NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress temporarily implemented a child tax credit initiative that in 2021 cut child poverty nearly in half, lifting millions out of poverty, according to a US Census report. The tax credit also reduced food insecurity among families and helped parents afford basic necessities.

Poverty 96

Poverty Children Law Food 96

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.

Food 114

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 114

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Work requirements attached to public benefits often ignore the structural barriers that many individuals face, such as systemic racism, sexism, and limited access to quality education and employment opportunities. She relied on her benefits to keep food on the table and a roof over her family’s head.

Public and Social Policy 93

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 93

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.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Cultural Diversity Environmental 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

This article concludes the series : Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. For decades, the United States has focused on what are called “place-based” strategies and policies to address poverty, housing access, and affordability. Studies show that secure housing is critical to reducing generational poverty.

Poverty 107

Poverty Community Development Finance Construction 107

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.

Non-Profits 132

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 132

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

RB: The last installment of the report uplifts how mass incarceration exacerbates poverty. The report mentions how, in many states across the country, incarcerated people are paid little or nothing for their work while their labor is used to produce many of the foods and products we consume. There was this zero-sum game mindset.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 106

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism. In this community, poverty remains a challenge: 16.4 percent of families live below the poverty line, a poverty rate more than six percentage points higher than Seattle.

Community Development 114

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 114

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

The federal government recommends at least one educator per three to four infants for safe, quality care. The Virginia Early Childhood Foundation announced it will provide paid training to over 60 early childhood educators in their Early Educator Fast Track Initiative. And that’s solely because they have to,” Suddath said.

Insurance 85

Insurance Children Poverty Education 85

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In the letter, she let the school’s administrators know that she could not afford to pay an extra $15 every week for an education that was supposed to be free. Higher Education Doesn’t Solve Poverty. She ended the letter by politely telling them that “they better not make her come up there.”.

Education 96

Education Education Poverty Children 96

Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2024

EXAMPLE: If you work at a food bank, you may believe the fact that you distribute food via pantries located in neighborhood schools, churches, and community centers is super important. As counter-intuitive as it may seem to you, most donors don’t want to know how the sausage gets made (or food gets delivered).

Food 93

Food Homelessness Poverty Education 93

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In reality, more than 70 percent of children in foster care today are in foster care because of what the system calls neglect, which is largely related to poverty issues. Mandatory reporting laws shifted the nature of child welfare services from poverty relief to investigation and surveillance. But I don’t think that’s widely known.

Children 137

Children Poverty Law Public and Social Policy 137

The Kindful Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Mission: Boulanger Initiative’s mission is to promote music composed by womxn through performance, education, and commissions. Donate hygiene, cleaning, or non-perishable food items. Mission: WINS (Women In Need Society) is Calgary’s homegrown thrift charity founded in 1992 to provide basic needs to women in poverty and their families.

Poverty 121

Poverty Health Philanthropy Education 121

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 119

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

For Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, the creation of borders that have been imposed upon tribal nations has led to a tremendous loss of land, natural resources, culture, food systems, language, economies, and a thousand generations of traditional knowledge. Another measure of poverty and wealth is owning land or owning a home.

Health 96

Health Poverty Public and Social Policy Culture 96

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Often, the result is rural poverty. percent of rural residents lived below the poverty line, compared to 11.9 It supports a population of over 380,000 residents, 21 percent of whom live in poverty, 15 percent of whom are Black, and 15 percent Latinx. As of 2019, an estimated 15.4 percent of urban and suburban residents.

Poverty 85

Poverty Children Culture Food 85

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 115

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 115

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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 HMT: It is a process of constantly educating ourselves. IC: One thing that I was shocked by is how you were able to pull so much information together.

Environmental 110

Environmental Food Poverty Culture 110

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

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2021

Her priorities are to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital.” Her team’s focus has been on “identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results.

Non-Profits 139

Non-Profits Poverty Philanthropy Charitable Organizations 139

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

AUGUST 10, 2023

Issues related to justice, race, inequalities, affordability, and poverty are much less likely to be funded.” million to environmental education, it was evident that foundations cast a broad net and funded several categories of organizations outside the core groups that are usually funded,” such as social inequality, justice, and empowerment.

Environmental 89

Environmental Foundations Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 89

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. We should heed a few lessons from this past work.

Public and Social Policy 123

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 123

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.”

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the children most at risk of lead exposure are under six years of age and can come in contact with lead through chipping paint in older homes, imported food or cosmetics, drinking water from lead plumbing or pipes, and even the soil around older buildings or roads.

Curriculum and Teaching 65

Curriculum and Teaching Environmental Children Public and Social Policy 65

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Between 2016 and 2019 , nearly half of global giving by US foundations went to health, while environment and human rights accounted for roughly 11 percent each, followed by agriculture and education. There are many reasons why foundations structure their giving in this way.

Production 100

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Education 100

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 23, 2023

Whether preparing food for a sick neighbor or responding to humanitarian crises in their ancestral homelands or the US, they are guided by formal and informal giving, a strong part of Arab American heritage. I don’t live in poverty. I’m tremendously thankful for that, and to have education and health care.”

Philanthropy 94

Philanthropy Participation and motivation Volunteerism Volunteerism 94

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 80

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 80

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Most of those who belong to the BoP live outside the formal economy and face unmet needs in basic areas such as food, financial services, and education. Examples include microcredit, affordable mobile phones, low-cost health care and education products, and mobile banking.

Production 113

Production Non-Profits Education Education 113

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Point out some of the educators in your field and what they have done for your cause. Share your favorite cookie or vegetarian recipes or have your staff or supporters shares theirs. 10/05: Do Something Nice Day. Encourage your supporters to do something nice for someone else in your name. 10/05: World Teacher’s Day.

Health 87

Health Poverty Nonprofits Food 87

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

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. Though ecologically and culturally rich, the county ranks in the bottom eighth in California for per-capita income.

Nonprofit governance and management 97

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 97

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Institutions of higher education—notably historically Black colleges and universities—received the bulk of grants above $30 million. Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty.” Visualized this way, this set of grants suggests a more general pattern.

Poverty 98

Poverty Health Law Universities 98

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. Suboptimal” early childhood development is seen as contributing to poverty in communities. 2017 , 77).

Children 129

Children Civil Society Culture Health 129

Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

A word about inkind gifts: Of course you should always thank a donor who gives an inkind gift, such as a donation of bottled water, laundry detergent, pet food, or whatever. These seven children are receiving a quality education, three meals a day, mentoring, and medical care. But the rules are a bit different around IRS language.

Food 98

Food Children Values Poverty 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Debtor-activists, policy scholars, and education advocates all understand that student loans are a growing part of a predatory lending industry that extracts wealth from Black borrowers—especially Black women—and their families and communities. I only get the run around … I tried the Department of Education, my congressmembers.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 120

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The manager positions, she noted, are reserved for college students recruited from local colleges who have some form of background in disability resources or special education. The older you get, the more likely you live in poverty.” Bitty and Beau’s opened their first shop in Wilmington, NC, in 2016.

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Law Education 128

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Address “the direct needs of Black communities by focusing on issues related to poverty and economic security,” including health, financial literacy and economic wellness, food insecurity, workforce development, education and youth development (11).

Nonprofits 110

Nonprofits Leadership Poverty Social Policy 110