Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

Data to pinpoint needs in specific communities Unfortunately, government survey data does not accurately represent “hard-to-count” at-risk populations who are less likely to speak English or to trust the government—which includes many of the people nonprofits like CASL serve.

Governance 59

Governance Food Health Collaborations 59

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements. Social Policy without Work Requirements Nearly three decades since welfare reform passed, there has been some progress to help lift people out of poverty.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 135

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But child care is more expensive than ever, and the federal government hasn’t done enough to support families, especially working mothers. The federal government must act quickly to preserve and increase funding for child care. Now more than ever, families bear the brunt of the economic burden.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Children Governance Philanthropy 136

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. However, in America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. This disproportionality demands systemic solutions.

Poverty 101

Poverty Agriculture Culture Community Development 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 5, 2023

billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. billion (about $1 billion) in 2020, while government spending was SGD 36.6 billion (about $1 billion) in 2020, while government spending was SGD 36.6

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 99

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. My first thought was, ‘Here we go.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

Through collaborative action, Mothers Out Front East Boston is fighting for the right to breathe clean air and live and work in a community that is safe and healthy. Fifty percent of its residents were born outside of the US and identify as Latino/a ; about half of all families in the neighborhood live below the official poverty line.

Race and Ethnicity 114

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 114

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

Leadership 104

Leadership Poverty Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity 104

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

From poverty wages to sky-high rents to environmental disasters, many of the crises we face today are linked to outsized and entrenched corporate power. We can’t rely solely on government to rein in corporate excess when corporations can reshape government.

Public Policy 135

Public Policy Governance Non-Profits Law 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 5, 2023

From displacement and poverty to illness and environmental degradation, the urgent challenges facing the world today call for innovative approaches that combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear understanding of the problems and a firm footing in communities. ”—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2019.

Collaborations 119

Collaborations Culture Governance Technology 119

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? Obviously, the only entity with the assets and power structure to move this needle is the national government.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 120

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The program includes classroom training in business development, finance, governance, democratic decision-making, and participatory management. Several years ago, Haynes opened his home to friends, former mentees, and collaborators to have a shared space to study cooperative economics and build shared wealth. “It

Non-Profits 132

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 132

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism. In this community, poverty remains a challenge: 16.4 percent of families live below the poverty line, a poverty rate more than six percentage points higher than Seattle.

Community Development 115

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 115

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. Two things changed how wealth was managed. New policies were passed that mandate that corporations and private foundations pay land taxes to local Tribes.

Public and Social Policy 112

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

While organizations like the China Disabled Persons’ Federation aim to support the rights and interests of disabled individuals through assistance obtaining welfare subsidies and other services, only the most severely disabled individuals qualify for government financial aid.

Nonprofit governance and management 89

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 89

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That philosophy has percolated in their own critiques of establishment philanthropy, which has historically relied on well-credentialed policy, government, and academic experts to solve social problems rather than relying on the immense reserve of local wisdom and practical experience. That’s not anecdotal; there’s data behind it.

Philanthropy 120

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Governance 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty.

Nonprofit governance and management 97

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 97

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Other lead organizations include a domestic-violence survivor support nonprofit, a city government, an affordable housing developer, and a school district. This system requires the state government to honor and respect the expertise of those who live and lead in each community. A Three Legged-Stool: Voice, Choice, and Equity.

Health 116

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 116

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

CRH’s salvation eventually came in the form of a collaborative approach, pivoting toward a combination of emergency funding provided by a small family foundation; a nonprofit, non-extractive loan fund; a third-party investment firm; and a coalition of Latinx community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Winning the Lottery?

Finance 101

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In a nutshell, Kampani’s investment strategy is as follows: The social impact the investment unlocks (reducing poverty and vulnerability of smallholder farmers) is central to the decision-making. Active involvement in the governance of the investee. However, few have been successful to date, and important gaps remain.

Finance 83

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 83

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

Public and Social Policy 66

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Poverty 66

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. One of the most well-known Black-led farm cooperatives is located in Mileston, Mississippi, in Holmes County.

Food 115

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 115

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 30, 2023

At DRF, we created mechanisms to address intersecting systems of oppression, such as including advisors from other movements and providing grants for cross-movement collaboration. Purposeful then facilitated meaningful collaboration among these different groups. I am also a member of the Kansas Delaware (Lenape).

Philanthropy 127

Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Collaborations 127

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to a 2014 study of wage theft in California and New York , wage theft doesn’t just hurt low-wage and immigrant workers, it also contributes to poverty, increases the need for SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program, formerly known as “food stamps), and increases the cost of public assistance services. The way ¡Reclamo!

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 94

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

Our interactions with technology are shaped and intermediated by the people who design them, the decisions made on how to deploy them, and the human-created rules that govern them. Inclusion and equity across every level of tech design, deployment, and governance is crucial.

Technology 113

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 113

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

The next Google or Facebook has yet to emerge from places plagued by chronic poverty, and even when a high-tech sector sets foot in low-income regions, it often exacerbates income inequality. Yet, these attempts have not significantly reverted economic decline. As a result, the ventures’ growth was not fast, but steady and durable.

Entrepreneurship 118

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Finance Food 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This unusual collaboration among three very different organizations reflects FHO’s emphasis on silo-spanning efforts that use narrative change, policy advocacy and organizing, and local collaboration to make the housing system more racially equitable and economically just.

Values 108

Values Public and Social Policy Collaborations Culture 108

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. In several of these cooperatives, either governments or civil society or development institutions have played roles as catalysts to sow the initial seeds. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

Food 103

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 103

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2024

DB: A big premise of my work at JPB Foundation is that no matter what issue you care about—whether that be housing, healthcare, poverty, or climate justice, and they are all important—the fundamental issue at the root of all of them is who has power in society and who doesn’t.

Philanthropy 111

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Ethics 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

And we knew that poverty and racism were deeply entrenched, and that takes more than three years. We know it’s a story of extraction, [of] government reliance on the nonprofit world, but that felt like a whole lot bigger than TBF. We would hope and expect that nonprofits are reducing poverty and reducing inequality.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 94

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

Video collaboration with Sony artists Marc Scibilia and voice over by Water.org co-founder Matt Damon. They also worked with the organization’s leadership to craft articles on how Water.org and its partners work to empower people in poverty with safe water to protect and save lives.

Non-Profits 132

Non-Profits Civil Society Health Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Duranti-Martinez highlights the “strong local ecosystems, public support, and collaboration among cooperatives” (21) that are enabling such rapid growth. Philanthropy can also assist by supporting field-building practices, such as peer-learning collaboratives, community organizing, and advocacy.

Public and Nonprofit Management 96

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 15, 2023

Government, media, corporations, academic institutions, and nonprofits have all made large, though insufficient, commitments to address alarming rates of mental health distress and deaths of despair like drug overdoses and suicides.

Health 105

Health Culture Collaborations Poverty 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

Indeed, the creative process can be particularly useful in contexts of poverty and hardship, where it can be difficult for people to think beyond their immediate opportunities and constraints, and imagine alternative futures. Contacts and collaborative opportunities. The 2010 documentary Waste Land offers a good example.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 4, 2021

On the other hand, global processes like collaboration against climate change, protests against social inequality and racism (#BlackLivesMatter), or social movement against sexual harassment and abuse (#metoo) have brought nonprofits even more prominence. Donations and Government Grants. 3 Tips to Raise Funds Online.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Fundraising Fundraising 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the early days of the pandemic, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation , whose mission is to help people and places move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice, recognized the devastation COVID-19 would bring to their grantee communities.

Philanthropy 116

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Several studies have shown that in societies that are characterized by high levels of poverty, the well-being of entrepreneurs is related to the savings they have. Currently, one of the most successful social entrepreneurs in Brazil is Edu Lyra who created Gerando Falcões, an organization that combats hunger and poverty.

Social Entrepreneurship 107

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 107