Nonprofit Organizations Poverty Public and Social Policy 
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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?
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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