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Industry Overviews: Online Grocery Sales & Cough & Cold Medicine Manufacturing OTC

Selfish Giving

The industry comprises companies that are based online and those that have both a physical presence and also sell food products on the internet. Cough & Cold Medicine Manufacturing OTC This industry manufactures over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold treatments and suppressants.

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Comment on Why Do Women Leaders Lag? And What You Can Do About It by Pamela Belyea

Amy Eisenstein

A food service company that supplies local colleges? A clothing manufacturing company that makes uniforms for high school athletic teams? Please give examples of women-owned business that “serve” the nonprofit sector? This is not a definition that I am familiar with. A publisher of books for hospital personnel?

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

Candid

It also hit manufactured housing communities, home to many in the tourism and service industries that drive the states economy. In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding.

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The Future of Location-Based Cause Marketing Unfolds with CheckPoints

Selfish Giving

If you make a purchase, the manufacturer and/or retailer donates to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. CheckPoints’ initial partners include Tyson Foods , Belkin , Energizer and Seventh Generation. CheckPoints already allows shoppers to donate their points to nine causes.

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Newsletter: Funding Freeze: What Nonprofits Must Do NOW; How to Approach Audience Research; FCC Investigates PBS, NPR Sponsorship Practices

Selfish Giving

For example, a morning-after pill manufacturer is partnering with Louisiana health clinics to donate its contraceptive in the House Speakers home state every time Mike and his colleagues try to shut down access, spread misinformation or spew anti-contraception messaging. 55k - $58k) Brain Food 1.

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NPOs Consistently Better Than For-Profits on Jobs

The NonProfit Times

The steepest employment decline occurred in accommodation and food services, a sector largely made up of for-profit businesses. Job losses during the recession were most pronounced in industries with relatively few nonprofits, such as construction and manufacturing. percent in nonprofits. Nonprofit employment jumped 5.5%