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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

Many nonprofit organizations devote their time, talent, funding, and mission to helping people who live in financial hardship. 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.

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One in Five Nonprofit Workers Can’t Afford Basic Expenses

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Damir Khabirov on iStock More than one out of five nonprofit workers cannot afford basic living expenses where they live—and the statistics are even worse for nonprofit workers of color, women, and people with disabilities. Watkins and Hoopes both emphasized that the nonprofit sector must take leadership on this issue.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When they do not have access to funds, families in poverty depend on getting the water they need through temporary, charitable fixes, or they walk hours to find it from natural sources, or they may pay up to 20% of their income to buy it. Each month, they help create financial opportunity that previously did not exist for people in poverty.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The National Marine Life Center forcus on rehabilitating stranded sea turtles, seals, dolphins, porpoises & whales while advancing scientific knowledge and education in marine wildlife health & conservation. Partners In Health :: @ PIH. Southern Poverty Law Center :: @ SPLCenter. amfAR :: @ amfAR.

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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

The Kindful Blog

Mission: Helping Women Period is committed to supplying menstrual health products to people that menstruate who are either homeless or low-income. Impacting: Menstrual health. Host a menstrual health product drive. Impacting: Women’s health. Impacting: Poverty. Headquarters in: East Lansing, MI. Rejuvenating Women.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, we were mindful of the best practices that suggest brands and organizations not post about every issue or trending event so to avoid piggybacking via hollow, void content. We must remember the world is dealing with a global health pandemic and important social conversations. Instagram.com/water. Twitter.com/water.

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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

The organization was formed a little over 20 years ago, in February 2002, when resident leaders came together to support their unique and culturally diverse neighborhood: White Center , WA. Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism.