NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

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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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

11 Unique barriers to care, including stigma vis--vis mental health, language discrepancies, and poverty, put Latinx people in the United States at higher risk of receiving inadequate treatment than the broader population. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 10 Only 35.1 Arnett et al.,

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the increase of new industries in the area has come a flood of new construction; thousands of workers at a new car manufacturing plant, for example, need a place to live. But Casa Grande is a city in a desert, and not having enough water to supply these new housing developments may stop construction before it’s even started.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the 1960s, the construction of interstate highway I-76 and state Route 59 disconnected Summit Lake from the rest of Akron. Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. The city’s Black business district was devastated.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In contrast, guaranteed income gives cash to people living below the poverty line or with inconsistent or no income and entails a qualifying process. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King advocated for guaranteed income as the simplest and most effective solution to poverty. Though related to universal basic income (UBI), it is not the same.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is the main challenge (Ex: poverty, disease, discrimination) the character must face. The best stories contain multiple news values. Just remember that what your nonprofit thinks is interesting – such as an update on your newest program – may be better suited to a newsletter than your year-end donor appeal. Give them a goal.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This is good news for our youth, many of whom experience mental health challenges rooted in intergenerational trauma, poverty, and social alienation. Far too many Native American youth grow up in environments where historic and contemporary trauma, poverty , and negative societal narratives shape their identities from birth.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 31, 2023

Grassroots youth organizing groups—many of which serve immigrant, refugee, Black, and Indigenous communities—can help participants overcome the poverty, racism, institutional injustice, and trauma they often suffer during their childhoods.

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Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Participation and motivation Poverty 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Proponents of this positive psychology movement argue that poor people should not be “completely defined by their poverty, nor can they be fully understood in its terms alone.” Assuming positive traits and emotions like joy, love, intimacy, and hope provide an opportunity to build constructive thoughts and ideas about the future.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

Drawing from the lessons we’ve learned at One Are Fund navigating the absorption and implementation of big bet philanthropy, we offer two constructive actions each for donors and doers to ensure big bet philanthropy leads to even bigger social change down the road: 1.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 21, 2023

As foundations increasingly acknowledge the centuries of systematic and institutional racism that have led to intergenerational trauma, cycles of poverty, and reduced life expectancies in communities of color, they are working to re-examine philanthropy’s history and reimagine its role.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 27, 2017

Growing harassment and threats directed toward leadership and staff have led watchdog database GuideStar to remove its flagging of 46 suspected hate groups as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — at least for the time being. The removals will take place this week. We must do better,” he wrote.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 27, 2017

Growing harassment and threats directed toward leadership and staff have led watchdog database GuideStar to remove its flagging of 46 suspected hate groups as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — at least for the time being. The removals will take place this week. We must do better,” he wrote.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Gates Foundation pledged $315 million over three years to CGIAR , a global research partnership focused on the needs of smallholder farmers, in support of efforts to help them adapt to a surge of climate threats that, in turn, are exacerbating global hunger and poverty. Read more. . November 4, 2021.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is instead an exercise in liberating the constructs of creativity from being the prerogative of the Western, masculine, or the allegedly educated, while reclaiming what rural women of India have championed for thousands of years. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

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Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to a 2014 study of wage theft in California and New York , wage theft doesn’t just hurt low-wage and immigrant workers, it also contributes to poverty, increases the need for SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program, formerly known as “food stamps), and increases the cost of public assistance services.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a Puerto Rico-based nonprofit that leverages community-based abandonment inventories, community–municipal partnerships, a rehabilitation and construction team, and in-house legal expertise to convert abandoned buildings and lots into opportunities for community-led development, the lack of access to financing nearly destroyed the organization.

Non-Profits 124

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 27, 2017

Growing harassment and threats directed toward leadership and staff have led watchdog database GuideStar to remove its flagging of 46 suspected hate groups as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — at least for the time being. The removals will take place this week. We must do better,” he wrote.

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Nonprofit Fixer

JULY 4, 2024

Compensation policies are constructed by human resources experts to help the organization decide what it values when setting compensation (e.g. To make crafting or updating a job description easier, grab my Sample Executive Director Job Description. experience over education or credentials over seniority).

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Hard-wired into systems and programs at all levels of government and the private sector, these policies bolstered white Americans’ stability, wealth, and access to opportunity while concentrating the effects of segregation, displacement, destabilization, gentrification, and poverty on BIPOC populations. Being intentional is key.

Public and Social Policy 119

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A Changing Reputation Modular home construction has existed in some form for over a century. Over the years, the mobile home has acquired a less desirable reputation, a stigma that the homes are cheaply made or associated with poverty. And the average construction cost of a manufactured home is just $90,000.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 27, 2017

Growing harassment and threats directed toward leadership and staff have led watchdog database GuideStar to remove its flagging of 46 suspected hate groups as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — at least for the time being. The removals will take place this week. We must do better,” he wrote.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2023

Robbie’s “Stereotypical Barbie” lives in Barbieland, where happy Barbies run society as presidents, doctors, and construction workers. Writer Alex O’Keefe told CNN that he was “living below the poverty line” while writing the hit show The Bear for FX, and saw very little money while the studios made millions. “We

Manufacturing 98

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 5, 2024

It is vital to thoroughly document job roles and expectations and communicate them to the new hires. Excessive information: A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. Lack of adequate guidance results in bad onboarding, which leads to frustration. – Herbert A.

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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. How visible that resentment is depends on the power of those not benefiting or being penalized.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In one, a poverty relief charity was described as either, “Meeting the immediate needs of people,” or “Creating lasting improvements that would benefit people in the future.” She can construct legacy “products” or giving opportunities that deliver this lasting impact. 60] This desire for gift permanence shows up in experiments.

Psychology 52

Psychology Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Systems are not mechanical constructs or impersonal faceless institutions. The non-profit Glasswing International, for example, mobilizes youth, communities, and government agencies to address the root causes and consequences of poverty, violence, and forced migration. Systems carry trauma because they are relational.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

And while we’ve seen abundant investment in tools designed to assist software developers and free up time for them to focus on the more challenging parts of their jobs, there has been far less investment in technology that could assist construction workers, the service sector, teachers, nurses, or other care workers.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meanwhile, the Poor People’s Campaign’s efforts to secure a cut to US military spending calls for an end to systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism and the war economy. 20 But just as these systems were deliberately constructed, they can be deliberately deconstructed. Working Beyond Hope.

Construction 110

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

By the mid-20th century, Māori had poorer health, education, and housing, and were more likely to face incarceration and poverty. Māori tribes have used the money to rebuild, from constructing schools and launching intra-tribal health care initiatives to restoring land and building infrastructure for businesses.

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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. That’s pretty amazing. It doesn’t always work. The Soviet Union tried to do that and failed.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

using non-toxic building materials that were manufactured, transported, and constructed using low-carbon, non-polluting methods and materials); reducing energy consumption and pollution; and using integrative design , which incorporates sustainability up front and promotes good health and livability throughout the building’s life cycle.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 111

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. That’s pretty amazing. It doesn’t always work. The Soviet Union tried to do that and failed.

Culture 98

Culture Technology Law Construction 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 20, 2022

FHO: How do race and poverty enter into the narrative on housing? This narrative doesn’t address systems and rules or what we know, from social science, to be the actual causes of housing injustice and housing insecurity, especially for Black and Brown folks.

Values 131

Values Public and Social Policy Collaborations Culture 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty. Borne overwhelmingly by the poorest and most vulnerable, it exacerbates their poverty and threatens their health. Where we have seen major, population-level, and systemic advances in social and economic well-being, governments have been the primary driving force.

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