NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 24, 2025

Thats not accounting for the up to 18 million additional malaria cases, 200,000 polio-related disabilities, and over one million deaths of children from severe malnutrition each year. For instance, GiveDirectly , a charity focused on direct cash transfers to alleviate poverty, faced a $20 million funding shortfall due to cuts from USAID.

Disaster Relief

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

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. “Medical ageism wasa matter of life and death.” Medical ageism is crucial.

Medical

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Racism and poverty were the forms of violence that made Cole and Walker vulnerable and ultimately led to their deaths. Neglecting school children is violence. Ignoring medical needs is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. They die because they live in a country that continues to ignore medical need.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

In Nigeria, where health inequities are deeply rooted in systemic issues such as poverty, 1 gender inequality, 2 and inadequate governance (poor administration/planning), 3 the introduction of new technologies can sometimes deepen these disparities rather than alleviate them.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

A Sketch of a “New Fair Deal” This sketch is grouped into a few key policy areas—restoring a sense of common purpose or citizenship, supporting children, building a stronger safety net, protecting the environment—and paying for it with progressive taxes. What follows won’t be 900 pages long. Education: Our youth are our greatest asset.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With such low wages, its little wonder that adults with disabilities are living in poverty at a rate twice that of adults who dont have disabilitiesa statistic that mirrors the employment rates above. Some US companies paid people with disabilities 22 cents an hour in 2024 and were cited for doing so.

Law

Anedot

MARCH 24, 2025

About the Organization Canal Alliance exists to break the generational cycle of poverty for Latino immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success. The Senior Staff Attorney reports to the Senior Supervising Attorney of the Unaccompanied Children Unit. San Rafael, CA.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 5, 2025

If she didn’t have Medicaid, she would either be racking up costs on a payment plan or would have to make a difficult decision about the various other medications and treatments she needs for chronic health issues — all of which she relies on Medicaid to cover. She may need surgery if they get larger and put too much pressure on her brain.

Insurance

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 30, 2025

said in a 1966 speech at the annual meeting for the Medical Committee for Human Rights “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.” The program covers nearly four in 10 children , including 80 percent of children who live in poverty. As Martin Luther King, Jr.

Healthcare

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 26, 2025

Poverty, social exclusion, and a lack of worker rights have long been drivers of trafficking and bonded labor, but the ecological damage wreaked by climate change not only supercharges those forms of vulnerability but, in turn, leads desperate workers to carry out further destruction.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image credit: Barbara Olsen on Pexels If you want to reduce poverty, cash matters. Springboard to Opportunities —the organization we both work for—began operations in 2013 with the goal to break cycles of generational poverty that are particularly persistent in Black communities.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Population Council :: @ Pop_Council.

Poverty

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. To date, through this incubator, 19 new businesses licensed for a total of 390 children have opened. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages.

Curriculum and Teaching

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The cooperative, which sought Black self-sufficiency, offered affordable housing, entrepreneurial opportunities, and education to tenant farmers, as well as a pig bank and access to fresh produce to feed families living in poverty. Soon after, the Black Panther Party established free medical clinics as well as a free breakfast program.

Food

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

About one third of US households live in “energy poverty,” among them disproportionate numbers of Black, Latinx, and Native families. Many families must decide between paying their utility bill or paying for medication. Many families must decide between paying their utility bill or paying for medication.

Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

So, we’ve been identifying assets, both human and infrastructural, that others might not see or even imagine when they read headlines focused on crime and poverty on the Northeast side. Such lack of access is an injustice that feeds poor health outcomes, including higher rates of chronic diseases, such as diabetes.

Food

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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. Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective. Mending Kids.

Children

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

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

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Meanwhile, other standout giving programs include : Matching gifts, volunteer grants Walt Disney Company & Make-A-Wish Foundation The Walt Disney Company has a long-standing partnership with Make-A-Wish Foundation, granting wishes to children with critical illnesses. Learn more about the corporate partnership here.

Volunteerism

Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

These seven children are receiving a quality education, three meals a day, mentoring, and medical care. Because of you, one Haitian child has a brighter future and the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty. One in five Whitfield children experiences food insecurity at least once a month. And your gift made it happen.

Food

Top Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This is extremely helpful for nonprofits that work with people experiencing homelessness, poverty, and medical crises. These organizations make great partners for nonprofit clothing drives, as children are constantly outgrowing their clothing. Increased awareness. Consider partnering with the following organizations: Schools.

Environmental

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

This article introduces a new series, titled Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In 2014, six CDFIs located in regions of rural America beset by persistent poverty formed a coalition to remedy longstanding underinvestment. This article introduces our series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation.

Poverty

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

poverty level, and another 17% qualified in the category of ALICE ® ( A sset L imited, I ncome C onstrained, E mployed). ALICE nonprofit employees live in households that earn more than the federal poverty level, but less than what it costs to survive in the counties where they live.

Poverty

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Philippines-based nonprofit Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation was selected winner of the.ORG of the Year award, recognizing the organization’s work to provide access to education for children in remote and poverty-stricken areas by providing boats to reach their schools.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This narrative falsely portrayed Black women as abusing the welfare system by having children out of wedlock, stigmatizing the legitimate need for usually meager forms of public assistance. Another woman in Mississippi shared a story of having to lock her children in a room in the absence of childcare to fulfill work requirements.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this conversation between Cyndi Suarez, NPQ ’s president and editor in chief, and Kaytura Felix, managing director, Leadership for Better Health, at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the two leaders discuss medical racism, health justice, and what it really means for a system to support people’s health. I went to medical school.

Medical

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 21, 2024

The report also finds that women who enter jails are more likely to have a medical problem or severe mental illness, which exacerbates the psychological distress that they face while incarcerated. The report finds that 80 percent of women in jails are mothers, and most of them are primary caregivers of their children.

Homelessness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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.

Public and Social Policy

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 14, 2024

Programs that involve children resonate widely. Think about organizations that take children with terminal cancer and their families on wonderful vacations. There’s a wonderful school in the Atlanta area for children and young adults with disabilities. Who can say no to that? Animal rescues have missions that are assets.

Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Mission : To advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Mission : To inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children’s future. Recipients get a card, and you help save lives. Purchase Inspired Gifts ]. Shop PBS ].

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 15, 2024

As news outlets and social media feeds are flooded with endless images of violence against children, some in the Global North have expressed a desire to adopt Palestinian children to give them a chance at a better life. Despite this decrease, the complications that come with international adoption remain.

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

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. Wade , Cox’s case shows how difficult it is to get an abortion in states like Texas—even when the procedure is medically necessary.

Poverty

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2022

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.

Fundraising

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? Two or three subjects in my book relied on it for school lunches, for medical care, all the stuff that again is not covered by health insurance. They are playing the role of care managers or social workers or medical and disability aides for people.

Public and Social Policy