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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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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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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. By comparison, the rate of financial hardship at retail trade nonprofits (e.g., One in five nonprofit workers struggle to afford the basics Of the 13.9

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Newsletter: Tomorrow: How Sales Coaching Boosted This Nonprofit’s Partner Outreach ; How to Land a Partnership Deal Before Year-End ; Is SantaCon Just a Con?

Selfish Giving

This cannabis retailer encourages customers to recycle the plastic that encases certain cannabis products by offering a $4 pre-rolled joint for every piece of packaging they return. This year, they are back with an all-new holiday campaign to tackle period poverty. Brain Food 1. We have two fabulous presenters.??

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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts. Even where work requirements do lead to increases in employment, they mostly keep people in poverty. In some cases, the share of families living in deep poverty increased.

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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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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to shatter previous records by reaching at least $218.3 The Little Market is a 501(c)(3), charitable organization founded by women to help alleviate poverty by sourcing their good from artisan groups in over 25 countries. Food & Drink.

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