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.

Food 143

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 143

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

Exposed and At Risk: Opportunities to Strengthen Enforcement of Pesticide Regulations for Farmworker Safety was recently released by the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, in partnership with the nonprofit Farmworker Justice. “You just have to put on a mask and take care of yourself the best you can.”

Agriculture 97

Agriculture Food Health Law 97

MNA Association

MARCH 22, 2023

Up and Coming – Read the Fine Print SB513 – Revoke Tax Exemption for Health Care Facilities This was just scheduled for hearing and would revoke tax exemption for all nonprofit health care facilities. If you have comments, please let us know. MNA will oppose and we encourage you to reach out to committee members.

Taxation 98

Taxation Agriculture Health Governance 98

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. This is not insignificant.

Production 98

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Health 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2023

In this Remaking the Economy webinar, participants discussed the many interconnections between food sovereignty, racial and economic justice, health justice, climate justice, and community building. How can urban agriculture not only promote healthy food but further community agency and economic self-sufficiency?

Food 112

Food Agriculture Culture Philanthropy 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With 65 percent of the population living in rural areas, agriculture is increasingly feminized where women perform 80 percent of farm work. Women are seeing an increase in income and are able to send their children to school, access health care, acquire more land, and diversify their earnings through other small businesses.

Food 96

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 96

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

That’s because most wells in town have been contaminated by runoff from agriculture, said Prado, who is president of the Sultana Community Services District. Due to the fact that we live in an agricultural area and this is a little community, we would be devastated,” he said. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.”

Agriculture 90

Agriculture Nonprofit Administration and Development Construction Universities 90

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In the last century, industrialization caused the share of the US workforce engaged in agriculture to decrease from 41 to 2 percent, according to a food primer from John Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. “It [the apple press] is great for kids to understand that apple juice doesn’t come in a bottle,” said Shatkin.

Food 110

Food Education Education Agriculture 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Missing Middle Agriculture is a central economic pillar in rural communities, especially in developing countries. In some developing countries, up to two-thirds of the population are employed in agriculture, a sector that can account for more than 25 percent of GDP. But how and where? Is external financing available? Affordable?

Finance 77

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 77

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This exclusion had consequences not just for the posterity of Black families, but for Black health. In Camden, New Jersey, the Camden Dream Center is developing a new vision for urban agriculture, utilizing vertical hydroponic farming to advance food justice for the city’s majority Black community.

Food 128

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Jarrod Vassallo , Sourindra Banerjee & Jaideep Prabhu Spanning 12,500 hectares, the East Kolkata Wetlands in India serves multiple purposes, from fish farming, agriculture, and rice cultivation to functioning as the world’s largest wastewater-fed aquaculture system. Consider these examples.

Agriculture 80

Agriculture Construction Culture Manufacturing 80

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Most of them rely on rainfed agriculture, leaving them open to shocks like droughts and storms that can wipe out their crops and leave them without enough food to see their families through the year. Regenerative Agriculture. Astoundingly, only 1.7 This lack of investment has real, appreciable effects on farmers’ lives.

Philanthropy 97

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 97

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 109

Poverty Agriculture Culture Community Development 109

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The total giving to date has been consistent with four priorities outlined by Scott in establishing the fund: Education, Equity & Justice, Economic Security & Opportunity, and Health. Comparing 2023 to prior years, giving to health increased, for example, while giving to education and arts and culture decreased.

Race and Ethnicity 76

Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy Education Education 76

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Climate Anxiety in Wartime Climate anxiety, as Harvard Health Publishing defines it, relates to the “worries about the effects of climate change. Her climate anxiety now adds to a four-year mental health battle that began when she organized a climate strike in Kyiv in 2019. “I It is not a mental illness.

Environmental 105

Environmental Health Agriculture Children 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

To expand equity and access, we’ve built relationships with US Department of Agriculture food insecurity support programs, such as SNAP ( Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program , also known as “food stamps”) and WIC ( Women, Infants & Children ), ensuring vouchers are available at the market. The future of Black food sovereignty.

Food 121

Food Agriculture Economic Issues Children 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Learn how the UBS Optimus Foundation used OutcomesX, a social impact marketplace that converts social impact into “verified impact units,” to support education and mental health nonprofits serving children in Ukraine. Subscribe to SSIR here.)

Public and Nonprofit Management 71

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Agriculture Finance 71

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 25, 2024

Doing so holds the promise for inclusive and sustainable growth for more than half the world’s population.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Governance Agriculture Activism 115

MNA Association

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s hard to pin down the cause of these perceptions, but as a group they threaten the health of our sector and the operability of your missions. Negative Perceptions of Nonprofits Let’s begin with the emerging negative perceptions of nonprofits. Perception 1: “The tax-exempt status of nonprofits is unfair.”

Public Policy 98

Public Policy Taxation Agriculture Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. pollinator gardens) into areas under commercial, residential, agricultural, or other uses can offer meaningful benefits.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

One article she wrote about education-focused agriculture nonprofit Kahua Paʻa Mua helped open the door for that nonprofit farm to secure a $70,000 grant to fund its youth program for a year. A Long-Term Investment in Rural Health Another critical need is access to healthcare. GMHC is a Black-led, federally qualified health center.

Values 125

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 125

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These costs come from increased spending on worsened health, increased child welfare system expenditures, and lost tax revenues due to worse employment outcomes. One analysis by the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University shows that every dollar in TANF cash assistance lost to families per year costs the economy $8 in turn.

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 125

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JANUARY 14, 2015

In the 2014 Forbes 30 Under 30 list there was a familiar face on the list: Julie Carney from Gardens for Health International. Julie, and two other young women, co-founded Gardens for Health International in 2010 to promote agriculture as part of the solution to large-scale public health challenges. Congratulations Julie!

Agriculture 60

Agriculture Health Fundraising Fundraising 60

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Seeking to address the root causes of food insecurity in its own backyard, the Anthem Foundation (a philanthropic arm of the major Indianapolis-based health insurance company, Anthem, Inc. ), funded the initiative with a $2.45 These ideals and beliefs are built into how EFAI works. million grant to LISC Indianapolis.

Food 103

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Speakers: Kristin Hansen, executive director of the Civic Health Project, and Robb Willer, director of the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford University, will discuss why and how the nonprofit sector is poised to play a leading role in bridging America’s divides. How to Have Better Political Conversations.

Civil Society 87

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 87

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 121

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 121

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The development includes a four-story building of 86 family-oriented affordable housing units, as well as a space for health clinics, young adult education, and youth engagement run by social services and nonprofit organizations. The owners pride themselves on carrying specialty items from Thailand and Cambodia.

Community Development 126

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 126

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

The Cornell Douglas Foundation honors nonprofit organizations that “recognize critical needs of communities, seek to minimize risks to the natural world, and believe that each generation should feel a sense of pride in how they hand the baton of environmental health and well-being to future generations.” . Costco Wholesale. Areas served: US.

Education 89

Education Education Children Public and Nonprofit Management 89

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.

Agriculture 180

Agriculture Marketing Marketing Health 180

Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I providing training in agriculture and health! Each bag of coffee makes a difference, and together we are investing in the lives of real people to make a lasting change in the quality of their future. Yes, the second paragraph is one impossibly long sentence. But what a sentence! I am helping women and children eat better.

Agriculture 110

Agriculture Fundraising Fundraising Health 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

The organizations are improving water and sanitation access, education quality, food security, and health equity, and a large majority take systems change approaches to their work. Together, they address food security challenges related to climate change, land tenure, and agriculture productivity that smallholder farmers face.

Civil Society 87

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Food 87

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It does not surprise, then, that Black neighborhoods face health disparities relative to their white neighbors, with marked differences in rates of infant mortality, asthma, gun violence, and life expectancy. Food co-ops must collaborate with those addressing systemic racism, health equity, and economic justice. Notes See also L.

Food 106

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 106

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The people’s removal from their homelands is a critical part of the story that is often ignored, minimized, or justified as a natural progression of agricultural civilization. But, is it? The change in color seems to tell a whole different story.

Environmental 107

Environmental Culture Food Values 107

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2024

Termed שמיטה ( shmita , literally “release”) in the Torah, Jewish law mandated that every seven years, all agricultural activity cease: “The land must be given a rest period, a sabbath to God” (Leviticus 25: 1–7). Another respondent talked about “nursing themselves” back to health. Today, sabbaticals have spread broadly.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Activism Leadership 106

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.

Health 109

Health Agriculture Energy Nonprofit governance and management 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 19, 2023

Imagine talking about a decline in agriculture but not talking about farmers. By Armando Zumaya While I have seen a great many articles on the decline in charitable giving, it is striking how rarely the work of fundraising itself is mentioned as part of the problem. Amazing right?

Fundraising 82

Fundraising Fundraising Culture Agriculture 82