Big Duck

APRIL 18, 2024

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Poverty 119

Poverty Finance Law 119

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Southern Poverty Law Center. You have a great chance at keeping those people on your email list if you give them the right choices and do it in a way that is EASY and QUICK for them to process. Nothing hard to wade through belongs on this page! Here are three examples of nonprofit email unsubscribe pages that I think do a great job.

Poverty 164

Poverty Law Nonprofits Management 164

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 21, 2012

Southern Poverty Law Center sent me one email in April asking for a renewal. Southern Poverty Law Center also stood out for me, but not in a good way, because of the annoying plastic mail and phone call. Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation sent 8 emails in 8 months, but 4 of them came in May. One direct mail ask.

Retention 226

Retention Homelessness Poverty Communication 226

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress temporarily implemented a child tax credit initiative that in 2021 cut child poverty nearly in half, lifting millions out of poverty, according to a US Census report. This provision allowed the expanded credit to have especially positive impacts in reducing child poverty.

Poverty 126

Poverty Children Law Food 126

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 2, 2025

None of those funds will flow to power local government and public services for 23 years (or longer, as Illinois law permits a 12-year extension ). TIFs divert revenue from where the money is needed to where it is not.

Taxation 103

Taxation Finance Governance Construction 103

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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The other is that global philanthropy itself is under threat as South African “populist” opposition advocates for so-called “ foreign agent laws.” Similar laws have already rapidly spread across Europe and Central Asia , yet South Africa has avoided them so far. Today, that democracy is fraying. With an estimated 55.5

Philanthropy 96

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 96

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Democratic backsliding and restrictive laws will pose challenges to nonprofits operations and the safety of their beneficiaries. This could leave nonprofits working on other critical issues, such as poverty alleviation and education, with limited funding and support. What does this mean for civil society in the coming year?

Civil Society 92

Civil Society Disaster Relief Technology Ethics 92

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 Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Population Council conducts research worldwide to improve policies, programs, and products in three areas: HIV and AIDS; poverty, gender, and youth; and reproductive health. The American Nicaraguan Foundation is a nonprofit that provides basic needs and tools for people to help stop poverty in Nicaragua.

Poverty 111

Poverty Civil Society Medical Education 111

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 72

Construction Public and Social Policy Finance Poverty 72

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 116

Environmental Race and Ethnicity Construction Nonprofit governance and management 116

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Despite living near Yale, an elite Ivy League university, the people I knew were working hardreally hardand still struggling to get by, often trapped in cycles of poverty. Each leader and organization that joined had a unique reason to get involved, but all realized that poverty in Connecticut doesnt stop at a towns border.

Poverty 98

Poverty Public and Social Policy Children Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2019, the US Census Bureau also reported that, after adjusting for the cost of essentials such as housing, gas, and electricity, California had the highest level of “functional poverty” of all 50 states, at 18.2 It was signed into law in September. As in all states, small business plays a central role in California’s economy.

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Law Poverty Healthcare 142

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 74

Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health Medical 74

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 112

Environmental Health Poverty Governance 112

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

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 106

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 106

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

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 Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. In some ways, laws don’t matter when it comes to organized worker power.

Law 139

Law Governance Leadership Poverty 139

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

Getting Attention

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

2) Communications Associate and New Media Content Manager , Southern Poverty Law Center , (Montgomery, AL). NEW OPPORTUNITIES. 1) Campaign Marketing Coordinator and Marketing Intern , Leukemia & Lymphoma Society , (San Antonio, TX). 3) Digital and Marketing Director , Net Impact , (San Francisco, CA).

Public and Nonprofit Management 60

Public and Nonprofit Management Marketing Marketing Poverty 60

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 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

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

AUGUST 15, 2023

Image Credit: AVNphotolab on istock.com This July, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a new state law banning the use of cash bail in the state’s criminal justice system can go into effect. The new law, passed by Democratic legislators and signed by Democratic Governor J.B.

Non-Profits 98

Non-Profits Law Poverty Environmental 98

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

He launched the Grameen Bank , and a generation later microfinance—a system of providing small loans to people who otherwise do not have access to conventional banking—has reached every corner of the world, lifting millions out of poverty. Having a good idea—even with proof that it works—does not guarantee adoption. But it’s only a pilot.

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Finance Non-Profits 138

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