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.

Values 130

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

In Nigeria, where health inequities are deeply rooted in systemic issues such as poverty, 1 gender inequality, 2 and inadequate governance (poor administration/planning), 3 the introduction of new technologies can sometimes deepen these disparities rather than alleviate them.

Health 57

Health Technology Healthcare Medical 57

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

This article concludes the series : Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Fortunately, a new approach to rural housing that pairs a flexible form of modular housing with community-based finance shows considerable promise. Studies show that secure housing is critical to reducing generational poverty.

Poverty 119

Poverty Community Development Construction Finance 119

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

One of the major barriers for the billions of people who lack safe water and sanitation is access to financing to fund the solutions they need to survive. Each month, they help create financial opportunity that previously did not exist for people in poverty. Creating powerful solutions. The value of efficiency.

Non-Profits 133

Non-Profits Poverty Finance Health 133

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Age, poverty, ethnicity, and marginalization exacerbate existing gender inequalities and pose particular threats to women’s livelihoods, health, and safety. According to data from the organization UN Women , approximately 20 million more women live in poverty than men, significantly affecting their health and wellbeing.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Poverty Health Environmental 136

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. Extending finance to unlock resource barriers.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. Earning $1.30

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. Image Credit: Ketut Subiyanto on pixels.com The need for childcare is well known. What can be done to address this gap?

Curriculum and Teaching 105

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 105

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.,

Race and Ethnicity 73

Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health Medical 73

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Work requirements attached to public benefits often ignore the structural barriers that many individuals face, such as systemic racism, sexism, and limited access to quality education and employment opportunities. Without economic mobility, families—particularly BIPOC families —are stuck in the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

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. Get our FREE GUIDE to nonprofit financial reports, featuring illustrations, annotations, and insights to help you better understand your organization's finances.

Leadership 98

Leadership Poverty Manufacturing Culture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that time, ESG integration has been enshrined in thousands of pension fund and asset manager ESG policies, while regulations such as the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) now require the practice of financial market participants. All of this is why the recent report “ Does ESG integration impact the real economy?

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Finance Participation and motivation Governance 119

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Blackbaud To Take $415 Million Charge Software and tech firm Blackbaud filed a Form 8-K with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stating that the company concluded a material pre-tax noncash impairment charge, which may be up to approximately$415 million, for its educational EVERFI asset group.

Children 52

Children Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Food 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Often, the result is rural poverty. percent of rural residents lived below the poverty line, compared to 11.9 It supports a population of over 380,000 residents, 21 percent of whom live in poverty, 15 percent of whom are Black, and 15 percent Latinx. As of 2019, an estimated 15.4 percent of urban and suburban residents.

Poverty 105

Poverty Children Culture Food 105

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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The poverty rate is 52.4 In the 20th century, Atlanta emerged as a hub of Black entrepreneurship and education. Creatives and cultural leaders working with leaders in economics, finance, and everyday neighbors can harness the power of narrative to redefine economic opportunities and foster community resilience.

Culture 122

Culture Poverty Governance Finance 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 5, 2023

billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. Several jurisdictions implementing income stability interventions have seen an increase in education, training, and employment outcomes. In the United States , private philanthropy totaled $176.7

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

Indeed, the creative process can be particularly useful in contexts of poverty and hardship, where it can be difficult for people to think beyond their immediate opportunities and constraints, and imagine alternative futures. Educational resources. The 2010 documentary Waste Land offers a good example.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

The next Google or Facebook has yet to emerge from places plagued by chronic poverty, and even when a high-tech sector sets foot in low-income regions, it often exacerbates income inequality. Neighborhood book clubs were repurposed as platforms with which to educate pet owners.

Entrepreneurship 130

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Food Finance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). To participate, community members can purchase an ownership share in the enterprise, contingent on completing an eight-hour financial education course. Seeded with an initial $5 million grant from a local foundation, the land trust acquired nine parcels between 2005 and 2011.

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.

Values 116

Values Governance Culture Poverty 116

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.

Children 81

Children Poverty Leadership Education 81

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

the IRS defines nonprofits as “Organizations that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational or other specified purposes.” Seek diversity across a variety of categories, including age, race, gender, level of ability, and educational background.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 110

The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Their main focus is working with those in the domain of education. More specifically, Sheryl uses her skills in design and strategy research and thinking to help increase equitable outcomes in education. Except Sheryl and her team are more skilled in education than they are in flat tires. So what does all of that mean?

Education 52

Education Education Governance Nonprofits 52

The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 21, 2024

MHM aims to help create and sustain healthy communities by supporting grant recipients addressing one of the following priority areas: access to care, mental and behavioral health; digital equity; food security; housing; education and workforce development.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty Health 52

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Whether they generate taxable profits or not, depends on whether their activity coincides within the government-approved purpose, such as: Scientific research and development, Education, Consulting, Humanitarian aid, Socially oriented advertising, Human rights protection, Political activity, and not only. Target financing.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Fundraising Fundraising 52

The Charity CFO

APRIL 25, 2024

As stated on their website, “Vermont Adult Learning’s mission is to create an innovative, inclusive, and equitable learning environment that provides personalized opportunities for education and career development for Vermont residents by building relationships, strengthening communities, and fostering lifelong learning.” Where is the money?

Nonprofit Accountability 52

Nonprofit Accountability Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 6, 2024

These cross-border payments not only support individual livelihoods, but they also help alleviate poverty by providing financial resources for basic needs like healthcare and education, enhancing national economic stability , and helping to take the pressure off burdened social services system s. percent below 2019 totals.

Governance 56

Governance Technology Collaborations Poverty 56

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a national network of CDFIs, expects this federal investment will transform the clean energy financing ecosystem nationwide. Whether it does or not depends on CDFIs ability to address the challenge of placethe geographic inequities in access to community finance.

Finance 105

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management 105

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.” Well, Jon spent his career helping other people get their finances in order. Journal of Personal Finance, 17 (2), 9-21. Journal of Personal Finance.

Psychology 52

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

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

poverty level, and another 17% qualified in the category of ALICE ® ( A sset L imited, I ncome C onstrained, E mployed). ALICE nonprofit employees live in households that earn more than the federal poverty level, but less than what it costs to survive in the counties where they live. The national data will be tracked over time.

Poverty 97

Poverty Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Public and Social Policy 97

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.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Fast forward to my family’s move to Portugal, where my mother was born, then to the United States, where, in 1998, I found a job with the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) as an education and outreach coordinator. In the Central Falls/Pawtucket HEZ, nearly a third of residents live in poverty, and one in three are recent immigrants.

Health 124

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

They also excluded Black families from access to high-quality public education. 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.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Governance Law Health 134

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness. Chicago Foundation For Women.

Health 98

Health Entrepreneurship Foundations Education 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Education and skills: Is the company investing in skills training, tools, and knowledge to promote climate justice, and improve future opportunities and resilience among employees and across the supply chain?

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Race and Ethnicity Energy 110

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. The Contracts Administrator is a member of the Accounting/Finance Team and reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer [CFO].

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

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