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2024 Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

NonProfit Leadership Center

For the Cook: Handmade Wooden Cutting Boards UTEC is a nonprofit that helps young people overcome the challenges of poverty, gang involvement, and unemployment. These candles were created with input from foster children and volunteers.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

This article introduces a new series, titled Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In 2014, six CDFIs located in regions of rural America beset by persistent poverty formed a coalition to remedy longstanding underinvestment. This article introduces our series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The economy should not exist merely to serve markets or maximize profits or even gross domestic product (GDP); it should work to uplift human flourishing, equality, and shared prosperity. These policies work together to stabilize household incomes, reducing poverty and providing the foundation for wealth building.

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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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What Does Finance for the People Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

A recent report by the Office of the State Comptroller found that Rochester has the fifth-highest child poverty rate of any US city. Children of color in Rochester are disproportionately affected, underscoring the systemic inequities that investment from a city-owned bank could help combat. Rochester is aiming to replicate this model.

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Nonprofit Policy + On Trend Video + Pop Culture + Humor? YES

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

This includes having children fundraise for school needs by selling things and the duality of teachers being superheroes who are just ordinary people. YES appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide. In these reaction videos, Jackson talks about the real policy issues and situations referenced in the hit sitcom Abbott Elementary.

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Book Review: Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding

Selfish Giving

You know from reading my blog that I’m a local, transactional cause marketer. And through the years I’ve grappled with how nonprofits can shift to truly transformative cause marketing. But I knew I would read a book by Jocelyne Daw and Carol Cone. I’ve been learning from these two women for years.

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