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2024 Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

NonProfit Leadership Center

For the Cook: Handmade Wooden Cutting Boards UTEC is a nonprofit that helps young people overcome the challenges of poverty, gang involvement, and unemployment. As you celebrate the holidays this season, thank you for supporting nonprofits that strengthen our communities.

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Small Firms Are Still a Big Missed Opportunity in Development Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The problem is not lack of potential impact; SMEs represent nine out of 10 firms, the biggest employers worldwide, and without helping these firms grow, we cannot create jobs, lift people from poverty, empower women, or innovate solutions for the climate crisis. Why is philanthropy still hesitant? Business owners aren’t “poor enough.”

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

This article introduces a new series, titled Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In 2014, six CDFIs located in regions of rural America beset by persistent poverty formed a coalition to remedy longstanding underinvestment. This article introduces our series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation.

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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

In a preliminary statement to the complaint, the plaintiffs cite Thomas Sowell’s 1998 poem, “The Poverty Pimps’ Poem,” ( Let us celebrate the poor, Let us hawk them door to door. There’s a market for their pain, Votes and glory and money to gain. Let us celebrate the poor.

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What’s Next for CDFIs? The Challenge and Opportunity of Place

NonProfit Quarterly

In 2017, Mayor Hamilton sought to create a small-business CDFI but found the Bloomington market too small to support one. While many Justice40 tracts are in well-served CDFI markets, many are not. In August 2024, the accelerator introduced the CDFI Market Map , the first geospatial look at CDFI coverageor, more precisely, CDFI deserts.

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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

The economy should not exist merely to serve markets or maximize profits or even gross domestic product (GDP); it should work to uplift human flourishing, equality, and shared prosperity. These policies work together to stabilize household incomes, reducing poverty and providing the foundation for wealth building.

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Should Your Nonprofit Use Pinterest?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Sweet Pea is a non-profit arts festival with 1 ½ paid staff – our Festival’s planning team is otherwise entirely a volunteer board, including our marketing division. Over the past several months we have been utilizing social media more and more and one of the media that the marketing group is encouraging is Pinterest.