Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Giving to children and youth, however, is a cause that unites all donors regardless of ideology. Children and youth: 10.7%. International development: 6.2%. Community development: 5.2%. Children and youth: 17.8%. Community development: 5.1%. International development: 4.2%.

Public Policy 91

Public Policy Volunteerism Volunteerism Children 91

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , the authors highlight efforts to address multigenerational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

Poverty 128

Poverty Finance Community Development Philanthropy 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta.

Poverty 108

Poverty Agriculture Culture Community Development 108

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

Unsurprisingly, East Boston also has higher rates of children with asthma and adults with pulmonary disease than other parts of Boston. And air pollution exposure in children can cause asthma, obesity, cancer, cognitive delay, and other challenges.

Race and Ethnicity 122

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Image Credit: Vyacheslav Dumchev on istock This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. It was frightening for families in our building, some with small children, to have the possibility of losing our homes weighing over our heads,” De León recalled.

Law 98

Law Cultural Diversity Community Development Children 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change.

Food 99

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 99

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development. Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders.

Food 115

Food Finance Community Development Culture 115

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The animating principle of Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program is equitable Creative Placemaking, which elevates arts, culture, and community-engaged design as central elements of community development and planning. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Paul, Detroit, Akron, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Macon, Miami.

Culture 104

Culture Foundations Education Education 104

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Children and youth – 10%. International development and relief – 6%. Community development – 3%. Latin America and the Caribbean – 9%. 3) 74% of GivingTuesday donors are female, 25% male, and 1% non-binary. 5) The causes that donors give to on GivingTuesday: Hunger and homelessness – 13%.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Homelessness Charitable Organizations 145

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? At Adelante Mujeres, the staff reflects the community served.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Combined with other forms of PTSD, such as the cultural PTSD that is a legacy of slavery (eg, distrust within the Black community, expectation of failure, constant belief that “the system” is against them), financial PTSD is a recipe for disaster. In rural areas, as in cities, people often reproduce the behavioral patterns they grow up with.

Poverty 93

Poverty Children Culture Food 93

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Instead, most DEI efforts are led by human resource professionals with limited understanding of communities like Camden. Agriculture Science and STEM Education requires working closely with school districts, colleges, and universities to expand educational opportunities and career pathways to support a sustainable local food system.

Food 139

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 139

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 22, 2023

The JAMIN program was developed in 2014 and initially targeted university students, academics, and other researchers. The premise of this education program is that it reaches a more receptive target: children. But it expanded to secondary schoolers in the years after.

Education 100

Education Education Foundations Environmental 100

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When schools and daycares shuttered, when food and other supply chains broke, who delivered baby supplies to parents juggling virtual work and young children? The nonprofit sector, along with community-based mutual aid networks , stepped up to meet immediate needs. Who brought food to housebound elders? It wasn’t for-profit companies.

Governance 102

Governance Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 102

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

They held regular monthly meetings at the Joshua Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in the city’s West End, and they secured a grant to cover childcare to enable those with young children to attend. To facilitate volunteer recruitment, they developed a series of helpful tasks suitable for recurrent or one-off participation.

Food 107

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 107

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. United Kingdom.

Non-Profits 61

Non-Profits Poverty Children Education 61

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

NC Policy Watch found that nearly 28 percent of residents and 38 percent of children live below the federal poverty line in the county, which for many puts flood insurance, recovery resources, and reliable internet access out of their reach.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Poverty Governance Environmental 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 8, 2023

Mission Kids preschool , which shares the space, issued a statement to the Mission Local newspaper stating that it supports “ broad community input into future use of Parcel 36 ” and their priority is for the safety of the children of the school.

Activism 78

Activism Children Health Community Development 78

Getting Attention

JULY 31, 2013

Let me share some examples with you: We… Provide after school programs for children. Are a community development org in Trenton, and foster self-reliant families in sustainable communities. Are in lower Fairfield county, CT, and provide emergency assistance to help keep people in their homes.

Homelessness 72

Homelessness Community Development Children Education 72

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

Getting Attention

MARCH 22, 2012

4) Communications Coordinator , EMILY’S List (Washington, D.C.). 5) Communications Director , Progress Michigan (Lansing, MI). 6) Communications Manager , PENCIL (New York, NY). 7) Communications Manager , Starlight Children’s Foundation (Los Angeles, CA). 13) Event Coordinator and Program Manager.

Marketing 58

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Associations 58

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

144 donors whose top 5 causes are animals and wildlife (19%), children and youth (15%), environment (12%), education (9%), and community development (8%). 81% of donors in Mexico volunteer. 40% attend fundraising events. 26% attend marches or protests. 93% regularly vote. 83% sign online petitions. About the Donors ?

Disaster Relief 78

Disaster Relief Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Social Enterprise 78

The Agitator

MARCH 25, 2013

Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University – Chicago, Illinois ($750,000) protects the rights and well-being of young people in the juvenile justice system and advocates for fairer laws and policies. Housing Partnership Network – Boston, Massachusetts ($1.5

Foundations 79

Foundations Nonprofits Law Energy 79

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 21, 2012

In deciding, consciously or not, to skip the cultivation phase, you lose incredible opportunities to connect with people who can facilitate the funding you need to educate young children, house the homeless, or preserve the environment. The sad reality is that though things are slowly improving, most grant proposals will not be funded.

Homelessness 89

Homelessness Foundations Community Development Children 89

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation , a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. But housing is much more than that.

Poverty 113

Poverty Community Development Finance Construction 113

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

By the early 2010s, when we looked at the metrics produced by Healthy People , the federal government’s data-driven blueprint for public health goals, the numbers showed us that, for the first time in public health history, life expectancy for children had dropped; it was lower than when we were children. How did we have it so wrong?

Health 120

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 120

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The pilot also showed the importance of building staff capacity, which can look like hiring from and developing leadership in impacted communities. Water affordability intersects with energy and housing justice as water shutoffs have led to children being separated from their families and people becoming unhoused.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 132

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

A Brief History of US Welfare Welfare was first established in the United States by Illinois reformers in the early 1900s as a cash payment program for poor (almost exclusively White) widows who could not raise their children without help once their husbands died. But also included was what became known as welfare.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 110

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

Locals have started to migrate to neighboring communities in search of improved conditions. Let There Be Light “When children wake up at night, they have light to study,” says Ajimitale Johnson, a shop owner in Ajemitale-Odonla.” But recently, a solar project made its way to Ajemitale-Odonla, changing life there for the better.

Energy 104

Energy Children Insurance Construction 104

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Black women who volunteered for the Black Panther Party—like Vanetta Molson-Turner , a registered nurse who contributed her time and expertise to the Black Panther Party’s Community Survival Programs —pooled their resources to serve their people in response to underinvestment and discrimination. What Black Liberationists Taught Me.

Philanthropy 125

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Healthcare Universities 125

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

The experiences of Mondragón and of Emilia Romagna, a region in Northern Italy that is also known for robust worker co-op development , suggest that not only are workforce development and university education required to sustain regional cooperative economies at scale, but this education should begin at an early age.

Curriculum and Teaching 103

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Robust research demonstrates that high-quality housing in a thriving community is associated with improved physical and mental health, educational and developmental outcomes for children, and financial security and economic mobility for families.

Public and Social Policy 92

Public and Social Policy Poverty Homelessness Health 92

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.

Education 91

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 91

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

We interviewed housing policy experts, fair housing experts, and community development experts. And then we started finding people around the country who were working on this issue—small community groups that started, many of them after reading The Color of Law, and many long before The Color of Law came out.

Law 105

Law Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

The idea behind it was to provide child care for a diverse population of children, both economically and racially. So we impact a larger community in just by providing the services that we do and we serve between the two centers, approximately 200 families. So that’s a lot of children that come to see us every day.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 97