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Clarios Foundation Pledges $20 Million to Unicef to Improve Environmental Health for Children

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEYLLOU, AFP, Getty Images Since 2013, smallholders in Senegal have been learning farming practices adapted to climate changes. billion Gates Foundation grant will expand such climate-related help across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

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Parents Are in Crisis: A Developmental Framework Can Offer Support

NonProfit Quarterly

While it is rarely acknowledged, parents undergo their own developmental changes alongside their children. Unfortunately, we dont recognize their process in the same ways we recognize that of the children they support. An overhaul of the reproductive healthcare and family welfare policies are long overdue.

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Being Outside: The Importance of Centering Black Leadership in the Climate Justice Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

There was never an inherited belief that I could be a scientist or a person who could have an environmental impact. Black children have been brought up in a system that perpetuates a predominantly White, heteronormative narrative around who stewards and cares for outdoor spaces. Maybe this alone was the inherited belief.

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Newsletter: Selfish Giving + You: 2025 is Our Year! ; Retail Winners and Losers of 2024 ; How Jimmy Carter Made Habitat a Nonprofit Giant

Selfish Giving

Party City sells reusable bags in all stores, with a portion of proceeds going to Wounded Nature-Working Veterans , which assembles volunteers to remove debris from coastal areas, aiding environmental cleanup efforts. This initiative aimed to grant life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Cool Jobs in Cause 1.

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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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Camp Management Software | How to Run a Successful Camp

Affnetz

Determine the Camp’s Theme and Curriculum: Choose a theme or focus area for your STEAM camp , such as robotics, environmental science, or digital arts. Skills like HTML and Python for example can be an effective way to introduce technology to children. You can also promote at school fairs, newsletters and other social events.

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The Problem of Clothing Donations in LA and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

In 2020, NPQ reported on research published in Environmental Health ,which found that approximately 85 percent of the clothing Americans consume, nearly 3.8 We are all children of immigrants. billion pounds annually, is sent to landfills as solid waste, amounting to nearly 80 pounds per American per year.