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Empowering Students Through Education: How One Nonprofit is Expanding Access for Those Affected by Poverty

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

In this episode, Rob Harter sits down with Yoon Choi, CEO of CollegeSpring, a nonprofit organization committed to providing equitable access to college readiness resources for students impacted by poverty.

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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

Many nonprofit organizations devote their time, talent, funding, and mission to helping people who live in financial hardship. We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology.

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Give up your nonprofit poverty mentality

Get Fully Funded

Whether you celebrate Lent or not, now is a good time to think about something you can afford to give up in your nonprofit – your poverty mindset. Most nonprofit organizations were started on a shoestring because someone wanted to help people or change a situation. Poverty mindset stunts a nonprofit’s growth.

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One in Five Nonprofit Workers Can’t Afford Basic Expenses

NonProfit Quarterly

America needs a strong nonprofit sector…and we can’t get there with 22 percent of our workforce struggling.” The result, says United for ALICE president and CEO Stephanie Hoopes, is a more realistic—and much broader—picture of financial hardship in the nonprofit sector. “If When you use the ALICE metrics, it’s another 17 percent.

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4 Important Insights from the 2023 M+R Benchmarks Study

NonProfit Leadership Center

The study looks at billions of emails and SMS messages, millions of website visits and thousands of social media posts from hundreds of nonprofits (215 in the most recent report to be exact). Findings from the 2023 M+R Benchmarks study reveal four important insights all nonprofit organizations should know.

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Give up your nonprofit poverty mentality

Get Fully Funded

Whether you celebrate Lent or not, now is a good time to think about something you can afford to give up in your nonprofit – your poverty mindset. Most nonprofit organizations were started on a shoestring because someone wanted to help people or change a situation. Poverty mindset stunts a nonprofit’s growth.

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How to Help People of Color Become Homeowners: Data from Philadelphia

NonProfit Quarterly

Addressing this requires intervention both by policymakers and nonprofit organizations. These neighborhoods still have above average poverty rates and remain majority Black and/or Latinx. The most crucial asset that nonprofits can bring to the table is trust.