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2024 Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

NonProfit Leadership Center

Through its Madd Love Market, young adults with histories of incarceration and gang involvement gain paid work experience and essential life skills by creating products such as beautiful cutting boards. These candles were created with input from foster children and volunteers.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $500 Million to Beyond Carbon Campaign

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Prest Brandon Bell, Getty Images Bloomberg Philanthropies’ support aims to increase the production of clean energy and boost the efforts of U.S. Also, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave $244 million to support maternal and pediatric health in low- and middle-income countries, and the W.K.

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“Forever Chemicals” Are Endangering Our Collective Health

NonProfit Quarterly

Through a series of tests, for which Hansen was heavily scrutinized inside the corporation, she eventually discovered that the wide-reaching contamination began, according to an article in ProPublica , “after the company started selling products that contained them.” The forever chemicals represent a large number of substances.

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What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Photo by Los Muertos Crew on pexels.com On May 1, 2023, a Cessna plane took off from the tiny Amazonian town of Araracuara in Colombia, carrying seven passengers: the pilot, four children, their mother, and another adult. But the four children—Lesly (13), Soleiny (9), Tien Noriel (4), and Cristin (1)—survived.

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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

. — Susan Dibble from Page Ahead Children’s Literacy Program Caring Comes First, Everything Else Can Be Taught Our board members must care about our mission. We serve children with disabilities and developmental delays, children that many don’t realize are in our community.

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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Curated Lifestyle on Unsplash This article introduces a three-part series— Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds —a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City. Baby bonds are a prime example of this shift.

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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 A vertically integrated sewing and production shop, since its founding in 2017 SUAY Sew Shop has diverted over 3.5 We are all children of immigrants.