NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It is jointly governed by members of the Nakoda and Aaniiih nations, and includes a 22,000- acre (over 34,000 square miles) bison reserve, home to a herd of over 500 buffalo. Founded in 1999 and similar in mission to NAEDC, the nonprofit supports ecotourism while also promoting “food sovereignty and ecological stewardship.”

Nonprofit governance and management 135

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 135

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. How does a community come together to build community wealth and advance Black food sovereignty? A little over two years ago, Black food advocates came together in Raleigh to form the Black Farmers’ Hub.

Food 116

Food Agriculture Governance Children 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Smallholder farmers produce at least a third of the global food supply. As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. Though these farms are small, typically under two hectares, their cumulative impact is large. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

Agriculture 101

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Yet in that year, the World Bank’s International Development Assistance alone had pledged about a third of that amount to governments affected by fragility and conflict. Paradoxically, some of these governments contributed to the violence against their people. Those controlling the taps need to readjust the plumbing.

Poverty 97

Poverty Finance Governance Health 97

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts. Even where work requirements do lead to increases in employment, they mostly keep people in poverty. In some cases, the share of families living in deep poverty increased.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 106

Candid

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Hardest hit by flooding was the Central Appalachia region, where years of disinvestment by government and philanthropy left the region ill prepared. Insurance companies also treat flooding differently, so philanthropic funding is needed even more. How much relief funding has been invested in the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season?

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Disaster Relief Insurance Medical 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

Yet it is precisely at this moment, when democracy is being challenged from all sides, and when the limitations of our nearly 250 years of governing are coming to a breaking point, that we must rise up and fulfill this mandate. Trust in government is at near-record lows because none have yet delivered for all. This work is urgent.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 100

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. She relied on her benefits to keep food on the table and a roof over her family’s head.

Public and Social Policy 95

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 95

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Then, we’ve been trying to compare the information given by the federal government and the one been given by the Puerto Rico government, which was usually different in terms of the amount of money. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. The wording, the categories of the information.

Governance 130

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Most of them rely on rainfed agriculture, leaving them open to shocks like droughts and storms that can wipe out their crops and leave them without enough food to see their families through the year. The challenge is that carbon markets weren't designed to work for people in poverty.

Philanthropy 117

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 117

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 99

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 99

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

1 Philanthropy’s Conflicting Commitments Over the course of the last two and a half years, Marguerite Casey Foundation has supported efforts across the country to reimagine safety, increase access to public dollars, and seed in everyday people’s imagination the belief that our government dollars should be used to improve their lives.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 118

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism. In this community, poverty remains a challenge: 16.4 percent of families live below the poverty line, a poverty rate more than six percentage points higher than Seattle.

Community Development 113

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 113

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO), over 1.6 Food Production Challenges It is difficult for most households to produce enough food without fertilizer application in Malawi. Shortages and high prices of fertilizer affect the entire food supply chain.

Agriculture 75

Agriculture Food Production Poverty 75

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 97

Finance Governance Philanthropy Health 97

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

RB: The last installment of the report uplifts how mass incarceration exacerbates poverty. The report mentions how, in many states across the country, incarcerated people are paid little or nothing for their work while their labor is used to produce many of the foods and products we consume. There was this zero-sum game mindset.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 106

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. A How-to Guide for Scaling Deep.

Entrepreneurship 118

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Food Finance 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 5, 2023

From displacement and poverty to illness and environmental degradation, the urgent challenges facing the world today call for innovative approaches that combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear understanding of the problems and a firm footing in communities. ”—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2019.

Collaborations 122

Collaborations Culture Technology Governance 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Smallholder farmers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) make up the bulk of agri-food businesses worldwide, accounting for a significant part of all formal agribusinesses and more than half of their full-time workforces. A long investment horizon of up to 10 years Only in the agri-food value chain. But there is more.

Finance 95

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 95

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.” In the wake of emergencies like wildfires or floods, people may be forced to move , to leave their communities and support systems.

Health 82

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 82

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

The federal government officially ended the public health emergency on May 11, 2023. People with disabilities face a range of legal and societal forms of discrimination that have led to higher unemployment rates and rates of poverty compared to nondisabled workers. Our ability to produce should not impact our value as human beings.”

Health 133

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Nonprofit Administration and Development 133

Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

Data to pinpoint needs in specific communities Unfortunately, government survey data does not accurately represent “hard-to-count” at-risk populations who are less likely to speak English or to trust the government—which includes many of the people nonprofits like CASL serve.

Governance 59

Governance Food Health Collaborations 59

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Commissioned by the Swiss government, the report analyzes the question that has been hanging over the market since 2006: Does ESG integration in fact have impact? For the first, picture the SDGs in their multi-colored variety—no poverty, zero hunger, clean water and sanitation, climate action, etc., Work with governments.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Participation and motivation 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

The federal government recommends at least one educator per three to four infants for safe, quality care. The Center for American Progress wrote in a 2021 report, “Parents who spend thousands of dollars each year on child care are often surprised to hear that their children’s teachers make poverty-level wages.”

Insurance 80

Insurance Children Poverty Education 80

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

For millennia, oceans, rivers, and forests provided an abundance of food and other resources for the residents of this area, until the late 1800s, when white settlers arrived and began to extract gold and timber. Though ecologically and culturally rich, the county ranks in the bottom eighth in California for per-capita income.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to a 2014 study of wage theft in California and New York , wage theft doesn’t just hurt low-wage and immigrant workers, it also contributes to poverty, increases the need for SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program, formerly known as “food stamps), and increases the cost of public assistance services.

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 90

Getting Attention

MARCH 9, 2015

Investigative Journalist & Marketing/ Communications Specialist Better Government Association (Chicago, IL). Marketing Strategist The Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Social Engagement Coordinator Food & Water Watch (Washington, DC). Graphic Designer Stop Hunger Now (Raleigh, NC).

Communication 65

Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Associations 65

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 6, 2024

These cross-border payments not only support individual livelihoods, but they also help alleviate poverty by providing financial resources for basic needs like healthcare and education, enhancing national economic stability , and helping to take the pressure off burdened social services system s. billion in 2021 and $20.1

Governance 54

Governance Technology Collaborations Poverty 54

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Agriculture programs, for example, often focus on food security rather than achieving productivity gains, despite the fact that countries have not historically “smallholder-farmed” their way into prosperity. In the social enterprise and impact investment space, reliance on the “individual as consumer” frame can perhaps be traced back to C.K.

Production 104

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Education 104

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). This farm supports 20 immigrant and refugee farmers and emerging food entrepreneurs. As Rudy Espinoza of Inclusive Action tells Duranti-Martinez, “If the community needs five years to figure out governance, we’ll get them five years, but first, we’ve got to get the buildings” (30).

Public and Nonprofit Management 93

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 93

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. For example, if you are a health nonprofit, write a post about foods that help lower blood pressure, or provide tips on how to exercise at home. Interview Experts. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

Disaster Relief 86

Disaster Relief Nonprofits Poverty Environmental 86

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. For example, if you are a health nonprofit, write a post about foods that help lower blood pressure, or provide tips on how to exercise at home. Interview Experts. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

Disaster Relief 94

Disaster Relief Nonprofits Poverty Environmental 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the children most at risk of lead exposure are under six years of age and can come in contact with lead through chipping paint in older homes, imported food or cosmetics, drinking water from lead plumbing or pipes, and even the soil around older buildings or roads.

Curriculum and Teaching 59

Curriculum and Teaching Children Environmental Public and Social Policy 59

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

12 Its demands include freedom for all imprisoned and detained people; resistance to surveillance, policing, and militarized responses to COVID-19; access to quality healthcare now and in the future; access to housing, food, and economic security; and international efforts to end US imperialism and militarism.

Construction 78

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 78

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The American Farmland Trust protects agricultural land, promotes environmentally sound farming practices, and helps farmers continue to grow food for us all. These gifts would be perfect for a loved one passionate about sustainable farming, growing food, and farmer appreciation. Shop their online store to help promote their mission.

Children 105

Children Environmental Nonprofits Agriculture 105

Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

Employees might need alternative cash flow or live close to poverty, which is especially difficult for employees with lived experiences. What if, instead, we measured nonprofits by retention, their willingness to use reserves for salary increases (excluding bonuses), and the number of employees living above the poverty line?

Poverty 52

Poverty Values Health Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. For example, if you are a health nonprofit, write a post about foods that help lower blood pressure, or provide tips on how to exercise at home. Interview Experts. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

Disaster Relief 46

Disaster Relief Nonprofits Poverty Environmental 46