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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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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. For that city’s Black households?

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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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Top 5 Words to Avoid to Achieve Messaging Awesomeness

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

We’re just eradicating extreme global poverty.” “Our Compare: “We’re trying to get junk food out of schools.”. We’re getting junk food out of schools.”. Sure, you might not have gotten 100% of the junk food out of the schools yet, but that’s the goal, right? Just’ : The word ‘just’ downplays your work and your impact.

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What Does Tribal Land Stewardship Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

Founded in 1999 and similar in mission to NAEDC, the nonprofit supports ecotourism while also promoting “food sovereignty and ecological stewardship.” A Montana State study from 2019 estimated that the poverty rate statewide for Native communities exceeded 30 percent. Fort Belknap Reservation: Montana Poverty Report Card.

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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 Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Smallholder farmers produce at least a third of the global food supply. As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. Though these farms are small, typically under two hectares, their cumulative impact is large. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.