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Kids for a Cause: Getting Children Behind Nonprofit Missions

Top Nonprofits

Compassion: If the kids in your children’s ministry are fortunate enough to have everything they need, they may be unaware that some struggle for basic necessities. Many children today don’t understand the word ‘need.’ You must find kid-friendly nonprofit activities that make it possible for them to contribute in some way.

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Slow Food Wants to Bring Justice, Education, and Joy to the Food Experience

NonProfit Quarterly

Currently, over a third of Americans spend 10 percent of their annual income on fast food and consume such food daily. The Slow Food movement emerged from a protest in Italy during the 1980s against a major fast-food chain’s expansion near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Slow Food’s Principles and Practices.

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A Growing Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level. Confronting a history of exclusion.

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2023 Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

NonProfit Leadership Center

Petersburg, Florida, the Museum serves as an active resource in the cultural life of the community and world. Proceeds from the sale of tees (and related car decals) help people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless access the food and supplies they need to keep and continue caring for their beloved pets. Located in St.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. Downtown grocery stores have recently disappeared, exacerbating food apartheid: between 2016 and 2018, five grocery stores in Louisville’s urban core closed. Some of these projects were top-down in conception and execution.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

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Good Medicine: Centering Food Justice Work in Indigenous Maternal Knowledge

NonProfit Quarterly

From this location, women and their children filled packages and tote bags with seeds and medicines to mail to the attendees of our annual ancestral womb wellness gathering (AWWG). When one of us in the community gave birth, we would support the new mother for 40 days in this manner by bringing food.

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