NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. Economists are very interested in the productive economy. Thats the productive economy.

Nonprofit governance and management 79

Nonprofit governance and management Medical Public and Nonprofit Management Healthcare 79

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 6, 2010

If you’re a cause with a corporate partner I’ll show you how to raise money with register programs and cause products. 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.&#.

Food 198

Food Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 198

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 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members. Although established in a more progressive era, when the public interest held more sway, microeconomic and market values have since come to dominate utility governance.

Energy 118

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 118

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards , a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, A New Framework for Boards, Ananda Valenzuela challenges traditional governance models and offers a new vision for boards that empower rather than constrain. This [collective governance] framing inherently challenges the top-down board knows best assumption.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Culture Poverty 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Government of National Unity As a response to the dwindling support, the ANC agreed to form a coalition government. So, what should we expect from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Government of National Unity? percent of the country’s 63 million people living in poverty, gross domestic product growth that slowed to 0.6

Philanthropy 95

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 95

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

Because we choose not to be under the government’s thumb by acquiescing to the 501(c)(3) status game, we are generally not permitted to apply for grant funding. We cannot achieve our mission of sustainability and creating opportunities to pull themselves from abject poverty. Help us help the world. It is the way we learn.

Volunteerism 52

Volunteerism Volunteerism Healthcare Agriculture 52

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 124

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The climate crisis is not only a product of greenhouse gas emissions… but also of an ideological shift that was imposed by colonization and capitalism to justify violation of sacred land-, water-, and airways—domination that taught Americans to speak of “resources” instead of “relatives.”. Eric Henson et al.,

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 140

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 132

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. The project is increasing yields by employing hydroponic farming and high tunnel production methods. They come with their own challenges.

Food 125

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 125

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. In 1996, when the law was enacted, 68 percent of families with children living in poverty received welfare; in 2019, it was 19.5

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 120

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

On its website, ILSR maintains a set of maps showing the overlay of poverty and store location in multiple metropolitan areas. As Smith observes in a related study , “health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity are strongly linked to poverty and reliance on cheap, low-quality food.” DeKalb County is not unique.

Retail 133

Retail Food Law Governance 133

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

million smallholder farmers and subsistence farmers depend on maize production for their livelihood. These low-cost methods can also improve the production of large- and small-scale US farmers despite supply chain disruptions. Njinga says the production cost was too high: “I wanted to abandon farming because it was too hard to afford.”

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Food Production Poverty 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 23, 2023

In Nigeria, as in the US, people are looking for ways to fight food insecurity and maintain agricultural production amidst climate change and the changing rainfall patterns—including increased flooding—that it is triggering. Some farmers are still grappling with the destruction. However, she notes that agroforestry offers a way forward.

Food 109

Food Agriculture Production Governance 109

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Consider Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (and leader of Bangladesh’s interim government ), who brought the idea for lending to the poor to mainstream banks in the early 1980s.The banks challenged Yunus to prove it could work, and he did —first in one town, then five. Employee-owned businesses are more profitable and productive.

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Finance Non-Profits 138

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

From poverty wages to sky-high rents to environmental disasters, many of the crises we face today are linked to outsized and entrenched corporate power. We can’t rely solely on government to rein in corporate excess when corporations can reshape government.

Public Policy 142

Public Policy Governance Non-Profits Law 142

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We provide food for pick up or delivery, and all our produce and products are sourced from local Black farmers and businesses. 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.

Food 117

Food Agriculture Governance Children 117

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The fervor of the British Raj, and now of transnational corporations and local elites, to shift lands from community ownership to private control of a few (usually) affluent men continues to denigrate women’s status from being equal and prolific members of an agrarian society to dependent wives with limited access to productive resources.

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

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. Bain is both a product of and a driver of leadership development grounded in community wisdom. CCD’s visionary founder and executive director K.

Leadership 122

Leadership Poverty Culture Public and Social Policy 122

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 126

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, youth activists and organizers continue to be outspoken, recognizing that the climate crisis continues to worsen, exacerbated by such concurring injustices as poverty and wealth inequality, authoritarianism, and genocide. 15 Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

But despite how prominent this assumption is, actual examples of a significant transition away from private donor support (for doers committed to rapid growth and a continued focus on people living in extreme poverty) are few and far between.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2024

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), this destabilization can lead to “cumulative community stress, increases in poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and forced migration.” In the wake of emergencies like wildfires or floods, people may be forced to move , to leave their communities and support systems.

Health 111

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

RB: The last installment of the report uplifts how mass incarceration exacerbates poverty. The report mentions how, in many states across the country, incarcerated people are paid little or nothing for their work while their labor is used to produce many of the foods and products we consume. There was this zero-sum game mindset.

Public and Social Policy 127

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 127

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

While organizations like the China Disabled Persons’ Federation aim to support the rights and interests of disabled individuals through assistance obtaining welfare subsidies and other services, only the most severely disabled individuals qualify for government financial aid.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Technology 119

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

And we knew that poverty and racism were deeply entrenched, and that takes more than three years. We know it’s a story of extraction, [of] government reliance on the nonprofit world, but that felt like a whole lot bigger than TBF. We would hope and expect that nonprofits are reducing poverty and reducing inequality.

Public and Social Policy 104

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

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 120

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 120

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

The next Google or Facebook has yet to emerge from places plagued by chronic poverty, and even when a high-tech sector sets foot in low-income regions, it often exacerbates income inequality. Yet, these attempts have not significantly reverted economic decline. This different scale of venture growth impacted the city in different ways.

Entrepreneurship 128

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Food Finance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

We should be regulating corporate capture; instead, our government has enabled it. An example: The car industry got a massive boost in the most recent infrastructure package, with major incentives for electric vehicle production. 16 Next, anger. The grief cycle is not linear; in fact, one can go through more than one stage at a time.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 134

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

And those machines are being sold to city governments for millions of dollars, even though their accuracy rate is less than 10 percent. But some might argue that our present economic system is productive, and be fearful that it would be difficult to transcend the problems of racial capitalism without undermining production.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits Production 120

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

14 In regions of Africa and South Asia, climate disasters such as floods and droughts increase poverty and food insecurity, prompting families to marry off their daughters at a young age as a survival strategy. The government either ignores or actively opposes environmental efforts. Political contexts can also impede climate action.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million pairs of affordable reading glasses to low-income customers in remote areas, creating a path out of poverty by extending productive livelihoods, and generating $1.8B After introducing reading glasses to the product mix, the 33 percent margin on glasses significantly increased the margin on the Live Well basket of goods.

Social Enterprise 116

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Health Production 116

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 15, 2022

This transformational, 15-week program is designed to strengthen the board governance knowledge and skills of professionals of color while equipping nonprofit organizations to be genuinely ready to welcome these new members onto their boards. Dr. Katrina Esau, CEO and president, KE3 Worldwide Enterprises.

Nonprofit governance and management 130

Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Leadership Nonprofits 130

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In other words, is the phrase a call for government—and corporate donors and foundations—to invest in CDFIs? She called on other corporations to likewise support CDFIs to enable them to better address pressing economic issues, such as poverty, housing, and food insecurity. Where are consumer product companies? McHale asked.

Finance 109

Finance Community Development Public and Social Policy Poverty 109

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Survival was less a miracle than a product of the self-reliance that the Indigenous children had developed due to their upbringing. Suboptimal” early childhood development is seen as contributing to poverty in communities. 2017 , 77). This claim is derived from the estimated number of children who are living on less than $1.90

Children 138

Children Civil Society Culture Health 138

Getting Attention

MARCH 9, 2015

Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Digital Production Associate Revolution Messaging (Washington, DC). Director of Product Marketing Playworks (Oakland, CA). Investigative Journalist & Marketing/ Communications Specialist Better Government Association (Chicago, IL).

Communication 65

Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Associations 65