NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

This article concludes the series : Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. For decades, the United States has focused on what are called “place-based” strategies and policies to address poverty, housing access, and affordability. Studies show that secure housing is critical to reducing generational poverty.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This narrative falsely portrayed Black women as abusing the welfare system by having children out of wedlock, stigmatizing the legitimate need for usually meager forms of public assistance. Another woman in Mississippi shared a story of having to lock her children in a room in the absence of childcare to fulfill work requirements.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Rural communities have varied local economies, which include manufacturing , healthcare, the service sector, and agriculture. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

But lead exposure is particularly harmful for children, in whom it can cause speech and developmental delays, hyperactivity, rashes, and neurologic problems. University of Mississippi professors Meagen Rosenthal and Anne Cafer explain that Black Americans are more likely to lack health insurance, a regular source of healthcare, or both.

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The Charity CFO

JULY 30, 2024

At this point Alyssia applied for a Director of Development position in an organization that provided holistic care and wraparound services for women and children. That’s a Great IDEA The mission and vision of Capital IDEA is to lift working adults out of poverty and into living-wage careers through education and career advancement.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 3, 2024

For example, for my PhD project, I used a participatory process with children, though children are not typically consulted. There are themes that come up very often in my classes around different elements of healthcare—especially its costs—and mental health, and access to education. People want change to happen. “We

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

And she saw a lot in a place where the mantra was that children should just be seen and not heard, right? And after a brief moment, she walked back into the office, trailed by her three children. What I cared about was poverty, poor people, and those on the margins—those with less material resources. And that has guided my work.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

“In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Instead of being an entitled people, waiting for “they&# to fix the economy, fix healthcare, fix our dependence on foreign oil, fix the environment, fix human rights issues, fix our “entitlement programs&# , etc., The children said they lived at the Capital City Inn, which was the city’s largest homeless shelter.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Meanwhile, other standout giving programs include : Matching gifts, volunteer grants Walt Disney Company & Make-A-Wish Foundation The Walt Disney Company has a long-standing partnership with Make-A-Wish Foundation, granting wishes to children with critical illnesses. Learn more about the corporate partnership here.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 22, 2023

World’s brightest minds have been trying to build ML-based solutions that tackle pressing global issues such as poverty, climate change, education, healthcare, and disaster response. Identifying children at risk Predict Align Prevent is a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping child maltreatment.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2023

The brand, which blamed its performance on the “fickle tastes of children,” also had to respond to plunging demand amidst a cultural landscape that saw its star as an outdated and sexist symbol by offering dolls in different colors and sizes. Loeb’s warning sums up the stakes of the struggle between labor and corporate power today.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For example, check out this video for Village Enterprise , a nonprofit devoted to ending extreme poverty in rural Africa: The video shows the story of Margaret, a small business owner, told through the perspective of Margaret’s grandchild. It ends with a motivational call to action to become part of the solution to end extreme poverty.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

poverty level, and another 17% qualified in the category of ALICE ® ( A sset L imited, I ncome C onstrained, E mployed). ALICE nonprofit employees live in households that earn more than the federal poverty level, but less than what it costs to survive in the counties where they live. Among the 13.9 million nonprofit employees.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

The care economy employs 17 percent of the US workforce, an area currently experiencing one of the greatest employment shortages, including home healthcare aides and nurses. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

By the early 2010s, when we looked at the metrics produced by Healthy People , the federal government’s data-driven blueprint for public health goals, the numbers showed us that, for the first time in public health history, life expectancy for children had dropped; it was lower than when we were children. How did we have it so wrong?

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

According to the United Nations Development Programme, women and children are 14 times more likely to die during a disaster compared to men. 13 A report by Save the Children highlights this relationship between climate change and the rise in child marriage rates. million girls from completing their education each year.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

About one third of US households live in “energy poverty,” among them disproportionate numbers of Black, Latinx, and Native families. About one third of US households live in “energy poverty,” among them disproportionate numbers of Black, Latinx, and Native families. Communities in New York are already moving toward this goal.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

For children in Sierra Leone, life-threatening conditions often become fatal due to limited access to advanced diagnostic tools and healthcare facilities. For families in dire poverty, the cost of flying to India for treatment would seem impossible. per day, making access to basic healthcare unaffordable for many.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. MMG: Congress decided that there would be two healthcare systems for older people.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Racism and poverty were the forms of violence that made Cole and Walker vulnerable and ultimately led to their deaths. Neglecting school children is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. Every year, thousands of people die because of a lack of healthcare coverage. Suppressing a culture is violence.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

However, the pressing need for equity as relates to both the tech industry and healthcare makes digital health a very complex challenge. 20 The concept of monetizing personal and healthcare data using blockchain and NFTs is emerging but is still in early adoption, facing issues of mainstream availability and regulation.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

1 Our economic system leaves many if not most of us no choice but to borrow for healthcare, housing, education, and other basic needs. 1 Our economic system leaves many if not most of us no choice but to borrow for healthcare, housing, education, and other basic needs. Like employers, creditors have enormous power over people’s lives.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 13, 2025

This gap is fueled by a series of barriers that include linguistic limitations, higher poverty rates, lack of insurance, the high cost of treatment, the lack of bilingual services, and the lack of training of many mental health professionals to understand Latin American cultures that often discourage accessing mental healthcare.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At one time, a White middle-class family could look forward to home ownership on a single income, children could access higher education, and retirement was secure. Now, Barber calls for a third reconstruction , predicated on ending poverty and establishing a living wage. A Declining Middle Class The US middle class is shrinking fast.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The other major cost item that made it into the IRA were healthcare subsidies. In the original American Families Plan bill, $200 billion was earmarked for healthcare subsidies. The provision is estimated to have reduced childhood poverty by 41 percent , lifting 3.7 million children out of poverty in 2021.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The number of children in poverty , according to US Census Bureau data, climbed from 5.2 percent (9.962 million) between 2021 and 2023, while the number of people of all ages in poverty climbed from 25.58 The number of children in poverty , according to US Census Bureau data, climbed from 5.2 million to 42.84

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