NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap in the South US researcher and agricultural law expert Nathan Rosenberg has said , “If you want to understand wealth and inequality in this country, you have to understand Black land loss.” They also continue to face discrimination, and exclusion from government programs, loans, and subsidies.

Agriculture 143

Agriculture Finance Culture Collaborations 143

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Yet, philanthropy has often taken too narrow of a view of “scale” when it comes to climate change, focusing on scaling particular strategies, with the goal of creating quantity quickly. By Lindley Mease. The ecological crisis requires urgent, coordinated, and impactful solutions on a level unprecedented in human history.

Agriculture 128

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Energy Governance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This is a question animating much of our work in East Texas, where a local family foundation ( T.L.L. Temple Foundation, 2022 The graph has a clarifying quality, disabusing any suggestion that our regions (represented by the green, blue, and orange lines) are on the right track. In rural East Texas we have a pilot model to get started.

Entrepreneurship 108

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations 108

Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The IRS recognizes 45,387 501(c)(5) entities, which include both unions and agriculture/horticultural organizations. While this blog is largely focused on new developments in unions’ engagement with philanthropy, it is important to acknowledge that unions have long encouraged their members to be engaged in the community.

Voluntarism 105

Voluntarism Agriculture Homelessness Philanthropy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In philanthropy, people often talk about Indigenous people returning to “steward” their homelands, which reflects an understanding that “ownership” is not the way that many Indigenous people see their relationship to land. Why Supporting Land Return Is an Impactful Philanthropic Approach Both of us work for the Kataly Foundation.

Governance 123

Governance Agriculture Food Production 123

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Insights from the national survey will also provide the quantitative foundation of the post-capitalism website in development. Marbleseed: Learning Why Organic Agriculture Requires System Change The origin story of Marbleseed includes a group of farmers committed to the regeneration of earth’s resources and nonchemical farming.

Agriculture 78

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 78

MNA Association

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Written by Jim Bennet, MNA Board of Directors and Montana Community Foundation Gift Planning Officer As we approach the end of 2023, many estate planning professionals are preparing for 2025 in earnest, as potential estate tax changes loom on the horizon.

Law 52

Law Agriculture Public and Nonprofit Management Fundraising 52

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Image credit: islander11 on istock.com MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist once married to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has awarded $16 billion of her personal fortune in philanthropic grants through her Yield Giving foundation since 2019. NPQ was a recipient of a grant from Yield Giving in 2021.)

Race and Ethnicity 64

Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy Education Education 64

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

By Lior Ipp If you’ve been working in philanthropy for longer than a week, you’ve probably come across a report, analysis, or opinion piece about systems change. As a collaborative effort with multiple funding partners , we have regular conversations with foundations from across the globe. It’s everywhere.

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Food 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

How Can Philanthropy Help Rehabilitate US Democracy? A ‘Balancing Test’ for Foundation Spending by Dimple Abichandani. Speakers: Learn how Jason Milks of The Nature Conservancy in Arkansas and Wilbur Peer of The KKAC Organization came together to bring sustainable agricultural practices to the Arkansas Delta region.

Civil Society 111

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

For many Americans, the term rural elicits simplified imagery of people and places—primarily White, living in small towns, focused on agriculture, and impoverished. Rural communities have varied local economies, which include manufacturing , healthcare, the service sector, and agriculture. What do you picture when you think of rural?

Poverty 98

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A young nonprofit, LACE is also learning to navigate private philanthropy, public funding, and public/private financing, as well as governance and operational matters. A one-acre parcel in Smoketown that LCG now owns, the long-vacant site, former home of the Louisville Slugger factory , is a gift from the Community Foundation of Louisville.

Food 103

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 103

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Slavery became the economic engine of the United States, fueling wars and building industries, including agriculture, banking, small business, and manufacturing. Philanthropy is supposed to be a means for people to support the public good. US capitalism was built on the backs of enslaved people and the slave economy.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public Policy 89

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For example, the Black origins of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) were eclipsed by white farmers, 14 and Indigenous fights against government-provided commodity foods were marginalized. For people working in philanthropy: Recognize and invest in cultural power—alongside economic and political power—as key to effective strategy.

Food 137

Food Culture Agriculture Health 137

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Philanthropy often relies on large, national intermediaries that lack local knowledge and relationships. Outlining Key Investment Gaps in Rural America Nearly nine out of 10 of the nation’s persistent poverty counties are rural , and they face chronic underinvestment by government, philanthropy, and the private sector.

Values 115

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

Termed “The Walkers,” these newly migrant individuals and families found security in rural communities that were able to feed everyone throughout the shutdown, using traditional agricultural practices. When philanthropists seek to invest in leadership, they risk missing the leadership capacity that is right before their eyes.

Leadership 122

Leadership Culture Poverty Public and Social Policy 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the Rippel Foundation, we are part of a broad movement to change this. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and others, we developed the vital conditions framework. As in North Sound, there is a significant migrant farming community due to large agricultural businesses.

Health 74

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 74

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 19, 2023

Imagine talking about a decline in agriculture but not talking about farmers. We have a culture of silence, so, it’s not uncommon to see fundraisers not included in discussions of philanthropy. Amazing right? They are simply put in jobs and told to raise money. So … what can be done?

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Culture Agriculture 98

The Agitator

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

From the Chronicle of Philanthropy , here’s a list of America’s Top 50 donors in 2011, the amounts given and the lucky charities. I’m not sure there’s any lesson here, but I just can’t resist browsing through lists like this. These 50 donors gave $10.4 These 50 donors gave $10.4

Entrepreneurship 69

Entrepreneurship Agriculture Philanthropy Food 69

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. Department of Agriculture, not to mention public opinion, supported programs and services that would preserve small farms. Two of them—Dr. They couldn’t get credit to buy a tractor.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 117

Getting Attention

MAY 3, 2011

Kim also writes for the Chicago Tribune and The Chronicle of Philanthropy among other publications, and is author of Surviving a Borderline Parent. Getting Attention reader, Tara, of the Watershed Agricultural Council shared how WAC has shortened its print edition and uses issu for the digital version.

Public and Nonprofit Management 74

Public and Nonprofit Management Agriculture Medical Philanthropy 74

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Sewall Foundation; and Kate Dempsey, state director of The Nature Conservancy in Maine, discuss the future of Tribal sovereignty, Land Back, and rematriation of the planet. And Gabriela, the Sewall Foundation has really encouraged the conservation community’s effort to do our own learning through the First Light collaboration.

Nonprofit governance and management 89

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 89

Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 24, 2013

You can read about the report on the Chronicle of Philanthropy and download the report on <a href=" CompassPoint website. Fundraising is more agricultural than mechanical. about 25% of CEOs want to fire their fundraiser. The problem is systemic, far to involved to solve in one blog post. Each gift needs to be earned each time.

Agriculture 101

Agriculture Education Education Fundraising 101

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

We should not be naive about the resources of the government, which, like foundation endowments, are fueled by wealth that comes from our communities in the first place. Dr. Gilmore locates our movements within the gargantuan field of philanthropy as a “shadow of the shadow state.”

Public Policy 72

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 72

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Tom Llewellyn: [00:00:06] Welcome to a special episode of Cities@Tufts, brought to you by Shareable and Tufts University with support from the Barr and Shift Foundations. And so we did that through philanthropy. And they invited in banks and philanthropies — we knew most of the philanthropies. complicated. We love them.

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 88

The NonProfit Times

MAY 7, 2024

At the Humane Society of the United States, Kimberlee Dinn, senior vice president of philanthropy believes the donor rolls are ready to embrace new, younger funders after two years of donor gains made after the height of the coronavirus pandemic, followed by “pretty flat” levels that track with other organizations in the space.

Retention 59

Retention Volunteerism Volunteerism Participation and motivation 59