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Defying the Odds: The Case for Investing in Organizing Workers in the South

NonProfit Quarterly

There is no question that the regions history of union busting and so-called right-to-work laws makes worker organizing difficult. In Louisiana, for example, workers are holding dollar store chains accountable for paying poverty wages and creating unsafe work environments. In the Southa new wave of organizing is underway.

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No Wonder Retention of Online Donors is So Bad

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation sent 8 emails in 8 months, but 4 of them came in May. Southern Poverty Law Center sent me one email in April asking for a renewal. Southern Poverty Law Center also stood out for me, but not in a good way, because of the annoying plastic mail and phone call.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. This work is urgent. It won’t be easy.

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Creating a Partnership Between Fundraisers and Marketers [TOMORROW]

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

It’s a problem we hear a lot, so that’s we’ve developed a BRAND NEW WEBINAR with the help of Mark Rovner who has worked with organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. TOMORROW, August 17th. Pacific).

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The State of Prison Reform: A Conversation with Nazgol Ghandnoosh

NonProfit Quarterly

RB: The last installment of the report uplifts how mass incarceration exacerbates poverty. Issues of poverty and racial bias in the South are super salient and continue to be a problem.” That hasn’t become law, but that’s the momentum that’s happening around that issue. There was this zero-sum game mindset.

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Trusting community organizers to build a multiracial democracy

Candid

Fund, the San Francisco Foundation, and the California Wellness Foundation, have long partnered with power-building organizations such as Oakland Rising and statewide networks like PICO California. Foundations across California have begun to work together in strategic alliances.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Casey Foundation. They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. Casey Foundation’s mission is to create a brighter future for America’s children, young people, and families.