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How Strict Abortion Laws Funnel Pregnant People Deeper into Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

Because of the new obstacles posed by Texas’s abortion law, Cox faced difficulties seeking the potentially life-saving procedure. Strict abortion laws funnel people further into poverty by forcing many people to carry pregnancies to term but doing little to care for the children once they are born.

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How to write a Strong Nonprofit Mission Statement [Template + Examples]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

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.

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Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

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They have a number of programs to meet the needs of veterans, children with Autism, and those living with disabilities. PBS introduces the world to children in entertaining and age-appropriate ways. . They provide refurbished bicycles to children in lower-income households. Environmental. Earthjustice. Mending Kids.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

I could see those patients in my office, give them some medication, and see them again at their follow-up appointment a month later, their situation basically unchanged—or I could do something different. In the Central Falls/Pawtucket HEZ, nearly a third of residents live in poverty, and one in three are recent immigrants.

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Healing Systems

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Wainwright is the CEO of Family Life , one of Australia’s largest family services providers working with vulnerable children and their families. “If It also reinforces an individualized medical model of intervention as the solution.

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Abolish the US Child Welfare System: A Conversation with Alan Dettlaff

NonProfit Quarterly

NPQ : In your book, you make a point of connecting the idea of “family separation,” as it occurs all the time in the present-day child welfare system when children are put under the custody of the state, to the widely criticized family separation immigration policy of the Trump administration. These are children whose parents are struggling.

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Create a Fundraising Plan that Plays to Your Fundraising Strengths

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Programs that involve children resonate widely. Think about organizations that take children with cancer and their families on wonderful vacations. I know how challenging it is to build support for a mission that doesn’t involve children, animals, or people we are used to seeing in vulnerable situations. A compelling mission.