NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This article is the second installment of NPQ’s series on Community-Driven Philanthropy. Such land transfers would also enable Black farmers to engage in climate change mitigation practices and would enhance Black people’s food sovereignty. Food can act as medicine, especially when grown and maintained by community members.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

She also lives in a food desert, which makes getting nutritious and affordable food difficult. The nearest fresh food grocer is three miles away, across the 101 freeway. She can afford one big shopping trip in the month and at the end of the month she visits the local food pantry to subsidize until she gets her next paycheck.

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Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2023

What does the struggle for Black food sovereignty look like at the local level? In this webinar conversation, five Black food justice leaders share their experiences. All five panelists were all article authors of NPQ ’s fall 2022 series on Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This article introduces a new NPQ series titled Community-Driven Philanthropy. In this series, movement leaders explore what’s possible if philanthropy adopts a reparative model—one which supports the leadership of BIPOC communities, not just by writing grants, but by shifting assets and control over resources to frontline communities.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. Downtown grocery stores have recently disappeared, exacerbating food apartheid: between 2016 and 2018, five grocery stores in Louisville’s urban core closed. Some of these projects were top-down in conception and execution.

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Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Philanthropy can play a vital role by funding pilots and helping agencies develop metrics that incentivize agencies to meet the needs of workers who are reliant on nonstandard work. Philanthropy also enabled an initial pilot with the workforce agency covering Long Beach, CA. In recent years, the project turned to US workforce boards.

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Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Recruitment 113

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 21, 2020

This morning our Board of Trustees approved a grant to the County Health Department to start a Hoarding Task Force.”. Data tidbits are helpful, too: “Do you know that our food pantry use has gone up 4% in the last six months?”. “Do Their specialty is “improving the quality of life in Grundy County through leadership and philanthropy.”

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Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Foundations Governance 285

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

For example, in Indonesia organizations are working to shift their approach to better demonstrate how their work aligns with new governmental priorities, such as food security. This includes making the case for how protecting Indigenous land rights supports the cultivation of a strong food system. Enter collaborative funding.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 23, 2023

Whether preparing food for a sick neighbor or responding to humanitarian crises in their ancestral homelands or the US, they are guided by formal and informal giving, a strong part of Arab American heritage. The Center for Arab American Philanthropy , the nation’s only Arab American foundation, decided to fill this research gap.

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Philanthropy Participation and motivation Volunteerism Volunteerism 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In vibrant and thriving communities, people have the power and resources to realize their vision of health and well-being. Residents, regardless of zip code or how much money they have, can breathe clean air, eat healthy and culturally appropriate food, and have a safe, affordable place to call home.

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Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

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 magnitude of the problem warrants philanthropy and aid at scale.

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Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 126

Candid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Evolving school rules about illness as well as anxiety and other mental health issues stemming from the pandemic have also kept children home. Funders can make a difference by partnering with schools and communities to provide the wraparound support kids need to attend school regularly. Transportation and health care.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Such weather events impact the health of individuals living in affected communities. Low-income individuals live with higher rates of chronic disease , are more likely to be exposed to environmental hazards , have substandard housing, and often lack access to nutritious foods and adequate medical care. Be there for the long hall.

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Philanthropy Health Medical Nonprofit governance and management 110

Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Today on CauseTalk Radio , Megan and I talk to Jeremy Ball , who leads the Big Lots Foundation and is director of philanthropy and events for the parent company Big Lots , about the retailers impressive cause marketing efforts on behalf of Nationwide Children's Hospital. Big Lots Charity Pinup for the 2016 Program.

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Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. Brazil’s culture of giving and philanthropy has been growing since the 1980s.

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Civil Society Philanthropy Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aimee Arent , Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Aiza Ashraf , Director of Equity & Community Impact, United Way of Lancaster County Amber Badgett , Meaningful Day Services John Badstubner , ServiceNow Dolores Bates Lorrena Black , VP Leadership Development, Inforum Samantha Butterfield , Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre Marjorie (..)

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 12, 2023

I was a senior program officer with the trust at that point, and was new to philanthropy and fairly new to housing. Although new to both housing and philanthropy, I knew that where and how we live is integral to our health, education, and economic mobility. The problem is bigger than any one issue.

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Philanthropy Homelessness Public and Social Policy Foundations 116

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 3, 2020

Prior to her current role, Jennifer worked at Arkansas Children’s, serving as the Director of Communications and Planning for the Arkansas Children’s Foundation for five years, building capacity for investment-level philanthropy through strategic content development and storytelling. White or red? Or do you wind down the day another way?

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Communication Medical Nonprofits Universities 276

Selfish Giving

MARCH 15, 2011

NEAHP – Cause Marketing for Health Care Organizations. Thanks to everyone who came out for our presentation yesterday at the New England Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. This is a great example of a social media fundraiser with Massage Envy and Second Harvest Food Bank in California. What is cause marketing?

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Healthcare Marketing Marketing Food 184

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

From a Tech-Centric Approach to Cross-Sector Collaboration For all their expertise in building tools and infrastructure, tech companies often lack the kind of sector-specific understanding and ethical framework needed in philanthropy. Tools developed from a tech-centric approach might fail to account for bias, equity, or accessibility.

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Collaborations Ethics Technology Foundations 69

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 14, 2024

How Has Education Philanthropy Responded? For the past four years, the Schott Foundation for Public Education has worked with Candid to measure the grantmaking priorities of those in K-12 education philanthropy. If there was a racial justice reckoning in 2020, K-12 education philanthropy as a sector was slow to act upon it.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2024

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. Along with feelings about climate change eroding mental health, climate events can contribute to loneliness.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

Isabelle Leighton: I love that you’re starting with a nice and easy question, not like my favorite food or anything! It doesn’t fall within the same political ideological frameworks that are presented within a lot of the traditional philanthropy. So, this is a great question and something we get asked a lot. It looks different.

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Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Recruitment Foundations 105

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The food bank is supported in part by the Dogwood Health Trust, which is committing more than $30 million to support initial relief efforts. Prest MANNA FoodBank Hurricane Helene devastated the MANNA FoodBank Swannanoa River Road distribution center in Asheville, N.C.

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Foundations Health Food Marketing 144

Selfish Giving

MARCH 29, 2010

Cause marketing isn’t blue-blooded philanthropy. Consider that a city like Boston went from having a handful of health clubs 15 years ago to 20 or more today. Rent, food, phone, and, yeah, health club. It’s red-blooded. And some of these clubs get a $130 and up a month in dues.

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Marketing Marketing Retail Health 167

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Coproduced with Justice Funders , a group that organizes philanthropy to advance a just transition to an equitable and sustainable economy and planet, this series highlights case studies of emerging funding networks facilitating investment in liberatory economic practices in frontline BIPOC communities.

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Finance Food Agriculture Governance 138

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 17, 2024

Medical debt relief has become a growing public policy priority for philanthropists and lawmakers worried about the toll on Americans’ financial, mental, and physical health. The post Jury Is Out On Philanthropy And Medical Debt appeared first on The NonProfit Times. Yet, there are also reasons for caution.”

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The Kindful Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Plus we’ll include resources and data about women in philanthropy that we compiled with nonprofits in mind. Donate hygiene, cleaning, or non-perishable food items. Mission: Helping Women Period is committed to supplying menstrual health products to people that menstruate who are either homeless or low-income.

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Poverty Health Philanthropy Education 122

Selfish Giving

JANUARY 5, 2022

Corporate Relations Manager, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program , ($56,300) 3. Associate Director of Philanthropy - Corporate & Community Giving, University of Kentucky , Lexington, KY ($48k - $81k) 4. Brain Food 1. I really liked #5: #Whamageddon. ?? Cool Jobs in Cause 1. I'm happy to post it here for FREE. ????

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Public and Nonprofit Management Marketing Marketing Homelessness 130

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 4, 2024

Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, “Kindred Offering to this Moment” In a time of increasing external threats impacting community health—economic inequality, genocide, global pandemics, state violence, White supremacy, authoritarianism, climate crises—there are many reasons to feel despair and hopelessness.

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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. In cities like Richmond, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, which had experienced ‘food apartheid,’ the need for locally grown, healthy food supported the rise of urban farms that employed returning citizens.

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Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 131

Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Each year, the largest share of individual giving supported human services organizations (including organizations providing essential services like food and shelter)—on average 33% of total individual giving, compared with 14% of total institutional grant dollars. Source: Data from GivingTuesday Fundraising Effectiveness Project.

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Poverty Education Education Health 124

Selfish Giving

JANUARY 31, 2024

An interesting article on how New Jersey's largest health system, Hackensack Meridian Health , developed a content strategy that involved a content-first, channel-second approach that any nonprofit could adopt. Brain Food 1. More: Readers Respond to Op-Ed Criticizing Trust-Based Philanthropy 2. Wounded Warrior Project. ?

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Philanthropy Health Nonprofits Marketing 147

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.

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Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

NPQ health justice editors, Nineequa Blanding and Sonia Sarkar, share some of their favorite articles published in 2022. Control in Healthcare: History and Reclamation of Bodily Autonomy from the Reclaiming Control: The History and Future of Choice in Our Health series.  . How Can We Support Youth Mental Health? .

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Ann Green

JULY 7, 2020

If you’re working on issues such as affordable housing, homelessness, education, health care, etc, these have ties to racism. Have nonprofit and philanthropy become the “white moderate” that Dr. King warned us about? Your organization shouldn’t be afraid to talk about racism when you tell your stories or communicate in other ways.

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