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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

percent of people in the United States were poor or low-income (earning between poverty-line income and twice that amount) in 2018. An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. And homelessness is rising. Theoharis is among this group.

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No Wonder Retention of Online Donors is So Bad

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Southern Poverty Law Center sent me one email in April asking for a renewal. I have received no online communication at all from the American Heart Association (they sent one piece of direct mail, but I think I get it every year) or the National Military Family Association. One direct mail ask.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision. Yet, replicating this transformation in many other hotels in New York did not lower the number of homeless people.

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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

The Kindful Blog

Mission: Helping Women Period is committed to supplying menstrual health products to people that menstruate who are either homeless or low-income. Mission: WINS (Women In Need Society) is Calgary’s homegrown thrift charity founded in 1992 to provide basic needs to women in poverty and their families. Impacting: Poverty.

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How to Advance Housing Affordability—The Ongoing Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Throughout the United States, the housing crisis is more evident than ever, indicated by record homelessness numbers and the sky-high cost of rent. Housing affordability is the lowest the National Association of Home Builders has seen since it began tracking the numbers over a decade ago. Home prices rose 20.6

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How to Make Guaranteed Income Work: Ten Lessons from Newark, New Jersey

NonProfit Quarterly

In contrast, guaranteed income gives cash to people living below the poverty line or with inconsistent or no income and entails a qualifying process. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King advocated for guaranteed income as the simplest and most effective solution to poverty. Though related to universal basic income (UBI), it is not the same.

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How to Use Networking Events to Find New Donors for Your Non-Profit

Joe Garecht

For example, the staff of a non-profit that is working to end homelessness may attend conferences, roundtables, and other events that attract donors who care about poverty and homelessness. In that strategy, your organization is hosting events, and inviting people to attend to hear about your mission.