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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

Below the ALICE Threshold” includes workers who live in poverty and those we call ALICE ® — A sset L imited, I ncome C onstrained, E mployed—who earn above the federal poverty level but still can’t afford the basics. By comparison, the rate of financial hardship at retail trade nonprofits (e.g.,

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Repurpose Your Content for Consistent Storytelling

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

A while ago I saw this Facebook post by Mark Horvath, founder of Invisible People , a unique digital storytelling organization that uses video and social media to fight homelessness and poverty: Since we are big fans of repurposing here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide, I asked Mark to share his process with our community.

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The Invisible Rural Access Barrier

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity.

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

In fact, the interruption of “normal” has allowed us to create this new space in which we can cultivate relationships, weigh cultural assets, and plot a path toward cultural sovereignty in a non-extractive framework centered on cooperation rather than competition. To inhabit a sustainable future requires we remember the shape of thrivability.

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Making the Affordable Aspirational: Increasing the Adoption of Frugal Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, one study found that, in the period 2011-2012, nearly 55–60 million low-income Indians were pushed into poverty because of aspirational consumption, resulting in a reduction of about 13 percent of their daily calorie intake. Because aspirational consumption could cause negative outcomes at the BoP (e.g.,

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How to Fight Power by Building Power

NonProfit Quarterly

From poverty wages to sky-high rents to environmental disasters, many of the crises we face today are linked to outsized and entrenched corporate power. Corporate dominance and the pursuit of profit has destabilized our economy, pushed our climate to the breaking point, and fueled the rise of right-wing authoritarianism.