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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology. Nonprofit workers are at the heart of civil society, and the same compassion and care we bring to our mission must extend to our people.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

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One in Five Nonprofit Workers Can’t Afford Basic Expenses

NonProfit Quarterly

We do think that anybody that dedicates their life in civil society should be able to take care of their monthly financial needs… Twenty-two percent of 13.9 If we were only using the federal poverty level…we would only see 5 percent of [nonprofit] workers struggling,” Hoopes tells NPQ.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Smallholder farmers produce at least a third of the global food supply. As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. Though these farms are small, typically under two hectares, their cumulative impact is large. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

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Local Militias Step into Government Gaps

NonProfit Quarterly

In recent years, the group, labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as right-wing extremists , has been painting a different picture of itself—as a disaster relief organization. Another member also pled guilty to obstruction in connection to January 6th in early June. The militia has two operation camps, one of which is in Sasabe.

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What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

NonProfit Quarterly

Similarly, practices of involving children in household work, such as gutting fish or other animals, preparing food, and carrying wood, have been shown by research to foster responsibility and social responsiveness. Suboptimal” early childhood development is seen as contributing to poverty in communities. 2017 , 77).

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“How Do We Break Out of Pity?”: Reframing Children as Philanthropic Citizens

NonProfit Quarterly

In England, as in the United States, many teachers who work in schools serving lower-income students are responding to a raft of challenges beyond their official job, such as providing food, brushing teeth, and even helping parents with budgeting. In such cases, there is understandably less space to focus on social action or critical debate.