Challenge the Gap
Deserving organizations benefit from strong Q3 2014 giving results
The grants we provide to our featured beneficiaries each quarter are funded by our monthly giving members. Each quarter we see a steady increase in total member giving, and therefore an increase in the support we can give to our beneficiaries. This quarter, our Natural World beneficiary was Rainforest Foundation US. Their techniques are to…
Read MoreChallenge the Gap: A Brief Review
Since its inception in 2011, Challenge the Gap challenges the idea that there is an unbridgeable gap between theists and nontheists. Foundation Beyond Belief remains committed to aiding secular organizations that encourage and demonstrate humanist generosity and compassion, which is why the beneficiaries in our other Humanist Giving categories are always secular. However, Challenge the…
Read MoreClosing the Book on Our 3rd Quarter Beneficiaries
As the 3rd quarter of 2014 comes to a close, we'd like to take a look back at the many ways that our beneficiaries this quarter put your contributions to good use in putting humanism into action. Poverty and Health: Sustaining Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL). SOIL is doing important work in Haiti building ecological sanitation…
Read MoreThe Night Ministry: An inside perspective
In order for The Night Ministry, our third-quarter Challenge the Gap beneficiary, to provide housing, health care and support to Chicago community members struggling with poverty and homelessness, they require a dedicated team of staff and volunteers. Two members of this team are Cammeo Medici and Ellen Rosenwinkel. Both started with The Night Ministry on…
Read MoreQ2 2014 Humanist Giving results arrive on the eve of FBB’s conference
Each quarter, Foundation Beyond Belief presents a different and varied slate of beneficiaries that will be the recipients of member donations for that quarter. You can reacquaint yourself with our Q2 2014 featured beneficiaries in this video. 50 Cents. Period. made us aware of the impact of menstruation on women across the world. Greening of…
Read MoreThe Night Ministry tackles poverty and homelessness in Chicago
The Night Ministry, our third-quarter Challenge the Gap beneficiary, provides housing, health care and support to Chicago community members struggling with poverty and homelessness. The Night Ministry was founded in 1976 by a diverse group of congregations and synagogues. Thirty-eight years later, it has grown into a large, secular organization with multiple programs designed to…
Read MoreMeet our third-quarter beneficiaries
It’s time for a new quarter and a new slate of featured beneficiaries! Get to know our new charities for the third quarter of 2014: Human Rights: Footsteps Footsteps is a New York-based organization that helps people from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community leave this insular way of life. Most leave with a limited knowledge…
Read MoreA final look at our second-quarter beneficiaries
Before we say goodbye to our second-quarter beneficiaries, take another look at these great organizations and the work they’re doing to make the world a better place. Poverty and Health: 50 Cents. Period. Menstruation Matters was the rallying cry—and Twitter hashtag—for the first ever Menstrual Hygiene Day held on May 28, 2014, and 50 Cents.…
Read MoreBJC uses litigation as a tool for First Amendment rights
The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, our second-quarter Challenge the Gap beneficiary, works to both protect the free exercise of religion and to support the institutional separation of church and state. To this end, Baptist Joint Committee Office of the General Counsel advocates for religious liberty through its involvement in church-state litigation. BJC files…
Read MoreBaptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty encourages self-advocacy
The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, our second-quarter Challenge the Gap beneficiary, provides education about and advocacy for religious liberty. Comprised of representatives from fifteen national, state and regional bodies in the United States, BJC works with coalitions of religious and civil liberties groups to both protect the free exercise of religion and to…
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