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On the First-Ever India Giving Day, the Highest-Earning Ethnic Group in the U.S. Gets a Chance to Step Up and Help Their Homeland

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

India’s first giving day, March 2, will raise money to improve education, health care, and gender equality and meet other important needs in a country with nearly 230 million people living in poverty.

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Why Funders Care About Capacity-Building

NonProfit PRO

So, if donors care about a mission, such as the eradication of cancer, ending poverty or high-quality education, they realize the source of fundamental change occurs with the partnership between technology and humans. Donors understand that data and technology are game-changers.

Poverty 173
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Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for October 2020

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Point out some of the educators in your field and what they have done for your cause. If you are a health related org, you can promote dental health. 10/05: Do Something Nice Day. Encourage your supporters to do something nice for someone else in your name. 10/05: World Teacher’s Day. 10/12: Moment of Frustration Day.

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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

In a preliminary statement to the complaint, the plaintiffs cite Thomas Sowell’s 1998 poem, “The Poverty Pimps’ Poem,” ( Let us celebrate the poor, Let us hawk them door to door. There’s a market for their pain, Votes and glory and money to gain. Let us celebrate the poor. The total of expenditures listed was more than $490 million.

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash In a world of worsening climate disruptions and growing economic inequities, what is the economics education that people need? In a world of worsening climate disruptions and growing economic inequities, what is the economics education that people need?

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How America gives: Who funds what causes and where?

Candid

By contrast, the largest share of institutional grant dollars supported education—on average 27%, compared with 19% of total individual giving. At the same time, the data reveals a downward trend in the share of dollars going to education, especially from institutional funders.

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nagatsugu Asato & Nobuo Shiga The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. Okinawa’s poverty rate is about 35 percent, which is twice the national average. percent of the country’s total land area.