Nonprofit Organizations, Poverty and Public and Social Policy

Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce

Candid

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Image Credit: Jacob Culp on Unsplash Headlines about which cities have the most or least affordable housing markets often oversimplify the issue; the reality is that cities have a range of residential types with a range of social and economic implications for the people who live there.

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One in Five Nonprofit Workers Can’t Afford Basic Expenses

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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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How to Make Guaranteed Income Work: Ten Lessons from Newark, New Jersey

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Having worked in the social sector for a little over a decade, I have firsthand experience with the art and science of getting social impact programs off the ground. In contrast, guaranteed income gives cash to people living below the poverty line or with inconsistent or no income and entails a qualifying process.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem. Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits?

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The Nonprofit Sector and Social Change: A Conversation between Cyndi Suarez and Claire Dunning

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

But I always had a sense of those organizations when I worked there, an internal critique of what kind of social change were we really bringing about. It’s really fascinating to have that kind of really high-level analysis and to have confirmation of all the feelings I had while I was working at those organizations.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. This can make it difficult for BIPOC-led organizations to address the needs of their communities effectively, and can also limit their ability to attract and retain talented staff and volunteers.

Leadership

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Starting a Nonprofit: Basic FAQs What is a nonprofit? the IRS defines nonprofits as “Organizations that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational or other specified purposes.” In the U.S., Legal services.

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The Future of Family Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If families reflect deeply in this moment on their philanthropic purpose, pace, power, and practices, and carefully choose their future path in this rapidly changing world, they will not only expand their impact but can fundamentally change the norms of our entire sector and help catalyze broader social transformation. Many already are.

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How to Prevent Burnout in Your Nonprofit

The Charity CFO

APRIL 22, 2024

The impact of this goes beyond individual well-being and can affect your organization’s effectiveness and ability to advance your mission. Keep reading to learn how burnout can happen and get tips for implementing a burnout prevention strategy for your organization. Be sure to consider each employee’s personality when recognizing them.

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Some Nonprofit Workers Still In Poverty, Struggling Financially

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Paul Clolery More than one in five nonprofit employees (22%) struggle financially, even though the rate of financial hardship is less for nonprofit workers than in the for-profit sector (27%). Among nonprofit workers in 2022, 5% were below the official U.S. ALICE households include those employed by nonprofits and otherwise.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Sheeraz Haji: Back then I had the naïve view that all nonprofits were alike.

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MARCH 4, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Sheeraz Haji: Back then I had the naïve view that all nonprofits were alike.

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3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Are you looking to boost your Nonprofit’s Fundraising? million nonprofit organizations registered by the Internal Revenue Service as of 2016 (data by the National Center for Charitable Statistics ) are one of the largest contributing forces of the US economy with a total 5.5% More than 1.5 3 Tips to Raise Funds Online.

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How to Make the Ask of a Gift in a Will Less Scary

iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For example, death reminders make people more protective of their social group – and more resistant to outside groups.[5] 5] Group opinions and social “norms” become more powerful.[6] 6] People become more interested in social prestige,[7] fame,[8] a positive life story,[9] personal heroism,[10] or putting their name on something.[11]

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Strategic Philanthropy Is Alive and Well

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 11, 2024

They find evidence of strategic philanthropy’s failure in the country’s growing social challenges and argue it should be replaced by “empowerment philanthropy,” a combination of unconditional cash transfers, voter education and mobilization, and collective impact tactics that give people agency to help themselves.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

While the title of the book might belie the scope of inquiry, Dunning makes the case that using nonprofits as a “tool for addressing urban problems” has led to a form of “urban governance” that uses private organizations to fulfill public, democratic rights. 3 Furthermore, this approach obscured the need for structural change.

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Providence Nonprofits Reeling from Funding Cuts and Threats (And, Organizations—What You Can Do!)

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

The fear is justified: Just weeks after the inauguration in January, the administration issued an executive order freezing federal funding for nonprofits. Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits (NCN) calls these efforts a coordinated assault on civil society and democracy. Its also asking the public to contribute.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

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