NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address. This work is worth supporting.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Sector : Healthcare/ Education Bill : SB2329 / HB2354 Bill Summary : As introduced, prohibits a local government entity, school, or local education agency from implementing a mask mandate related to COVID-19.

Education 52

Education Education Public and Social Policy Law 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. It impacted the local food system in South Phoenix, and many food-based businesses faced closure.

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Food Health Values Collaborations 93

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. In other cases, they are organizations, industries, professions, or cultures.

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Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 132

Candid

MARCH 27, 2024

In February, bucking end-of-year trends, none of these human services sub-categories were searched more often than the arts and culture sub-categories listed above. of subject area searches of nonprofit profiles, followed closely by human services (22.1%).

Culture 52

Culture Food Homelessness Education 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

She also lives in a food desert, which makes getting nutritious and affordable food difficult. The nearest fresh food grocer is three miles away, across the 101 freeway. She can afford one big shopping trip in the month and at the end of the month she visits the local food pantry to subsidize until she gets her next paycheck.

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Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 130

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 10, 2024

Our organization, the Boston Ujima Project , which is a home for arts and cultural organizing, political education, and investment in Black-owned and cooperative businesses—and to which Turner contributed until his passing in 2019—is just one part of a much larger story. The need for food sovereignty is urgent, to hear Samad tell it.

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Food Medical Community Development Finance 108

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Early on, the community established itself enough to have its own cultural center, known as Cambodia Town. If you were educated or even looked like you were by wearing glasses, you were destroyed. About seven years ago, UCC launched Living Arts , which is open to youth of any culture or race, ages 14 to 24.

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Race and Ethnicity Community Development Participation and motivation Culture 110

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 26, 2024

A lot of college students around the world, especially those who study education, are using AI to solve tough social and environmental problems in new, long-lasting ways. This creates a culture that cares about the environment. AI in Social Sustainability Big changes are happening in education because of AI.

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Health Energy Psychology Culture 52

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aimee Arent , Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Aiza Ashraf , Director of Equity & Community Impact, United Way of Lancaster County Amber Badgett , Meaningful Day Services John Badstubner , ServiceNow Dolores Bates Lorrena Black , VP Leadership Development, Inforum Samantha Butterfield , Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre Marjorie (..)

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2023

Image Credit: Logan Armstrong on unsplash.com For most young people growing up in the United States today, the idea of leading a life where you can get an education, buy a home, raise a family, and retire comfortably feels like fiction at best. Originally, the building housed a food shop, bakery, café, small theater, and library.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Culture change is slow, but it is central to us as a movement that we are intentionally creating together. Among the 15 local cooperative businesses and democratic collectives we count in our ecosystem, many focus on arts and cultural strategies to strengthen our solidarity economy.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whether it’s very technical terms or phrases that permeate a specific genre or culture, if you aren’t a part of that group, you have no idea what anyone is talking about. No one is searching on Google for “How to help food insecure people in my area.” Every group of like-minded people has it.

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Food Nonprofits Education Education 111

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

We’ll also talk about the role of education, healthcare , development aid, and advocacy and policy efforts in managing population growth and encouraging sustainable practices. But population growth is more than just numbers; it’s about the strain those numbers put on food, water, and energy supplies.

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Public and Social Policy Healthcare Cultural Diversity Environmental 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The myth of American meritocracy is not merely an occasional story; it is upheld daily by social systems, structures, and cultural narratives. The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 1, 2023

That’s what Creative Wildfire —an organizing project supporting artists, cultural workers, and organizations—seeks to do. Initially intended for organizers, the retreats widened their target participants in the summer of 2014 to include artists and cultural workers who had been traditionally ignored in movement spaces. “We

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. The culture I come from relies a lot on storytelling to cement our learning and culture.

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Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 112

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level.

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Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 108

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The total giving to date has been consistent with four priorities outlined by Scott in establishing the fund: Education, Equity & Justice, Economic Security & Opportunity, and Health. Comparing 2023 to prior years, giving to health increased, for example, while giving to education and arts and culture decreased.

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Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy Education Education 61

Selfish Giving

JULY 12, 2023

Here's what we offer: Access to an Exclusive and Desirable Audience: Located in the affluent and sophisticated Metrowest area of Massachusetts, a partnership with us provides a gateway to a highly educated, wealthy, and discerning demographic. Mary's Food Bank , Phoenix, AZ 4. Brain Food 1. Director of Corporate Giving, St.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

But to build cooperative intelligence, cooperative education needs to start at a much earlier age. Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. Aside from these cultural and ideological factors, there are the practical benefits.

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Curriculum and Teaching Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 95

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Similarly, practices of involving children in household work, such as gutting fish or other animals, preparing food, and carrying wood, have been shown by research to foster responsibility and social responsiveness. But often this money is spent in a manner that is not aligned with Indigenous cultures.

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Children Civil Society Culture Health 122

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 4, 2024

We are hearing about how internal conflicts within organizations are threatening the long-term safety of movements, and how a culture of martyrdom manifests in burnout. Healing practitioners are familiar with repackaging their work as “leadership development” or “political education” or the strategy du jour to fit a given funder’s framework.

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Health Culture Food Philanthropy 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Such land transfers would also enable Black farmers to engage in climate change mitigation practices and would enhance Black people’s food sovereignty. Food can act as medicine, especially when grown and maintained by community members. In other words, landownership, food access, and healthcare are intertwined.

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Philanthropy Agriculture Food Healthcare 108

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

But at a certain point, Akuno realized that his education work was not effectively challenging relationships of power. I am an educator. First, it is critical to be able to “articulate a program around food sovereignty,” including the development of community farms. We had to educate them. What is the future?

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Education Education Governance Food 132

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

This article profiles three organizations from which we hail—the Center for Biological Diversity, Marbleseed (formerly the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service), and Wellspring Cooperative—that have grown to focus on addressing the many social, political, economic, and environmental ills that are a direct outcome of capitalism.

Agriculture 73

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 73

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

When people are forced to leave, these neighborhoods often lose their cultural vibrancy and sense of community that made them appealing to new residents in the first place. These are home values, rent prices, median household income, percentage of residents who are college educated, and percentage of residents who are White.

Culture 91

Culture Construction Community Development Education 91

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Though ecologically and culturally rich, the county ranks in the bottom eighth in California for per-capita income. For millennia, oceans, rivers, and forests provided an abundance of food and other resources for the residents of this area, until the late 1800s, when white settlers arrived and began to extract gold and timber.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

Indigenous Peoples have oral histories that confirm eons of existence in relationship with place, and we should be respectful that many Indigenous cultures have their own belief systems regarding creation and the origins of their populations. I was fortunate to grow up in a family with many traditional healers and cultural leaders.

Health 98

Health Poverty Public and Social Policy Culture 98

Fundraising Leadership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

That can be wonderful and it can also be dreadful, particularly if you are labelled as overweight, a person in a larger body, and if fatshaming, fatphobia and sizeism are prevalent in your workplace culture. Subtle or overt comments such as, “That’s a full plate!” or “Why not try the fruit instead of the cookies?”

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Universities Culture Health Food 67

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Narrative History Narratives are our cultural understandings, our frames of reference, our mental models—they provide the story of our social world. During this time, Black people were forced into labor without choice or compensation because of the widespread cultural narrative that they were racially inferior.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 89

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We are a community-led resource center, a team of cooperative business developers and educators, and a community-controlled non-extractive loan fund. We then pick up the food scraps, and compost it right here in the city.” “As Together, we are planting, cultivating, and harvesting the seeds of a burgeoning solidarity economy.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

“In cities like Richmond, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, which had experienced ‘food apartheid,’ the need for locally grown, healthy food supported the rise of urban farms that employed returning citizens. With more local resources, child care became free, along with public school–provided breakfasts and lunches.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 15, 2023

Considering Northern California’s climate vulnerability, Sogorea Te’ has since turned all of their himmetkas on returned land into culturally based climate resiliency hubs for the community during natural disasters. It was quite interesting for. Sogorea Te’ is also working with a West Oakland nonprofit to get a small parcel of land returned.

Race and Ethnicity 138

Race and Ethnicity Culture Environmental Law 138

Candid

JULY 14, 2022

For decades, Native American tribes have faced economic and food insecurity, education barriers, substandard and overcrowded housing, and limited healthcare—all tied to flawed federal policies and broken treaties. Carefully listening to needs and wants has allowed us to build strong relationships and fund impactful grants.

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Disaster Relief Healthcare Food Children 98

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Your congregation may even have its own soup kitchen, or food pantry, or similar program. Stewardship education and awareness. Cultivating a culture of giving is very important. Cultivating a culture of giving is very important. This shared sense of purpose often translates into increased stewardship giving.

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Education Education Technology Activism 71

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

KA: I had a good education in that movement about cooperatives. It was something that I knew existed, but I didn’t know how dependent I was on it until I got to college and started to pay my own food bills. SD: You have spoken before about your experience working in public education prior to moving to Mississippi.

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Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 132