly. She was elected by her colleagues as House Democratic…

The dictionary defines “philanthropy” as “good will to fellow members of the human race,” something that is “especially an active effort to promote human welfare.” I would add to this…

The National Foundation for Women Legislators, or NFWL, believes that the greatest rising force in US politics today is not a political party, nor is it a lobbying community. It…

As the month of May celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, many of us wonder when and how the month of May was dedicated, and why more than ever this month is important to celebrate and acknowledge.

There is no direct antecedent to our modern secular celebration of mothers, but it has existed, one way or another, for thousands of years. Here’s a timeline: – Antiquarians and…

The impulse to create a memory and make it tangible is so very human — to hold it, and repeatedly commemorate it is also a very Jewish value … When we participate in remembrance, we help to avoid similar mistakes in the future.

Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter was born in Austria to elegance, affluence, and education, and with her immediate family, was lucky to be among the few and fortunate able to escape Nazi-controlled Austria in the late-1930s. After her family landed in Brooklyn a few years later, she went on to become a brilliant fixture in New York bridal fashion, in particular — a trendsetter who made New York shoppers feel among the lucky and fortunate.

Going to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is an important trip to make. The in-person experience is significant, profound, and unforgettable, and luckily for those not in the Washington D.C. area, the Museum website offers a rich remembrance as well.

Murdered and missing Indigenous women in state such as Montana is an ongoing crisis: challenging state and local crime units and causing horrific grief to the families involved. Young women whose bodies are not found for month, even years, give some slight closure to their loved ones at burial. But for many more that are never found, their families will suffer, not knowing whether their daughters, nieces, wives, or friends are alive or dead.

American entrepreneur, media mogul, and philanthropist Ted Turner is the man with the plan behind the more than 100,000-acre Flying D Ranch in Gallatin, Montana. Maintaining vast tracts of land as habitat is a great responsibility and a delicate balance that can only be maintained by following a thoughtful, wide-ranging plan.

Anne, the Princess Royal, inherited her family’s love of life with horses and became the first British royal to compete in international equestrian events. Anne truly is the “hardest working royal” on behalf of horses and equestrian philanthropies.