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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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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

The money can be used for key wealth-building activities like education, homeownership, or starting a business. For instance, the GI Bill benefited nearly half of all veterans with education support in the five years after World War II, as well as low-interest home loans. This series will explore that central question.

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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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Defying the Odds: The Case for Investing in Organizing Workers in the South

NonProfit Quarterly

In Louisiana, for example, workers are holding dollar store chains accountable for paying poverty wages and creating unsafe work environments. The innovations in worker organizing emerging from the South are striking, particularly for their emphasis on community-driven solutions.

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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.

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AI and Racial Justice: Navigating the Dual Impact on Marginalized Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

It reaches into healthcare, finance, justice, education, and public policy, promising to streamline and elevate. This isnt just a denial of financial services; its a denial of possibility, locking communities into cycles of poverty and keeping doors closed to upward mobility.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Many working parents, sandwiched between the needs of their children and parents, go into debt to provide for their care, which reduces their ability to fund the cost of continuing education or purchasing a home. seniors over 85 live in poverty, only 8 percent who live in multigenerational households live in poverty, a 40 percent reduction.