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Newsletter: Top Social Impact & Partnership Trends of 2022 ; Company to Staff: Get a booster, We'll Give Food Bank $100 ; How Your Nonprofit Can Use QR Codes

Selfish Giving

A guide to asking your supporters to identify their race , ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. Gaming & Community Engagement Programs Officer, Children's Hospital Trust , Boston 3. Brain Food 1. Since 2009 they've raised more than $900,000 for area charities. Marketing Your Cause 1. The need is simple, people.

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Rest: A Middle Finger to Oppression, a Road Map to Justice by Shawn Ginwright

NonProfit Quarterly

A sustained peace of mind comes from the stability of a good job, knowing that your children are safe, knowing that you are not going to lose your home. Rest and race are intertwined, and it all boils down to who has the right to rest and under what conditions rest and leisure should be granted. Rest Is An Act of Core Health.

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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

A few years later, I worked as a minority health coordinator, focusing on racial and ethnic minority populations in Rhode Island—on people like me, who come here with dreams and hopes to do better but often find themselves without the resources or opportunities they need. How did we have it so wrong? Preliminary Signs of Success.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Political figures, professionals, teachers, Buddhist monks, and people from various ethnic minority groups were executed. The atrocities may seem remote to some, but not to the survivors—people in our community, many of whom were children at the time and are now in their late forties or early fifties.

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Coffee Companies That Emphasize Hiring Disabled Workers Fall Short

NonProfit Quarterly

Founded by parents who had two children with Down syndrome, they were inspired to open a coffee shop that would provide a workplace for people with disabilities. The livable wage in the area for a single adult with no children is $16.44

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Mental Health

Bloomerang

The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation was developed as a repository of funds from individuals who wished to contribute to the betterment of children in the United States. Their “Healthier Kids For Our Future” grants focus on food insecurity and mental health. Areas served: US. Cigna Foundation. Areas served: Colorado, Wyoming.

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Protecting Nonprofits That Protect Us During Crises—and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

When schools and daycares shuttered, when food and other supply chains broke, who delivered baby supplies to parents juggling virtual work and young children? Who brought food to housebound elders? Who opened emergency childcare centers for the frontline workers who didn’t have the luxury of working from home?