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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

Hardest hit by flooding was the Central Appalachia region, where years of disinvestment by government and philanthropy left the region ill prepared. What can philanthropy do? Insurance companies also treat flooding differently, so philanthropic funding is needed even more. A third grant provides $7.5

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Governments have returned ownership and management of millions of hectares of land in at least 39 countries. Engage government in collective action to create conditions for favorable tenure rights policies. Intentional partnership with government officials has been essential to recent progress. Enter collaborative funding.

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A Letter to Philanthropy: Saviorism Will Not Save Our Ecosystems

NonProfit Quarterly

Philanthropy Fuels the Fire Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress. 15 Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress. 12 This polycrisis 13 is magnified by a deep-seated culture of individualism and saviorism, especially in the Global North.

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Rethinking Food Culture Might Save Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Food changes into blood, blood into cells, cells change into energy which changes up into life. food is life. This work we’re doing in food culture is ultimately healing work. it’s only the seeds, and the land, and the food, that have the capacity to take that grief, and to metabolize and digest it.

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From Gig Work to Good Work: How Workforce Policy Can Support Gig Workers

NonProfit Quarterly

While governments, foundations, educators, and unions typically focus on job placements as key to improving people’s economic stability, they often overlook individuals who cannot commit to traditional employment schedules. For one, directly or indirectly, the government is usually the biggest employer of flexible labor in any area.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 If we fall short, the money from Louisville’s city-county government could be rescinded. And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. We secured $3.5

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Forget the Elevator Speeches and Give Your Board Members a Word-of-the-Month

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Data tidbits are helpful, too: “Do you know that our food pantry use has gone up 4% in the last six months?”. “Do Their job is much wider than governance and fundraising. Their specialty is “improving the quality of life in Grundy County through leadership and philanthropy.”