Jennifer Oakley

What do you do when you want to celebrate Thanksgiving but live in a land where the holiday is not recognized? For longtime Houstonians Kelly and Larry Labanowski that was never an issue … until their daughter Caroline moved to London four years ago. What’s happened since has changed their annual family’s holiday into a most treasured and highly anticipated annual expat Thanksgiving. It all started with a phone call.

When Paige and Harrison Messer were planning their January 2025 wedding, they knew that flowers were going to be an integral part of their celebration. (Full disclosure here: I am the mother of the bride.) As the big day arrived, along with it came the roses, ranunculi, tulips, and hydrangeas of their dreams draping their chuppah, framing the doorways, gracing tabletops, and hanging from the ballroom ceiling.

Burnout within nonprofit organization staff is a growing concern within the sector, as seen in the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s new research, State of Nonprofits 2024: What Funders Need to Know.