Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Most of them rely on rainfed agriculture, leaving them open to shocks like droughts and storms that can wipe out their crops and leave them without enough food to see their families through the year. The challenge is that carbon markets weren't designed to work for people in poverty. Astoundingly, only 1.7 Smallholder Agroforestry.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 126

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

We would love to qualify for funding for education, agriculture, electricity, fresh water, and jobs creation. We cannot achieve our mission of sustainability and creating opportunities to pull themselves from abject poverty. Help us help the world.

Volunteerism 55

Volunteerism Volunteerism Healthcare Agriculture 55

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts. Even where work requirements do lead to increases in employment, they mostly keep people in poverty. In some cases, the share of families living in deep poverty increased.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 133

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

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

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. ” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. In India, many large-scale cooperatives have been thriving over time.

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism. In this community, poverty remains a challenge: 16.4 percent of families live below the poverty line, a poverty rate more than six percentage points higher than Seattle.

Community Development 131

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 131

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 116

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Education 116

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 115

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 115

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

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 116

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 116

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

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

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

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. Vision statement: We seek a world of hope, inclusion, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security. Hire staff members According to the Health of the U.S.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2024

Image credit: DOERS on istockphoto.com Studies of climate change impacts “have largely focused on physical health,” according to a policy brief issued in summer 2022 by the World Health Organization (WHO). And as the climate crisis continues, whose mental health is most at risk? They may lose their homes.

Health 111

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 111

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 129

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 129

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. For many Americans, the term rural elicits simplified imagery of people and places—primarily White, living in small towns, focused on agriculture, and impoverished. What do you picture when you think of rural?

Poverty 116

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 116

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. In 1996, when the law was enacted, 68 percent of families with children living in poverty received welfare; in 2019, it was 19.5

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 122

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

In 2022, the Center’s Population and Sustainability program looked at the environmental threats that are putting reproductive health and justice at risk. In 2022, the Center’s Population and Sustainability program looked at the environmental threats that are putting reproductive health and justice at risk.

Agriculture 97

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 97

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

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

JANUARY 4, 2024

These successes transformed our agricultural practices, so that rather than relying on large commercial farms, regenerative farming practices gained prominence, creating food sovereignty. Public resources flowed into health and human services, gender-affirming care, and equitable housing.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 132

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. million girls from completing their education each year.”

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI 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? However, health innovation, when narrowly defined as the application of technologies, often overlooks the broader socioeconomic contexts in which it is deployed.

Health 94

Health Technology Healthcare Medical 94

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, youth activists and organizers continue to be outspoken, recognizing that the climate crisis continues to worsen, exacerbated by such concurring injustices as poverty and wealth inequality, authoritarianism, and genocide. 15 Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress. It was sobering.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Take healthcare: 15 percent of white men surveyed stated that their employer contributes to health insurance, compared to only 8 percent of Black women. Discrimination affects wages, benefits, and working conditions and exacerbate differences in health and wealth accordingly.

Law 111

Law Healthcare Agriculture Manufacturing 111

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. Typically, we say that the American Dream ideology individualizes and pathologizes poverty. He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing. This man has to ward off the specter of elder poverty by becoming a landlord.

Manufacturing 144

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 144

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You can also find his podcast and course on wealth and poverty here. Public Health: Your Local Epidemiologist by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina – Dr. Katelyn Jetelina – Dr. Katelyn has a Master’s degree in public health and a Ph.D. He is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers and a former Bernie Sanders surrogate.

Communication 121

Communication Nonprofits Food Health 121