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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology. In 2022, 48% owned their homes, only 4% had any investment income, 25% were covered by public health insurance, and 10% had no coverage at all.

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

Candid

And as a result of repeated storms, insurance companies have been leaving Florida or increasing insurance rates, creating a crisis of underinsurance that Milton will exacerbate. Insurance companies also treat flooding differently, so philanthropic funding is needed even more. In the U.S.,

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

At present, one of UNEC’s most critical projects is to convene a multi-partner collaboration in the city’s Northeast Corridor neighborhoods to transform our local food system. I’ve observed the inner workings of a complex food system that, when it functions well, nourishes our bodies, families, and cultures.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

She relied on her benefits to keep food on the table and a roof over her family’s head. But living in an area with no access to childcare, she was forced out of desperation to drop her child at Walmart during the day because it had security guards, a bathroom, and inexpensive food for purchase. They’re effective.

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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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How to Attract Childcare Workers? Virginia Tries Fast Training and Higher Pay

NonProfit Quarterly

Karin Bowles, vice president of strategy at the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, told Axios that retirees would be excellent candidates for the initiative, as would food industry or home care workers, or anyone desiring to find a second career where they might make a difference. The median pay for a childcare worker nationally was $13.11

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