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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. These scenarios arent hypothetical.

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Being Outside: The Importance of Centering Black Leadership in the Climate Justice Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

There was never an inherited belief that I could be a scientist or a person who could have an environmental impact. Maybe this alone was the inherited belief. Black children have been brought up in a system that perpetuates a predominantly White, heteronormative narrative around who stewards and cares for outdoor spaces.

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Senior Operations Manager

Anedot

Organization Overview: Thirty-five percent of all food in the U.S. goes to waste, contributing significantly to environmental damage, with global food waste ranking as the third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions behind the U.S. Meanwhile, more than 20% of people in the Bay Area face food insecurity.

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Newsletter: How to Sell Partnerships at Trade Shows ; 25 Testimonial Statistics You Should Know ? ; ?Is Bill Gates ?Really a Billionaire Doing Good??

Selfish Giving

Do you ever talk about some of the causes your company works with or what you're doing to reduce your environmental footprint?" Sounds like Janie is doing great work in the community - and she knows firsthand about being homeless. Brain Food 1. ✅ Assume nothing. Still, the money is going to a business, not a nonprofit.

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How to do a Better Job of Donor Engagement

Ann Green

If your homeless shelter has to take on extra measures to keep it clean, emphasize the importance of the health and safety of your clients, many of whom are at greater risk of getting COVID-19. A better subject line would be – Find out h o w you’re helping families continue to put food on the table. Focus on your mission.

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The Global North Needs to Stop Distancing Itself from Climate Migration

NonProfit Quarterly

Migration in Kenya is being fueled by what the organization Climate Refugees describes as a “ catastrophic food crisis ,” along with a loss of homes in areas that have also seen unprecedented flooding as water movement patterns change. Lauren Risi is the program director of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better. A new narrative will help change those perceptions.