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Living into a Childhood Commitment: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix

NonProfit Quarterly

What I cared about was poverty, poor people, and those on the margins—those with less material resources. KF: These are established schools of personal and organizational development. I was a financial aid student in medical school. I got grants, I got some scholarships. And that has guided my work.

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Does Your Organization’s Storytelling Perpetuate Harm?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Poverty Porn” Doesn’t Raise More Money. In non-profit fundraising and communication, “poverty porn” is any type of media or storytelling that exploits a person’s condition (whether it be financial, health, et cetera) to generate the necessary sympathy for gaining supporters to a given cause.