NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

Equal access to the ballot box is not only a fundamental part of our democracy, it is also required by law. This includes assessment of the reliability of these tools and examining their potential to reduce medically necessary care or otherwise deny treatment to participants—especially disabled people of color.

Technology 122

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

This network works to collectively influence change across Minnesota, including through a nascent effort at the University of Minnesota Medical School that convenes community leaders and academic advisory boards across the university to address how the institution as a whole engages with community leaders.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 122

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, which “ was signed into law in 1988 to create an orderly system to get federal assistance to state and local governments in the wake of natural disasters.”. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. This population is entitled to certain services.

Governance 140

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 140

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Earthjustice utilizes their advanced knowledge of environmental law to save natural habitats, reduce pollution, and promote clean energy. Mending Kids “Mending Kids gives sick kids life-saving surgical care while advancing education and training towards medical sufficiency in their communities. Environmental. Earthjustice.

Children 105

Children Environmental Nonprofits Agriculture 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Because of the new obstacles posed by Texas’s abortion law, Cox faced difficulties seeking the potentially life-saving procedure. Strict abortion laws funnel people further into poverty by forcing many people to carry pregnancies to term but doing little to care for the children once they are born.

Poverty 138

Poverty Law Children Insurance 138

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In total, more than a dozen law enforcement officials were waiting, undercover or in hiding, to surprise the Roberts family. A 2015 study by the US Forest Service notes : National forest law enforcement officers regularly encounter “nonrecreational” campers whose tenure exceeds established stay limits (generally 2 weeks).

Homelessness 122

Homelessness Law Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 122

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 15, 2024

Cases of abuse post-adoption, such as the death of 13-year-old Hana Williams , who was adopted from Ethiopia, have led countries that previously were a source of adoptees to implement laws that limit international adoptions. Some adoptees do feel they’ve been saved—particularly those who were true war orphans and those who had medical needs.

Children 137

Children Poverty Governance Psychology 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It also reinforces an individualized medical model of intervention as the solution. The non-profit Glasswing International, for example, mobilizes youth, communities, and government agencies to address the root causes and consequences of poverty, violence, and forced migration.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I could see those patients in my office, give them some medication, and see them again at their follow-up appointment a month later, their situation basically unchanged—or I could do something different. In the Central Falls/Pawtucket HEZ, nearly a third of residents live in poverty, and one in three are recent immigrants.

Health 124

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 124

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Tyler, Chief Health Officer at RHIA Ventures, took participants through an analysis of the healthcare harms that Black women have experienced over the centuries, from medical experimentation on enslaved women to forced sterilization. What impact can those shifts have without broader systemic reforms to address racism and poverty?

Health 119

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Finance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 30, 2023

In a recent New York Times article, Lydia Polgreen poignantly explained these connections, “My experience tells me that these laws are really about something else: a step along the path to a rigid enforcement of gender norms, roles and presentation.” The current attack on healthcare for trans youth is one tragic example of this.

Philanthropy 136

Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Collaborations 136

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression? Mair, and Derek Angus, “Applying Syndemic Theory to Acute Illness,” Journal of the American Medical Association 327, no. How do we stand in our power in terms of what we need and deserve for our lives and our communities?

Leadership 111

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Someone who is dealing with administrative duties—that is, the heavy load of paperwork and record keeping that is put on people when they try to acquire the benefits to which they are entitled by law. And a holistic view of what it means to stay healthy is to treat all of her.

Health 111

Health Insurance Production Homelessness 111

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 14, 2024

This is why many nonprofits often seek Board members who are CEOs of large companies, partners in law firms, and other high-profile executives. One of our clients serves single moms who are trying to climb out of poverty and create a better life. They don’t have a facility where they can show the work happening.

Fundraising 59

Fundraising Fundraising Food Children 59

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

That requires addressing high levels of corruption, a lack of rule of law, weak civil service capacity, poor public service delivery, and a lack of both transparency and accountability. All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty. World Justice Project (WJP) works around the world to advance the rule of law.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 113

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In reality, more than 70 percent of children in foster care today are in foster care because of what the system calls neglect, which is largely related to poverty issues. By 1968, when all states had a mandatory reporting law, that number grew to 11,000 cases, and Black children were significantly impacted by that.

Children 142

Children Poverty Law Public and Social Policy 142

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In the face of rising mortality rates, reproductive justice advocates have turned to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to help safeguard access to emergency abortions. However, the law’s authority is contested. Still, research shows that the United States is currently experiencing a maternal mortality crisis.

Medical 122

Medical Healthcare Law Health 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

On a rainy day, Echol Cole and Robert Walker sought refuge inside the truck because segregation laws forbid them from sheltering inside a building. Racism and poverty were the forms of violence that made Cole and Walker vulnerable and ultimately led to their deaths. Ignoring medical needs is violence. Ghetto housing is violence.

Poverty 55

Poverty Medical Insurance Healthcare 55

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Population Council :: @ Pop_Council.

Poverty 111

Poverty Civil Society Medical Education 111

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2022

This is why many nonprofits often seek Board members who are CEOs of large companies, partners in law firms, and other high-profile executives. One of our clients serves single Moms who are trying to climb out of poverty and create a better life. Or maybe the nonprofit’s work all happens remotely and there isn’t even an office.

Fundraising 127

Fundraising Fundraising Food Children 127

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

The legislative session frequently found itself in the national spotlight starting with legislation banning adult-oriented entertainment, including drag shows, in certain settings and banning adolescent medical procedures and some medications related to gender identity. 20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits.

Nonprofit governance and management 59

Nonprofit governance and management Law Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 59

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

The legislative session frequently found itself in the national spotlight starting with legislation banning adult-oriented entertainment, including drag shows, in certain settings and banning adolescent medical procedures and some medications related to gender identity. 20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Law Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

Between 2010 and 2019, 138 SIBs accounting for $441 million in capital have been issued globally, ranging in causes from workforce development to education and medical services (Hulse, Atun, and McPake 2021). British Medical Journal 339. The Geographies of Social Finance: Poverty Regulation through the ‘Invisible Heart’ of Markets.”

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Finance Nonprofit governance and management 111

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

10 And when debtors can’t pay, we are disciplined with steep penalties, high interest rates or loan denials, and damaged credit scores—not to mention poverty when unpayable bills come due. 20 Healthcare The national crisis of medical debt is growing at an explosive pace. All debts are someone else’s assets.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Medical Public and Nonprofit Management 132

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image credit: Barbara Olsen on Pexels If you want to reduce poverty, cash matters. Springboard to Opportunities —the organization we both work for—began operations in 2013 with the goal to break cycles of generational poverty that are particularly persistent in Black communities.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Poverty Public Policy Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

million children out of poverty. None made it into law. By early 2023, however, Governor Tim Walz was declaring , “Now is the time to go bold” and pledged to “lead the nation in ending child poverty.” The paid family and medical leave system does not take effect until 2026. Those gains are already wiped away).

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In 1996, Democratic President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law , which ended the entitlement to cash aid and introduced time-limited benefits tied to work requirements. Breaking these laws could mean fines, arrest, or sentences—forcing them back into unpaid labor on plantations.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 141

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism. Without savings, debtors are forced to accrue additional debt—credit card, auto, mortgage, medical—to cover everyday needs while paying down loans. Jim Crow Debt: How Student Debt Impacts Black Borrowers and Communities.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 132