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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series 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. How can a community reduce food insecurity?

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Lillian D. Singh Joins Share Our Strength as Senior VP of Family Economic Opportunity

NonProfit PRO

As part of Share Our Strength’s executive team, Singh will lead the organization’s initiative to engage structural inequities that create, sustain, and perpetuate food insecurity and persistent poverty for families. .

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Deaths from Climate Change are Poverty Deaths

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Max Winkler on Unsplash “When people die of heat, they are actually dying of poverty,” the New York Times wrote in 2023 about a devastating heat wave during which 10 people died in Texas. But around the world, the climate emergency underscores the ongoing emergency of poverty.

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Towards Thriving: Building a Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

This article introduces Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series 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. These communities still live under food apartheid.

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Book Review: Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding

Selfish Giving

My two favorite causes profiled were UNICEF and the Food Bank For New York City because they both reminded me of my own organization in some way. The Food Bank For New York City had me thinking of our food pantry that this year will serve 90,000 men, women and children–nearly double the mouths we fed just two years ago.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

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Beer for a Cause Aids Family of Fallen Firefighter

Selfish Giving

“There’s more poverty on the island than people realize,” said Hughes. “The less the food and ingredients travel the better.” In 2004, they worked with Red Sox ace Curt Schilling on a Scottish ale to fight ALS. Watch City has even brewed ale to help the Bermuda Family Centre.

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