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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology. In 2022, 48% owned their homes, only 4% had any investment income, 25% were covered by public health insurance, and 10% had no coverage at all.

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How a Community of Long-Term Monthly Donors Make a Long-Term Difference

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a non-profiteer of many years, I have known donor giving programs to be described via a myriad of terms; sustainment, long-term, continued, recurring – all ways to describe the length of the relationship a donor establishes with a non-profit. By Mor­ée Lambeth , Lead Content Creator + Writer, Water.org.

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How Water.org Adapted Their Social Media Content Strategy in Response to COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The current social media environment has caused non-profit marketers to re-evaluate their content aware of the acute conversations being had on every channel, at a global level. We must remember the world is dealing with a global health pandemic and important social conversations.

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Upgrading the Plumbing of the International Aid System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Same, Same, but Different: Multilateral Development Banks and Humanitarian Aid Actors Multilateral development banks (MDBs) and humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) both aim to improve lives. These projects typically take place in peaceful and lower to middle-income countries where poverty remains prevalent.

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Building Economic Resilience in the Rust Belt: Buffalo’s Growing Co-op Network

NonProfit Quarterly

We are a community-led resource center, a team of cooperative business developers and educators, and a community-controlled non-extractive loan fund. The cooperative model is less about centering profit, but more about centering people,” explains Sim. Doing for Ourselves Buffalo is known for powerful snowdrifts and pro football.

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New York Brings Power to the People

NonProfit Quarterly

Without regulation, private utility companies continue to act in predatory and manipulative ways to maximize profits, often targeting non-native English speakers or low-income individuals with deceptive marketing and cost markups. In fact, New York banned such companies from marketing to low-income households in 2016.

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A Letter to Philanthropy: Saviorism Will Not Save Our Ecosystems

NonProfit Quarterly

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.