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I’m impacted by the winter storm crisis. But I still choose to help.
Our disaster response for the US winter weather crisis is fueled by humanist and atheist volunteers living in the impacted areas. But they themselves are facing difficulties from the disaster. Power outages. Lack of water. Broken pipes. Faced with some of these challenges, a lot of people would probably forgo volunteering and focus on self-preservation.…
Read MoreIt Takes a Village
This blog entry comes to us from Atheists of Polk County, a Florida-based volunteer group that is part of the Beyond Belief Network: is a collective of nonreligious clubs putting compassionate humanism into action through community service. On an otherwise nondescript Saturday morning in April, a text from Kathy Dobson (a fairly new friend and…
Read MoreHelp now: Tropical Cyclone Kenneth flattens entire villages in Mozambique and Comoro Islands
The essence of Humanist giving is helping regions that need it the most. Often this means countries like Mozambique, which are lesser developed and covered less frequently in the press when natural disasters devastate their communities. Last month, we alerted you to Cyclone Idai, hitting Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi with widespread damage, fatalities, and mass displacement.…
Read MoreWill you meet the challenge?
Ten Years. Over $3 million in grants awarded to charities around the world. Over 150,000 volunteer hours given to service in local communities. Foundation Beyond Belief is so much more than these numbers. In ten years, we’ve helped rebuild communities devastated after hurricanes, earthquakes, and typhoons. We’ve helped bring hope and independence to women accused of…
Read MoreSquare One Villages begins new community partnership
Square One Villages is once again replicating its innovative solution to homelessness with a new community partnership. Evidence-based studies in many cities across the United States have demonstrated that a housing-first approach to homelessness gives people the security to address other issues that are barriers to their success. Square One Villages launched in Eugene, Oregon in 2013…
Read MorePlight of the village child in education
In my opinion, life without formal education is meaningless. Growing up as a child, my immediate guidance counselors were my parents and the various classroom teachers I had for my formal education. My counselors made me understand that there were several means I could adopt to develop socially, mentally, psychologically, and emotionally. I took to…
Read MoreSquareOne Villages
SquareOne Villages is a collaboration between the housed and the unhoused providing stable, safe, and sustainable places to live through alternative, cost-effective approaches for transitioning the unhoused to more permanent living situations. The villages accommodate about 30 individuals and couples who would otherwise be homeless in small houses built by volunteers. Cooking, gathering space, restrooms, laundry,…
Read MoreStill time to double your impact to FBB on #GivingTuesday
After the Thanksgiving holiday, many look forward to Giving Tuesday as a welcome change of pace after the consumer-driven frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This Giving Tuesday, we urge you to consider supporting Foundation Beyond Belief's Giving Together campaign. If you've already made a contribution to one of our programs this year, you may…
Read MoreWhere witchcraft trials still happen
In the Northern Region of Ghana, Halloween isn’t so much not celebrated as not heard of. The closest I got to celebrating was giving some candy to my Humanist Action: Ghana teammates and watching a scary movie. As the next US holiday follows quickly, I am reminded that these holidays are intimately tied to violently…
Read MoreInnovative Technology Will Enhance Ghana’s Agriculture
It is lovely seeing seven different people from different social, racial, and geographical backgrounds working collectively for a common purpose. People across Ghana and the United States have come to my community in northern Ghana to help with various projects. The Humanist Action: Ghana (HA: Ghana), a Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB) program made this possible. As an HA: Ghana volunteer, I…
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