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.”

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 131

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We are your own children. Meanwhile, youth activists and organizers continue to be outspoken, recognizing that the climate crisis continues to worsen, exacerbated by such concurring injustices as poverty and wealth inequality, authoritarianism, and genocide. Then, why do you go out anddo the things you tell us not to do?

Philanthropy 97

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 97

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

They also worked with the organization’s leadership to craft articles on how Water.org and its partners work to empower people in poverty with safe water to protect and save lives. 3) Social media content highlighted the actions of Water.org to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Non-Profits 134

Non-Profits Civil Society Health Poverty 134

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Invisible Children: To bring a permanent end to LRA atrocities. Center for Biological Diversity: Saving life on earth.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2024

Those most impacted by a lack of or failing infrastructure, including the elderly and people living in poverty, are at high risk for loneliness. Importantly, the programs of Social Tinkering welcome people of all ages, including children.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Sociology Health Medical 134

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 3, 2024

And when fleeing climate disasters, men at times leave women and children behind. The majority of these will be women and children. They experience higher rates of homelessness, increased levels of poverty, and increased exposure to violence. Girls are often taken out of school to work or to marry.

Activism 132

Activism Environmental Governance Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 23, 2023

Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Of them, more than 80 percent identified as immigrants or the children of immigrants. I don’t live in poverty. This includes trust not only in an organization but its leadership. However, the Arab American community has been largely left out of these efforts.

Philanthropy 110

Philanthropy Participation and motivation Volunteerism Volunteerism 110

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The poverty rate is 52.4 Central to the Black community, it had amusements for adults and children alongside an auditorium where notable figures like Booker T. Through his children, his culture shaping legacy extended into politics. But today,100 years later, the same neighborhood looks very different. People like writer Ida B.

Culture 121

Culture Poverty Governance Finance 121

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. To date, through this incubator, 19 new businesses licensed for a total of 390 children have opened. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages.

Curriculum and Teaching 104

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 104

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 21, 2024

The report finds that 80 percent of women in jails are mothers, and most of them are primary caregivers of their children. Further, using survey data to paint a picture of the experiences of incarcerated people in the months and years leading up to their incarceration, the report details how poverty and incarceration often intersect.

Homelessness 110

Homelessness Children Psychology Insurance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

In doing so, it would advance the state’s ambitious goal, outlined in the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , of reaching 70 percent renewable energy by 2030. About one third of US households live in “energy poverty,” among them disproportionate numbers of Black, Latinx, and Native families.

Energy 121

Energy Non-Profits Poverty Environmental 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. Casey Foundation’s mission is to create a brighter future for America’s children, young people, and families. The Annie E.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Poverty 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We treat cooperative development work not as a static formula but as a learning laboratory where experimentation, creativity, and new expressions of leadership are accepted and encouraged. We developed a curriculum built around the idea of mentorship, economics, and leadership.” The goal? “A

Non-Profits 137

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 137

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Harmful assumptions about payment behavior effectively criminalizes poverty and understates the harm that water shutoffs cause to low-income communities. The pilot also showed the importance of building staff capacity, which can look like hiring from and developing leadership in impacted communities.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Réjane Woodroffe’s leadership experience in the remote Eastern Cape of South Africa gives funders and entrepreneurs a lesson in what it means to drive change alongside your community. Poverty is not about the absence of material possessions. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.”

Children 81

Children Poverty Leadership Education 81

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Areas served: US. Kellogg Foundation. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i, Vermont Women’s Fund.

Health 98

Health Entrepreneurship Foundations Education 98

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. At one point, the team learned that residents feared the lake because overgrown vegetation made it unclear where the water began, and parents worried that their children might drown.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

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.

Health 114

Health Medical Leadership Healthcare 114

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

For example, in Robeson County, where almost three-quarters of residents are Black or Indigenous, many continue to experience poverty and hunger because they lack the support necessary to return from devastating, increasingly frequent climate events.

Philanthropy 104

Philanthropy Poverty Environmental Governance 104

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

With safety nets overwhelmed and record numbers of people facing job loss and poverty, mutual aid groups stepped in to fill the void. million households with children under the age of 18—reported that they sometimes or often did not have enough to eat during the week. Many new groups started up in the absence of official help.

Food 103

Food Philanthropy Children Poverty 103

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Mine is my children. And part of the reason why I’m now having to pay what I call an “environmental poverty tax,” which is the additional cost that people in environmental justice communities have to pay to eat, because they live in a food desert? And just thinking about that is really, really difficult. It was a rough challenge….I

Environmental 126

Environmental Food Poverty Culture 126

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2021

I’m also certain there are still millions of children struggling in this world, but World Vision is helping. Most importantly, your leadership should reflect the ideal you’re asking your organization to achieve. World Vision’s vision makes no mention of poverty or water. A vision statement is not an endpoint or a status.

Energy 81

Energy Culture Values Nonprofits 81

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

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. The plaintiffs argued that the school district was making White children feel guilt.

Race and Ethnicity 138

Race and Ethnicity Social Policy Children Homelessness 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

.” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. Women are seeing an increase in income and are able to send their children to school, access health care, acquire more land, and diversify their earnings through other small businesses.

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Over the following years, GSF leadership shifted their spending policy from a purely formulaic model to one informed not only by their perpetuity and investment goals but by their foundation’s mission and the current circumstances. It also includes new donors who are making their own wealth and embarking on their own giving journeys.

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 131

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. Determine the type of leadership your nonprofit would benefit from What skills or connections would you like board members to have? The answer could be “both.”

Nonprofit governance and management 106

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 106

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

I’m also certain there are still millions of children struggling in this world, but World Vision is helping. Most importantly, your leadership should reflect the ideal you’re asking your organization to achieve. Final thought: These times, they are a-changin’ World Vision’s vision makes no mention of poverty or water.

Energy 61

Energy Nonprofits Culture Values 61

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Wellspring Cooperative: From Building Businesses to Building a Solidarity Economy Wellspring Cooperative is based in Springfield, the third-largest city in the state of Massachusetts and a typical deindustrialized city struggling with high rates of poverty and unemployment.

Agriculture 95

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 95

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

In late 2021, a small Zimbabwean community-based organization, Score Against Poverty (SCORE), with help from the Canadian government, decided to test out a different approach. They were allowed to openly voice how they felt that Labola was unfair and how this affected relationships with wives and children.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wainwright is the CEO of Family Life , one of Australia’s largest family services providers working with vulnerable children and their families. “If Intergenerational trauma occurs when one or more ancestors pass along unhealed trauma they experienced before having children or during pregnancy.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

Their experiences show how the interdependencies of the SDGs come to life at the local level: Ending homelessness requires addressing issues of poverty, mental and physical health, quality employment, environmental justice, and climate change—in addition to safe and affordable housing.

Collaborations 105

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Image credit: Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Parents in the United States work two jobs: powering our economy through paid labor and building our country’s future by raising children. million women across the country left the workforce, largely to support their children—a full million more women than men.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Children Governance Philanthropy 140

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Addressing childhood poverty in the U.S. is an enormous challenge, and for nonprofits working to improve children’s lives, understanding the impact of poverty is essential. Dr. Source Addressing childhood poverty in the U.S.

Poverty 64

Poverty Children Nonprofits Nonprofit Leadership 64

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It benefits society as a whole by reducing poverty, promoting economic growth, and fostering healthier and more educated communities. It encourages leadership roles and political involvement so that women’s voices and perspectives are part of policies that affect their lives and communities. Why is Women Empowerment Important?

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Education Education Health 98

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.

Foundations 129

Foundations Insurance Healthcare Education 129