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Honoring Our Ancestors and Restoring Black Land: A Black Farmers Hub Story

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Our goal is to continue to lend a space to the community in which land ownership and retention is the central focus.

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What Malawi Farmers Can Teach the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

In the 2005 to 2006 growing season, the Malawi Government introduced the Farm Input Subsidy Programme , now dubbed the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP), for smallholder farmers like Njinga to get subsidized fertilizer and improved seeds. Scarcity and soaring prices threatened farmers’ yields in the 2022 to 2023 growing season.

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

Consider whether your community has a wide range of potential giving sources willing to help out, including individual donors , corporate sponsors, foundations, and government agencies. Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. of the overall workforce.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They seldom come with resources to advance change, however, and thus primarily serve human resources functions like recruitment and retention. Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.

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Not Invented, But Scaled Here

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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 To date VisionSpring has sold 8.7 in economic impact.

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Drive Your Nonprofit’s Mission by Investing in Your People

Blue Avocado

Employees might need alternative cash flow or live close to poverty, which is especially difficult for employees with lived experiences. What if, instead, we measured nonprofits by retention, their willingness to use reserves for salary increases (excluding bonuses), and the number of employees living above the poverty line?

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