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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

And as a result of repeated storms, insurance companies have been leaving Florida or increasing insurance rates, creating a crisis of underinsurance that Milton will exacerbate. Insurance companies also treat flooding differently, so philanthropic funding is needed even more. Its a deep wound to the fabric of our region.

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Should Your Nonprofit Use Pinterest?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Opportunity International provides savings, small business loans, insurance and training to over four million people–93% of whom are women–working their way out of poverty in the developing world.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

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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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

The organization was formed a little over 20 years ago, in February 2002, when resident leaders came together to support their unique and culturally diverse neighborhood: White Center , WA. Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Field Museum Store offers gifts for those interested in science and cultural, natural, and human history. The Little Market is a 501(c)(3), charitable organization founded by women to help alleviate poverty by sourcing their good from artisan groups in over 25 countries. Perfect gifts for the nonprofit techie!

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Housing Rights Organizer

Anedot

Job Posting Housing Rights Organizer 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 approach and inclusive culture.