NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

Image Credit: Jon Tyson on unpsplash.com In 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final strategy to reduce lead exposure. That partnership—first piloted in 2020 in tribal communities—includes launching awareness and educational sessions about the dangers of lead and how to mitigate exposure.

Curriculum and Teaching 63

Curriculum and Teaching Environmental Children Public and Social Policy 63

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

My inspiration was seeing the lived experiences of Black people in America not really reflected in environmental conversations. IC: I like the way you made this book an entry point for anyone looking to understand the intersections between climate justice, climate change, race, health, education….What It was three years ago.

Environmental 104

Environmental Food Poverty Culture 104

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

By Stephan Manning & Yeşim Uygur Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the socioeconomic structures around them. Educational resources. They also develop new artistic skills.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

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. BreadHive’s journey and the lessons they learned along the way became the seed of Cooperation Buffalo , a shared resource network. That compost, when it’s deployed, has a real impact.

Non-Profits 128

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 128

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. 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. So far, we’ve been able to install HEPA purifiers in 35 home daycares.

Race and Ethnicity 107

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 107

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

For example, foregrounds the experiences of communities of color in the environmental justice movement. The climate cafes help to build a sense of community by enabling participants to share struggles and partake in environmental joy, translating into a community directly engaging in climate action.

Healthcare 81

Healthcare Health Environmental Psychology 81

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. class education for anyone, anywhere. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Oxfam : To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Education 94

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

It also requires redesigning the institution’s infrastructure by granting decision-making power to workers outside the management suite, designing in accountability to environmental justice communities, and co-developing transition plans. Last week, the Build Public Renewables Act passed in the New York State Senate.

Energy 96

Energy Non-Profits Poverty Environmental 96

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

We want them to be environmentally, fiscally and socially-responsible. The top five causes Americans want the sports world to support are: Education, Children’s Causes, Health, Poverty and Mental Health. But we are truly witnessing a new day when a league or team’s bottom line will be directly impacted by their social purpose.

Poverty 164

Poverty Health Environmental Education 164

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 77

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 77

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In education, many philanthropists have invested in the creation of a parallel learning infrastructure in the form of charter schools and voucher programs, instead of supporting parents and students organizing to fight educational segregation and school closures.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 118

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The American Farmland Trust protects agricultural land, promotes environmentally sound farming practices, and helps farmers continue to grow food for us all. Kiss the Ground is committed to educating the public about the environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture. National Art Education Association. Agriculture.

Children 105

Children Environmental Agriculture Nonprofits 105

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Proceeds benefit the Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit working to end the killing in America’s animal shelters through adoption, spay and neuter education, and no-kill initiatives. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities.

Ethics 129

Ethics Children Poverty Education 129

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. How can we do a better job of bridging the gulf between housing and other sectors, such as environmental justice?

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Foundations 109

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. China is no exception to this global issue.

Nonprofit governance and management 95

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 95

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. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 113

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Black people who couldn’t access federal loans to buy homes in the suburbs were often relegated to industrialized areas, where exposure to toxic waste and other environmental hazards is unavoidable. As a 2021 United Nations report condemning environmental racism in the United States noted , most of these people are Black.

Food 113

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 113

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Using market mechanisms, many social entrepreneurs have followed the example of Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank to set up enterprises with a main objective of tackling social or environmental issues. About 30 percent of the social entrepreneurs from poor communities in our research sample did not study at the higher education level.

Social Entrepreneurship 112

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 112

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Fast forward to my family’s move to Portugal, where my mother was born, then to the United States, where, in 1998, I found a job with the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) as an education and outreach coordinator. In the Central Falls/Pawtucket HEZ, nearly a third of residents live in poverty, and one in three are recent immigrants.

Health 111

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 111

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These volunteers—numbering nationwide in the tens of thousands—represent a form of civil resistance and autonomy, seeking to protect the ancestral way of life and Indigenous territory from violence and environmental destruction. Suboptimal” early childhood development is seen as contributing to poverty in communities. 2017 , 77).

Children 124

Children Civil Society Culture Health 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Many others are feeling distress as they process the realities of widespread environmental and biodiversity loss. Yet, all individuals in social impact face a similar challenge, whether addressing things like housing, health care, or poverty. as well as slow-onset events (e.g., sea-level rise, melting of ice, etc.)

Health 99

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 99

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

We witnessed huge shifts to public education with dramatic differences in per-pupil spending, because resources were no longer allocated by zip code. The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 104

Getting Attention

JUNE 15, 2015

Goldman Environmental Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Director, External Affairs and Communications The Education Trust West (Oakland, CA). Marketing Strategist Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Communications Associate. Communications Associate PATH (Los Angeles, CA). Louis, MO). Santa Rosa, CA).

Marketing 68

Marketing Marketing Environmental Associations 68

Thunderhead Works

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Oxfam’s executive director Winnie Byanyima points out that with one-in-ten people living on less than $2 a day this wealth inequality “is trapping hundreds of millions in poverty; it is fracturing our societies and undermining democracy. Across the world, people are being left behind.

Poverty 52

Poverty Environmental Education Education 52

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Additionally, Duranti-Martinez points out, “Community ownership also means that the people most impacted by racial, economic, and environmental injustice have meaningful decision-making power over development” (7). percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Purchasing land was, in a sense, the easiest step.

Public and Nonprofit Management 93

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 93

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 15, 2023

Together with the communities we serve, those of us who work in social change witness the daily realities of poverty, injustice, violence, marginalization, and climate destruction. Meanwhile, the field of social change and innovation is engaged with the greatest challenges of our time—our collective pain.

Health 108

Health Culture Collaborations Poverty 108

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. Typically, we say that the American Dream ideology individualizes and pathologizes poverty. This man has to ward off the specter of elder poverty by becoming a landlord. Give people healthcare that lets them recover when they are ill, and education that allows them to be curious.

Manufacturing 141

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 141

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is instead an exercise in liberating the constructs of creativity from being the prerogative of the Western, masculine, or the allegedly educated, while reclaiming what rural women of India have championed for thousands of years. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

Food 107

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 107

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit the Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit working to end the killing in America’s animal shelters through adoption, spay and neuter education, and no-kill initiatives. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities.

Ethics 107

Ethics Children Production Manufacturing 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But in other places they use the term as a noun—as when saying that “ESG integration has impact”—such that the term is likely to be interpreted as “has environmental or social benefits.” Re-educate your ESG teams. The best way to think about the problem is to imagine a Venn diagram with two circles.

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Participation and motivation 99

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 22, 2023

Nonprofits address critical social issues, such as poverty, education, healthcare, and environmental conservation, allowing individuals to align their work with their personal values and create lasting change. Identify their core principles and the social or environmental causes they champion.

Nonprofit Organizations 52

Nonprofit Organizations Nonprofit Organizations Values Nonprofits 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

As early as 2016, energy justice advocates in California successfully secured legislation to allocate a minimum proportion of the state’s greenhouse gas fund to environmental justice communities. Like trickle-down economics, the consequences of these beliefs can further entrench disparities. See also Deborah A.

Energy 82

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 82

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, organizations with international causes had the highest number of hits, with environmental organizations close behind. In another year, poverty and health issues could be on the forefront, and those kinds of organizations could see a bump in their news coverage. Take advantage of the “piggyback publicity,” it’s a gift.

Poverty 64

Poverty Environmental Nonprofits Advertising 64

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. Their approach to grantmaking and strategy is very community-based.

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. Earning $1.30

Agriculture 99

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 99

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit the Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit working to end the killing in America’s animal shelters through adoption, spay and neuter education, and no-kill initiatives. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities.

Ethics 40

Ethics Children Production Manufacturing 40

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2011

. • Change the way they operate to align with greater social and environmental needs. While the majority of consumers believe that companies have the power and duty to support several issue areas (from education to the environment to health to human rights and to hunger), economic development is the most popular. Advocate for change.

Volunteerism 49

Volunteerism Volunteerism Environmental Poverty 49