Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Imagine Foundation has helped thousands of young workers with technology skills from the Middle East and North Africa navigate the European job and visa application process. Extending finance to unlock resource barriers. Finance is often a critical enabler for mobility. Language financing can also unlock opportunity.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. However, in America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. This disproportionality demands systemic solutions.

Poverty 116

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 116

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 23, 2024

If finance and telecommunications companies can collaborate to build infrastructure that benefits their industries, why not the nonprofit sector? That kind of shared toolbox will provide a new foundation that lets us leverage shared resources at scale, connect across silos, and solve big problems together driving impact.

Public and Nonprofit Management 59

Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 59

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. The lack of access to financing [meant that the grant] nearly destroyed the organization. Yet even after having been awarded an $11.2 million contract, CRH was initially blocked from obtaining access to needed capital.

Non-Profits 124

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 124

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The poverty rate is 52.4 Located at the convergence of downtown and historically Black South Memphis, in the neighborhood that Church built, Clayborn was the headquarters for the sanitation workers’ strike of 1968, the action King saw as the future of his multiracial movement to end US poverty.

Culture 122

Culture Poverty Governance Finance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. All are coached through the licensing process and learn how to secure financing.

Curriculum and Teaching 105

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 105

Candid

JULY 2, 2021

The Bill & Melinda Gates , Ford , and Open Society foundations have announced commitments of $2.1 The commitment includes $650 million to expand the foundation's support for women's empowerment collectives and efforts to strengthen the care economy, improve women's financial inclusion, and reduce barriers to paid work; and $1.4

Civil Society 91

Civil Society Health Governance Leadership 91

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

For example, our organization, One Acre Fund , supplies over 4 million African smallholder farmers with the finance, supplies, and training to grow more food, plant more trees, and earn more money. percent of climate adaptation finance need of smallholders is currently being met by all actors combined.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the 1930s and ’40s, banks and federal government officials redlined Summit Lake—a neighborhood named for its beautiful glacial lake—making it virtually impossible for anyone to qualify for a mortgage in the neighborhood or for any property owner, commercial or otherwise, to qualify for financing to make improvements.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

Candid

JUNE 4, 2021

As more than ten thousand people a day continue to die from COVID-19 around the world, a report from the Rockefeller Foundation calls for urgent action and proposes financing models for ensuring equitable global access to vaccines. No one is safe from COVID-19 until everyone is safe, and that means being vaccinated.

Finance 59

Finance Manufacturing Poverty Health 59

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Seeded with an initial $5 million grant from a local foundation, the land trust acquired nine parcels between 2005 and 2011. The group acquired properties at a discount from the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority and received a portfolio of homes from the Ford Foundation.

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

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

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

That question was at the heart of a recent talk by Dean Spade, a mutual-aid theorist and activist named a Freedom Scholar last year by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. Movement Financing Dilemmas So, back to Spade’s question on whether social movement activists should get paid.

Medical 122

Medical Universities Nonprofits Law 122

Getting Attention

MARCH 9, 2015

Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Business Development Manager Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York, NY). Communications Director , Communications Assistant , Communications Associate, Politics & Communications Associate Schusterman Family Foundation (Atlanta, GA). Tacoma, WA). RECENT JOB POSTS.

Communication 65

Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Associations 65

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

The next Google or Facebook has yet to emerge from places plagued by chronic poverty, and even when a high-tech sector sets foot in low-income regions, it often exacerbates income inequality. Yet, these attempts have not significantly reverted economic decline.

Entrepreneurship 130

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Food Finance 130

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 16, 2024

No Kid Hungry is a national campaign from Share Our Strength, a nonprofit working to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. Our innovative approach, fueled by cutting-edge data analytics, will greatly raise the bar on their fundraising efforts and achieve best in class revenue.

Children 52

Children Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Food 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

Indeed, the creative process can be particularly useful in contexts of poverty and hardship, where it can be difficult for people to think beyond their immediate opportunities and constraints, and imagine alternative futures. For example, in 2012 the MacArthur Foundation and the Burberry Foundation made $2.2

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In Cape Town, there was a modern apartment, a car, and a job in high-end finance. Poverty is not about the absence of material possessions. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.” ” The worlds could not have been further apart. Her neighbors and later her colleagues were largely illiterate.

Children 81

Children Poverty Leadership Education 81

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. Consider whether your community has a wide range of potential giving sources willing to help out, including individual donors , corporate sponsors, foundations, and government agencies. There are over 1.8 Where will we turn to for financial support?

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 110

The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Substantial will work with groups like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other well known organizations to elevate students’ voices during a decision making process. The terminology ‘balance the equation’ comes from Sheryl and her team’s work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So what does all of that mean?

Education 52

Education Education Governance Nonprofits 52

The Charity CFO

APRIL 25, 2024

According to their website, “At Connections, we provide a comprehensive network of services and support to help people living in poverty become economically self-sufficient. Summary For each of these organizations, Connections and Vermont Adult Learning, their growth resulted in increased complexity in their finances.

Nonprofit Accountability 52

Nonprofit Accountability Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this conversation between Cyndi Suarez, NPQ ’s president and editor in chief, and Kaytura Felix, managing director, Leadership for Better Health, at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the two leaders discuss medical racism, health justice, and what it really means for a system to support people’s health. And that has guided my work.

Health 118

Health Medical Leadership Healthcare 118

Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 8, 2023

There is a good chance that most people you know share your values (wanting a clean environment, equality, and an end to disease and poverty) so asking them to donate to a cause is giving them an opportunity to create the world they want to see. Maybe you’d like to approach foundations or corporations instead? That’s okay.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit governance and management Governance 98

iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Matching gift deadline “If signed by May 1, planned gifts of up to $250,000 will be matched with a 10% cash donation in your name from The XYZ Foundation.”[38] 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.”

Psychology 52

Psychology Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a national network of CDFIs, expects this federal investment will transform the clean energy financing ecosystem nationwide. Whether it does or not depends on CDFIs ability to address the challenge of placethe geographic inequities in access to community finance.

Finance 105

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The billionaires and multimillionaires starting foundations and funds and pledging to save the planet are using money taken off the backs of those on the front lines. The billionaires and multimillionaires starting foundations and funds and pledging to save the planet are using money taken off the backs of those on the front lines.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Amber Grant Foundation. Foundation for Women. Kellogg Foundation. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. 100 Women Charitable Foundation. Chicago Foundation for Women. The California Wellness Foundation. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The Patrina Foundation. Boulware Foundation.

Health 98

Health Entrepreneurship Foundations Education 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

At the same time, Black and Indigenous communities and communities of color have limited access to financing, including for activities that would support their active involvement in the shift to a green economy. These companies already have financing, staff, and revenue, and most have been running for four years or more.

Energy 111

Energy Finance Environmental Food 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. Companies like Wellthy use AI to offer customized care coordination tools and support, and companies like Carefull use advanced AI and machine learning techniques to detect fraud and enable adult children to manage the daily finances of their aging loved ones.

Curriculum and Teaching 122

Curriculum and Teaching Healthcare Technology Civil Society 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The framework also outlines seven main principles of climate justice, based on the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice principles. For example, brewing company AB InBev piloted a program with the innovative finance start-up OKO to provide weather index crop insurance directly to the smallholder farmers in its Ugandan supply chain.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Race and Ethnicity Energy 110

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. But the solutions coming from the fields of housing and climate change often are not as holistic as they need to be.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 111

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

While at the federation, Rosenthal helped lead a coalition that created the CDFI ( community development finance institution ) Fund. Our few winners were worthy institutions that served poverty communities from the South Bronx to the East Side of Cleveland to the Navajo reservation. I did not win.

Finance 110

Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Community Development Governance 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty. Borne overwhelmingly by the poorest and most vulnerable, it exacerbates their poverty and threatens their health. Where we have seen major, population-level, and systemic advances in social and economic well-being, governments have been the primary driving force.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

He launched the Grameen Bank , and a generation later microfinance—a system of providing small loans to people who otherwise do not have access to conventional banking—has reached every corner of the world, lifting millions out of poverty. Seller financing is a common way to facilitate sales. Let’s start with the money.

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Finance Non-Profits 138

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. According to various reports, only a small fraction of global climate finance directly targets gender equality.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 132

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.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

King was having a hard time convincing his friends, supporters, and funders about the merits of having a multiracial movement around poverty. We are also supported by two foundations in the city—the Assisi Foundation and the Hyde Foundation. He was like: “In Memphis, they are doing this work.

Governance 135

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 135

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Insights from the national survey will also provide the quantitative foundation of the post-capitalism website in development. The notion of a solidarity economy, once highly niche in the United States, continues to spread through different sectors, including housing, finance, and even philanthropy.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98