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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Curated Lifestyle on Unsplash This article introduces a three-part series— Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds —a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City. Baby bonds are a prime example of this shift.

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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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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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COVID, Nursing Homes, and Death: A Conversation with Margaret Morganroth Gullette

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Economists are very interested in the productive economy. Thats the productive economy.

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Book Review: Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding

Selfish Giving

If you’re a cause with a corporate partner I’ll show you how to raise money with register programs and cause products. The Food Bank For New York City had me thinking of our food pantry that this year will serve 90,000 men, women and children–nearly double the mouths we fed just two years ago.

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News In Brief: Blackbaud, RKD, Moore

The NonProfit Times

per share during the recent 52-week period. ** Feed The Children Selects RKD Group RKD Group in Dallas is the new direct response fundraising agency of record for Feed The Children in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Millions of children are experiencing hunger here in the U.S. Its public support was $496.7 million, up from $387.7