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‘We’re feeding more people with less’: What food security nonprofits need now

Candid

Across the country, food security organizations are facing a perfect storm of rising demand, plummeting donations, and cascading cuts to federal nutrition programs. Food banks, pantries, and community food networks have long been overextended but are now navigating a new era of scarcity. Donations are down.

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Building Community-Centered AI Collaborations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We need creative, diverse collaborations across various fields to ensure that technology is deployed in ways that align with nonprofit values, build trust, and serve the greater good. Seeking partners outside of the tech world helps nonprofits develop AI solutions that are context-aware, equitable, and resource-sensitive.

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In a new era for the nonprofit ecosystem, collaboration is key to survival

Candid

The current funding system incentivizes competition over collaboration. We need specialists who deeply understand housing policy, food insecurity, or mental health access. A healthy nonprofit ecosystem depends on field builders—those who can convene stakeholders, foster cross-sector collaboration, and drive systems alignment.

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Meet Melanie Martin, CNP: The Woman Who Won’t Let St. Louis Go Hungry!

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Giant warehouse shelves held stockpiles of food, many of which were marked to be picked up in the coming days by local food pantries. Food is going out as quickly as it comes in,” said Melanie Martin, CNP , Director of Community Engagement. They are the regional food bank for Eastern Missouri and Southwestern Illinois.

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How collaborative data can transform charitable giving

Candid

As leaders of Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good, we came together with a shared goal: to explore whether our organizations, through collaboration, could better understand the deeper patterns driving charitable giving by leveraging our collective data sets. Too often, data on individual and institutional giving remains siloed.

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Volunteer and Food Pantry Coordinator

Anedot

Located in beautiful Novato/Marin County/CA, our workplace culture is driven by our five values: teamwork and collaboration, equity, excellence, integrity, and learning and continuous improvement. Job Title: Volunteer and Food Pantry Coordinator Status: Part time, non-exempt hourly. 16 hours per week.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. Its slow, but it works. What might building strategic relationships look like?

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