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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success

NonProfit Leadership Center

when she thinks about the Certificate in Nonprofit Management graduate program at the University of Tampa. Now the capital campaign director at the University of Tampa where she spent 18 months earning this prestigious certificate, you might add the word ‘remarkable’ to Erin’s list when you understand her story.

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Across the Country, Poor and Low-Wage Voters Are Organizing

NonProfit Quarterly

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 people struggle to survive, homelessness increased last year by 12 percent. As Martin noted, “We refuse to accept poverty as the fourth leading cause of death nationwide.”

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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts. Even where work requirements do lead to increases in employment, they mostly keep people in poverty. In some cases, the share of families living in deep poverty increased.

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Building Narrative Power for Economic Justice by Telling Better Stories

NonProfit Quarterly

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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How to Tell Real Stories About Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In research I did with collaborators for the Broke Project , we found that most stories, profiles, and vignettes related to work to end poverty follow this pattern: while an organization is the protagonist, poor people are defined only by their experience with poverty. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate.

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How to Make Guaranteed Income Work: Ten Lessons from Newark, New Jersey

NonProfit Quarterly

Though related to universal basic income (UBI), it is not the same. UBI grants are universal and require no means testing. In contrast, guaranteed income gives cash to people living below the poverty line or with inconsistent or no income and entails a qualifying process.

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How to Advance Housing Affordability—The Ongoing Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Throughout the United States, the housing crisis is more evident than ever, indicated by record homelessness numbers and the sky-high cost of rent. Nearly 40 percent of those who experienced homelessness in 2020 were Black, and 23 percent were Latinx, far above these groups’ shares of the US population (13 and 18 percent, respectively).