NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism. In this community, poverty remains a challenge: 16.4 percent of families live below the poverty line, a poverty rate more than six percentage points higher than Seattle.

Community Development 121

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 121

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This exclusion had consequences not just for the posterity of Black families, but for Black health. 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.

Food 125

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 125

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. ” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. In India, many large-scale cooperatives have been thriving over time.

Food 104

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 104

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 130

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 130

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 83

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 83

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 96

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 96

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

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. Vision statement: We seek a world of hope, inclusion, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security. Hire staff members According to the Health of the U.S.

Public and Social Policy 80

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 80

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. Earning $1.30

Agriculture 96

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 96

EveryAction

MAY 29, 2018

Our mission is to help our food banks as well as our partners and stakeholders fight hunger and improve health and strengthen communities. We distribute somewhere around 55 million meals every year in every county of our state. The way I like to characterize it is that we're basically like the nonprofit trade association of food banks.

Food 40

Food Agriculture Poverty Associations 40

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.

Leadership 97

Leadership Culture Poverty Public and Social Policy 97

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.

Food 120

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. In 1996, when the law was enacted, 68 percent of families with children living in poverty received welfare; in 2019, it was 19.5

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 106

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 125

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These successes transformed our agricultural practices, so that rather than relying on large commercial farms, regenerative farming practices gained prominence, creating food sovereignty. Public resources flowed into health and human services, gender-affirming care, and equitable housing.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 118

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Take healthcare: 15 percent of white men surveyed stated that their employer contributes to health insurance, compared to only 8 percent of Black women. Discrimination affects wages, benefits, and working conditions and exacerbate differences in health and wealth accordingly.

Law 101

Law Healthcare Agriculture Manufacturing 101

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

In 2022, the Center’s Population and Sustainability program looked at the environmental threats that are putting reproductive health and justice at risk. In 2022, the Center’s Population and Sustainability program looked at the environmental threats that are putting reproductive health and justice at risk.

Agriculture 83

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 83

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. Typically, we say that the American Dream ideology individualizes and pathologizes poverty. He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing. This man has to ward off the specter of elder poverty by becoming a landlord.

Manufacturing 144

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 144

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You can also find his podcast and course on wealth and poverty here. Public Health: Your Local Epidemiologist by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina – Dr. Katelyn Jetelina – Dr. Katelyn has a Master’s degree in public health and a Ph.D. He is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers and a former Bernie Sanders surrogate.

Communication 114

Communication Nonprofits Food Health 114