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Selfish Giving

MAY 4, 2022

Economic issues. Brittany will unpack how economic factors like inflation and interest rate spikes will influence POS giving through the rest of the year. ?? Social issues & consumer preferences. And I have just opportunity for you next Thursday, May 12th @ 3pm EDT.

Insurance

Insurance Economic Issues Retail Medical

Stay Connected With Your Donors by Creating a Communications Calendar

Ann Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

COVID is still a part of our lives, but now the bigger concern seems to be inflation and other economic issues. At the beginning of 2020, most of us couldn’t predict the year we were about to have. There’s still so much going on. In 2022, we saw the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Who knows what next year will bring.

Communication

Communication Economic Issues Recruitment Homelessness

Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a social and economic issue, the devastation is still being felt. Toward Repair There is no doubt that the War on Drugs devastated Black communities and dehumanized Black people. Survivors of the War on Drugs still walk with the scars.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty

A Growing Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Many Black entrepreneurs and farmers center social justice in what they do—playing important roles in solving Black social and economic issues, for example, by providing employment and mentorship, prioritizing the needs and desires of Black people, who are often underserved or ignored by other markets, and fostering community.

Food

Food Agriculture Economic Issues Children

When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Even philanthropists working on the economic issues of jobs and incomes tend to sidestep the root problem of how to strengthen an economy’s productive capabilities.

Production

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Health

Boston’s Fare-Free Bus Experiment

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Given how US policing disproportionately harms Black, Brown, and poor communities, eliminating fare enforcement is not just an economic issue but a racial justice demand. Highway to Hell The existing US transportation system causes and perpetuates several social, economic, and environmental harms.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Environmental Health Economic Issues

Keep in Touch with Your Donors Throughout the Year by Using a Communications Calendar

Ann Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Our world has changed a lot this past year and many donors will expect more communication about social and economic issues. I hope that was the beginning of any communication about systemic racism and not the only one. Keep them apprised of how all this is affecting your clients/community.

Communication

Communication Economic Issues Recruitment Homelessness

Q&A: Do capital campaigns make sense in a time of crisis?

Candid

MAY 20, 2021

The pandemic and the events of 2020 have also shed light on numerous social, political, and economic issues that deserve attention. The bottom line is that the right people, your capital campaign’s potential donors, become more generous in times of need, not less.

Economic Issues

Economic Issues Medical Energy Food

Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This approach would also systematically integrate socio-economic issues such as co-locating affordable housing and transit. The proposed work would integrate fundamental changes in programs and policies to transform driver education, active and latent safety measures, and the built environment.

Philanthropy

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health

Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

And they’re not looking for a nonprofit grantmaking vehicle; they’re looking for ways to invest in, say, businesses that will sustain not only their immediate family but an entire community, because of threats that their families are facing—whether political threats or climate or economic issues.

Philanthropy

Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Recruitment Foundations

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Selfish Giving

MAY 11, 2022

Economic issues. Brittany will unpack how economic factors like inflation and interest rate spikes will influence POS giving through the rest of the year. ?? Social issues & consumer preferences. Join me and Accelerist CEO Brittany 'Brit-Bit' Hill ???????

Economic Issues

Economic Issues Medical Health Management

Why You Should Focus Your Fundraising Efforts on Generating Gifts of Wealth (from Assets) Not on Disposable Income (from Credit Cards, Checks, or Cash)

iMarketSmart

APRIL 11, 2022

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 12 (4), 439-468. [3] Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 24 (3), 233-256. 3] Finke, M. S., & Huston, S. The brighter side of financial risk: Financial risk tolerance and wealth. See also , Aka, P. C., & Oku, C.

Law

Law Fundraising Fundraising Public and Nonprofit Management

Can CDFIs Rein in Capitalist Excess?

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

She called on other corporations to likewise support CDFIs to enable them to better address pressing economic issues, such as poverty, housing, and food insecurity. Where are consumer product companies? Where are the supermarket chains?” McHale asked.

Finance

Finance Community Development Public and Social Policy Poverty

Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.” To do that, we need to be able to understand it separately from manufactured insecurity and how the ways we are encouraged to pursue security under our contemporary conditions worsen the problems we are trying to ameliorate.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Healthcare