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. That’s not career development. Without economic mobility, families—particularly BIPOC families —are stuck in the cycle of intergenerational poverty.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 6, 2024
A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. The expanded (but now expired) child tax credits alone cut childhood poverty by 30 percent in only six months. This work is urgent.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.
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. Although farmland is abundant in the region, the number of Black-owned family farms has dwindled.
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.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 5, 2024
The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. Disability, poverty, and discrimination are part of a cycle where each reinforces the others.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Earlier this year, the Biden administration passed an executive order with 50 directives to nearly every cabinet-level agency to expand access to affordable, high-quality care. Federal Funding Is Taking a Critical Step The federal government is making small steps toward mitigating this shortage.
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