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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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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision. Yet, replicating this transformation in many other hotels in New York did not lower the number of homeless people.

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2021 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 15: World Values Day — #WorldValuesDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 15: World Values Day — #WorldValuesDay. 4: World Animal Day — #WorldAnimalDay.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. FHO has endured because it has delivered value, not only to its grantees and the field but to its member organizations.

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2022 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 15: World Values Day — #WorldValuesDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 15: World Values Day — #WorldValuesDay. 4: World Animal Day — #WorldAnimalDay.

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2023 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 19: World Values Day — #WorldValuesDay. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay.

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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).