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Commentary: The Full Potential Of The Social Sector  

The NonProfit Times

Government and philanthropic funding for the nonprofit social sector routinely fail to cover the full cost of providing services and restricts how nonprofits can use that funding by disallowing or limiting investments in necessary infrastructure, such as technology, marketing, and talent.

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Executive Director

Anedot

During that time, we’ve refined and optimized our processes to offer a unique and highly impactful service to those living homeless while housed. Develop and manage relationships with key donors, community contacts, nonprofit directors, and grant makers in the homeless/social service area. Fundraising & Development: a.

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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success

NonProfit Leadership Center

She went to Uganda where she lived and worked with an NGO on strategic planning and board governance. I was assigned to Starting Right Now for my project,” Erin says, “which is an organization that exists to solve generational poverty by ending homelessness for students. Erin took some time off from practicing law to travel.

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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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Centering Racial Justice in the Fight for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hard-wired into systems and programs at all levels of government and the private sector, these policies bolstered white Americans’ stability, wealth, and access to opportunity while concentrating the effects of segregation, displacement, destabilization, gentrification, and poverty on BIPOC populations.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? Obviously, the only entity with the assets and power structure to move this needle is the national government.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.