NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

It is the policy of my Administration to stop funding NGOs that undermine the national interest. Much of the nonprofit sector, already reeling from recent White House maneuvers, appeared to still be taking in the news Friday; but some leaders have already mounted a response to this latest development.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 124

Nonprofit Administration and Development Healthcare Nonprofits Governance 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The students who initially invited him explained that the rejection was due to his parallel activism in queer rights. “I Aidid and Red both feel it would be hard to come out publicly while working in the government sector. But just a few days before the event, Aidid’s invitation was revoked. I did not protest,” says Aidid. “It

Governance 115

Governance Universities Law Healthcare 115

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 7, 2025

Healing the Hood In 2021, Heal the Hood launched one of its first official initiatives, opening a free store that aimed to help lighten the financial burden on families by providing staples, like food and household goods, for free. But the first iteration needed tweaking. A call was put out requesting groceries.

Public and Nonprofit Management 126

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Retail Food 126

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 If we fall short, the money from Louisville’s city-county government could be rescinded. And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. We secured $3.5

Food 110

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This is not to say that communities in these states will not ultimately receive federal support, but in light of the critical role these communities have played in pushing the federal government to acknowledge environmental racism, the initial outcome is disappointing, and it speaks to the need for equity-forward policy implementation.

Energy 124

Energy Environmental Nonprofit governance and management Agriculture 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

For CC, neither certificates nor government designations are needed to certify the group’s ancestral knowledge. When one of us in the community gave birth, we would support the new mother for 40 days in this manner by bringing food. It impacted the local food system in South Phoenix, and many food-based businesses faced closure.

Food 118

Food Health Values Collaborations 118

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The program is financed by YBCL’s youth-governed Youth Futures Fund, which awards funding to young Black leaders working in racial and environmental justice. However, access to resources that enable solutions often requires understaffed and underresourced community-based organizations to jump through unrealistic hoops.

Environmental 130

Environmental Public and Social Policy Health Leadership 130

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

We need co-ops to do the political activity, but we also need the economic activity to make the political activity meaningful. Even the federal government [was] pushing what they called self-help co-ops. But the Ladies Auxiliary was very active and well respected. It is kind of a two-way street. Labor organizer] A.

Food 88

Food Activism Poverty Leadership 88

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As it becomes increasingly evident that high-ranking elected officials, like Trump, are uninterested in addressing the myriad ways poverty violence leads to early deaths , organizations providing critical social services will play an even more crucial role in helping people to access the resources they need when the government falls short.

Poverty 121

Poverty Medical Insurance Healthcare 121

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 25, 2019

Elizabeth Leslie is the Communications Manager for the League of Women Voters of California, a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy. to 2:00 p.m.

Public and Social Policy 190

Public and Social Policy Communication Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 190

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

She has spearheaded innovation in heart and stroke prevention with AHA active in more than 100 countries. Leading the nation’s largest homebuilder, Reckford gathers partners to bring grocery stores to food deserts, medical care to those neighborhoods and he won’t need to be brought up to speed. AHA has invested more than $5.9

Civil Society 85

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Urban development Law 85

Selfish Giving

MARCH 20, 2019

In February, Idaho-based Jackson Food Stores with 230 convenience stores in six western states raised $187,000 for the Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence. NORMS restaurants with just 17 locations in Southern California raised $25,000 for the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Brain Food 1. What's the difference?

Activism 100

Activism Nonprofit governance and management Food Retail 100

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

That would not have been possible without dedicated, active board members. For example, are you starting to consider purchasing a warehouse for your food bank? Effective governance requires a commitment to all aspects of their role, not just the parts that might seem most appealing or convenient.

Ethics 106

Ethics Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Children 106

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been 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.

Food 126

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 126

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 22, 2024

Back in the San Francisco Bay Area where I’m usually based, I work with the Sustainable Economies Law Center to support projects that redistribute wealth, democratize governance, and steward communal resources. Another major change recognized and created frameworks for self-governance, focused on the department (state) and local levels.

Culture 124

Culture Governance Public and Social Policy Values 124

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Climate change, caused primarily by human activity, is driving temperatures up around the world, causing cascading impacts across natural systems. Donors and governments may shift their dollars…to focusing on necessities like food, water, energy, and healthcare. Hailstones are getting bigger and more damaging.

Insurance 129

Insurance Civil Society Healthcare Energy 129

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Then, we’ve been trying to compare the information given by the federal government and the one been given by the Puerto Rico government, which was usually different in terms of the amount of money. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. The wording, the categories of the information.

Governance 139

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 139

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2023

Over the course of our trip, we visited locations across Spain, but here we focus on Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood, a post-industrial working-class community, due to its unique co-op legacy, the community’s social fabric, and its infrastructure and governance. Food co-ops were set up in food deserts.

Governance 137

Governance Culture Food Energy 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But in other ways, it was old news for a country in which 92 percent of total employment is in the informal economy—a category that long predates gig work, and which is defined as any employment where workers lack access to government social and labor protections through their jobs. Some of this story is positive, but much of it is not.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Governance Law Technology 145

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It is jointly governed by members of the Nakoda and Aaniiih nations, and includes a 22,000- acre (over 34,000 square miles) bison reserve, home to a herd of over 500 buffalo. Founded in 1999 and similar in mission to NAEDC, the nonprofit supports ecotourism while also promoting “food sovereignty and ecological stewardship.”

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

Yet it is precisely at this moment, when democracy is being challenged from all sides, and when the limitations of our nearly 250 years of governing are coming to a breaking point, that we must rise up and fulfill this mandate. Trust in government is at near-record lows because none have yet delivered for all. This work is urgent.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 126

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We asked ourselves, “What else can we do if indeed we fundamentally believe that positive health outcomes—positive life outcomes—result from good jobs, good education, safe housing, healthy, affordable foods, and safe, prosperous communities? One HEZ lead is a community health center with multiple sites. Preliminary Signs of Success.

Health 124

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 124

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 20, 2022

When you started your organization, you drafted a set of nonprofit bylaws which are the rules spelling out how your new venture would operate and how your Board would govern it. Simply put, you don’t know what kind of governance rules your nonprofit needs until you are actually operating. The focus should be on governance.

Governance 122

Governance Nonprofits Finance Activism 122

Anedot

MARCH 6, 2025

Specifically, this role will manage the grants calendar, develop grant strategies, and research, write and prepare foundation and government grant applications and funder reports. Develops an annual foundation and government grant strategy that includes cultivation of new funders and development/scaling of existing funder relationships.

Management 40

Management Nonprofit governance and management Health Food 40

Candid

JANUARY 26, 2022

Close to 60 million Americans turned to food banks and food pantries for help after experiencing hunger in the first year of the pandemic. The federal government, meanwhile, estimates that more than 500,000 Americans face homelessness, a number that has risen over the past four years and is likely an undercount. .

Homelessness 124

Homelessness Food Charitable Organizations Governance 124

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 12, 2024

I could elaborate on this, but I don’t define neoliberalism as small government because it isn’t. NF: For the past 50 years, economic policymaking has largely been summed up by three tenets—total faith in the market, zero faith in government, and people left pulling themselves by their bootstraps. Natalie Foster: That’s right.

Public and Social Policy 123

Public and Social Policy Governance Healthcare Insurance 123

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO), over 1.6 Food Production Challenges It is difficult for most households to produce enough food without fertilizer application in Malawi. Shortages and high prices of fertilizer affect the entire food supply chain.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Food Production Poverty 98

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. Combined with the risk profile, the missing middle, particularly in the agri-food sector in the developing world, has been widely underserved. But how and where? Affordable?

Finance 121

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 121

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The Salvation Army is providing food, drinks, shelter, emotional and spiritual care, and other emergency services to hurricane survivors and rescue workers. Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina is mobilizing resources to provide relief to those impacted by the storm. Donate here to provide support. Donate here.

Disaster Relief 111

Disaster Relief Medical Food Activism 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These communities lack access to health care , struggle with food insecurity and water scarcity , and generally have difficulty meeting basic needs. Businesses can bolster existing government health programs through employee policies and leverage their scale to positively influence the public sector. Supply Chains. Investment.

Health 122

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Smallholder farmers produce at least a third of the global food supply. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Though these farms are small, typically under two hectares, their cumulative impact is large.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Following this, the program would require the actors to expand the scale and scope of their productive activities and base of operations, and be willing to forge links with allied forces participating in the broad range of strategic practices associated with the program.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Production 136

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

They’re not sponsored by brands or stores after all—in fact, they’re actively encouraging viewers to resist products and not give their money to stores or to online retailers like Amazon. But many deinfluencers make their videos for reasons other than personal profit. Like Thayer, they are also climate justice activists.

Advertising 124

Advertising Production Retail Food 124

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

As asset owners, all nonprofits—along with institutional investors and foundations—need to address social and environmental issues through balance sheet activism — doing so is critical to meeting both business and mission objectives. Together, these smaller nonprofits have an estimated $22.1

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 126

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 8, 2023

Image Credit: Jorm Sangsorn on istock.com Worldwide, civil society—from NGOs to grassroots activist groups to social movements to unions—is being undermined by global conflict, suppressive governments, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the spread of disinformation.

Civil Society 120

Civil Society Governance Taxation Law 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

For example, our organization, One Acre Fund , supplies over 4 million African smallholder farmers with the finance, supplies, and training to grow more food, plant more trees, and earn more money. percent of climate adaptation finance need of smallholders is currently being met by all actors combined.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119