Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to Fidelity Charitable , it’s “the act of purposefully making investments that help achieve certain social and environmental benefits while generating financial returns.” The Heron Foundation , for example, works with mission-aligned, poverty-oriented investment managers to grow its assets. What is impact investing?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. The expanded (but now expired) child tax credits alone cut childhood poverty by 30 percent in only six months. This work is urgent.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

These Southern frontline leaders and women in philanthropy all had similar stories about getting just pennies on the dollar compared to organizations led by men or White women. “So, In 2020, the JPB Foundation granted the Hive Fund $3 million. Since working alongside the Hive Fund, Loizeaux has learned to be responsive to what she hears.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Oxfam : To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The project multisolves for goals in patient care, community care, and environmental care. We often hear the sentiment, “I already work on poverty (or climate or health disparities, etc.) They work at the local to national level and in government, academia, NGOs, businesses, and philanthropy. and that’s hard enough.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Additionally, Duranti-Martinez points out, “Community ownership also means that the people most impacted by racial, economic, and environmental injustice have meaningful decision-making power over development” (7). percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Purchasing land was, in a sense, the easiest step.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Change the way they operate to align with greater social and environmental needs. Consumers understand that solving this problem provides the foundation to address all the other needs from poverty alleviation to food security to healthcare and so on. Change the way they operate to align with bigger social and environmental needs (20%).

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. The city’s Black business district was devastated. This was one of many such projects that displaced hundreds of thousands of Black Americans nationwide.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In this post, let’s explore fifteen inspiring examples of CSR initiatives that demonstrate the power of philanthropy and corporate giving. Corporate Social Responsibility⁠—also known as CSR⁠—is a business practice in which companies take accountability for the social, environmental, and economic impacts of their operations.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

2 She has gone on to inspire countless youth activists and organizers fighting for climate and environmental justicethe issues raised in her speech 32 years ago being as critical now as they were back then, if not more so. Philanthropy Fuels the Fire Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress.

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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.” In philanthropy, the most powerful permanent expression of identity is the private family foundation. Philanthropy & Education, 2 (2), 1-28. [64]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 11, 2024

By Jodi Nelson & Fay Twersky The cover story in SSIR ’s most recent issue, “ Where Strategic Philanthropy Went Wrong ,” reminded us of Mark Twain’s response to a rumor about his death published in the New York Journal in 1897. This is not our experience with strategic philanthropy. million deaths in lower-income countries.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

The report Examining Disparities in Environmental Grantmaking: Where the Money Goes written by Dorceta E. Taylor and Molly Blondell surveyed over 30,000 environmental and public health grants distributed by 220 foundations, which awarded approximately $4.9 billion across three years—from 2015 to 2017.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Its roots lie in the environmental justice movement in the United States, where, in the 1990s, activists called out the disproportionate impact of pollutants on Black communities in North Carolina. It has also highlighted human and environmental interconnectedness and galvanized large-scale, rapid collective action to respond and recover.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a collaborative of 13 philanthropies, including The JPB Foundation where I serve as senior vice president of environment and strategic initiatives. What Philanthropy Can Do. These developments all point to a political and funding context conducive to climate and housing justice.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression?

Leadership 111

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 111

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The mission of this foundation is to encourage women’s involvement in philanthropy and make a significant difference in the Southern San Francisco community. Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social, and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.

Health 98

Health Entrepreneurship Foundations Education 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By Tim Hanstad To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed ; “Only government has the capacity to address social and environmental problems on a national scale. All are problems that philanthropy can and should help address.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

14 In regions of Africa and South Asia, climate disasters such as floods and droughts increase poverty and food insecurity, prompting families to marry off their daughters at a young age as a survival strategy. That’s why I’m working with UNICEF Morocco to push for environmental education that speaks to our realities,” she said.

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Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 132

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This could leave nonprofits working on other critical issues, such as poverty alleviation and education, with limited funding and support. Civil society organizations must be responsive to these evolving expectations and demonstrate their effectiveness in achieving social and environmental outcomes.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

This article profiles three organizations from which we hail—the Center for Biological Diversity, Marbleseed (formerly the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service), and Wellspring Cooperative—that have grown to focus on addressing the many social, political, economic, and environmental ills that are a direct outcome of capitalism.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. Two of them—Dr. The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

If you—philanthropy—were strategic and open and trusted us, you would actually support us to work on all of those things because we are multi-dimensional people.” I think it’s the height of patriotism for philanthropy to invest in power building. I'm not going to choose between my voting rights and housing.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

Impact investing, as defined by the Global Impact Investing Network , is an investment tool “made with the intention to generate positive, measurable, social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.” The Geographies of Social Finance: Poverty Regulation through the ‘Invisible Heart’ of Markets.” Rosenman, E.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

1 A version of this story was previously presented as part of remarks made at CHANGE Philanthropy, in 2021. The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment. 2 It has been edited for publication here. The year is 2053.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

And we knew that poverty and racism were deeply entrenched, and that takes more than three years. We would hope and expect that nonprofits are reducing poverty and reducing inequality. I think it was around environmental change. And we were talking about these issues in three-year grant cycles. We wouldn’t expect that, right?

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

The coalition is also clear about the potential perpetuation of the disproportionate impact of systemic racism on West Tennessees Black communities, which have lower household incomes and higher poverty rates than majority White counties. But they need long-term support from philanthropy, nonprofit partners, and labor unions.

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Energy Manufacturing Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 82

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With such low wages, its little wonder that adults with disabilities are living in poverty at a rate twice that of adults who dont have disabilitiesa statistic that mirrors the employment rates above. As an employee of the Environmental Protection Agency who is hard of hearing told USA Today : People look at us as not being able.

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The Agitator

APRIL 22, 2018

This is why the authors believe that the term “rage donating” or “rage philanthropy”are terms that are too limited for describing this phenonmenon. But, as the study notes, “that said, 66% of all reactive givers also gave to non-partisan causes like poverty and homelessness. ” Infographic Tells All.

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