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2024 Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

NonProfit Leadership Center

Cost: $30-100 LEARN MORE For the Little Ones: Tavi the Elephant For the little ones on your list, consider the multi-sensory plush elephant, Tavi, from Hukama, that helps children reduce anxiety and fear. These candles were created with input from foster children and volunteers.

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Newsletter: Selfish Giving + You: 2025 is Our Year! ; Retail Winners and Losers of 2024 ; How Jimmy Carter Made Habitat a Nonprofit Giant

Selfish Giving

Big Lots Big Lots conducts annual in-store fundraising campaigns to support On Our Sleeves , a movement focused on children's mental health. In addition to customer donations, Big Lots and the Big Lots Foundation made a multi-year commitment of $50 million to support Nationwide Children's Hospital. Cool Jobs in Cause 1.

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Being Outside: The Importance of Centering Black Leadership in the Climate Justice Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Black children have been brought up in a system that perpetuates a predominantly White, heteronormative narrative around who stewards and cares for outdoor spaces. Perhaps our activism can change when we think of ourselves as part of the overall ecosystem rather than separate from it. Activism is healing for many of us.

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2023 Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

NonProfit Leadership Center

Petersburg, Florida, the Museum serves as an active resource in the cultural life of the community and world. Proceeds from the sale of tees (and related car decals) help people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless access the food and supplies they need to keep and continue caring for their beloved pets. Located in St.

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A Growing Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level. Confronting a history of exclusion.

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Slow Food Wants to Bring Justice, Education, and Joy to the Food Experience

NonProfit Quarterly

Currently, over a third of Americans spend 10 percent of their annual income on fast food and consume such food daily. The Slow Food movement emerged from a protest in Italy during the 1980s against a major fast-food chain’s expansion near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Slow Food’s Principles and Practices.

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Young, Queer, and Threatened for Climate Activism

NonProfit Quarterly

In food or water shortages and in housing emergencies sons tend to be given preference over daughters and husbands over wives. And when fleeing climate disasters, men at times leave women and children behind. The majority of these will be women and children. Activism is about survival.” It was all there.

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