Nonprofits

This year marks a decade since The Ocean Cleanup was founded by then 18-year-old inventor Boyan Slat of the Netherlands.

Now in its 10th year, Giving Tuesday was created to encourage donations to causes that will better one’s community.

As the pandemic and all its uncertainties stick around, North Carolina small business owners and nonprofits continue looking out for each other.

Feeling my muscles push, breathing hard, time – all things I took for granted before ALS. Never again. Now I race to feel alive.

“I’ll finish, but I don’t know when,” I told the race director of the Ramblin’ Rose Chapel Hill triathlon in 2014. “Feel free to pack everything up.”

Do you know your dirndl from your Berliner? If not, you will after attending the 5th Annual Triangle Oktoberfest, Oct. 19 and 20 at Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre. Organized by the Apex Sunrise and Cary MacGregor Rotary Clubs, this popular event raises funds for local and national charities, including the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

CBS’ Steve Hartman goes On the Road with Kayla McKeon, Manager of Grassroots Advocacy for the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) and the first registered lobbyist with Down syndrome.

When you’re given 2-5 years to live, how do you decide to spend that time? That question has keenly interested me ever since I was diagnosed with ALS in 2014.

I arrived at the All American Marathon in Fayetteville cold, wet and undertrained. The half-marathon was my first race of 2018, despite ALS.

When Andrea Lytle Peet was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2014 at age 33, she knew she didn’t have time to waste. ALS is a neurological disease that typically leads to death within two to five years.

Ten-year-old Hunter loves to play outside on his family’s large property in Clayton. He was also born with a skeletal malformation that has resulted in many surgeries. Still, he longed to bike around outside.

Join the Salvation Army of Greater Charlotte and give back this Christmas. Throughout the holiday season, there are many ways to get involved and help out your community:

A Place at the Table is a pay-what-you-can nonprofit cafe opening at 300 W. Hargett St. in downtown Raleigh at the end of December.

Asheville’s Habitat for Humanity ReStore will soon be selling Guatemalan roast coffee from Dynamite Roasting Co., a Black Mountain, NC-based artisan roaster of 100 percent certified-organic and fair-trade coffee.

Homelessness may seem insurmountable, but The Hope Center at Pullen is making progress in getting and keeping young adults off the streets.

I’m not sure I ever fully understood the concept of “getting more than you give” until I started volunteering with The Miracle League of the Triangle, a baseball league for children with special needs.

When you think of hunger, do you think of children affected in your own community?

#GivingTuesday launched in 2012 as a counterbalance to the consumerism surrounding retail-based “holidays” like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This global day of giving encourages donations of money or time to various philanthropies. It’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars since its inception. Want to start your own fundraiser?

The USO at Raleigh-Durham International Airport is an independent nonprofit operated by volunteers. Its goal is to serve all troops stationed in or traveling through North Carolina, from Marines to “Coasties,” and their families.

Heard of Ataxia? No, it’s not a foreign cab. It’s a group of often fatal, degenerative neurological disorders. Approximately 150,000 people in the US are affected.

Virtual reality technology is evolving from its use in movies and video games. Nonprofit organizations have recognized the potential it has and are taking action.