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Housing Innovation in Rural America

NonProfit Quarterly

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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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Little Market is a 501(c)(3), charitable organization founded by women to help alleviate poverty by sourcing their good from artisan groups in over 25 countries. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade. 14) Human Rights Campaign Nonprofit Store :: shop.hrc.org.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One of the grandmothers was holding and cooing to the baby, while the grandfather played a game with pre-teen children, freeing the granddaughter to make the fire and cook the meal. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. Multigenerational households are rare. While 13 percent of U.S.

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Reshaping the Idea of Rural America: Stories from Our Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

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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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: The Generational Impact of Women in Leadership

The Charity CFO

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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48 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade. Proceeds go to both the talented artisans that create the beautifully crafted products in the UNICEF Market and to help UNICEF save and protect children. 17) Serrv International :: serrv.org. 26) Conscious Step :: consciousstep.com.

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Barbie and the Problem of Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Mattel began manufacturing Barbie dolls in Japan in 1959 when the country’s economic struggle right after World War II made labor cheaper. Squeezing manufacturing labor overseas became a brutal fallback strategy to eke out a profit. The specialty was: We make items. Now we are an I.P. company that is managing franchises.”