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How Strict Abortion Laws Funnel Pregnant People Deeper into Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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New Report Looks at Women’s Incarceration in America

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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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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How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

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.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

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.