The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Takiyah McCathern, an assistant principal at a high-poverty middle school in Wilkes County, N.C., By Drew Lindsay Logan Cyrus for The Chronicle Several new efforts aim to catalog grassroots efforts to strengthen democracy and close divides. raises money to pay for medical physicals required for students to play sports.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

This expanded child tax credit was incredibly effective: child poverty went down by a record-breaking amount , lifting an estimated 2.9 million children out of poverty, reducing food hardship, decreasing parent financial stress, and more. Schools closed, unemployment and poverty skyrocketed, and health and wellness plummeted.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 12, 2024

Prest BRAC USA Julia Roberts is set to lead BRAC USA, an organization that fights global poverty. Also, the Connecticut Community Foundation has named a new leader, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation will install its next president in the fall.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

About 40 percent live below the poverty line. By Jim Rendon Ivy Vainio In South Dakota, Native Americans living on the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Reservation face tough economic odds. Unemployment is as high as 80 percent. On a reservation nearly the size of Rhode Island, grocery stores are scarce, and a trip to the only…

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JANUARY 17, 2023

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In his annual letter, Gates chief executive Mark Suzman wrote that the increased grants were spurred by global failures to adequately respond to the spread of infectious diseases, reduce poverty, promote gender equality, and address the effects of climate change.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

After 10 years of dedicated service to their mission to end hunger and poverty in the U.S. and abroad, Share Our Strength’s President and CEO Tom Nelson will retire effective June 30, 2022.

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Poverty 245

NonProfit PRO

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofit professionals tackle poverty, hunger, homelessness, environmental justice, etc. Nonprofit staff need their imaginations. problems that defy technical solutions. If the sector is to go beyond Band-Aid solutions, nonprofits need ample doses of creativity and innovation for finding new solutions.

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Homelessness Poverty Environmental Nonprofits 243

NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 14, 2022

As part of Share Our Strength’s executive team, Singh will lead the organization’s initiative to engage structural inequities that create, sustain, and perpetuate food insecurity and persistent poverty for families. .

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Candid

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. One in five nonprofit workers struggle to afford the basics Of the 13.9

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

India’s first giving day, March 2, will raise money to improve education, health care, and gender equality and meet other important needs in a country with nearly 230 million people living in poverty.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Just as Roosevelt envisioned a future where no American would face poverty, hunger, or insecurity, baby bonds offer a way to help achieve that promise by providing the financial tools necessary to overcome systemic barriers to wealth and opportunity. As more children are born into poverty each year, the need for baby bonds grows more urgent.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

While Black elites have amassed political and financial power, the vast majority of Black Atlantans continue to experience high rates of poverty, housing insecurity, and labor exploitation.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

True Charity, a conservative-leaning group of more than 200 nonprofits and churches devoted to poverty reduction, requires recipients to stick to a detailed work and self-sufficiency plan.

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Poverty Nonprofits 167

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 29, 2024

By Marianne Dhenin A global consortium is creating opportunities for local organizations to manufacture plant-based menstrual pads.

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Poverty Manufacturing 90

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2025

In the 1970s, economist Muhammad Yunus pioneered the concept of microloans through the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, a revolutionary idea that aimed to lift people out of poverty by offering small loans to those excluded from traditional banking. Yunuss premise was simple: People know better.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

In Louisiana, for example, workers are holding dollar store chains accountable for paying poverty wages and creating unsafe work environments. The innovations in worker organizing emerging from the South are striking, particularly for their emphasis on community-driven solutions.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Multigenerational households typically have more income earners than single families, and by combining the income of working family members and the social security or pensions of retired ones, Americans living in multigenerational households have lower levels of poverty. While 13 percent of U.S.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

GiveDirectly is using a Google-developed artificial intelligence tool to pinpoint areas with high concentrations of poverty and storm damage. GiveDirectly is using a Google-developed artificial intelligence tool to pinpoint areas with high concentrations of poverty and storm damage.

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Poverty Associations 144

Candid

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This disparity is all the more striking considering the magnitude of challenges here, even before the stormbroadband, health care, and food deserts; intergenerational poverty born from extraction; and the ongoing opioid crisis.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image credit: Barbara Olsen on Pexels If you want to reduce poverty, cash matters. Springboard to Opportunities —the organization we both work for—began operations in 2013 with the goal to break cycles of generational poverty that are particularly persistent in Black communities. That year, the child poverty rate fell by over a third.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So, if donors care about a mission, such as the eradication of cancer, ending poverty or high-quality education, they realize the source of fundamental change occurs with the partnership between technology and humans. Donors understand that data and technology are game-changers.

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Poverty Technology Education Education 173

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 26, 2021

They found hunger and poverty groups had a 173% increase in online revenue and nonprofits that provided COVID relief had 40% increase in online revenue. Unless you are in the hunger and poverty sector which reported a 946% increase in Facebook Fundraisers revenue.). Instagram Stories. Facebook Group.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

By Nagatsugu Asato & Nobuo Shiga The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. Okinawa’s poverty rate is about 35 percent, which is twice the national average. percent of the country’s total land area.

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Public and Social Policy Poverty Construction Law 140

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts. Even where work requirements do lead to increases in employment, they mostly keep people in poverty. In some cases, the share of families living in deep poverty increased.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

Image Credit: Etienne Girardet on unsplash.com Many people working in nonprofits and philanthropy say they want to reduce poverty, and increasingly, foundations, nonprofits, and social-movement organizations are developing communications strategies and telling stories that aim to dispel the myth that the US economic system is equitable and fair.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 18, 2023

In these reaction videos, Jackson talks about the real policy issues and situations referenced in the hit sitcom Abbott Elementary. This includes having children fundraise for school needs by selling things and the duality of teachers being superheroes who are just ordinary people.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 23, 2024

By Eboo Patel AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Harvard University Professor Robert Putnam and President Barack Obama participate in the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., on May 12, 2015.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

This article concludes the series : Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. For decades, the United States has focused on what are called “place-based” strategies and policies to address poverty, housing access, and affordability. Studies show that secure housing is critical to reducing generational poverty.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress temporarily implemented a child tax credit initiative that in 2021 cut child poverty nearly in half, lifting millions out of poverty, according to a US Census report. This provision allowed the expanded credit to have especially positive impacts in reducing child poverty.

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Big Duck

APRIL 18, 2024

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Poverty Finance Law 119

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

22% of those workers are living below or just above the poverty line. The strain on the nonprofit workforce is also evidenced by recent data from Independent Sector and United for ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed), which shows that while workers within the sector comprise 9% of the workforce in the U.S.,

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Retail Homelessness Poverty Health 83

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This isnt just a denial of financial services; its a denial of possibility, locking communities into cycles of poverty and keeping doors closed to upward mobility. Imagine entire neighborhoods, once redlined and systematically denied opportunity, now being neglected again by algorithms that equate zip codes with financial risk.

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Ethics Public and Social Policy Technology Finance 98

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Southern Poverty Law Center. You have a great chance at keeping those people on your email list if you give them the right choices and do it in a way that is EASY and QUICK for them to process. Nothing hard to wade through belongs on this page! Here are three examples of nonprofit email unsubscribe pages that I think do a great job.

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Poverty Law Nonprofits Management 164

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 7, 2025

While it has, by far, the largest number of poor people in the world, India has arguably pulled more people out of poverty over the last 20 years than any other country in history (with the possible exception of China). Some may ask, why donate to India, the fifth largest economy in the world, which by 2030 will be the third?

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 27, 2016

If you’re working on anti-poverty initiatives, for instance, consider writing about the root causes of poverty or effective programs. Think about your mission and what you’re trying to accomplish and develop topics that build off of your mission. Find Creative Ways to Position Your Point of View.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Ability to cover three months’ worth of bills: This is what is known as an “asset poverty” measure. Income poverty: In Atlanta, 28 percent of Black households live below the federal poverty line; only seven percent of White households do.

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