Thunderhead Works

JUNE 5, 2019

The classic example of positive deviance involves Jerry Sternin’s 1990 trip to Vietnam for Save the Children. He was given just six months to create a program that addressed inadequate diets of children in villages where 65 percent of them were malnourished. Yet these simple (and free) practices were available to all families.

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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. The national data will be tracked over time.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Strict abortion laws funnel people further into poverty by forcing many people to carry pregnancies to term but doing little to care for the children once they are born. The numbers are higher for Black and Latinx children. The numbers are higher for Black and Latinx children. In the wake of the dismantling of Roe v.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Seeking to address the root causes of food insecurity in its own backyard, the Anthem Foundation (a philanthropic arm of the major Indianapolis-based health insurance company, Anthem, Inc. ), funded the initiative with a $2.45 These ideals and beliefs are built into how EFAI works. million grant to LISC Indianapolis.

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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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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. The answer could be “both.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Because 700,000+ American children need advocates in our judicial system each year. Southern Poverty Law Center. Americans for the Arts.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? Two or three subjects in my book relied on it for school lunches, for medical care, all the stuff that again is not covered by health insurance. Alissa Quart: Definitely, it builds on Squeezed. My tagline for Squeezed was: “It’s not your fault.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Founded by parents who had two children with Down syndrome, they were inspired to open a coffee shop that would provide a workplace for people with disabilities. The older you get, the more likely you live in poverty.” Bitty and Beau’s opened their first shop in Wilmington, NC, in 2016.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Because 700,000+ American children need advocates in our judicial system each year. Southern Poverty Law Center. Americans for the Arts.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. If they worked, they were seen as unfit mothers and had their children taken from them. But also included was what became known as welfare.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. Students’ safety improved: At baseline only 43 percent of children reported feeling safe traveling to school in the morning.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

An additional 118 residential placements are included for children with high levels of service needs who currently lack a placement. $29 29 million to expand provider network for children with complex or special needs that face challenges being placed in a traditional foster or adoptive home.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

An additional 118 residential placements are included for children with high levels of service needs who currently lack a placement. $29 29 million to expand provider network for children with complex or special needs that face challenges being placed in a traditional foster or adoptive home.

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Nonprofit governance and management Law Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The team is also working to generate enough earnings to provide health insurance, paid time off, and sick leave—a rare level of economic security for restaurant workers. In 17 city zip codes, the rate of tested children with high lead levels was double that of Flint, MI.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Portuguese Bend is part of a larger, troubling trend when it comes to insurance in a climate-changed world. The Problem of Insurance What’s keeping some of the residents of Rancho Palos Verdes in their threatened homes, even as the land shifts and sinks beneath them? The houses look dark, surrounded by tarps and rubble.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

10 And when debtors can’t pay, we are disciplined with steep penalties, high interest rates or loan denials, and damaged credit scores—not to mention poverty when unpayable bills come due. at or below the poverty line or 30% of area median income), putting them at greater risk of suffering from rental debt.

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