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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts. Almost 90 percent of SNAP participants in households with children (and at least one adult without a disability) are employed at some point within the year.

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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

One strategy for achieving that vision is to support urban agriculture and community agency, giving people the chance to produce their own food. Advancing urban agriculture in Camden. Census figures confirm that Camden is a poor city (with a poverty rate of 33.6 However, persistent poverty plagues the city’s residents.

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Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

Nonprofit Megaphone

Agriculture. The American Farmland Trust protects agricultural land, promotes environmentally sound farming practices, and helps farmers continue to grow food for us all. Kiss the Ground is committed to educating the public about the environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture. National Art Education Association.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is instead an exercise in liberating the constructs of creativity from being the prerogative of the Western, masculine, or the allegedly educated, while reclaiming what rural women of India have championed for thousands of years. This is a lesson for other cooperative initiatives to prioritize building resilience into their operations.

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Towards Thriving: Building a Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

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. million school-aged children every day.

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How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

World’s brightest minds have been trying to build ML-based solutions that tackle pressing global issues such as poverty, climate change, education, healthcare, and disaster response. Identifying children at risk Predict Align Prevent is a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping child maltreatment.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

So, we’ve been identifying assets, both human and infrastructural, that others might not see or even imagine when they read headlines focused on crime and poverty on the Northeast side. Building this local capacity may seem like a process-oriented nicety, but it’s much more than that. Black excellence abounds here.

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