Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

We cannot achieve our mission of sustainability and creating opportunities to pull themselves from abject poverty. For us, that means focusing on the current volunteer experience and how to make it better, injecting autonomy and personal value into our culture, and solidifying our operations so they are easily accessible and efficient.

Volunteerism 67

Volunteerism Volunteerism Healthcare Agriculture 67

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

11 Unique barriers to care, including stigma vis--vis mental health, language discrepancies, and poverty, put Latinx people in the United States at higher risk of receiving inadequate treatment than the broader population. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 10 Only 35.1 10 Only 35.1

Race and Ethnicity 82

Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health Medical 82

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

10,000 Villages Online Store: One of the world’s largest fair trade organizations and a founding member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), 10,000 Villages offers gifts and accessories representing the diverse cultures of artisans from 38 countries. Although Concern is based in the U.K., their gift program also accepts U.S.-issued

Poverty 111

Poverty Children Food Health 111

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The Field Museum is an educational institution concerned with the diversity and relationships in nature and among cultures. Global Goods Partners is dedicated to alleviating poverty by strengthening women led development initiatives in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. for our children’s future. Paul Getty Museum Store.

Retail 111

Retail Poverty Ethics Children 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Census figures confirm that Camden is a poor city (with a poverty rate of 33.6 However, persistent poverty plagues the city’s residents. The Food Justice Hub is designed to ensure that culturally relevant approaches engage our communities in sustainable development. A Camden community vision emerges. percent Latinx, 42.5

Food 145

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 145

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

Image Credit: Chiara F on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. This article concludes the series : Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Studies show that secure housing is critical to reducing generational poverty. But that is completely wrong.

Poverty 119

Poverty Community Development Construction Finance 119

The Charity CFO

JULY 30, 2024

At this point Alyssia applied for a Director of Development position in an organization that provided holistic care and wraparound services for women and children. That’s a Great IDEA The mission and vision of Capital IDEA is to lift working adults out of poverty and into living-wage careers through education and career advancement.

Leadership 98

Leadership Poverty Manufacturing Culture 98

CNPE

JANUARY 6, 2023

A guest blog post by Pamela Darnall, CEO of Family & Children's Place. . They will point to challenges they have faced in the past – and may be still facing – unemployment, poverty, health challenges, and more. I grew up in poverty. Both my parents grew up living in poverty. and CNPE Board Member.

Poverty 98

Poverty Leadership Children Psychology 98

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Invisible Children: To bring a permanent end to LRA atrocities. Center for Biological Diversity: Saving life on earth.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This internalized dilemma of inequality continues to show up in pop culture too. ARTICLE | Ending Period Shame and Poverty in Asia by Noriko Akiyama, Fan Li & Wenquian Xu. It also raised an issue that’s still taboo in both Asian and Latin American cultures. — the editors of SSIR Korea. SSIR En Español.

Poverty 105

Poverty Universities Technology Health 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 5, 2023

From displacement and poverty to illness and environmental degradation, the urgent challenges facing the world today call for innovative approaches that combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear understanding of the problems and a firm footing in communities. ”—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2019.

Collaborations 144

Collaborations Technology Culture Governance 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. Casey Foundation’s mission is to create a brighter future for America’s children, young people, and families. The Annie E.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Poverty 126

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values. This is the main challenge (Ex: poverty, disease, discrimination) the character must face. But this is the kind of reporting you’re likely to get back: Denise, a mother with three minor children, requested assistance with rent and utility.

Ethics 118

Ethics Construction Poverty Values 118

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 promote the right to education and to preserve the environment and cultural heritage of Brazil. Mission: To support 113 street paper enterprises in 34 countries in order to combat urban poverty.

Non-Profits 66

Non-Profits Poverty Children Education 66

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Examples of numbered lists include, “Five Reasons Why Conserving Wildlife is Important,” “Ten Simple Ways to Serve Your Local Community,” “Nine Powerful Stats about Domestic Violence in America,” and “Six Reasons Why You Should Read to Your Children.” Photo Essays. Share Resources Relevant to Your Cause. Write Book and Movie Reviews.

Nonprofits 111

Nonprofits Children Culture Poverty 111

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Art & Culture. They have a number of programs to meet the needs of veterans, children with Autism, and those living with disabilities. ” “With every purchase we make to add products to our collection, we’re creating sustainable jobs and preserving cultural traditions. National Art Education Association.

Children 105

Children Nonprofits Environmental Agriculture 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 3, 2024

For example, for my PhD project, I used a participatory process with children, though children are not typically consulted. Sometimes organizations have a culture of “this is the way things have always been done.” It’s really through education that I’m trying to challenge the way that we think about design.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Children Education Education 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Though ecologically and culturally rich, the county ranks in the bottom eighth in California for per-capita income. ” We focused on growing leaders with the capacity to reimagine and redesign the places that influence our children, our neighborhoods, and schools.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2021

Nonprofit work culture is the tyranny of the urgent. I’m also certain there are still millions of children struggling in this world, but World Vision is helping. Before we get into the trifecta of corporate culture listed above, remember: don’t get caught up in semantics. It’s hard to see the horizon when you’re in the trenches.

Energy 81

Energy Culture Values Nonprofits 81

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A nod to Mondragon Corporation , the world’s largest worker cooperative network based in the Basque Country region of Spain, this Black-owned real estate investment cooperative aims to make homeownership accessible and permanent for a demographic of Buffalo that is far more likely to experience generational poverty than generational wealth.

Non-Profits 137

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 137

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. Ashley, go straighten the labels” was his way of keeping me busy as I watched him work.

Food 111

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 111

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Mine is my children. For example, in the food section, you went from food insecurity to the cultural appropriation of food, using the example of collard greens and the burden of food deserts, before connecting it to geographic location. And just thinking about that is really, really difficult. It was a rough challenge….I

Environmental 126

Environmental Food Poverty Culture 126

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 17, 2024

When asked why they were so happy or crying, they would say that this bill represents something that I want to be connected to, or I want to see happen in my life, in my lifetime, and for my children,” she said. As Jared Spears wrote in NPQ , local currencies are “designed to be spent directly in the area.

Values 116

Values Governance Culture Poverty 116

Jeff Brooks

JULY 30, 2024

As wonderful as it will be, we aren’t going to eliminate world poverty in the next 12 months. If an expert visits a community and finds malnourished children, her thought is not, “We need a whole bunch of food here!” With her insight, she might go to donors and say, “There are hungry children here.

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Fundraising Food Poverty 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. The plaintiffs argued that the school district was making White children feel guilt.

Race and Ethnicity 138

Race and Ethnicity Social Policy Children Homelessness 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Poverty is not about the absence of material possessions. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.” A majority of households had lost a child to diarrhea and one in nine households had lost three or more children to this illness of bad water and poor sanitation.

Children 81

Children Poverty Leadership Education 81

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Nonprofit work culture is the tyranny of the urgent. I’m also certain there are still millions of children struggling in this world, but World Vision is helping. Before we get into the trifecta of corporate culture listed above, remember: don’t get caught up in semantics. It’s hard to see the horizon when you’re in the trenches.

Nonprofits 69

Nonprofits Energy Culture Values 69

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2012

but I was struck by the sheer poverty that most people faced. Sophia, the school’s Director is fiercely dedicated to the children. One of the cultural differences that was a bit shocking to me was the lack of accommodations for people with disabilities in Jamaica. Both are amazing nonprofit organizations doing mighty work.

Poverty 45

Poverty Children Food Culture 45

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

“In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.

Disaster Relief 55

Disaster Relief Poverty Children Medical 55

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

.” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. 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 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

MNA Association

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This knowledge provides us with an opportunity, not only to recognize the painful history upon which the state of Montana exists, founded on state-sanctioned and state-funded genocide, which included warfare, displacement, and dispossession of ancestral lands, broken treaties, desecration of sacred sites, destruction of the environment through extractive (..)

Health 52

Health Poverty Associations Children 52

NextAfter

MARCH 8, 2023

By donating books, you can help to provide students with the opportunity to explore different genres, cultures, and historical events that they may not have otherwise been exposed to. Finally, donating books to schools can help to preserve the history and culture of our world. Not bad at all!

Curriculum and Teaching 77

Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Children 77

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 22, 2023

World’s brightest minds have been trying to build ML-based solutions that tackle pressing global issues such as poverty, climate change, education, healthcare, and disaster response. Identifying children at risk Predict Align Prevent is a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping child maltreatment.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Medical Children 52

MNA Association

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This knowledge provides us with an opportunity, not only to recognize the painful history upon which the state of Montana exists, founded on state-sanctioned and state-funded genocide, which included warfare, displacement, and dispossession of ancestral lands, broken treaties, desecration of sacred sites, destruction of the environment through extractive (..)

Race and Ethnicity 52

Race and Ethnicity Non-Profits Health Poverty 52

Anedot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

To get there, we have made a commitment to redesign our educational ecosystem so that race, ethnicity and poverty no longer determine opportunity or outcome. Cultural Responsiveness : Interacts routinely in conversations based on race and equity, professionally and personally, and should show comfort and experience doing so.

Race and Ethnicity 52

Race and Ethnicity Collaborations Education Education 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. This article introduces a new series, titled Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. This article introduces our series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation.

Poverty 131

Poverty Community Development Finance Philanthropy 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 1, 2025

They may fail to capture the complex realities of classrooms, such as the relationships between teachers and students or the cultural and socio-economic influences on learning outcomes. million children aged 06, remains the latest official census data; however, its age necessitates supplementation with more recent projections.

Education 93

Education Education Curriculum and Teaching Governance 93