NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. Economists are very interested in the productive economy. Thats the productive economy.

Nonprofit governance and management 93

Nonprofit governance and management Medical Public and Nonprofit Management Healthcare 93

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 26, 2010

Most of the requests I get are from businesses whose products and services have very little to do with the content of this blog. With very few exceptions, I only write about products or services that I have personal experience with or that have been recommended by other people I trust. Can we do a link exchange?

Production 179

Production Poverty Associations Communication 179

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 28, 2024

As the complexity of global issues like climate change, poverty, and inequality continues to escalate, AI agents are emerging as transformative tools. trillion of that stemming from increased productivity. This not only boosts agricultural productivity but also minimizes resource waste.

Social Enterprise 52

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Disaster Relief Agriculture 52

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.

Poverty 118

Poverty Community Development Construction Finance 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. Earning $1.30

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 6, 2010

If you’re a cause with a corporate partner I’ll show you how to raise money with register programs and cause products. As the authors note they had to shift to the “higher-order, more compelling cause of addressing hunger and food poverty for New York City system wide.&# But what I do has limits.

Food 198

Food Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 198

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Census figures confirm that Camden is a poor city (with a poverty rate of 33.6 However, persistent poverty plagues the city’s residents. VF enables large-scale agricultural production in environments where space and soil are limited. A Camden community vision emerges. percent) and overwhelming BIPOC (50.5 percent Latinx, 42.5

Food 145

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 145

Selfish Giving

AUGUST 16, 2016

If you demo FDS' product through Oxfam they will donate a goat to a needy family in a third-world country. They are a fantastic animal to donate because almost singlehandedly they can lift a family out of poverty. How the program works. The power of goats!

Poverty 133

Poverty Production Marketing Marketing 133

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.

Poverty 126

Poverty Ethics Philanthropy Culture 126

The Kindful Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Mission: Helping Women Period is committed to supplying menstrual health products to people that menstruate who are either homeless or low-income. Host a menstrual health product drive. Impacting: Poverty. Impacting: Menstrual health. Headquarters in: East Lansing, MI. How To Support Helping Women Period. Women In Need Society.

Poverty 122

Poverty Health Philanthropy Education 122

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Simon said “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” Instead, they focus on the things that they know create profits, like good customer service, or the introduction of a certain number of new products each year. Pick Just Three KPIs and Let Everything Else Fall from That.

Communication 171

Communication Poverty Activism Retention 171

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

They also had access to forests where they could collect timber and non-timber forest products such as mushrooms. 14 A poignant example is the Tennessee Valley Authority Project, which was introduced by then-President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, to develop and raise the area out of poverty through the implementation of dams.

Environmental 114

Environmental Race and Ethnicity Construction Nonprofit governance and management 114

Fundraising Coach

MAY 12, 2011

Nonprofits crying poverty. You’d never buy a product from a store because the store owner said, “We need the money.&# For the record, that type of fundraising appeal sucks. Sadly, it’s the third time I’ve heard it in as many months. Often it’s said as a throw away phrase.

Fundraising 108

Fundraising Fundraising Poverty Associations 108

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade.

Ethics 130

Ethics Children Poverty Education 130

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. In 1996, when the law was enacted, 68 percent of families with children living in poverty received welfare; in 2019, it was 19.5

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 121

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The statement of intent from the government in part reads : “At this historic juncture, we must act to ensure stability and peace, tackling the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality, entrench our constitutional democracy and the rule of law, and to build a South Africa for all its people.” With an estimated 55.5

Philanthropy 97

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 97

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This cannabis retailer encourages customers to recycle the plastic that encases certain cannabis products by offering a $4 pre-rolled joint for every piece of packaging they return. This year, they are back with an all-new holiday campaign to tackle period poverty. Check out this year's campaign video, Deck the Stalls.

Public and Nonprofit Management 130

Public and Nonprofit Management Retail Poverty Food 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 31, 2024

Given the important benefits forests provide—not merely holding and absorbing heat-trapping CO 2 but improved air and water quality, biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation, and more—we urgently need a new approach for funding the climate, biodiversity, and social benefits of forest preservation, expansion, and management.

Finance 141

Finance Poverty Environmental Production 141

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. The project is increasing yields by employing hydroponic farming and high tunnel production methods. They come with their own challenges.

Food 126

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 126

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 4: World Animal Day — #WorldAnimalDay. 5: World Teachers Day — #WorldTeachersDay. 6 : World Cerebral Palsy Day — #WorldCPDay. 7: World Habitat Day — #WorldHabitatDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay.

Poverty 145

Poverty Technology Health Nonprofits 145

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

We cannot achieve our mission of sustainability and creating opportunities to pull themselves from abject poverty. Note: The opinions and product/service recommendations expressed above are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily represent those of Blue Avocado. Help us help the world. It is the way we learn.

Volunteerism 52

Volunteerism Volunteerism Healthcare Agriculture 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

million smallholder farmers and subsistence farmers depend on maize production for their livelihood. These low-cost methods can also improve the production of large- and small-scale US farmers despite supply chain disruptions. Njinga says the production cost was too high: “I wanted to abandon farming because it was too hard to afford.”

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Food Production Poverty 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Often, the result is rural poverty. percent of rural residents lived below the poverty line, compared to 11.9 It supports a population of over 380,000 residents, 21 percent of whom live in poverty, 15 percent of whom are Black, and 15 percent Latinx. As of 2019, an estimated 15.4 percent of urban and suburban residents.

Poverty 105

Poverty Children Culture Food 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Because of their low purchasing power and the fact that they lack access to the formal banking system and formal supply chains, products and services designed for higher-income groups in the formal economy are typically either inaccessible or unaffordable for this large group of people around the world.

Production 124

Production Non-Profits Education Education 124

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Global Goods Partners is dedicated to alleviating poverty by strengthening women led development initiatives in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. SERRV’s mission is to eradicate poverty wherever it resides by providing opportunity and support to artisans and farmers worldwide. Global Goods Partners Fair Trade Gift Store.

Retail 105

Retail Poverty Ethics Children 105

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 16, 2024

No Kid Hungry is a national campaign from Share Our Strength, a nonprofit working to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. Our innovative approach, fueled by cutting-edge data analytics, will greatly raise the bar on their fundraising efforts and achieve best in class revenue.

Children 52

Children Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Food 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The climate crisis is not only a product of greenhouse gas emissions… but also of an ideological shift that was imposed by colonization and capitalism to justify violation of sacred land-, water-, and airways—domination that taught Americans to speak of “resources” instead of “relatives.”.

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 140

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

PNW Production on pexels.com. Specifically, policymakers do not consider Black women living in poverty when developing programs that help people purchase and retain ownership of a home. This erasure of Black women from social policy built on a single-axis framework is especially true with respect to housing.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Homelessness 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This is especially relevant at a time when the planet is behind on several SDGs , including those related to poverty reduction and food security. The challenge is that carbon markets weren't designed to work for people in poverty.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, youth activists and organizers continue to be outspoken, recognizing that the climate crisis continues to worsen, exacerbated by such concurring injustices as poverty and wealth inequality, authoritarianism, and genocide. 15 Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

RB: The last installment of the report uplifts how mass incarceration exacerbates poverty. The report mentions how, in many states across the country, incarcerated people are paid little or nothing for their work while their labor is used to produce many of the foods and products we consume. There was this zero-sum game mindset.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 23, 2023

In Nigeria, as in the US, people are looking for ways to fight food insecurity and maintain agricultural production amidst climate change and the changing rainfall patterns—including increased flooding—that it is triggering. Some farmers are still grappling with the destruction. However, she notes that agroforestry offers a way forward.

Food 110

Food Agriculture Production Governance 110

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

“A mission statement is a short statement of why your Nonprofit exists, what its overall goal is, identifying the goal of your operations: what kind of product or service do you provide, who do you primarily help, and your geographical region of operation. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

Each of the seven neighborhoods identified in the study was plagued by extreme poverty, gun violence, and hyper-surveillance policing, coupled with a profound lack of mental health and social support services. Bain is both a product of and a driver of leadership development grounded in community wisdom.

Leadership 122

Leadership Poverty Culture Public and Social Policy 122

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade.

Ethics 106

Ethics Children Production Manufacturing 106

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We provide food for pick up or delivery, and all our produce and products are sourced from local Black farmers and businesses. The Black Farmers’ Hub operates according to these community self-help principles and aims to provide space for Black farmers to sell their products.

Food 118

Food Agriculture Governance Children 118

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2024

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), this destabilization can lead to “cumulative community stress, increases in poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and forced migration.” In the wake of emergencies like wildfires or floods, people may be forced to move , to leave their communities and support systems.

Health 114

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 114