Rocco Basile

I found this article in the Asian newswire, with the headline - "Vatican: Pope: Charity can not be reduced to philanthropy, it must always express God's providential love." I believe this is a really good point. As you know I cover topics like this in my website www.roccobasile.net. apparently when Benedict XVI visited the "Don Orione Center” in Rome this morning, blessed the statue of Madonna that had been restored and re-installed after a storm. more »

Rocco Basile and guest of honor Gweneth Paltrow at Children of the City gala fundraiser. more »

This week in Denver Colorado is the annual Council on Foundations, where speakers like Author Chip Heath urged foundation officials to turn their burgeoning interest in measuring outcomes and effectiveness toward “finding the bright spots.” He co-authored with his brother Dan, a book called Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard. I was reasearching the latest news on the council in order to add new reference infomation to my website www.roccobasile.net more »

The number of children with what is known as autism spectrum disorders has increased dramatically recently. Nationally, the rate of diagnosed cases of autism spectrum disorders has almost doubled in the last ten years. Some people believe that is partly due to an increase in public awareness and recognition of the disorder. more »

According to a recent report on the 2010 State of the Nonprofit Sector only 18 percent of the more than 1,300 nonprofit leaders surveyed expect their organizations to end 2010 in the black. While in 2009, 35 percent of organizations ended the year with an operating surplus. 61 percent of those organizations surveyed have less than three months of cash available, and 12 percent have no cash. (Source: The Foundation Center.) One charity known as Children of the City in Sunset Park near Brooklyn, New York, however, is not suffering at all since the recession. It is growing, according to one of its board members, Rocco Basile, who has been affiliated with the charity for a number of years. In fact he even has a website devoted to nonprofits at http://www.roccobasile.net/ more »