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The Problem of Clothing Donations in LA and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

A city still traumatized by active wildfire warnings , daunted by the massive cleanup and yearslong recovery the fires will require, doesnt need to become a de facto dump. In 2020, NPQ reported on research published in Environmental Health ,which found that approximately 85 percent of the clothing Americans consume, nearly 3.8

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Boston Nonprofit: Rewards of Cause Marketing are Absolut

Selfish Giving

Under the agreement, CRC will receive a $50,000 gift from Absolut that the Boston-based environmental group will use for programs that are generally difficult to fund. Environmental causes are very popular right now. But she’s thrilled they did. I told her I thought it would.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. These wins include requiring the U.S.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on istock.com The ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS, is about the lack of access to clean water and the way a community’s health and wellbeing are impacted when this vital resource is unavailable, but there are other crucial factors at play.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

generate social or environmental returnor doing wellthat is: make a financial return. There are indeed many investments where social or environmental goals dont harm earnings (and, arguably, even improve earnings). Activating these funding streams will be challenging but not impossible.

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A Collective, People-Centered Approach to Conservation Until the early 2000s, fortress conservationsetting up private conservation areas, displacing local and Indigenous groups, and violating their human rightswas the predominant strategy in the environmental field. Its also working via partners to catalyze the model across the Pan-Amazon.