NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

Image Credit: Chiara F on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. This article concludes the series : Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Studies show that secure housing is critical to reducing generational poverty. But that is completely wrong.

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Poverty Community Development Construction Finance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Likewise, rural residents and cultures are far more diverse than depicted in popular culture.

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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 10 Only 35.1

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Narrative History Narratives are our cultural understandings, our frames of reference, our mental models—they provide the story of our social world. During this time, Black people were forced into labor without choice or compensation because of the widespread cultural narrative that they were racially inferior.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 124

The Charity CFO

JULY 30, 2024

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. It was also important for Alyssia to make her next move based on what was a good culture fit for her and her lifestyle. Get the free guide!

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. Often, the result is rural poverty. percent of the population. As of 2019, an estimated 15.4

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

For example, our organization, One Acre Fund , supplies over 4 million African smallholder farmers with the finance, supplies, and training to grow more food, plant more trees, and earn more money. percent of climate adaptation finance need of smallholders is currently being met by all actors combined.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

“Nonprofitization affects the structures of movements and the culture of our movements.…[It] Spade questions whether this method can achieve liberatory ends, arguing against the idea that change will occur if a “nonprofit report shows that poverty is bad, or cops are racist.”

Medical 122

Medical Universities Nonprofits Law 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

By Stephan Manning & Yeşim Uygur Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the socioeconomic structures around them. However, artists and artistic projects have the power to do much more.

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Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). As Tom De Simone described for NPQ in a recent article, a central motivation of nonprofit commercial ownership in East Los Angeles is to “provide economic security to legacy business owners and neighborhood nonprofits and preserve the neighborhood’s commercial character and culture.”

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 17, 2024

It’s taken me a few years to understand that the loss of the currency was only the beginning of the United States’s control of Puerto Rico’s finances up until today. This was the first time I learned that Puerto Rico once had their own currency. As Jared Spears wrote in NPQ , local currencies are “designed to be spent directly in the area.

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Values Governance Culture Poverty 116

The Charity CFO

APRIL 22, 2024

This can also have cultural impacts within your organization such as low morale and high cynicism among employees. Consider these four strategies to improve your workplace culture and reduce burnout in your nonprofit employees. But burnout doesn’t only affect employee relationships. Get the free guide!

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Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Culture 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In Cape Town, there was a modern apartment, a car, and a job in high-end finance. Poverty is not about the absence of material possessions. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.” ” The worlds could not have been further apart. Her neighbors and later her colleagues were largely illiterate.

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Children Poverty Leadership Education 81

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. Within ten months, this locality and cultural approach was quickly supported by the evidence in practice.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 8, 2023

By not talking more openly and honestly about wages, salary, debt, and expenses we create a culture of secrecy around money. There are cultural issues to consider and even the time to fundraise, which for some is a luxury. Few things are more offensive to Americans than being told they are privileged.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

Only three sectors reported a rise in one-time revenue — Cultural, Health, and Public Media. Health/Poverty nonprofits had the highest average gift size for both types of giving: $45 for monthly giving, $174 for one-time gifts. The average size of a monthly gift was $24, while the average one-time gift was $115.

Health 52

Health Poverty Activism Recruitment 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

What I cared about was poverty, poor people, and those on the margins—those with less material resources. The financing needs to be reimagined, the delivery of care needs to be reimagined, the way care is evaluated needs to be reimagined— every part of the system. CS: What did they mean by “culture of health”?

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Health Medical Leadership Healthcare 118

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, youth activists and organizers continue to be outspoken, recognizing that the climate crisis continues to worsen, exacerbated by such concurring injustices as poverty and wealth inequality, authoritarianism, and genocide. 15 Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress.

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Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. The culture I come from relies a lot on storytelling to cement our learning and culture.

Health 124

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

When homes went into foreclosure, the government paid mortgage lenders in full, incentivizing real estate brokers and mortgage bankers to target poor Black families as poverty would likely drive such borrowers to fall behind on their mortgage payments. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor describes as “racist exclusion [giving] way to predatory inclusion.”

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Governance Law Health 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

Soft skills, relationship building, and culture will all still matter across industries and job types. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. While this sounds like bad news for workers, cheapening tenure and reducing the costs of turnover, workers are more than their technical knowledge.

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Curriculum and Teaching Healthcare Technology Civil Society 122

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This funder invests in and strengthens the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural, and economic change in women’s lives, specifically across three areas: Economic Justice, Safety, and Women’s Health. Foundation is to build women’s collective power in the U.S. to advance equity and justice for all.

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Health Entrepreneurship Foundations Education 98

Anedot

AUGUST 29, 2024

Contracts Administrator About the Organization Canal Alliance exists to break the generational cycle of poverty for Latino immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success. Canal Alliance strives for a trauma-informed collaborative and inclusive culture.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Insurance 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The problem in many settings isn’t merely that elected leaders are enacting self-serving or misguided policies (though there is that too); many or even most countries also suffer from a supply-side problem: they lack the capability, systems, institutional culture and practice to deliver for their citizens.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 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. Michael McCray: I was born into community development finance. SD: What was the lie?

Finance 126

Finance Insurance Community Development Poverty 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

14 In regions of Africa and South Asia, climate disasters such as floods and droughts increase poverty and food insecurity, prompting families to marry off their daughters at a young age as a survival strategy. According to various reports, only a small fraction of global climate finance directly targets gender equality.

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Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.

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Governance Culture Construction Community Development 135

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. It prioritizes building personal, social, emotional, and cultural capacities of human beings—instead of irrational consumption. Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem.

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Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The logic of capitalism, Center staff have come to understand, drives poor environmental regulation, our culture of consumption, and the minimal social supports that perpetuate harm to human and nonhuman communities. As noted above, this is part of a broader trend, in which an increasing number of organizations are making this shift.

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Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The program includes classroom training in business development, finance, governance, democratic decision-making, and participatory management. Based on the pioneering work of Green Worker Cooperatives in the Bronx, our Academy is a key building block of our approach to cooperative development.

Non-Profits 137

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 137

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

All those things being informed ultimately by their finances and the debt that they’ve taken on. And that they can do so not from a culture of scarcity but a culture of abundance, and with an eye toward repairing past harms—past racialized harms, in particular. What are the underlying causes?

Public and Social Policy 121

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

26 Even so, Isabelle Moses, Faith in Action’s chief of staff, explained that, after Reed left, it required “a comprehensive effort to transform the culture of the national staff team through self-examination around race and gender” that lasted more than three years. Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black?

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Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 97

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Davarian Baldwin, a professor, urbanist, historian, and cultural critic who has written widely about universities, delineates how the corporate capture of higher education has harmed university life and culture. And tenants are organizing to win federal rent regulations, among other protections, as conditions of federal financing.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 134

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

We debt-finance our healthcare, education, housing, and even our own incarceration! 10 And when debtors can’t pay, we are disciplined with steep penalties, high interest rates or loan denials, and damaged credit scores—not to mention poverty when unpayable bills come due. Some, of course, more than others.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Medical Public and Nonprofit Management 130

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2025

In contrast, CDFIs aim to achieve community development outcomes , such as reducing poverty, increasing homeownership, or stimulating small businesses in distressed areas. CDFIs fill the gap, for example, by financing first-time homebuyers with limited savings or lending to entrepreneurs of color and/or low incomes without established credit.

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