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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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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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Our Task Ahead: Reclaiming Revolutionary Struggle in Atlanta and the South

NonProfit Quarterly

The misleadership class had a general agreement that the movement would not disrupt governance agreements and so the Atlanta Project-SNCC were often excluded from those discussions because we would not comply with the PR and marketing campaigns that Atlanta was the city too busy to hate despite its repression of Black people, Nwangaza said.

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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.

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Beer for a Cause Aids Family of Fallen Firefighter

Selfish Giving

“There’s more poverty on the island than people realize,” said Hughes. For Watch City Brewing Company , the priority is making a difference first, but the benefits of cause marketing are clear. ” Watch City is a great example of how cause marketing is trickling down to local businesses.

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8 Things I Found Interesting in the 2021 M+R Benchmarks Study

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

They found hunger and poverty groups had a 173% increase in online revenue and nonprofits that provided COVID relief had 40% increase in online revenue. Unless you are in the hunger and poverty sector which reported a 946% increase in Facebook Fundraisers revenue.). Instagram Stories. Facebook Group. What did you find surprising?

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