NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

We cannot achieve our mission of sustainability and creating opportunities to pull themselves from abject poverty. Inclusive Healthcare: Ensure LGBTQ+ individuals have access to culturally competent healthcare, including gender-affirming care and hormone-replacement therapy. Help us help the world.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

If we were only using the federal poverty level…we would only see 5 percent of [nonprofit] workers struggling,” Hoopes tells NPQ. As Hoopes pointed out, the federal poverty measure is outdated, based on a 1960s formula that assumed food was the largest household expense—an assumption that no longer holds true today.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Yet, nearly all low-wage workers in the city are rent-burdened , with 25 percent of children within the city limits living in poverty. As many other leaders did across the country, Martin noted the sobering fact that in America, poverty is the fourth leading cause of death. New York City is home to the most millionaires in the world.

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Poverty Public and Social Policy Healthcare Homelessness 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

This article concludes the series : Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. For decades, the United States has focused on what are called “place-based” strategies and policies to address poverty, housing access, and affordability. Studies show that secure housing is critical to reducing generational poverty.

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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.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

It is estimated that, with this change, 15 million people could lose this essential healthcare coverage , bringing the most harm to people with disabilities, people of color, trans people, and poor people. Activist and author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha calls this “ The Great Forgetting.”

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JULY 10, 2018

Poverty, hunger, pollution, illiteracy, homelessness, etc. If you are in healthcare, it could be a particular disease. Your enemy could be an actual person, but most likely it will be something more abstract. If you work with animals, it could be animal abuse. If you are in the arts, it could be the loss of culture.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Rural communities have varied local economies, which include manufacturing , healthcare, the service sector, and agriculture. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Furthermore, many inner-city students face a range of social and economic challenges outside of school, such as poverty, crime, and family instability, which can make it difficult for them to succeed in school.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A job that pays less than childcare costs, imposes schedules on short notice, and doesn’t offer benefits cannot help people escape poverty. But because of narratives about what poor people and people of color deserve, they are relegated to jobs that perpetuate cycles of poverty and disenfranchisement. They’re effective.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

University of Mississippi professors Meagen Rosenthal and Anne Cafer explain that Black Americans are more likely to lack health insurance, a regular source of healthcare, or both. Perhaps even more concerning, of those who do not have insurance, nearly half have a chronic condition.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2024

Those most impacted by a lack of or failing infrastructure, including the elderly and people living in poverty, are at high risk for loneliness. The report listed recommendations across the board from what healthcare professionals to communities can do to combat loneliness, including recommendations for philanthropy.

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The Charity CFO

JULY 30, 2024

That’s a Great IDEA The mission and vision of Capital IDEA is to lift working adults out of poverty and into living-wage careers through education and career advancement. Many of those who have gone through their program will end up in healthcare, IT, trades and advanced manufacturing.

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 21, 2024

Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc. (MHM) MHM’s mission also includes its one-half ownership of Methodist Healthcare — the largest healthcare system in South Texas. MHM) is investing $181.1

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

How is their money helping someone living in poverty? Now you’ve got visually interesting data, heartstring stories of people and communities benefiting from donations, and a powerful message to donors saying YOU are the ones changing lives with food, shelter, healthcare, and more. That is the core of what donors want to know.

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Poverty Healthcare Nonprofits Values 104

Care2

MARCH 24, 2015

million nonprofits in the US that are working in similar issue areas and trying to address global warming, poverty, the gender pay gap, affordable healthcare, education, etc. I’ve talked about the dire need for nonprofits to innovate over the years on Frogloop. Because there are over 1.5

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Poverty Healthcare Technology Education 48

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

He was legendary for fearlessly taking on the most powerful political leaders, medical institutions, and universities when they did not prioritize the interests of people in poverty. “The people who were doing the development project probably weren't out to make poor people suffer,” he said.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 15, 2024

The UN goals include climate change measures, increased access to quality education and healthcare, gender equality and the eradication of poverty. NITI Aayog sources estimated the demand for philanthropic aid in India at $426 billion during FY2023.

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Care2

MARCH 24, 2015

million nonprofits in the US that are working in similar issue areas and trying to address global warming, poverty, the gender pay gap, affordable healthcare, education, etc. I’ve talked about the dire need for nonprofits to innovate over the years on Frogloop. Because there are over 1.5

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Poverty Healthcare Technology Production 67

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

While 501(c)(3) nonprofits serve as cornerstones of positive change, addressing critical issues ranging from poverty and hunger to healthcare and environmental protection, their impact can be significantly amplified by stepping beyond direct service delivery.

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Public Policy Environmental Education Education 72

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 24, 2024

Asked about homelessness, poverty, healthcare, jobs/economy and housing, nonprofits had the most trust, but government was second when it came to healthcare and housing. In nine areas of nonprofits services tested, just animals and wildlife (+6) had a year-over-year increases in high trust.

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Healthcare Governance Philanthropy Homelessness 59

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

What I cared about was poverty, poor people, and those on the margins—those with less material resources. These are the things people brought to their healthcare providers. And it was only when that first line of defense didn’t work that we would go to what we describe as “the healthcare system.” And that has guided my work.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Gates Foundation pledged $315 million over three years to CGIAR , a global research partnership focused on the needs of smallholder farmers, in support of efforts to help them adapt to a surge of climate threats that, in turn, are exacerbating global hunger and poverty. Read more. . November 4, 2021. Read more. .

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 3, 2024

I asked these children, who lived in a rural area and were experiencing poverty, to reflect on the world around them and then started designing interventions that would address some of the issues they were identifying.…Whether These are things that every year my students tell me must change. People want change to happen. “We

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

Similarly, the Healthcare Anchor Network , a collaborative of 75 health systems, is working to transform the economic drivers of health disparities in the United States. Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.

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Anedot

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This aligns with Canal Alliance’s mission to break the generational cycle of poverty among Latino immigrants and their families. Resource Coordination : Connect clients with bilingual community services and facilitate access to essential resources, such as healthcare, education, employment, and housing.

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Management Nonprofit governance and management Insurance Psychology 52

Care2

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Instead of being an entitled people, waiting for “they&# to fix the economy, fix healthcare, fix our dependence on foreign oil, fix the environment, fix human rights issues, fix our “entitlement programs&# , etc., Other parts of the nation have the same issues of grave poverty and hopelessness. ask yourself what can you do?&#

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Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

With the current social injustice crises of women’s healthcare and reproductive rights, racial violence, political extremism and disinformation, Nunes, who describes herself as an optimist, says it is similar to other points in history.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. These volunteers offer healthcare services, clean up services, and other forms of support during an emergency, such as passing out food, water, and other supplies.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

For example, if your organization provides rent and utilities assistance and you have had a steep rise in requests for help, you could pitch a story about the crisis of middle class people falling into poverty. If your organization supports families impacted by childhood cancer, figure out who the healthcare journalists are in your market.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

“In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Meanwhile, other standout giving programs include : Matching gifts, volunteer grants, VTO Walgreens & Red Nose Day Walgreens collaborates with Red Nose Day, an annual fundraising campaign to end child poverty. Walgreens also raises awareness and encourages customer participation through its nationwide network of stores.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One central challenge is that the majority of mainstream economists believe that capitalist markets can solve all (or at least most) global problems, and they contend that continual economic growth within this system is required to improve the lives of the billions of people living in poverty.

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Education Education Curriculum and Teaching Public and Social Policy 81

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2023

Writer Alex O’Keefe told CNN that he was “living below the poverty line” while writing the hit show The Bear for FX, and saw very little money while the studios made millions. “We Even though more movies and television are being made than ever before, pay for writers and actors is on the decline , regardless of experience.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For example, check out this video for Village Enterprise , a nonprofit devoted to ending extreme poverty in rural Africa: The video shows the story of Margaret, a small business owner, told through the perspective of Margaret’s grandchild. It ends with a motivational call to action to become part of the solution to end extreme poverty.

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Poverty Environmental Nonprofits Education 52

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2023

We’re looking at the distance to care, the availability of family planning services, community-level factors like housing conditions, poverty, and chronic health conditions, which I think highlights diabetes, hypertension. And then lastly, [it’s] about telehealth policy. You will see in that report that things are worsening.

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