Selfish Giving

MARCH 20, 2019

This month you can buy a shamrock at 20,000 retails locations. In February, Idaho-based Jackson Food Stores with 230 convenience stores in six western states raised $187,000 for the Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence. Brain Food 1. The campaign has been around for 37 years. That's a lot of green!

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Nonprofits need to be ready to adapt. And, as Clark Sweat at CMN has said, nonprofits have to ask: "How do we insert ourselves into that?" This week, parents are calling for a boycott of the movie Peter Rabbit because it makes light of a character's food allergy. Checkout charity is changing. Sony Pictures has issued an apology.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

There’s nothing more exciting than making the decision to start a nonprofit! But first, you need to build a solid foundation so your nonprofit will thrive, not struggle. Seriously, about half of all new nonprofits don’t make it through the first year or so. Everyone starts a nonprofit to make a difference.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

Because the impact from these for-profit investments is exactly the same as the impact from our nonprofit grants: More than half of the organizations are directly impacting more than 10,000 lives, more than 40 percent are impacting 50,000 lives, a quarter are impacting 500,000 lives and more than a fifth, millions of lives.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Adelante Mujeres (which means Forward, Women), the nonprofit where we work and which has operated for over two decades, seeks to answer this question. The program was launched by the nonprofit Adelante Mujeres during the Great Recession in 2008. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses?

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 24, 2023

With mobile bidding, your nonprofit can easily keep track of incoming bids and your attendees can join in on the auction fundraising process right from their phones. For In-Person Bidding During this final stage, confirm your event schedule, food and entertainment, venue details, and seating charts. Share This Post!

Fundraising 52

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

Image Credit: Justin Wilkens on unsplash.com In 2021, more than 40 percent of all retail stores that opened in the United States were dollar stores. Increasingly, dollar stores are driving “grocery stores and other retailers out of business” (6), according to a recent report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. When families lack the income for food, transport, school fees, uniforms, and essentials like menstrual products, girls are the first to drop out of school.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.

Public and Social Policy 57

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 57

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 78

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 10, 2024

Opened in 2023, this full-service grocer focused on the African diaspora through food (including a halal butchery, restaurant, cafe, and gathering space) has the audacious goal of controlling the food marketplace and attaining food sovereignty. The need for food sovereignty is urgent, to hear Samad tell it.

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Food Community Development Medical Nonprofit governance and management 114

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” …I advise everybody, be a little careful…best stay woke, keep their eyes open. 7 But it’s not just California where workers are making gains.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 23, 2023

That share ownership comes with two core bundles of rights for shareholders: economic rights, which provide monetary value, and governance rights, which grant control over the enterprise. Well-known examples include home care agency CHCA and fair trade food and beverage company Equal Exchange.

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