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. One of them is Medicare.

Nonprofit governance and management 79

Nonprofit governance and management Medical Public and Nonprofit Management Healthcare 79

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Census figures confirm that Camden is a poor city (with a poverty rate of 33.6 However, persistent poverty plagues the city’s residents. VF enables large-scale agricultural production in environments where space and soil are limited. A Camden community vision emerges. percent) and overwhelming BIPOC (50.5 percent Latinx, 42.5

Food 145

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 145

The Kindful Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

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.

Poverty 122

Poverty Health Philanthropy Education 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 12, 2023

On the outside, I looked poised, having just shared my lived experience from depression and suicide attempts to founding my social impact consulting company, Bearapy , to improve workplace mental health in the Asia-Pacific region. This work takes a toll on our mental health. Inside, I could feel myself disintegrating.

Health 98

Health Culture Energy Universities 98

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 28, 2024

As the complexity of global issues like climate change, poverty, and inequality continues to escalate, AI agents are emerging as transformative tools. trillion of that stemming from increased productivity. This not only boosts agricultural productivity but also minimizes resource waste.

Social Enterprise 52

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Disaster Relief Agriculture 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

1 The Dawn of the Nonprofit Sector Dunning begins the history of the nonprofit sector in the 1960s, when protests against discrimination prompted political leaders to look for solutions to persistent poverty. 9 The rents collected by CDCs strengthened market approaches to poverty, encouraging what we now may refer to as sustainability.

Public and Social Policy 123

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 123

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

We cannot achieve our mission of sustainability and creating opportunities to pull themselves from abject poverty. Kelly Boyett from Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange Expanding access to mental health resources, counseling, and crisis intervention. Help us help the world. It means being vulnerable and subjected to criticism.

Volunteerism 52

Volunteerism Volunteerism Healthcare Agriculture 52

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. MEGA’s efforts have expanded to include youth leadership and mentorship, community engagement, and health education.

Food 125

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 125

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

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.

Poverty 111

Poverty Civil Society Medical Education 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

Image Credit: Etienne Girardet on unsplash.com Many people working in nonprofits and philanthropy say they want to reduce poverty, and increasingly, foundations, nonprofits, and social-movement organizations are developing communications strategies and telling stories that aim to dispel the myth that the US economic system is equitable and fair.

Poverty 125

Poverty Ethics Philanthropy Culture 125

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 3: World Wildlife Day — #WorldWildlifeDay. 8: International Women’s Day — #IWD20. 12: World Kidney Day — # WorldKidneyDay. 28: Earth Hour — #EarthHour.

Poverty 145

Poverty Technology Health Nonprofits 145

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade.

Ethics 130

Ethics Children Poverty Education 130

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. Earning $1.30

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

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 Community Health Entrepreneurs earned a better living. To date VisionSpring has sold 8.7 in economic impact. It seemed a perfect match.

Social Enterprise 116

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Health Production 116

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

PNW Production on pexels.com. Specifically, policymakers do not consider Black women living in poverty when developing programs that help people purchase and retain ownership of a home. This is a core tenet of racially just policies and programs.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Homelessness 113

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

“A mission statement is a short statement of why your Nonprofit exists, what its overall goal is, identifying the goal of your operations: what kind of product or service do you provide, who do you primarily help, and your geographical region of operation. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

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.”.

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 140

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

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Poverty 126

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. Dollar stores also negatively impact public health. DeKalb County is not unique. Not only do local stores keep profits at home, but they are more likely to buy goods and services from local vendors.

Retail 133

Retail Food Law Governance 133

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Because of their low purchasing power and the fact that they lack access to the formal banking system and formal supply chains, products and services designed for higher-income groups in the formal economy are typically either inaccessible or unaffordable for this large group of people around the world.

Production 124

Production Non-Profits Education Education 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Often, the result is rural poverty. percent of rural residents lived below the poverty line, compared to 11.9 It supports a population of over 380,000 residents, 21 percent of whom live in poverty, 15 percent of whom are Black, and 15 percent Latinx. As of 2019, an estimated 15.4 percent of urban and suburban residents.

Poverty 104

Poverty Children Culture Food 104

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade. Health & Beauty.

Ethics 106

Ethics Children Production Manufacturing 106

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

In Sweet Home, Oregon, two youth leadership cohorts focused their efforts on the concept of belonging, leading to the delivery of mental health first aid and suicide prevention trainings for teachers and other adults in the community. Bain is both a product of and a driver of leadership development grounded in community wisdom.

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

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. Take, for example, the Nurturing Care Framework issued by the World Health Assembly (part of the World Health Organization ), in partnership with UNICEF (United Nations’ Children’s Fund) and the World Bank.

Children 138

Children Civil Society Culture Health 138

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Frankly, it is tiring to plead with outsiders to sell their products here. Seeking to address the root causes of food insecurity in its own backyard, the Anthem Foundation (a philanthropic arm of the major Indianapolis-based health insurance company, Anthem, Inc. ), funded the initiative with a $2.45 million grant to LISC Indianapolis.

Food 109

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 109

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

3 During and after climate disasters, access to such essential services as women’s and girls’ mental and physical healthcare overall is often severely constrained, 4 and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including maternal care, becomes limited or stops altogether. million girls from completing their education each year.”

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 131

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. Sometimes by momentarily slowing down, we can ultimately speed up to achieve our goals.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

Getting Attention

APRIL 20, 2015

Digital and Print Publications Designer , Hesperian Health Guides (Berkeley, CA). Digital Marketing Specialist , Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Senior Graphic Designer & Production Manager , The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (Washington, DC). Scottsdale, AZ). San Francisco, CA). Louis, MO).

Marketing 68

Marketing Marketing Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 68

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

If someone is worried about the consequences of dismantling racial capitalism, worried that it will undermine progress and productivity, there’s the question of who’s benefiting from that productivity and progress and who’s being left out. But we can’t have endless production of things in a sustainable way. But who’s left out?

Public and Social Policy 120

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

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

Getting Attention

MARCH 9, 2015

Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Communications & Marketing Coordinator Riverside Community Health Foundation (Riverside, CA). Digital Production Associate Revolution Messaging (Washington, DC). Director of Product Marketing Playworks (Oakland, CA). Tacoma, WA). RECENT JOB POSTS.

Communication 65

Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Associations 65

Jeff Brooks

AUGUST 27, 2024

In commercial advertising, copywriters are reminded to “sell the sizzle, not just the steak” — that is, focus on the benefits of your product, not just its features. Maybe your social service agency will decrease poverty, which will improve the economy and quality of life for everyone. That’s good advice in fundraising too.

Fundraising 62

Fundraising Fundraising Poverty Advertising 62

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. Disability, poverty, and discrimination are part of a cycle where each reinforces the others. China is no exception to this global issue.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

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