NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

The report notes that in their design, the funds vary greatly in terms of asset classes (small business, growth enterprises, real estate); sectors (agriculture, reproductive health, affordable housing, technology); and the size of individual investments (from a few thousand dollars each, to $1 million or more for a single real estate project) (16).

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 106

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In contrast to systems like energy, transportation, or health care, where expertise is more well defined, food expertise tends to be irrefutable, requiring no advanced degree or professional experience. Finally, imagine the food scraps left over in these community members’ kitchens.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 94

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

How Agrivoltaics Helps the Climate Crisis Agrivoltaics, also known as agrovoltaics or dual-use solar farming, is a sustainable agricultural practice that combines crop cultivation with solar panels on the same piece of land. Amidst this adversity, however, the pioneering solution of agrivoltaics offers hope for farmers and the environment.

Health 120

Health Agriculture Energy Nonprofit governance and management 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

CLARIFI has so far committed $14 million in direct funding to 88 projects led by rightsholder organizations working to limit deforestation on lands often in the crosshairs of the mining, agriculture, and timber industries. billion for this work over five years to consolidate otherwise fragmented financing streams.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Finance Collaborations 111

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 11, 2025

Green Your Detox: Eco-Conscious Foods and Habits for a Clean Liver Detoxifying the liver is essential for maintaining overall health, as this organ plays a crucial role in filtering toxins from the body, processing nutrients, and supporting metabolic functions. But did you know that you can support liver health in an eco-conscious way?

Food 52

Food Agriculture Environmental Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

14 However, human activities such as burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, landfills, toxic agricultural practices, and transportation have increased the natural rate of these gases in the atmosphere. Educational institutions and industry leaders must actively work to dismantle systemic racism. degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.36

Race and Ethnicity 111

Race and Ethnicity Environmental Education Education 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. The delta is a largely rural, agricultural area with a troubled history of racial and economic disparities.

Food 127

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 127

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2023

In this Remaking the Economy webinar, participants discussed the many interconnections between food sovereignty, racial and economic justice, health justice, climate justice, and community building. On this panel, the authors expand on their arguments and engage in active conversations with each other.

Food 120

Food Agriculture Philanthropy Culture 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Between 2016 and 2019 , nearly half of global giving by US foundations went to health, while environment and human rights accounted for roughly 11 percent each, followed by agriculture and education. There are many reasons why foundations structure their giving in this way.

Production 132

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Education 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It directly limits future growth and also makes it harder for the cooperative to borrow sufficiently to finance its day-to-day activities or operating expenses. The Missing Middle Agriculture is a central economic pillar in rural communities, especially in developing countries. Active involvement in the governance of the investee.

Finance 121

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Besides perpetual food insecurity, many are unable to access or cover basic health services, housing, transportation, water and sanitation, or education. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 130

Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The first line seemed boring corporate speak: Our team at Westrock Coffee strongly believes it is critical to take an active role to improve the quality of life in the African communities where we buy. I providing training in agriculture and health! You can see it for yourself off to the side here. But what a sentence!

Agriculture 110

Agriculture Fundraising Fundraising Health 110

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Every chapter has the same goal of educating the public but focuses on different food campaigns or activities, such as the Slow Food USA “Plant a Seed” campaign to plant rare, diverse seeds. Each of our organizations are really place based,” said Blish. Today, most people are no longer directly involved in food production.

Food 116

Food Education Education Agriculture 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 25, 2024

This removes the hurdles that lower-income and marginalized communities face by bringing them under the banking and government services ambit, empowering them to become more active entrepreneurial agents. In developed economies, where pre-existing bank accounts and prior online activity are widespread, this is a far simpler process.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Governance Agriculture Activism 145

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Center works with a combination of science, law, activism, and creative media to protect the lands, waters, and climate that people, wildlife, and all types of communities and ecosystems need to survive. But these farmers were also fighting to preserve human-scale, diverse farms, where they could earn a living wage.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO), over 1.6 With its economy heavily dependent on rain-fed agriculture, which employs over 80 percent of the population , the country is vulnerable to external shocks, including climate-related ones.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Food Production Poverty 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? And its extremely easy to use AI tools to find patterns in that kind of activity.

Nonprofit governance and management 99

Nonprofit governance and management Technology Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 99

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With 65 percent of the population living in rural areas, agriculture is increasingly feminized where women perform 80 percent of farm work. Women are seeing an increase in income and are able to send their children to school, access health care, acquire more land, and diversify their earnings through other small businesses.

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

To expand equity and access, we’ve built relationships with US Department of Agriculture food insecurity support programs, such as SNAP ( Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program , also known as “food stamps”) and WIC ( Women, Infants & Children ), ensuring vouchers are available at the market. The future of Black food sovereignty.

Food 127

Food Agriculture Economic Issues Children 127

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

Our next 10-year vision, set in 2020, will see us impact 10 million farmers, predominantly through a systems change model that works alongside public, private and NGO actors in key agricultural systems. We need to see more public-private funding partnerships as part of, and to follow, big bets.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Jarrod Vassallo , Sourindra Banerjee & Jaideep Prabhu Spanning 12,500 hectares, the East Kolkata Wetlands in India serves multiple purposes, from fish farming, agriculture, and rice cultivation to functioning as the world’s largest wastewater-fed aquaculture system. Consider these examples.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Construction Culture Manufacturing 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

3 During and after climate disasters, access to such essential services as women’s and girls’ mental and physical healthcare overall is often severely constrained, 4 and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including maternal care, becomes limited or stops altogether. In El Salvador, activists face a very hostile environment.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. pollinator gardens) into areas under commercial, residential, agricultural, or other uses can offer meaningful benefits.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Consider, for example, that most government health systems leave billions behind : half of health facilities in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, for example, lack reliable electricity, while 12-15 percent have no electricity at all. All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

MNA Association

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s hard to pin down the cause of these perceptions, but as a group they threaten the health of our sector and the operability of your missions. There were remarkable and numerous attempts to make litigation a non-charitable activity which would then be taxed. Perception 1: “The tax-exempt status of nonprofits is unfair.”

Public Policy 98

Public Policy Taxation Public and Nonprofit Management Agriculture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

To make matters worse, work requirements actively punish working people and create conditions where they are less likely to be (continually) employed. These costs come from increased spending on worsened health, increased child welfare system expenditures, and lost tax revenues due to worse employment outcomes. billion per year.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 136

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Climate Anxiety in Wartime Climate anxiety, as Harvard Health Publishing defines it, relates to the “worries about the effects of climate change. Her climate anxiety now adds to a four-year mental health battle that began when she organized a climate strike in Kyiv in 2019. “I It is not a mental illness.

Environmental 112

Environmental Health Agriculture Children 112

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2024

Termed שמיטה ( shmita , literally “release”) in the Torah, Jewish law mandated that every seven years, all agricultural activity cease: “The land must be given a rest period, a sabbath to God” (Leviticus 25: 1–7). Another respondent talked about “nursing themselves” back to health. Today, sabbaticals have spread broadly.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Activism Leadership 119

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The development includes a four-story building of 86 family-oriented affordable housing units, as well as a space for health clinics, young adult education, and youth engagement run by social services and nonprofit organizations. This relationship-oriented approach allowed space for grieving losses caused both by the pandemic and the fires.

Community Development 131

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The number of countries and companies that have made commitments to transition their activities to net-zero emissions has increased dramatically. A step-up in adaptation activities—including increasing the preparedness of the groups most impacted by climate change—is essential, and innovation is an important component of success.

Insurance 105

Insurance Finance Production Agriculture 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

Termed “The Walkers,” these newly migrant individuals and families found security in rural communities that were able to feed everyone throughout the shutdown, using traditional agricultural practices.

Leadership 122

Leadership Culture Poverty Public and Social Policy 122

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It does not surprise, then, that Black neighborhoods face health disparities relative to their white neighbors, with marked differences in rates of infant mortality, asthma, gun violence, and life expectancy. The current Louisville co-op organizing effort is committed to BIPOC leadership, a departure from earlier food activism practices.

Food 112

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 112

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As the parents to four young children, it’s been important to us to improve pediatric health care and neonatal intensive care so every newborn baby in our state has the best chance at a healthy life. In 2020, Carmen and I were privileged to contribute $4 million to help bring the upgraded neonatal intensive care unit to Bozeman Health.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 98

Anedot

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Location: San Rafael, CA Hours: Full-time, salaried, exempt status Salary Range: $95,004 – $122,148 BACKGROUND The Agricultural Institute of Marin is an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Rafael, California. Oversee all bookkeeping, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and cash management activities.

Finance 52

Finance Non-Profits Agriculture Food 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

The organizations are improving water and sanitation access, education quality, food security, and health equity, and a large majority take systems change approaches to their work. Together, they address food security challenges related to climate change, land tenure, and agriculture productivity that smallholder farmers face.

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Food 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

They develop rural and urban agriculture projects, offer leases for commercial spaces that serve local communities, support affordable rental and cooperative housing projects, conserve land for environmental preservation purposes, and maintain urban green spaces. CLTs serve many purposes.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Community Development Governance Agriculture 116