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 102

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 102

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 29, 2023

In recent years, the group, labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as right-wing extremists , has been painting a different picture of itself—as a disaster relief organization. But while residents and town officials are working to oppose dangerous militia operations, the town is also protecting itself from environmental harm.

Governance 134

Governance Disaster Relief Law Civil Society 134

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Indeed, the principles of resource stewardship long championed in many Native American communities are critical to restoring environmental balance. A Montana State study from 2019 estimated that the poverty rate statewide for Native communities exceeded 30 percent. Fort Belknap Reservation: Montana Poverty Report Card.

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 140

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Philippines-based nonprofit Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation was selected winner of the.ORG of the Year award, recognizing the organization’s work to provide access to education for children in remote and poverty-stricken areas by providing boats to reach their schools.

Poverty 98

Poverty Children Medical Education 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But the Center aspires to do more—to advance economic empowerment in an environmentally sustainable way. Census figures confirm that Camden is a poor city (with a poverty rate of 33.6 However, persistent poverty plagues the city’s residents. Food pantry work is important. Advancing urban agriculture in Camden. percent Black).

Food 145

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 145

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2024

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), this destabilization can lead to “cumulative community stress, increases in poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and forced migration.” They may lose their homes. The Most Vulnerable The report found the “unequal burdens” of children are also deepened by climate change.

Health 115

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This is especially relevant at a time when the planet is behind on several SDGs , including those related to poverty reduction and food security. These farming families can play a significant role in mitigating climate change if they’re equipped with tools to maximize the environmental gains their land can deliver.

Philanthropy 120

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 120

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. Fifty percent of its residents were born outside of the US and identify as Latino/a ; about half of all families in the neighborhood live below the official poverty line.

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 128

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

My inspiration was seeing the lived experiences of Black people in America not really reflected in environmental conversations. IC: I think your book is very clearly a mix of your personal experiences, as well as both environmental history and political history. Black America called for climate action, climate solutions.

Environmental 126

Environmental Food Poverty Culture 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 31, 2024

Given the important benefits forests provide—not merely holding and absorbing heat-trapping CO 2 but improved air and water quality, biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation, and more—we urgently need a new approach for funding the climate, biodiversity, and social benefits of forest preservation, expansion, and management.

Finance 136

Finance Poverty Environmental Production 136

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?

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental Foundations Philanthropy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Black people who couldn’t access federal loans to buy homes in the suburbs were often relegated to industrialized areas, where exposure to toxic waste and other environmental hazards is unavoidable. As a 2021 United Nations report condemning environmental racism in the United States noted , most of these people are Black.

Food 132

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

For example, foregrounds the experiences of communities of color in the environmental justice movement. The climate cafes help to build a sense of community by enabling participants to share struggles and partake in environmental joy, translating into a community directly engaging in climate action.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Health Environmental Psychology 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

Of that total, the United States Environmental Protection Agency found that a minuscule 0.73 For example, in Robeson County, where almost three-quarters of residents are Black or Indigenous, many continue to experience poverty and hunger because they lack the support necessary to return from devastating, increasingly frequent climate events.

Philanthropy 105

Philanthropy Poverty Environmental Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

Image Credit: Jon Tyson on unpsplash.com In 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final strategy to reduce lead exposure. One of the stated goals of that report was to “identify communities with high lead exposures and improve their health outcomes.”

Curriculum and Teaching 75

Curriculum and Teaching Children Environmental Public and Social Policy 75

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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. How can we do a better job of bridging the gulf between housing and other sectors, such as environmental justice?

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Foundations 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

Amid varying and escalating environmental crises, is new construction keeping up with the pace of climate change—or should it even try? to Corpus Christi, Texas—a flood- and hurricane-prone region with deep pockets of poverty, poor health and economic and racial inequities.”

Construction 72

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 72

Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But community and labor leaders, housing and other advocacy groups, and environmental justice organizations are fighting back. In California this election year, we’re seeing efforts to reverse recent gains to advance racial and economic equity. A trust-based dynamic between power-building organizations and funders.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Foundations Poverty Environmental 105

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.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Little Market is a 501(c)(3), charitable organization founded by women to help alleviate poverty by sourcing their good from artisan groups in over 25 countries. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade. Products are sustainable and environmentally-friendly.

Ethics 130

Ethics Children Poverty Education 130

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

While 501(c)(3) nonprofits serve as cornerstones of positive change, addressing critical issues ranging from poverty and hunger to healthcare and environmental protection, their impact can be significantly amplified by stepping beyond direct service delivery. Is your mission to promote environmental sustainability?

Public Policy 72

Public Policy Environmental Education Education 72

Getting Attention

JUNE 15, 2015

Goldman Environmental Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Marketing Strategist Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Associate Web Producer , Director of Marketing and Creative Services , Marketing Manager & Multimedia Associate Clinton Foundation (New York, NY). Communications Associate. Louis, MO). Santa Rosa, CA).

Marketing 68

Marketing Marketing Environmental Associations 68

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.

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 103

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Across the country, organizations are advocating for the movement of these dollars to communities that are on the front lines of economic inequality, racial injustice, and environmental degradation. The sad truth is that philanthropy has often opposed—or at least declined to support—these efforts.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 139

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This includes building transnational activism that links anti-war, anti-militarism, and anti-nuclear work with the efforts of those campaigning for economic justice, environmental protection, open borders and migrant rights, anti-racism and anti-fascism, equality, and police and prison abolition.

Construction 111

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

By Stephan Manning & Yeşim Uygur Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the socioeconomic structures around them. The 2010 documentary Waste Land offers a good example.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The poverty rate is 52.4 The intentional integration of cultural narrative, strategic reinvestment, and community ownership is the most viable and maybe the only path forward to create both social and environmental impact. But today,100 years later, the same neighborhood looks very different.

Culture 122

Culture Poverty Governance Finance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Supporting Healing Justice and Holistic Security The JPB Foundation , which funds US-based medical research, poverty issues, and the environment, got involved with the Hive Fund when the senior officer for environmental justice, Anna Loizeaux, heard their focus areas of climate, gender and racial justice.

Environmental 98

Environmental Insurance Psychology Poverty 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Using market mechanisms, many social entrepreneurs have followed the example of Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank to set up enterprises with a main objective of tackling social or environmental issues. Financial capital | We find that the satisfaction and happiness of entrepreneurs increases with access to financial capital.

Social Entrepreneurship 122

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 122

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

During the pandemic, economic inequity and social and environmental injustice became hypervisible. The world became interested in what marginalized people knew about their own survival and paused to consider the cost of racism and environmental destruction as those two forces intersect and conspire with extractive economic systems.

Culture 128

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 128

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Harmful assumptions about payment behavior effectively criminalizes poverty and understates the harm that water shutoffs cause to low-income communities. Contamination often drives up treatment and therefore service costs and is a pervasive environmental justice issue.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 140

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

As Febron Mwiba, a COMSIP Environmental and Social Safeguards officer, notes, the food and nutrition security feat the farmers in Malawi have achieved is courtesy of manure. According to Mwiba, “We want them to curb their households’ poverty by equipping them with skills to produce more food at low cost.”

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Food Production Poverty 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Many others are feeling distress as they process the realities of widespread environmental and biodiversity loss. Yet, all individuals in social impact face a similar challenge, whether addressing things like housing, health care, or poverty. as well as slow-onset events (e.g., sea-level rise, melting of ice, etc.)

Health 103

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 103

Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

There are even categories for at least ten cause related affinities: health, arts, environmental, poverty, crisis relief, faith-based, among them. You can connect by geography and meet up if you’re near each other. So come on over to 501 Mission Place. I hope to see you inside!

Non-Profits 88

Non-Profits Poverty Nonprofits Health 88

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 23, 2023

The Nigerian government has a $2-billion ecological fund to tackle environmental problems, such as floods and drought, but much of that money cannot be accounted for. They all utilize excess water and help to irrigate farmlands long after floods and rainy seasons have passed. However, she notes that agroforestry offers a way forward.

Food 111

Food Agriculture Production Governance 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

Disability, poverty, and discrimination are part of a cycle where each reinforces the others. The global surge in recognizing and embracing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance practices has become a driving force for businesses to invest in people with disabilities worldwide.

Nonprofit governance and management 104

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 104

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.

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 105