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A Growing Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series 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. Confronting a history of exclusion.

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Newsletter: How to Raise Thousands (Maybe Millions) More with POS Fundraising ; Raise More at the Register by Asking for Less ; The One Word That Turns Off Donors

Selfish Giving

"When it comes to cause marketing, if you're not at least trying to land and execute a point-of-sale fundraiser, you're kind of wasting your time. You probably shouldn't be doing cause marketing in the first place." ??This This is what I tell people about cause marketing and point-of-sale.?? Economic issues.

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Newsletter: Shocking & Sad News (But Not Serious) ; Charity Partners with Garden Centers to Promote Safe Sex ; Why Your Nonprofit Needs to Get ‘Grief-Smart’

Selfish Giving

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. Are you serious about cause marketing? Marketing Your Cause 1. Brain Food 1. Sign up now.?? ??

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. Of course, it’s important that philanthropic resources allocated to what one might call the “prosperity” portfolio not be a giveaway to market actors.

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

Candid

Food banks are the perfect example—many have seen unprecedented surges in the need for their help but were unprepared in terms of the storage, manpower, and other logistical considerations required to effectively serve their constituents. From a financial standpoint, it now (generally) makes little sense to completely stop fundraising.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.” How is suffering at the hand of market forces a ubiquitous but uneven phenomenon? Not everybody is desperately indebted or poor, but this economic arrangement is damaging to many. There’s a feeling that you can’t rest.

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Isabelle Leighton: I love that you’re starting with a nice and easy question, not like my favorite food or anything! And so, a lot of the questions that people have are, like, “How do I balance what I understand are these movements that are happening and also the needs that I’ve always given to and the issues I’ve always focused on?”