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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

Image: “ In Communion with Dorian” by Renée Laprise/ [link] Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.” 1 These populations often face heightened exposure to environmental hazards such as rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and air pollution.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

The water crisis in Jackson is also part of a larger set of interconnected injustices that reveal the complexity of environmental racism. In that same year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found the city had at least 2,300 unauthorized sanitary sewer overflows in the previous five years.

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4 Key Lessons Nonprofits Should Learn from Businesses

Ann Green

Although nonprofits and businesses seem different, they share many similarities. Discover lessons nonprofits can learn from their for-profit counterparts here. Certain strategies apply to organizations in both industries—and nonprofits can experience major benefits from following in the footsteps of certain successful businesses.

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How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

NonProfit Quarterly

Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.

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Why Aren’t Heat and Wildfire Smoke Called Disasters?

NonProfit Quarterly

Temperatures are rising and so are the accidents and illnesses associated with them: burns, heatstroke, heat syncope , rashes, and heat exhaustion. But neither extreme heat nor wildfire smoke are currently considered response-worthy disasters by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Number of deaths?

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Walmart Heirs Bet Big on Journalism

NonProfit Quarterly

Thirteen years ago, fewer than a dozen digital news nonprofits led the charge to shift news to a nonprofit model. Now, there are more than 400 digital news nonprofits nationwide , supported by an ever-growing coalition of philanthropies that include the Walton charities.

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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), this destabilization can lead to “cumulative community stress, increases in poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and forced migration.” They may lose their homes. When tornadoes struck Tennessee—unusual for December and with little to no warning—multiple people died.

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