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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Image Credit: Photo by Darla Hueske on Unsplash Travel across the United States today, and you’ll find in many small towns a towering grain elevator or a similar agricultural edifice looming over the rusty train tracks. Before the Affordable Care Act, it was the only good option for health insurance.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
While some tech-for-good companies are creating AI and thrivingDigital Green, Khan Academy, and Jacaranda Health, among manymost social sector companies are not ready to build AI solutions. When Nexleaf started in 2009, its co-founders aspired to bring the value of consistent sensor data to low-resource health systems.
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Stop Budget Burnout: A Better Way to Grow Your Nonprofit in 2026
Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 12, 2025
Research shows male caregiving is associated with improved physical and mental health , better relationship quality , and even healthier lifestyle choices. It contributes to greater gender equity through balancing care responsibilities, giving women more freedom to pursue economic opportunities and improving health outcomes.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 11, 2025
The good news is that there is demonstrable demand for seeding new forms of holistic problem-solving across previously siloed efforts in democracy protection, public health, climate action, social justice, and peace and security.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Landmark labor protections like the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 offered unemployment insurance, retirement security, and a minimum wage but excluded domestic workers and agricultural laborers—the majority of whom were Black, Latinx, and immigrant workers.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 15, 2025
Each fund is unique.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
In contrast to systems like energy, transportation, or health care, where expertise is more well defined, food expertise tends to be irrefutable, requiring no advanced degree or professional experience. Finally, imagine the food scraps left over in these community members’ kitchens.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
MARCH 11, 2025
Green Your Detox: Eco-Conscious Foods and Habits for a Clean Liver Detoxifying the liver is essential for maintaining overall health, as this organ plays a crucial role in filtering toxins from the body, processing nutrients, and supporting metabolic functions. But did you know that you can support liver health in an eco-conscious way?
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Candid
JULY 2, 2025
This ambitious strategy, whether aimed at fixing broken health, education, agricultural, or other systems, requires up-front investments in building trust with governments, co-creating solutions, and testing implementation strategies.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 21, 2025
With a complex and vast investment portfolio, its reach spans across fund investments, grants, and direct investments across several countries and regions, mostly in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the United States and is focused on transforming sectors like agriculture and tourism towards a more regenerative approach.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
DECEMBER 28, 2024
Social enterprises focusing on health equity can leverage these capabilities to improve access to care in regions with limited medical infrastructure. This not only boosts agricultural productivity but also minimizes resource waste.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 26, 2025
Owned and operated by approximately a dozen Black farmers on a 5,700-acre farm, it continues today after winning a $12 million US Department of Agriculture settlement due to previous unjust credit denialas an agribusiness and economic development initiative on a 1,600-acre retreat center and working farm near Albany, GA.
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Blue Avocado
MARCH 11, 2025
We would love to qualify for funding for education, agriculture, electricity, fresh water, and jobs creation. Kelly Boyett from Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange Expanding access to mental health resources, counseling, and crisis intervention. Help us help the world.
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
APRIL 26, 2025
Crops can become unsellable in commercial agriculture. The pest is invasive or poses health risks (like ticks, termites , or wasps). PictureThis Good for general plant health monitoring. Without early detection: Infestations can multiply rapidly. Plants can suffer irreversible damage. You reduce pesticide use.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
CLARIFI has so far committed $14 million in direct funding to 88 projects led by rightsholder organizations working to limit deforestation on lands often in the crosshairs of the mining, agriculture, and timber industries. billion for this work over five years to consolidate otherwise fragmented financing streams.
Candid
JUNE 26, 2025
Artificial intelligence is reshaping nearly every industry, from finance to health care to retail. Breakthroughs in drug discovery, medical imaging, and precision agriculture that enable scientists to predict early-stage drug performance and suggest optimal timing for farmers to plant crops highlight the sweeping potential of this technology.
Anedot
MAY 7, 2025
This role is ideal for individuals passionate about urban agriculture, community engagement, and youth mentorship.The Assistant will also be the Driver to pick up the teens in our passenger van and deliver them to the gardens or take them on tours. Experience or strong interest in gardening, agriculture and nutrition.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? So, we would have massive challenges to deal with from a standpoint of agriculture and basic human survival. 6464 (October 2019): 44753.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 4, 2025
The authors also emphasize that sustainable agriculture practices work with rather than at the expense ofthe land (39). Other effects of colonialism can be seen in the environment, in health, and in Native economies. Health The report makes the case for the health community to treat colonialism as a mental health pandemic.
Anedot
MAY 7, 2025
Ceres Organization Founded in 2007, Ceres Community Project works to build healthy communities by restoring whole, organic and locally grown food to its place as the foundation of health, empowering youth, and connecting people in heart-centered ways to others and the earth. For more information, please visit www.ceresproject.org.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 12, 2025
Immigrants in Oregon play an outsized role in agriculture, healthcare, education, and small businesses, but they remain targets of harmful rhetoric and policies. Latinas also represent 30.2 percent of the growth in the US labor force growth since 2010, despite only making up 9.3 percent of the population. They are not standing still.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 30, 2024
The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, timber—has fundamentally changed due to automation and globalization , and the search for new rural development models is coalescing around a new vision.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
14 However, human activities such as burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, landfills, toxic agricultural practices, and transportation have increased the natural rate of these gases in the atmosphere. According to NASA, the average surface temperature of Earth “was about 2.45 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.36 degrees Fahrenheit (1.30
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 27, 2025
Deforestation is occurring in the Amazon at an alarming rate, primarily driven by the demand for agricultural commodities. This not only exacerbates climate change but also results in hazardous air quality, affecting both human health and the environment. The biodiversity loss associated with palm oil production is also significant.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Escaping the Deficiency Focus When the WHO and UNICEF co-organized the landmark health conference in Alma-Ata, USSR, in 1978, 134 countries and 67 international organizations endorsed the WHOs pioneering perspective on health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 13, 2025
If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, help is available. An extreme example of the stress that children are under is illustrated by the case of Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, an 11-year-old girl from Gainesville, TXa small agricultural town of 18,000 people located about 70 miles north of Dallas.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 2, 2025
The head of the EPA has asked the White House to repeal the endangerment finding, which says that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare, contradicting climate science. Andrew Forrest, an Australian mining billionaire, also confirmed a long-term commitment to net zero because it is completely bankable.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 10, 2025
Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 4 We are involved in health-focused, Native Americanled program development, advocacy, research, and policy change.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 17, 2025
Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? However, health innovation, when narrowly defined as the application of technologies, often overlooks the broader socioeconomic contexts in which it is deployed.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 12, 2024
I remember seeing the smoke rising from the trees every thousand feet or so during the dayillegal logging followed by slash-and-burn agriculture. The African-descended Quilombola population live in tight-knit communities surrounding the Tocantins River, and rely on fishing and agriculture to survive. It was sobering.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 18, 2025
State researchers warned that mismanaged agricultural lands had become dangerously flammable. Historically, Lahaina’s thriving agricultural systems, including kalo fields and fishponds , relied on abundant water supply. Without active management, they argued, much of Hawaiʻi’s open land was a fire risk. Still, the struggle is ongoing.
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Anedot
MAY 7, 2025
Ceres Organization Founded in 2007, Ceres Community Project works to build healthy communities by restoring whole, organic and locally grown food to its place as the foundation of health, empowering youth, and connecting people in heart-centered ways to others and the earth. For more information, please visit www.ceresproject.org.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Yet while the hazards of industrial agriculture (and the opportunities offered by agroecological food systems) are equally well known , most money still bets on the status quo: increasing the use of imported fertilizers and pesticides and motorized irrigation, despite high costs and questionable returns.
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
MARCH 7, 2025
you can verify licenses through your states Department of Agriculture or a similar governing body. If you have kids, pets, or health concerns, ask about their treatment methods and safety measures. Pest control involves chemicals and treatments that must be handled correctly. In the U.S.,
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 26, 2025
Likewise, health issues are exacerbated by poor water quality, food shortages, heat exhaustion, cold waves, and air pollution, with the need for money for medical support a leading factor in trapping them in bonded labor.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
DECEMBER 12, 2023
billion in new financing to reduce climate impacts, especially from agriculture, and increasing help for vulnerable communities. With the United Nations climate talks wrapping up in Dubai, foundations and other funders pledged at least $2.1
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
OCTOBER 29, 2023
5 AgTech Must-Haves for Smarter Agriculture Software The agricultural industry has come a long way since the days of manual labor and traditional farming methods. Today, technology plays a vital role in modern agriculture, allowing farmers and agriculture workers to increase productivity, reduce waste, and make more informed decisions.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
How Agrivoltaics Helps the Climate Crisis Agrivoltaics, also known as agrovoltaics or dual-use solar farming, is a sustainable agricultural practice that combines crop cultivation with solar panels on the same piece of land. Amidst this adversity, however, the pioneering solution of agrivoltaics offers hope for farmers and the environment.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 8, 2022
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. VF enables large-scale agricultural production in environments where space and soil are limited. Food Justice Innovation Hub.
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Selfish Giving
JANUARY 25, 2010
Not long ago I even pitched them on a health-related cause marketing program for my charity. But they’ve stayed true to their values and focused on the environment and local agricultural and husbandry. Hannaford is a good-size grocer here in New England and could partner with any cause they wanted.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.
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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 delta is a largely rural, agricultural area with a troubled history of racial and economic disparities.
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Selfish Giving
DECEMBER 20, 2010
Why it’s on the list: Most large supermarket chains focus on health-related causes. But Hannaford turned down a program opportunity with my hospital and others so they could stay true to their values and focus on the environment, local agricultural and husbandry. Program: Purple with a Purpose.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
In the face of so much loss and opposition, asset reallocation can be a powerful tool for achieving self-determination for Black farmers and Black agricultural communities. Federal legislation and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have long blocked these goals. Self-Determination and Land Justice.
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