The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

By James Pollard, Associated Press NEW YORK Jeenah Moon/AP Students from Food and Finance high school make taco dough during a summer block party outside the Barclays Center in New York. The Food Education Fund provides hands-on experiences and mentoring for low-income students of color at 10 New York high schools.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

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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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This article introduces 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. These communities still live under food apartheid.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At present, one of UNEC’s most critical projects is to convene a multi-partner collaboration in the city’s Northeast Corridor neighborhoods to transform our local food system. I’ve observed the inner workings of a complex food system that, when it functions well, nourishes our bodies, families, and cultures.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2023

What does the struggle for Black food sovereignty look like at the local level? In this webinar conversation, five Black food justice leaders share their experiences. All five panelists were all article authors of NPQ ’s fall 2022 series on Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Also, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $75 million to boost enrollment in higher education among students in Washington State, and the ClimateWorks Foundation will give $21.5 million to address fertilizer's effect on climate change, food security, and energy.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The position of food co-ops in this mix can be ambiguous. On one hand, community-owned food co-ops can be a powerful strategy to assert community control over local food and avoid resident displacement. Yet food co-ops are also sometimes criticized as being potential agents of gentrification.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 7, 2025

Healing the Hood In 2021, Heal the Hood launched one of its first official initiatives, opening a free store that aimed to help lighten the financial burden on families by providing staples, like food and household goods, for free. But the first iteration needed tweaking. A call was put out requesting groceries. Organizations dont help us.

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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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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. Downtown grocery stores have recently disappeared, exacerbating food apartheid: between 2016 and 2018, five grocery stores in Louisville’s urban core closed. Some of these projects were top-down in conception and execution.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MAY 18, 2023

trillion in cuts, which means reductions of up to 60 percent to programs such as food stamps, environmental protection, health care, child care, education, and possibly Social Security and Medicare. Scott Applewhite, AP House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, have squeaked through a budget demanding $3.6

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 23, 2025

Swipe Copy: Hi [Name], I noticed that [Company] has just launched its new initiative on [DEI/education/climate]. Partnerships Senior Associate, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption , Columbus, Ohio Brain Food In my "Brain Food" section, I share things that spark inspiration, fuel curiosity, and bring a smile to your face!

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 16, 2015

A photo posted by The Food Trust (@thefoodtrust) on Mar 28, 2015 at 8:33am PDT. Food Revolution https://instagram.com/foodrev. Food Tank https://instagram.com/daniellenierenberg/. The Food Trust https://instagram.com/thefoodtrust. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art https://instagram.com/sfmoma/. Words to live by.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. Second, educate the staff and board. Its slow, but it works.

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Selfish Giving

JANUARY 8, 2025

Customers can donate at checkout, with 100% of the funds going toward providing free mental health educational resources. Bags are being sold online and in Harps Food Stores through the end of February. Manager, Fundraising and Partnerships, Burger King Foundation , Miami Brain Food 1.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 9, 2024

Here are just a few words that spark a negative physical reaction in me when I hear them: Silos Food Insecure Stakeholders Systematic Unpack Disruption Persons of Concern Sustainable Impactful Cultivate Change Agent People also don’t want to have to look up an acronyms so spell things out, KWIM? KWIM stands for “Know what I mean.”)

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These fundamental differences shape how organizations must approach both service delivery and donor education. Data-driven insights for donor education Numbers tell a powerful story when paired with local context. Nonprofit professionals need distinct strategies for each setting.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

Just as Hemstreets community built Opportunity Threads, Reverend Dr. Pastor Heber Brown organized within his community of Black parishioners in Baltimore to help form the Black Church Food Security Network. The economic mechanism here serves the mission of First Book and provides additional educational materials the members need.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

that work in education, health care or human services. LEARN MORE & APPLY Nordstrom Cares to Award $2 Million to Nonprofits Nationwide From October 1-31, 2023, Nordstrom will accept community grant applications from nonprofits across the U.S.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 14, 2024

Like an earthquake is the sudden culmination of years of building tension, the dramatic shifts in America’s racial and education justice landscape over the last decade emerged from trends long preceding it. Data from the National Center for Education Statistics tells us that as of 2021, public school students in the U.S.

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Candid

MARCH 31, 2025

And direct interactions through volunteering, donating, or participating in food drives, for example, is essential to building the public trust nonprofits need to do their work: 79% of respondents whod volunteered in recent years said it gave them a more favorable view of the sector, and 88% said they would volunteer again.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

When I began a food drive for folks who had been affected by the pandemic, I did not think it would lead me to a career change, a 501(c)(3), and a lot of incredible lessons and knowledge. We also started to notice just how many elders and families are affected by food insecurity: more than 34 million people in the United States alone.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MARCH 26, 2025

To create a successful fundraising store, focus on products such as: Popular, wide-appeal items , including discount cards for local businesses or chains and food like popcorn or cookie dough. The key is to balance mission alignment, quality, and appeal to maximize purchases.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Organizing hands-on volunteering events like community clean-ups, food drives, or shelter support days offers students the opportunity to make an immediate difference while connecting to the nonprofits mission. Pair food drives with storytelling sessions where students learn about local hunger challenges.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Leading the nation’s largest homebuilder, Reckford gathers partners to bring grocery stores to food deserts, medical care to those neighborhoods and he won’t need to be brought up to speed. Murguía often testifies before Congress about issues affecting the Latino community including education, health care, civil rights and the economy.

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Anedot

MAY 7, 2025

Essential Functions and Responsibilities Develops nutrition education curriculum and materials for youth that address how to produce, prepare, and teach about specialty crops (fruits and vegetables). Meets regularly with intern cohorts to provide support and guidance around best practices for educating about specialty crop nutrition.

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Anedot

MAY 7, 2025

Position Summary The Ceres Intern Program Assistant and Driver will support the coordination and implementation of our Farm to Community Nutrition Educator Internship, which provides hands-on training in organic gardening, nutrition and cooking healthy meals for high school students. COMPENSATION: $20/hr. Comfortable driving a larger van.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

My outdoor experiences and education were small, and such rarified moments scattered across time were ones I have savored and carried with me through my life. This was my first time sleeping in a tent, horseback riding, brushing my teeth with bottled water, and seeing the stars without light pollution. And for many years, this was all I had.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

JGN: One is the role of education. Some of them continued as womens guilds, some as continuous education. It was interesting to see that far beyond what was happening in other co-ops, Black women were not just doing the scud work, but were leaders, creators, and educators. It makes sense. These are the ways you learn.

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Candid

MAY 27, 2025

Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) recently announced a bold $130 million investment to ensure leaders and organizations that best align with our mission have the resources needed to continue critical education efforts, services, and community organizing across the country.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

Project South was born out of necessity, created to serve as a space for political education, movement building, and base development among Southern communities. We didnt even apply for a single grant during the early yearswe were clear on our values and the threat of capture, he explains.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

Declining Volunteer Numbers Until recently, most of us were largely unaware of the importance of bees to our food supply and didnt think about bees, except to try to avoid them. In the nonprofit community, volunteers are the bees.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

MAY 18, 2023

Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, New York, a master’s in educational leadership from St. He is a fan of good food, music and theater and is proud to call Tampa Bay home. He has also served as president and CEO of three different learning institutions in Texas. A native of New York, Charlie earned his bachelor’s degree in Spanish from St.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 26, 2025

That means: Donors trust youeven when you transition roles Your network stays with you You remain credible in every stage of your nonprofit career If your career spans early childhood education, food security, housing, or public healthyour why becomes the connecting thread. And your brand becomes the bridge.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 25, 2019

Elizabeth Leslie is the Communications Manager for the League of Women Voters of California, a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy. to 2:00 p.m.

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