NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 106

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 6, 2010

For UNICEF it was empathetic globals , “people who care about the developing world and feel very strongly that people and the government should do much more to help those in need.&#. Identify and label your core supporter community. Yeah, the vision thing that stirs donors’ ideals and giving.

Food 198

Food Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 198

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The problem is not lack of potential impact; SMEs represent nine out of 10 firms, the biggest employers worldwide, and without helping these firms grow, we cannot create jobs, lift people from poverty, empower women, or innovate solutions for the climate crisis. There are 3.4 There are 3.4 Not philanthropy’s problem.

Philanthropy 85

Philanthropy Poverty Public and Social Policy Non-Profits 85

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For example, in Saint Paul, MN, the historically Black Rondo neighborhood was virtually destroyed when the federal government built Interstate 94 through the community. Government intervention can create meaningful change, but as the above examples illustrate, that change can often be for the worse.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Poverty Governance 108

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

Agriculture 101

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

Yet it is precisely at this moment, when democracy is being challenged from all sides, and when the limitations of our nearly 250 years of governing are coming to a breaking point, that we must rise up and fulfill this mandate. Trust in government is at near-record lows because none have yet delivered for all. This work is urgent.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 100

Candid

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Hardest hit by flooding was the Central Appalachia region, where years of disinvestment by government and philanthropy left the region ill prepared. Insurance companies also treat flooding differently, so philanthropic funding is needed even more. How much relief funding has been invested in the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season?

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Disaster Relief Insurance Medical 119

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Then, we’ve been trying to compare the information given by the federal government and the one been given by the Puerto Rico government, which was usually different in terms of the amount of money. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. The wording, the categories of the information.

Governance 130

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 130

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. Jobs with these qualities are just one part of a supportive social safety net.

Public and Social Policy 95

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 95

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It is jointly governed by members of the Nakoda and Aaniiih nations, and includes a 22,000- acre (over 34,000 square miles) bison reserve, home to a herd of over 500 buffalo. A Montana State study from 2019 estimated that the poverty rate statewide for Native communities exceeded 30 percent. Eric Henson et al.,

Nonprofit governance and management 135

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 5, 2023

billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. billion (about $1 billion) in 2020, while government spending was SGD 36.6 billion (about $1 billion) in 2020, while government spending was SGD 36.6

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Deeply embedded racism and systemic inequality are clearly reflected in government budgets through the ways certain communities receive investment while others do not. In 1989, when the PB form was first developed in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the central aim was to reduce poverty by changing how budget decisions were made.

Governance 96

Governance Poverty Associations Marketing 96

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. However, in America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. This disproportionality demands systemic solutions.

Poverty 99

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 99

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For the last few years, there have been major clashes between Mississippi’s state government and its majority-Black capital city. Yet, despite the mayor’s efforts to create a path for continued city governance, his pleas have gone unheard.

Environmental 93

Environmental Health Poverty Governance 93

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 119

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

1 Philanthropy’s Conflicting Commitments Over the course of the last two and a half years, Marguerite Casey Foundation has supported efforts across the country to reimagine safety, increase access to public dollars, and seed in everyday people’s imagination the belief that our government dollars should be used to improve their lives.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 29, 2024

In this series thus far, our colleagues have explored what this future requires of each of us , and what it could begin to look like for governments. Such a foundational change will require a concurrent shift in nonprofit institutions, which have evolved alongside the government and market-based economy in the United States.

Nonprofit governance and management 113

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofits 113

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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.

Leadership 110

Leadership Public and Social Policy Poverty Race and Ethnicity 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In contrast, guaranteed income gives cash to people living below the poverty line or with inconsistent or no income and entails a qualifying process. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King advocated for guaranteed income as the simplest and most effective solution to poverty. Though related to universal basic income (UBI), it is not the same.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Nonprofit governance and management 104

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

They also worked with the organization’s leadership to craft articles on how Water.org and its partners work to empower people in poverty with safe water to protect and save lives. 3) Social media content highlighted the actions of Water.org to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Non-Profits 131

Non-Profits Civil Society Health Poverty 131

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Johnson will determine whether a local government has the constitutional right to make it a crime for a person to live outside and unsheltered when no other option is available. Half of all renters now spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, and nearly 600,000 people are homeless.

Homelessness 127

Homelessness Law Poverty Governance 127

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. My first thought was, ‘Here we go.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Multigenerational households typically have more income earners than single families, and by combining the income of working family members and the social security or pensions of retired ones, Americans living in multigenerational households have lower levels of poverty. While 13 percent of U.S.

Public and Social Policy 107

Public and Social Policy Children Poverty Health 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2023

Innovative finance is based on the premise that there is not enough money from governments and philanthropic organizations alone to address pressing global issues like poverty, climate change, and access to electricity and clean water. Using existing grantmaking to establish tiered-evidence grant programs is one way to do this.

Finance 103

Finance Production Governance Poverty 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Korea presents a unique setting in which governments play an important role in realizing social impact. ARTICLE | Ending Period Shame and Poverty in Asia by Noriko Akiyama, Fan Li & Wenquian Xu. ARTICLE | What ‘Cash Plus” Programs Teach Us About Fighting Extreme Poverty by Imran Matin. SSIR En Español.

Poverty 104

Poverty Universities Health Technology 104

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

When the pandemic and government lockdown eliminated urban jobs, hundreds of thousands of people left Peru’s cities and walked home to their ancestral homelands. Scott Momaday During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global shutdown sparked an unexpected return to and reinvigoration of Indigenous culture in Peru.

Leadership 109

Leadership Culture Poverty Public and Social Policy 109

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They don’t want to talk about poverty. Across the world, the safest communities are not those that are the most policed but rather are those with the best resources—those that meet their residents where they are and strengthen trust between community and government,” his campaign website reads.

Poverty 125

Poverty Health Education Education 125

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This is especially relevant at a time when the planet is behind on several SDGs , including those related to poverty reduction and food security. The challenge is that carbon markets weren't designed to work for people in poverty.

Philanthropy 117

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 117

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The poverty rate is 52.4 Agbo also insists that the investment be not in traditional structures and institutions but in the governance and ownership by the communities working to build wealth. In Memphis today—and indeed throughout the South—Black Americans are organizing to rebuild cultural institutions and restore Black economies.

Culture 106

Culture Poverty Governance Finance 106

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

Fifty percent of its residents were born outside of the US and identify as Latino/a ; about half of all families in the neighborhood live below the official poverty line. We also need our government agencies to protect us. East Boston is a historically working-class, immigrant neighborhood.

Race and Ethnicity 113

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 113

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

Our interactions with technology are shaped and intermediated by the people who design them, the decisions made on how to deploy them, and the human-created rules that govern them. Inclusion and equity across every level of tech design, deployment, and governance is crucial.

Technology 118

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 118

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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.

Community Development 113

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 113

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But the gains of the half century after emancipation were reversed in the following 50 years, as Black people lost land due to fraudulent tactics by government entities, banks, and individuals. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans owned 15 million acres of land. Here’s one of many stories of Black land loss.

Food 116

Food Agriculture Governance Children 116

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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.” Issues of poverty and racial bias in the South are super salient and continue to be a problem. There was this zero-sum game mindset.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 106

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 5, 2023

From displacement and poverty to illness and environmental degradation, the urgent challenges facing the world today call for innovative approaches that combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear understanding of the problems and a firm footing in communities. ”—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2019.

Collaborations 122

Collaborations Culture Technology Governance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

We witness, time and again, the stark gap between what people need and what local, state, and federal governments are willing to provide; it’s clear there’s an opportunity and responsibility for philanthropy to step in.

Philanthropy 86

Philanthropy Poverty Environmental Governance 86

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For example, during the Great Depression and the decades that followed, in a process called redlining, the government-sponsored Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board systematically denied loans to Black and Brown folks, excluding them from home ownership. million school-aged children every day.

Food 118

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 118