Our Nonprofits

It’s homecoming day at the University of Wisconsin and there may be no time or place to better witness the remarkable role a college union can play in building community and inspiring a generation of future leaders.

Catholic Charities USA's mission is to provide service for people in need, to advocate for justice in social structures, and to call the entire Church and other people of good will to do the same.

What we all need is a sense of hope - knowing someone cares enough to share the struggle. That kind of caregiver can be found at California's Mental Health Outreach Program.

The collapse of the Soviet Union has meant many things to the nation of Ukraine. Independence can be a double-edged sword.

This episode of The Visionaries begins with an extraordinary event in a small village in West Africa. Rather than celebrating the birth of a child, the residents of Adantia are singing and dancing to rejoice in the prevention of a birth.

Author Edward Everett Hale wrote, "I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but I can do something. Because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something I can do."

"He wasn't to live," said Norma Yorde. "That's the whole thing, he wasn't to live." When Norma and Paul Yorde's only child was born with severe developmental disabilities, this death sentence from the medical community was all that was needed to motivate the young working class couple into rejecting institutionalization and finding another way to care for their son.

Historical societies began to spread beyond the eastern seaboard in the mid to late 19th century, driven primarily by a desire to preserve the culture of a local city or town. The founders of these organizations, who were often educated men from the professional classes, sought to preserve important documents and manuscripts that offered insight into the communities’ roles in important events and relationships with famous people.