NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

This pilot is the result of bold leadership from a broad coalition of stakeholders, including Mayor Malik Evans , the Rochester City Councilwhich has unanimously called for a municipal public bankand the Rochester Public Banking Coalition , led by the Genesee Co-op Federal Credit Union and other community groups.

Finance

Anedot

MAY 7, 2025

The post Nutritionist first appeared on Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership. The fall program is creating cooking demos and overseeing the Farm Stand at a clinic.

Curriculum and Teaching

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Now, normally, if youre an engineer, having been the president of your chess club is indicative of a certain kind of leadership. So, we would have massive challenges to deal with from a standpoint of agriculture and basic human survival. It is not speculative, it is not hypothetical, we can see it starting to happen.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 2, 2025

The company has reduced its GHG emissions by 25 percent since 2019 and is committed to no deforestation and to implementing regenerative agriculture practices. Andrew Forrest, an Australian mining billionaire, also confirmed a long-term commitment to net zero because it is completely bankable.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

And by emphasizing Nigerias leadership in health innovation and showcasing successful examples of participatory research, we can challenge the outdated narrative that solutions must come from outside. Emerging Technologies: Potential and Risks Technological innovations are often lauded as a panacea for global health challenges.

Health

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.

Philanthropy

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. They are also demanding deeper commitments to community leadership and inclusion in decision-making.

Agriculture

Anedot

MAY 7, 2025

The post Nutritionist first appeared on Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership. The fall program is creating cooking demos and overseeing the Farm Stand at a clinic.

Curriculum and Teaching

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2025

A grant from the NSF about agrivoltaics , which involves installing solar panels above or between crops, allowing for simultaneous solar energy generation and agricultural activities: gone. Another colleague’s grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the teaching of Southwest American history: gone.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Unlike in typical agricultural value chains, this has brought substantial rewards in terms of higher and more stable prices, and profit distributions, for the 3.6 Social movements and political leadership often assist with success and effectively reset the rules of the game. million dairy farmers who own the business.

Governance

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

Anedot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

San Rafael, CA, November 17, 2022 – SAN RAFAEL, CA, NOVEMBER 17, 2022 – Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership (CVNL) is pleased to announce the nominees for the 30 th Annual Heart of Marin Awards. Excellence in Board Leadership (Sponsor: BioMarin ). Excellence in Leadership (Sponsor: Marin Community Foundation ).

Nonprofit Leadership

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

There is common infrastructure, such as a savings and credit union, multi-sectoral cooperatives for storage of agricultural products and a farmer’s bank, and a network of agroecology schools. Grassroots movements accelerate scaling through distributed impact and leadership.

Agriculture

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In this series, movement leaders explore what’s possible if philanthropy adopts a reparative model—one in which it supports the leadership of BIPOC communities, not just by writing grants, but by shifting assets and control over resources to frontline communities. Such a model would also fundamentally shift economic and hence political power.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The delta is a largely rural, agricultural area with a troubled history of racial and economic disparities. They can also serve as de facto reparations for Black families in Mississippi, who are descendants of the enslaved individuals whose agricultural labor created enormous wealth for white families.

Food

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As defined by the National Agricultural Law Center, agritourism links agricultural production with tourism to entertain with and educate about farming, ranching, or any agricultural business. However, most of that revenue is not going to Black-owned farms as 98 percent of private US agricultural land is white owned.

Agriculture

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 22, 2019

Ash Bruxvoort coordinates communications for the Women, Food and Agriculture Network. I also manage the Plate to Politics program, which teaches women in our network leadership skills that will help them run for office. We talk about feminism, sexism and racism in agriculture, self-reflection and self-improvement.

Communication

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Janis’ background includes a variety of nonprofit leadership roles. We will also be providing agricultural development and a Food 4 Work program. Indigenously established and led, Eben-Ezer was started in 1969 and is one of the top five NGO’s in Haiti. Their emphasis is on sustainable development and job creation.

Communication

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

Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The IRS recognizes 45,387 501(c)(5) entities, which include both unions and agriculture/horticultural organizations. of 501(c)(5) organizations and for 99% of the revenue in the dataset), eliminating the codes mostly associated with agricultural and horticultural organizations. Unions by the numbers.

Voluntarism

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 now able to register on government’s I-Khedut (farmers) portal and access public schemes and trainings via initiatives such as Krishi-Vigyan-Kendras (agricultural science centers).

Food

Fundraising Coach

JULY 11, 2015

Newsflash: Entitlement fundraising works about as well as slash-and-burn agriculture. This is the current crisis in nonprofit leadership. The Crisis in Nonprofit Leadership. I've been teaching these strategies at nonprofit leadership summits and regional trainings for the past 18 months. I know they work.

Fundraising

The Charity CFO

MARCH 24, 2022

Feeding Our Future received funding from the United States Department of Agriculture through the Child and Adult Care Food Program and the Summer Food Service Program—money intended to provide meals to children. In this case, nonprofit corruption generally involves the senior leadership of a nonprofit organization. Check Tampering.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts. What matters more, she said, is diverse sources who have something unique to contribute to environmental and agricultural coverage.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Promise of Shared Stewardship to Support Vital Conditions Stewardship , though far from a new practice, is a departure from the way many of us might think of leadership, as focused on advancing individual or organizational interests. As in North Sound, there is a significant migrant farming community due to large agricultural businesses.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Community Leadership Development and Community Organizing Network members have boards of directors and executive leadership that are representative of the community and who are often people of color. Work is done by and for community members.

Food

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). and “How do sabbaticals impact individuals after their return?” The earliest sabbaticals were intended for rest and recovery.

Public and Social Policy

Anedot

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Location: San Rafael, CA Hours: Full-time, salaried, exempt status Salary Range: $95,004 – $122,148 BACKGROUND The Agricultural Institute of Marin is an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Rafael, California. At least 2 years’ experience in a leadership role. MBA or advanced degree, a plus.

Finance

iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

So let’s remind ourselves that cultivation is a term used to describe a phase in a larger agricultural cycle. We must put the cultivation back in its agricultural context. And, when they have given, we must remember another agricultural tenet – the importance of letting a field lie fallow until it naturally regenerates.

Agriculture

Candid

JUNE 27, 2024

Ensuring impact in any area requires examining if, how, and why outcomes vary by gender; exploring solutions that work for women; addressing root causes; and acknowledging women’s “lived experiences, leadership, and genius,” the authors write. In the area of agriculture, women produce 60% to 80% of food crops in low-income countries.

Agriculture

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The composition of leadership shifted soon after the grocery’s formal incorporation in mid-2019, with the first LCG and LACE (Louisville Association for Community Economics, the nonprofit developer of the grocery store) board elections seeing candidates of color chosen for a majority of seats. Notes See also L. Halliday and M.

Food

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Economic Security and Opportunity The subcategory of “Livelihoods and workforce development” received by far the most funding—$469 million—with another just over $600 million in gifts spread across the subcategories of “Access to housing and housing development,” “Economic development,” “Financial inclusion,” and “Agricultural development.”

Race and Ethnicity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 19, 2023

Imagine talking about a decline in agriculture but not talking about farmers. Twice in my career, I was fortunate enough to bring in a big gift, only to have leadership—who knew nothing about fundraising work—simply demand more money. Amazing right?

Fundraising

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For example, corporate and philanthropic dollars don’t always flow toward economic justice movements for a variety of reasons, which include everything from a lack of understanding of new leadership and organizational structures to grappling with supporting leaders of color dismantling systems of economic and social oppression.

Public and Social Policy

Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 24, 2013

Fundraising is more agricultural than mechanical. Each gift needs to be earned each time. Your donors want to know why the project is important. And want to feel that your nonprofit is thankful for their gifts. Seeds need planting, watering, and tending before they can be sustainably harvested. number of solicitations.

Agriculture

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

By embracing debt-for-climate swaps, international lenders can demonstrate their commitment and leadership in addressing the interlinked challenges of climate change and debt, thereby contributing to a more resilient and equitable future for all.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

My mother, Dr. Jacqueline McCray , she was the dean of agriculture and the administrator of the cooperative extension program at the University of Arkansas in Pine Bluff and created the first USDA Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science. And, in defense of the leadership of the CDFI Fund at that time, the agency was very vulnerable.

Finance