Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Whether you celebrate Lent or not, now is a good time to think about something you can afford to give up in your nonprofit – your poverty mindset. Poverty mindset stunts a nonprofit’s growth. Think of a food pantry for example. Today is Ash Wednesday which means it’s the start of the Lenten season.

Poverty 40

Poverty Nonprofits Food Nonprofit Organizations 40

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2024

Those most impacted by a lack of or failing infrastructure, including the elderly and people living in poverty, are at high risk for loneliness. The nonprofit sponsors monthly and annual meetups with free food, snacks, and games. Awaiting them was hot chocolate, tea, food, and connections.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Sociology Health Medical 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

For Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, the creation of borders that have been imposed upon tribal nations has led to a tremendous loss of land, natural resources, culture, food systems, language, economies, and a thousand generations of traditional knowledge. Another measure of poverty and wealth is owning land or owning a home.

Health 98

Health Poverty Public and Social Policy Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

What was your research process of pulling all of these dense topics, from global warming, to faith, to redlining, to greenlining, to food insecurity together in an accessible, easy-to-read way? How have these Black women shaped your understanding, your leadership, and your journey all of those past years? Beverly Wright.

Environmental 126

Environmental Food Poverty Culture 126

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Address “the direct needs of Black communities by focusing on issues related to poverty and economic security,” including health, financial literacy and economic wellness, food insecurity, workforce development, education and youth development (11).

Nonprofits 124

Nonprofits Leadership Poverty Social Policy 124

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Mutual aid can include the bartering of services or goods; or the free exchange of items, from cooking meals or delivering food, to clothing drives, prescription pickups, home repair, or childcare. With safety nets overwhelmed and record numbers of people facing job loss and poverty, mutual aid groups stepped in to fill the void.

Food 105

Food Philanthropy Children Poverty 105

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Oxfam : To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Foundations 126

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

Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. are fundraising or selling items to raise money (36%), preparing or distributing food (34%), collecting and distributing goods or clothing (26.5%), and mentoring youths (26%).

Volunteerism 111

Volunteerism Volunteerism Participation and motivation Disaster Relief 111

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Nonprofits were the first to activate, in terms of immediately putting together places for people to eat, distribution of food and water, of generators, of whatever people needed. Understanding emerging critical forms of information and community leadership is key. All the learnings from Maria were activated this time.

Governance 139

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 139

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 121

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 121

Candid

JUNE 27, 2024

Ensuring impact in any area requires examining if, how, and why outcomes vary by gender; exploring solutions that work for women; addressing root causes; and acknowledging women’s “lived experiences, leadership, and genius,” the authors write. In the area of agriculture, women produce 60% to 80% of food crops in low-income countries.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Poverty Health Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

What I cared about was poverty, poor people, and those on the margins—those with less material resources. CS: You also talk about the power of leadership—and I know that when you went to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, your aim was to combine this work with leadership. I was a financial aid student in medical school.

Health 118

Health Medical Leadership Healthcare 118

Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

When nonprofits value the worth of their employees by creating competitive financial packages, recognizing that staff are choosing service work as a career, and prioritizing time to develop their skills and nurture their leadership, we can change how we have historically undervalued nonprofit employees, and everyone will benefit.

Poverty 52

Poverty Values Health Nonprofit governance and management 52

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 56

Governance Technology Collaborations Poverty 56

NonProfit Leadership Center

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The Nonprofit Leadership Center’s Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide highlights gifts for everyone on your list, with some or all of the proceeds benefiting nonprofits. Gifts in this 2024 guide were curated by the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s nonprofit community through a submission process in November.

Children 225

Children Nonprofit Leadership Nonprofits Leadership 225

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 16, 2020

However, at the other end of the spectrum are advocates who call these sad photos “ poverty porn ” and believe that sad photos are disrespectful, often racist, exploitative, and damaging to the dignity of all involved. TruSense found that many of its food bank clients did well with happier messaging.

Fundraising 227

Fundraising Fundraising Poverty Food 227

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Institutions, hierarchies, and forms of leadership rooted in Western colonial ideology are failing, being renegotiated, and getting deconstructed—even in the face of intense backlash. Our leadership, needed now more than ever, is being tested like never before.

Leadership 111

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, youth activists and organizers continue to be outspoken, recognizing that the climate crisis continues to worsen, exacerbated by such concurring injustices as poverty and wealth inequality, authoritarianism, and genocide. You are deciding what kind of a world we are growing up in. That land belongs to them, not us.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

Anedot

MARCH 24, 2025

About the Organization Canal Alliance exists to break the generational cycle of poverty for Latino immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success. The post Immigration Senior Staff Attorney first appeared on Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership.

Race and Ethnicity 52

Race and Ethnicity Insurance Participation and motivation Children 52

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. I don’t live in poverty. This includes trust not only in an organization but its leadership.

Philanthropy 111

Philanthropy Participation and motivation Volunteerism Volunteerism 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. There has been huge growth in worker co-ops and significant growth in Black food co-ops.

Food 89

Food Activism Poverty Leadership 89

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

While Black elites have amassed political and financial power, the vast majority of Black Atlantans continue to experience high rates of poverty, housing insecurity, and labor exploitation. CoopEcon , one of SGEPs major projects, continues to meet annually under the leadership of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives.

Poverty 102

Poverty Philanthropy Agriculture Education 102

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Girls get taken out of school to care for siblings and/or help with locating food and water, disrupting their education and future opportunities. 9 Furthermore, the impacts of climate change on food security, such as higher rates of anemia, disproportionately affect adolescent girls, further exacerbating educational disruptions.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

Image credit: Ron Lach on Pexels.com When it comes to identity, ideas about leadership generally reflect existing social hierarchies and binaries. As a Black cisgendered woman, a first-generation college student from the deep South, and a person born in poverty, social justice movements have touched every aspect of my life.

Leadership 126

Leadership Poverty Culture Values 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level.

Food 126

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 126

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Center’s Population and Sustainability program works to decrease consumption of climate-intensive energy, food, and goods in the Global North. food industry.” Small farms…accounted for just a quarter of food production in 2017” and “just 10 percent of” dairy specifically. And there was a lot to learn.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

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. We pay our diverse network of speakers and facilitators for their time and contributions in our community-building events and leadership programs. We advocate for parity between the business and nonprofit sectors.

Public and Social Policy 132

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

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We treat cooperative development work not as a static formula but as a learning laboratory where experimentation, creativity, and new expressions of leadership are accepted and encouraged. We developed a curriculum built around the idea of mentorship, economics, and leadership.” The goal? “A

Non-Profits 137

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The CDC and public health research shows that only 20, maybe 25, percent of life expectancy and health status is attributable to healthcare and the other 75 to 80 percent [is attributable] to other factors that are rooted in community, including housing, poverty, air quality, water quality, and quality of jobs.

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Health Foundations Philanthropy 90

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

“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. May the work of our movements serve to reimagine ways to govern and steward capital.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 133

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

After all, it’s hard for local farmers to sell their crops or eggs or cattle when they’re competing with free food from a foreign government or institution. The major imports are high-value-added manufacturing products, refined petroleum, and staple foods. Leaders are also avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Can Foreign Aid Work?

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Energy Participation and motivation 144

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

The Anniston community united around the reality that changing workers experiences was vital to overcoming food and housing insecurity and other barriers they faced. He is a system-impacted person whose leadership in his community and the CBA led to a good job and a union contract.

Energy 81

Energy Manufacturing Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 81

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In reality, more than 70 percent of children in foster care today are in foster care because of what the system calls neglect, which is largely related to poverty issues. Mandatory reporting laws shifted the nature of child welfare services from poverty relief to investigation and surveillance. But I don’t think that’s widely known.

Children 142

Children Poverty Law Public and Social Policy 142

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In food or water shortages and in housing emergencies sons tend to be given preference over daughters and husbands over wives. They experience higher rates of homelessness, increased levels of poverty, and increased exposure to violence. Girls are often taken out of school to work or to marry.

Activism 132

Activism Environmental Governance Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

The effort resulted in a shift from a White-led nonprofit to an organization that reflects the majority people of color communities that it serves—not just in terms of staffing and leadership but also in terms of overall movement practice. Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? Dubb, “The Economy is ” Ibid.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 96