Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Details: This programs was the brainchild of Chris Mann , the former associate manager, brand marketing at New Balance (who’s now a hotshot account director at Cone ) who wanted to further educate NB customers and store employees about his company’s support for Komen for the Cure. Program: Purple with a Purpose.

Marketing 260

Marketing Marketing Food Agriculture 260

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

We would love to qualify for funding for education, agriculture, electricity, fresh water, and jobs creation. Kelly Boyett from Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange Expanding access to mental health resources, counseling, and crisis intervention. Help us help the world.

Volunteerism 55

Volunteerism Volunteerism Healthcare Agriculture 55

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

Health 95

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 95

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 15, 2024

Three goals that stand out with especially strong potential to be transformed by AI are SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), SDG 4 (Quality Education), and SDG 13 (Climate Action). As such, this series focuses on how AI-powered nonprofits are transforming the climate, health care, and education sectors.

Curriculum and Teaching 144

Curriculum and Teaching Health Education Education 144

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. This is not insignificant.

Production 132

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Education 132

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 126

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 126

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the face of so much loss and opposition, asset reallocation can be a powerful tool for achieving self-determination for Black farmers and Black agricultural communities. Federal legislation and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have long blocked these goals. Self-Determination and Land Justice.

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Agriculture Food Public and Social Policy 131

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

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. How can urban agriculture not only promote healthy food but further community agency and economic self-sufficiency?

Food 119

Food Agriculture Philanthropy Culture 119

Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I providing training in agriculture and health! Each bag of coffee makes a difference, and together we are investing in the lives of real people to make a lasting change in the quality of their future. Yes, the second paragraph is one impossibly long sentence. But what a sentence! I am helping women and children eat better.

Agriculture 110

Agriculture Fundraising Fundraising Health 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Research in 2021 from the Farmer Income Lab —a “think-do tank” founded by the multinational company Mars and comprised of companies, NGOs, and civil society organizations— estimated that up to 70 percent of farmers in agricultural supply chains may be living below the global poverty line of $3.20

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This exclusion had consequences not just for the posterity of Black families, but for Black health. The cooperative, which sought Black self-sufficiency, offered affordable housing, entrepreneurial opportunities, and education to tenant farmers, as well as a pig bank and access to fresh produce to feed families living in poverty.

Food 132

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is instead an exercise in liberating the constructs of creativity from being the prerogative of the Western, masculine, or the allegedly educated, while reclaiming what rural women of India have championed for thousands of years. This is a lesson for other cooperative initiatives to prioritize building resilience into their operations.

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

The rapid decline of Black and Indigenous land stewardship has devastated our capacity to grow and harvest our own food, which has contributed to a lack of access to healthy, affordable, culturally significant foods, and other negative health disparities (including mental, emotional, and spiritual health).

Finance 138

Finance Food Agriculture Governance 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Missing Middle Agriculture is a central economic pillar in rural communities, especially in developing countries. In some developing countries, up to two-thirds of the population are employed in agriculture, a sector that can account for more than 25 percent of GDP. But how and where? Is external financing available? Affordable?

Finance 121

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 121

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 126

Food Agriculture Economic Issues Children 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 25, 2024

Doing so holds the promise for inclusive and sustainable growth for more than half the world’s population.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Governance Agriculture Activism 145

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Most recipients with significant barriers to employment—including disability, lack of education, or lack of available jobs—don’t find employment due to work requirements. They also don’t help people gain the necessary education and skills to achieve stable employment. billion per year.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 133

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The total giving to date has been consistent with four priorities outlined by Scott in establishing the fund: Education, Equity & Justice, Economic Security & Opportunity, and Health. Comparing 2023 to prior years, giving to health increased, for example, while giving to education and arts and culture decreased.

Race and Ethnicity 85

Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy Education Education 85

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Notably, in rural counties that suffer from the most acute loss of branches, residents had lower incomes, lower levels of education, and were more likely to be Black than in other rural counties. A Long-Term Investment in Rural Health Another critical need is access to healthcare. GMHC is a Black-led, federally qualified health center.

Values 130

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 130

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

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. Sometimes by momentarily slowing down, we can ultimately speed up to achieve our goals.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Seeking to address the root causes of food insecurity in its own backyard, the Anthem Foundation (a philanthropic arm of the major Indianapolis-based health insurance company, Anthem, Inc. ), funded the initiative with a $2.45 These ideals and beliefs are built into how EFAI works. million grant to LISC Indianapolis.

Food 111

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 111

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 4, 2015

According to a report issued by the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, rural-based organizations received just 5.5 percent) when grants that benefit rural purposes, including rural development, rural health and agriculture, are included. The number improves slightly (to 6.2

Agriculture 59

Agriculture Governance Foundations Values 59

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Learn how the UBS Optimus Foundation used OutcomesX, a social impact marketplace that converts social impact into “verified impact units,” to support education and mental health nonprofits serving children in Ukraine. Subscribe to SSIR here.)

Public and Nonprofit Management 81

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Agriculture Finance 81

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. Food co-ops must collaborate with those addressing systemic racism, health equity, and economic justice. Notes See also L.

Food 111

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 111

Candid

JUNE 27, 2024

Women are disproportionately affected in areas including health care, sustainable agriculture, forced displacement, economic development, literacy, democracy, and mass incarceration While efforts that ignore gender will be limited in effectiveness, those that address gender likely will have ripple effects into other areas.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Poverty Health Leadership 52

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. The owners pride themselves on carrying specialty items from Thailand and Cambodia.

Community Development 131

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 131

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. JOB SUMMARY AIM is seeking a highly skilled Director of Finance to join our team.

Finance 52

Finance Non-Profits Agriculture Food 52

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 7, 2025

you can verify licenses through your states Department of Agriculture or a similar governing body. If you have kids, pets, or health concerns, ask about their treatment methods and safety measures. Pest control involves chemicals and treatments that must be handled correctly. In the U.S., How do they minimize harm to the environment?

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Agriculture Environmental Governance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Yet, all too often, their investments inadvertently exacerbate inequitable power dynamics in communities, reinforcing existing disparities and underlying health and wealth-building challenges. Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders.

Food 122

Food Finance Community Development Culture 122

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 19, 2023

Imagine talking about a decline in agriculture but not talking about farmers. Multi-cultural and multilingual donor education is desperately needed. By Armando Zumaya While I have seen a great many articles on the decline in charitable giving, it is striking how rarely the work of fundraising itself is mentioned as part of the problem.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Culture Agriculture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

All this water theft had an adverse impact not only on local agriculture but also on the lives and livelihoods of local communities. We do regular plumbing checks and also educate people, especially domestic staff, to not leave the taps running when they work, to ensure water wastage is minimized,” says Podar. None of them can work. “My

Law 124

Law Non-Profits Governance Management 124

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Why Families are Packing Up and Moving to Nicaragua Imagine waking up to the sound of waves crashing on pristine shores, sipping coffee grown just miles away from your new home, all while your kids enjoy a top-notch education. Education Costs Education is another area where families can save. Sounds like a dream, right?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Children Education Education 52