Carol Wick, CEO, Sharity Last week: SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY: A military survey found 20,000 service members experienced sexual assault last year. A CBS News investigation revealed significant numbers were retaliated against. Nowhere is the “permissive” culture...

Carol Wick, CEO, Sharity Last week: GO, NONPROFITS! In the face of surging demand, from COVID-response to food banks to shelters, our nonprofits performed valiantly in 2020. Given that most nonprofits are without rainy-day funds in such a grueling financial year, I’m...

Carol Wick, CEO, Sharity Last week: VICTIM-SERVICE CUTS: The appropriations bill released in the U.S. Senate that funds the Department of Justice (DOJ) contains a devastating 40% cut ($1.1 billion) to the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA). Last year, the non-taxpayer-funded...

Carol Wick, CEO, Sharity Last week: HARRIS MAKES HISTORY: One hundred years after some women won the right to vote, Kamala Harris gave her first speech to the nation as vice president-elect. Harris – who’ll be the first female, first Black woman, and first Asian...

Carol Wick, CEO, Sharity Last week: RAPE KIT TRACKING: An African American mother was raped with her child in the next room. She called the police and they collected DNA. But, instead of testing it, the police put the rape kit on a shelf for three decades until...

Carol Wick, CEO, Sharity Last week: WOMEN AT WORK: A recent “Women in the Workplace” study found that one in four women are considering leaving the workforce or “downshifting” their careers due to COVID-19. Women of color and senior-level women (an already...

Carol Wick, CEO, Sharity Last week: EDIFYING COLUMBUS: President Trump issued a proclamation celebrating Columbus Day and the explorer’s enduring “legacy” and “discovery.” Not only is Trump’s history wrong, but he’s whitewashing a murderer who committed genocide...

Carol Wick, CEO, Sharity Last week: HELPING NONPROFITS: Amid unprecedented suffering and increased demand for services, helping nonprofits has never been more urgent. Throughout COVID-19, nonprofits have stepped up in extraordinary ways, as community foundations,...

Carol Wick, CEO, Sharity Last week: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DATA: Domestic violence arguably has the nation’s worst data collection of any crime. What’s worse in Florida, FDLE’s failure to meet the deadlines of a 2018 law — promising to make “Florida’s criminal justice...

Carol Wick, CEO, Sharity Last week: We lost an American hero, a pioneer, and a relentless voice in the pursuit of equal justice under law. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg proved not all superheros wear capes; some wear robes and signature collars. The personification of...