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.

Public and Social Policy 107

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 107

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. Beyond the four areas outlined above, addressing social determinants of health —which include poverty, hunger, quality education, health, and wellbeing—is key to the Camden Food Hub initiative.

Food 128

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 128

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 111

Poverty Ethics Culture Philanthropy 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 118

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Scott served seven years in prison after being arrested on federal drug charges shortly after obtaining his law degree from Louisiana State University in 1994. They don’t want to talk about poverty. They don’t want to talk about mental health. They don’t want to talk about all the causes of crime.

Poverty 126

Poverty Health Education Education 126

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

These workers are often forced to choose between risking their health or their income, especially as climate change only increases the likelihood of wildfires, which in turn drives up the number of airborne toxins. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), pollution can also increase the risk of respiratory infection and lung cancer.

Nonprofit governance and management 112

Nonprofit governance and management Health Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 112

CNPE

JANUARY 6, 2023

They will point to challenges they have faced in the past – and may be still facing – unemployment, poverty, health challenges, and more. I grew up in poverty. Both my parents grew up living in poverty. I often hear white friends or family members dispute that they have privilege. I understand where they are coming from.

Poverty 98

Poverty Leadership Children Psychology 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health, half the country has strict abortion restrictions in effect or queued up to take effect over the coming months, making it difficult, if not impossible, for people to access abortion care. No one should ever have to choose between paying rent and accessing health care.

Health 111

Health Philanthropy Governance Insurance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Waller is also a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral research fellow in the psychiatry department at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Gun violence, which tends to increase in areas with elevated poverty levels , was a leading driver behind these increased homicide rates.

Poverty 56

Poverty Medical Health Universities 56

Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

Based on that, funders may assume that AANHPI populations are universally well off. In 2020, CASL began administering annual client surveys focused on social determinants of health. Census suggests that Asian Americans have a median household income of $108,700—significantly higher than the national median of $75,580.

Governance 59

Governance Food Health Collaborations 59

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

When the legendary physician and advocate Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away at the age of 62 in February, he was called a hero , a visionary , and a global health giant. Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership.

Nonprofit Leadership 105

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Medical Nonprofit governance and management 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

People living in poverty face greater fallout from climate change, as do people of color , Indigenous communities , and people with disabilities, who are four times more likely to die in disasters than people who do not have a disability. have serious health and safety hazards, such as gas leaks, damaged plumbing, and poor heating.

Construction 65

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 65

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Two years ago, Raymond Foxworth of First Nations noted in NPQ that “Native people have long held a worldview that connects human and community health to the health of land and the environment. A Montana State study from 2019 estimated that the poverty rate statewide for Native communities exceeded 30 percent.

Nonprofit governance and management 135

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 135

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

There are myriad reasons one would want to own a home—and in America, homeownership is a nearly universal aspiration. We then outline the mental and physical health impacts of housing insecurity, using data from recent guaranteed-income programs and highlighting that Black women face dual stressors of racial “weathering” and sexism.

Poverty 102

Poverty Health Public Policy Values 102

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Between 2016 and 2019 , nearly half of global giving by US foundations went to health, while environment and human rights accounted for roughly 11 percent each, followed by agriculture and education. There are many reasons why foundations structure their giving in this way.

Production 132

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Health 132

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Bright Pink: Bright Pink helps to save lives from breast and ovarian cancer by empowering women to know their risk and manage their health proactively. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Education 94

Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In February NOW is hosting the annual Racial Justice Summit and a Black Mental Health Summit in partnership with the Bottom-Up Foundation and BLD PWR, titled “Healing is Resistance: A Restorative Path to Mental Wellness.” “It Over time, she earned her MBA from the University of Phoenix.

Universities 98

Universities Philanthropy Health Foundations 98

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Institutions of higher education—notably historically Black colleges and universities—received the bulk of grants above $30 million. The leading issue category is health, followed by “public safety,” which includes funding focused on disasters. Visualized this way, this set of grants suggests a more general pattern. Conclusion.

Poverty 98

Poverty Health Law Universities 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In research I did with collaborators for the Broke Project , we found that most stories, profiles, and vignettes related to work to end poverty follow this pattern: while an organization is the protagonist, poor people are defined only by their experience with poverty. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate.

Homelessness 138

Homelessness Culture Poverty Collaborations 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

What I cared about was poverty, poor people, and those on the margins—those with less material resources. My undergrad years consisted of two years at Hillsborough Community College and then two additional years at the University of Florida. Then I did more studying at the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health.

Medical 86

Medical Health Leadership Healthcare 86

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. Take healthcare worker burnout for example Things like AI-supported charting, documentation and staffing companies like Abridge , Guardoc and In-House Health , can potentially cut that work by two-thirds.

Curriculum and Teaching 122

Curriculum and Teaching Healthcare Civil Society Technology 122

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This exclusion had consequences not just for the posterity of Black families, but for Black health. The cooperative, which sought Black self-sufficiency, offered affordable housing, entrepreneurial opportunities, and education to tenant farmers, as well as a pig bank and access to fresh produce to feed families living in poverty.

Food 117

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 117

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For example, Europe has hundreds of thousands of free or low-cost university slots for foreign students, but most students from low-income countries cannot save the year’s living expenses required for a student visa. And even the US has untapped opportunities for impact in agriculture, some high-skilled visa programs, and health care.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. The city’s Black business district was devastated. This was one of many such projects that displaced hundreds of thousands of Black Americans nationwide.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

Data released in 2022 by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE, “Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics”) shows that unemployment and informal labor are higher among this group, which is also more exposed to violence and poverty. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

Public and Social Policy 78

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Poverty 78

iMarketSmart

MAY 8, 2024

The real-life Erin struggled with fairly extreme poverty for many years. Maybe they had a major health problem that upended their entire life for a couple years. Entertainment almost universally presents wealthy people in a negative light, and this rubs off on the people who watch it. Nothing is guaranteed.

Philanthropy 96

Philanthropy Participation and motivation Poverty Finance 96

EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Cut poverty off at its roots. Oxfam America envisions a world without poverty. To make that vision a reality, they work tirelessly to combat the conditions that cause poverty, hunger, and social justice. Concern Worldwide’s global community operates on the belief that eliminating extreme poverty is possible.

Poverty 50

Poverty Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay.

Volunteerism 111

Volunteerism Volunteerism Children Homelessness 111

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay.

Volunteerism 100

Volunteerism Volunteerism Children Homelessness 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. Disability, poverty, and discrimination are part of a cycle where each reinforces the others. China is no exception to this global issue.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 119

Thunderhead Works

JUNE 5, 2019

Using the positive deviance model, Sternin and his team surveyed the health of the children in the targeted villages and found some “very very poor children” who were nevertheless well nourished—positive deviants. With the six-month clock ticking, the Sternin and team called the village leaders and volunteers together. “We What should we do?”

Children 52

Children Insurance Poverty Health 52

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 15, 2022

Andre Curry, registered nurse and certified health coach, Florida Blue. “As Haley Veterans Hospital, teaching faculty, University of South Florida, and CEO, OCBRA Advantage, LLC. “As Tamika Powe, manager, community benefit and health education programs, Tampa General Hospital. This is my why.”.

Nonprofit governance and management 130

Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Leadership Nonprofits 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

By the time she’d reached university and South Africa had attained democracy, there was a sense among many activists that the struggle was over. Poverty is not about the absence of material possessions. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.” We didn’t do that.

Children 81

Children Leadership Poverty Education 81

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2017

7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 3: World Wildlife Day — #WorldWildlifeDay.

Children 101

Children Poverty Health Universities 101

Getting Attention

MARCH 9, 2015

Assistant Director Kilts Center for Marketing: University of Chicago Booth School for Business (Chicago, IL). Communications & Marketing Coordinator Riverside Community Health Foundation (Riverside, CA). Events Specialist Institute for Innovation and Implementation—University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, MD).

Communication 65

Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Associations 65

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 15, 2023

and we don’t pay adequate attention to what is going right, particularly in the last 50 years or so,” says Varvaloucas, who graduated from New York University in 2012 with concentration in journalism and religious studies. “We There are so many hard, intractable problems we have made traction on, such as poverty, vaccines.

Culture 52

Culture Health Poverty Energy 52