NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Seeking to address the root causes of food insecurity in its own backyard, the Anthem Foundation (a philanthropic arm of the major Indianapolis-based health insurance company, Anthem, Inc. ), funded the initiative with a $2.45 These ideals and beliefs are built into how EFAI works. million grant to LISC Indianapolis.

Food 95

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 95

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. Image Credit: Ketut Subiyanto on pixels.com The need for childcare is well known. What can be done to address this gap?

Curriculum and Teaching 93

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 93

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This exclusion had consequences not just for the posterity of Black families, but for Black health. The cooperative, which sought Black self-sufficiency, offered affordable housing, entrepreneurial opportunities, and education to tenant farmers, as well as a pig bank and access to fresh produce to feed families living in poverty.

Food 121

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million pairs of affordable reading glasses to low-income customers in remote areas, creating a path out of poverty by extending productive livelihoods, and generating $1.8B Community Health Entrepreneurs earned a better living. To date VisionSpring has sold 8.7 in economic impact. It seemed a perfect match. If so, how?

Social Enterprise 102

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Health Production 102

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 15, 2022

Andre Curry, registered nurse and certified health coach, Florida Blue. “As As a Black man who has achieved success in education and my career, it is my duty to give back and continue pushing for equity across many aspects of difference. Tamika Powe, manager, community benefit and health education programs, Tampa General Hospital.

Nonprofit governance and management 130

Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Leadership Nonprofits 130

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Their organizations work at the intersections of multiple social justice issues, including voting rights, criminal justice, economic justice, education justice, environmental justice, food justice, healing justice and mental health/trauma-informed care, im/migrant rights, labor rights, LGBTQIA+ liberation, racial justice, and reproductive justice.

Leadership 103

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 103

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I was born in Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) and started working in public health there as a clinical psychologist. I was responsible for mental health in what was, at the time, one of the world’s poorest countries. There I was, talking to parents about lead poisoning, doing what we do so readily in public health: telling people what to do.

Health 114

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 114

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

“In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.

Disaster Relief 55

Disaster Relief Poverty Children Medical 55

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2023

Elizabeth Cherot is the senior vice president and chief medical and health officer of the March of Dimes , the leading nonprofit in the United States working to improve maternal and infant health, first founded by President Franklin D. She recently served as the chief medical officer for Axia Women’s Health.

Health 87

Health Medical Education Education 87

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. They drive change through networks and relationships, and use the power and influence that emerges.

Public and Social Policy 107

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 107

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. Socioeconomic Issues : Rapid growth can exacerbate poverty, inequality, and social unrest.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Cultural Diversity Environmental 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2023

Innovative finance is based on the premise that there is not enough money from governments and philanthropic organizations alone to address pressing global issues like poverty, climate change, and access to electricity and clean water. This involves pricing based on overall value, not just the estimated costs to conduct an activity.

Finance 97

Finance Production Governance Poverty 97

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2024

Image credit: Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash It has been nearly a decade since medical science provided a cure for hepatitis C (hep-C), a potentially deadly viral infection that affects the liver and can lead to severe health complications if untreated. It’s time to eliminate this threat to the health of Americans,” writes Collins.

Medical 54

Medical Health Insurance Poverty 54

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It also reinforces an individualized medical model of intervention as the solution. Kellogg Foundation's Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) program designed by Gail Christopher, a pioneer in health equity and holistic strategies for social change. One example of this is the W.K.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 133

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

Regulatory policy, tied to long-term care agreements with impact investment funds, can contractually require that certain health and social care standards are met, thereby helping ensure the vulnerable elderly population receives the quality care that is largely being paid for by taxpayer money. Journal of Health Economics 21 (2): 293–311.

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Finance Nonprofit governance and management 88

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 30, 2023

While disability identity is also frequently fluid, it’s more often conflated with a medical diagnosis and stark demarcations that rarely exist. If there is money for women, it should prioritize women living at the margins, whether due to gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, Indigeneity, poverty, or all the above.

Philanthropy 128

Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Collaborations 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

Regarding technological surveillance, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project is working to broadly limit the use of surveillance technologies and ableist surveillance practices through litigation, legislation, education, and advocacy.

Technology 112

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 112

Fundraising Leadership

JULY 21, 2023

Women who are paid less than their male counterparts have less money to support themselves and their families, which can lead to financial instability and poverty. This, in turn, can lead to a host of other problems, such as poor health, decreased access to education, and limited career opportunities.”

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Participation and motivation Health Leadership 52

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

Exclusive access to educational resources, such as members-only publications or webinars. Doctors Without Borders is committed to delivering lifesaving medical care to people in need around the world. But, it doesn’t hurt to also offer a few enticing incentives that give donors something valuable in return for their support.

Nonprofits 99

Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management Retention Activism 99

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 139

Children Poverty Law Public and Social Policy 139

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 121

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 121

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

Across the Atlantic, Paris brought its water utility back in house, instituting a multi-stakeholder board and a “Water Observatory” as a public education and accountability method. About one third of US households live in “energy poverty,” among them disproportionate numbers of Black, Latinx, and Native families.

Energy 106

Energy Non-Profits Poverty Environmental 106

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Partners In Health :: @ PIH.

Poverty 111

Poverty Medical Civil Society Education 111

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

The legislative session frequently found itself in the national spotlight starting with legislation banning adult-oriented entertainment, including drag shows, in certain settings and banning adolescent medical procedures and some medications related to gender identity. 20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits.

Nonprofit governance and management 59

Nonprofit governance and management Law Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 59

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

The legislative session frequently found itself in the national spotlight starting with legislation banning adult-oriented entertainment, including drag shows, in certain settings and banning adolescent medical procedures and some medications related to gender identity. 20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Law Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 52

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 122

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 122