Profile - Smita Conjeevaram ’85 was born in Mumbai at a time when a college degree for Indian daughters was generally a means to one end: A marriage arranged by her family.

Profile - Sixteen-hour work days? Jeremy Baldi ’09 loves them—as long as he’s spending them working for himself.

Profile Why would a man who graduated cum laude with three job offers accept the one that didn’t quite match either of his two Butler University degrees?

Profile - Exploring potential colleges, Amy Wierenga ’01 discovered she had too many interests for most.

Profile - “I’m nearing the five-year mark in my industry, and the opportunities I’ve been given at such a young age have been extraordinary.”

I produce newsletter stories, blog posts and email around a theme each month.

Major Austin newspaper

Promoting new university program. Story accompanied email series.

Machines that could copy and analyze DNA existed when Amanda Pratt was taking college biology classes, though getting one into the classrooms was unheard of. Determined not to keep such an exciting learning tool from her own students, Pratt — now a high school science teacher — recruited the Downriver West, Michigan, Kiwanis Club to make a dream come true.

The sun shines 361 days a year on the Pinellas peninsula, situated between Tampa Bay, Florida, and the Gulf of Mexico. The area draws enough tourists to fill 5 million hotel beds. But the sun that tans those tourists also beats down on the 4,019 area students who are homeless.

Mission Capital equips mission-driven organizations to advance equity and opportunity.

Mission Capital, in partnership with The New Philanthropists, is bringing back its Board Summit. The goal: to help Central Texas nonprofits develop diverse boards for more effective and representative leadership.

This press release earned a congratulatory call from Dale Chihuly studios. (Image by Bryan Ohno licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.)

Online feature - Civil rights/racial discrimination is the social issue of most concern to young adult Americans, according to a new research study – and they trust nonprofits to correct the injustices. [I wrote the report from client's research and this article.]

A Virginia club eases transitions for children in foster care.

On day one in combat, this veteran demonstrated the style of leadership she’s still known for.

Dena Dupuie of Austin wound her way through piles of trash filling the small mobile home. Though she’d been in many foster care homes, this was one of the worst. “I was taken aback. I could hardly walk through the house,” she said. “You know why? Because they couldn’t afford $45 a month for trash pickup.”

Most of us get a TB test some time in our lives, and we go on our merry way, assuming it will be negative. We don’t know how lucky we are.