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How we all benefit from nonprofits every day 

Candid

Health information and assistance: When surfing online for health information, most of us will end up on a nonprofits website. Many organizations deliver hot food and provide transportation, classes, and outings for seniors. Senior services: That neighborhood senior center where people go for activities, meals, or just company?

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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is apparent in families divided by online conspiracies, in children's struggles with social media-driven anxiety, in neighborhoods where local businesses struggle while corporate profits soar, and in the easy stereotypes many people reach for about urban elites or rural flyover country that mask our shared humanity.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

This disparity is all the more striking considering the magnitude of challenges here, even before the stormbroadband, health care, and food deserts; intergenerational poverty born from extraction; and the ongoing opioid crisis. CDP encourages giving grants locally as much as possible.

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Newsletter: Selfish Giving + You: 2025 is Our Year! ; Retail Winners and Losers of 2024 ; How Jimmy Carter Made Habitat a Nonprofit Giant

Selfish Giving

Big Lots Big Lots conducts annual in-store fundraising campaigns to support On Our Sleeves , a movement focused on children's mental health. Customers can donate at checkout, with 100% of the funds going toward providing free mental health educational resources. How Gillette Children's Hospital in St.

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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

For example, are you starting to consider purchasing a warehouse for your food bank? Susan Dibble from Page Ahead Children’s Literacy Program Caring Comes First, Everything Else Can Be Taught Our board members must care about our mission. But sometimes, you may need some specific skills, depending on what issues are being faced.

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Why the Marguerite Casey Foundation is leveraging its endowment

Candid

Where everybody sleeps in a safe and decent home and has access to the care they need for their children, elders, and themselves. Consider 80-year-old grandma Lynn McFarland, arrested and carried out of a Tennessee state senate hearing room defending childrens rights to an education.

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From Gig Work to Good Work: How Workforce Policy Can Support Gig Workers

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Millions of people in the United States need work that fits around uncertain day-to-day fluctuations, particularly workers who care for children, elders, or others needing caregiving assistance. Much of this employment was in care for children, seniors, or people with health issues.