NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 29, 2023

Image Credit: Josiah S on istock.com Founded in March 2009, the Oath Keepers are an anti-government far-right militia group comprising former law enforcement, first responders, and former military who pledge to defend the United States against government tyranny at all costs. Actual law enforcement looked the other way.

Governance 134

Governance Disaster Relief Law Civil Society 134

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“Homelessness is growing not because cities lack ways to punish people for being poor, but because a growing number of hard-working Americans are struggling to pay rent and make ends meet,” the National Homelessness Law Center said in a statement shortly after the SCOTUS announced that it would hear the case.

Homelessness 145

Homelessness Law Poverty Governance 145

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This record acts as a form of permanent punishment, limiting our ability to participate in civil society through a complex web of laws in Illinois that punish people with criminal records, often indefinitely. Lack of access to gainful employment creates exponential hardships that reverberate throughout a community.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 132

Ann Green

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Here’s an example from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Your current monthly donors must get their own appeal that recognizes them as monthly donors. In this appeal, you can either ask them to upgrade their gift or give an additional year-end gift. What’s In My Mailbox | How are you upgrading your monthly donors?

Retention 182

Retention Poverty Law Communication 182

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In our 2023 study, our researchers found that the four lowest-cost market categories had median sale prices ranging from $45,000 to $154,000compared to a city median of about $250,000and above-average poverty rates ranging from 23 to 49 percent in a city with the unfortunate distinction of being the poorest big city.

Construction 76

Construction Public and Social Policy Finance Poverty 76

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

RB: The last installment of the report uplifts how mass incarceration exacerbates poverty. Issues of poverty and racial bias in the South are super salient and continue to be a problem.” That hasn’t become law, but that’s the momentum that’s happening around that issue. There was this zero-sum game mindset.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 128

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement. One interviewee said that what took place was so devastating that “even the neak ta cried.”

Environmental 115

Environmental Race and Ethnicity Construction Nonprofit governance and management 115

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. 11 Unique barriers to care, including stigma vis--vis mental health, language discrepancies, and poverty, put Latinx people in the United States at higher risk of receiving inadequate treatment than the broader population. 10 Only 35.1 24 Meanwhile, as of 2022, 17.1 Arnett et al.,

Race and Ethnicity 73

Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health Medical 73

Candid

MAY 29, 2024

Coined by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the term refers to the fact that combinations—or intersections—of social identities such as race, class, and gender result in different experiences and treatment. What is intersectionality? For example, in the U.S.,

Poverty 115

Poverty Associations Law Universities 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. This work is urgent. It won’t be easy.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 126

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 16, 2017

It’s a problem we hear a lot, so that’s we’ve developed a BRAND NEW WEBINAR with the help of Mark Rovner who has worked with organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. TOMORROW, August 17th. 1:00 P.M.

Marketing 103

Marketing Marketing Fundraising Fundraising 103

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Scott served seven years in prison after being arrested on federal drug charges shortly after obtaining his law degree from Louisiana State University in 1994. They don’t want to talk about poverty. Both men experienced how easy it is for young Black men to be swept up in the criminal legal system.

Poverty 140

Poverty Health Education Education 140

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Though Jackson could have accessed millions of dollars in federal funding through the American Rescue Plan Act, the city has had issues with how the state allocated and dispersed funds, which led the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to file a complaint alleging discrimination in 2023.

Environmental 111

Environmental Health Poverty Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Wage theft is not a legal term but rather a term used by advocates, attorneys, and policymakers when describing any action by employers that deprives a worker of receiving wages they are entitled to under the law. The law also strengthened workers’ options for recourse when employers fail to comply with these provisions.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 105

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Her grantmaking in 2020 appears to follow a regular pattern of proportionality—perhaps a “power law distribution,” a mathematical pattern found across natural and socioeconomic systems where one quantity varies as a power of another. We’ve identified an additional $480 million in grants directed to serve people with disabilities.

Poverty 98

Poverty Health Law Universities 98

The Agitator

MARCH 6, 2013

Morris Dees, founder of The Southern Poverty Law Center remembers: “Long after the [McGovern] campaign Tom came to the Southern Poverty Law Center at his own expense to help us develop direct mail packages. He never sent a bill. “He He wrote us one of the best planned giving letters any nonprofit every used.

Advertising 69

Advertising Poverty Law Technology 69

Getting Attention

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Digital Media Director , Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Director of Strategic Communications , Echoing Green (New York, NY). Digital Media Associate , The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (New York, NY). Director of Communications & Community Partnerships , Spaceworks (Brooklyn, NY).

Marketing 72

Marketing Marketing Poverty Associations 72

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Oxfam : To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Four years later, EBASE and partners helped pass a ballot measure in Oakland to further increase the minimum wage for hospitality workers, protect hotel workers, and create a new department to enforce the laws. Funders must listen to power-building organizers What do successful power-building partnerships have in common?

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Foundations Poverty Environmental 105

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Proceeds benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit that works to defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. The Little Market is a 501(c)(3), charitable organization founded by women to help alleviate poverty by sourcing their good from artisan groups in over 25 countries.

Ethics 130

Ethics Children Poverty Education 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 29, 2024

Nonprofits will need to build from a past rooted in charity and move toward a model of liberation—a future where our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions are structured so all people can thrive. To play their part, many of these institutions will need to embrace their own transformation.

Nonprofit governance and management 134

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofits 134

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. Fifty percent of its residents were born outside of the US and identify as Latino/a ; about half of all families in the neighborhood live below the official poverty line. East Boston is a historically working-class, immigrant neighborhood.

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 128

Getting Attention

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Digital Media Manager , The Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Communications Guru Intern and Multimedia Guru Intern , University of Pittsburgh Office of Childhood Development (Pittsburgh, PA). Copy Writer and Content Coordinator , Equal Exchange (West Bridgewater, CT).

Marketing 68

Marketing Marketing Poverty Universities 68

Getting Attention

JANUARY 25, 2013

Public Affairs Manager , Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Marketing Temp , Foundation Center (New York, NY). Membership Coordinator , The Bascom (Highlands, NC). Online Marketing Manager , Friends of the National Zoo (Washington DC). Social Media Intern , JBFCS (New York, NY).

Public and Social Policy 69

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Marketing 69

Getting Attention

APRIL 20, 2015

Digital Marketing Specialist , Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Development Communications Associate , Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Scottsdale, AZ). Digital and Print Publications Designer , Hesperian Health Guides (Berkeley, CA). Director of Marketing & Communications , The Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Marketing 68

Marketing Marketing Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 68

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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.

Homelessness 138

Homelessness Culture Poverty Collaborations 138

Getting Attention

MAY 18, 2015

Communications Director Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Chief Marketing Officer Jewish Board for Family and Children Services (New York, NY). Communications and Development Manager Financial Beginnings (Portland, OR). Communications Manager Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (New York, NY).

Communication 67

Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 67

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

A law professor at Seattle University , advocate for queer and trans liberation, and long-time participant in movements for racial and economic justice, Spade spoke on payment and movement work at a virtual forum organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. What does he mean by “attack and steal”?

Medical 122

Medical Universities Nonprofits Law 122

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. Households of color were significantly more likely to be evicted, foreclosed upon, or displaced from their homes by gentrification.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Foundations 126

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). A particularly useful tool would be community “opportunity to purchase” legislation, which could function like tenant “ first right to purchase ” laws. These laws give residents the first right to purchase multifamily residences (at market rates) whenever a property comes up for sale.

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 105

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

People with disabilities face a range of legal and societal forms of discrimination that have led to higher unemployment rates and rates of poverty compared to nondisabled workers. It is unacceptable, yet common practice, for leaders to make access to care reliant on work requirements, without considering the role of ableism,” shared Dom.

Health 143

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Nonprofit Administration and Development 143

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

People living in poverty face greater fallout from climate change, as do people of color , Indigenous communities , and people with disabilities, who are four times more likely to die in disasters than people who do not have a disability. Island nations are extremely vulnerable.

Construction 72

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 72

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 6, 2023

As the lyrics to the song, “Blue Laces,” make clear, he was keenly aware of the systemic challenges, community poverty, and lack of opportunity that led him to join his set. The alliance aims to transform unjust probation and parole practices by changing laws, systems, and culture to create pathways to work and wellbeing.

Philanthropy 128

Philanthropy Culture Foundations Collaborations 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

Can we remember the possibilities that lie beyond the pale of capitalist economic models that horde resources and compel large sectors of humanity to live as wage slaves or in abject poverty? This notion is a good instinct—someone must imagine new worlds and new ways of being.

Culture 128

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 128

Getting Attention

JUNE 15, 2015

Marketing Strategist Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Marketing and Development Manager Conductive Learning Center (Grand Rapids, MI). Marketing Manager Asian Pacific Community Fund (Los Angeles, CA). Marketing Manager Hebrew Free Loan (San Francisco, CA). Santa Rosa, CA).

Marketing 68

Marketing Marketing Environmental Associations 68

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 27, 2017

Growing harassment and threats directed toward leadership and staff have led watchdog database GuideStar to remove its flagging of 46 suspected hate groups as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — at least for the time being. The removals will take place this week.

Law 52

Law Poverty Construction Leadership 52

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 27, 2017

Growing harassment and threats directed toward leadership and staff have led watchdog database GuideStar to remove its flagging of 46 suspected hate groups as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — at least for the time being. The removals will take place this week.

Law 52

Law Poverty Construction Leadership 52