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Rethinking Food Culture Might Save Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Food changes into blood, blood into cells, cells change into energy which changes up into life. food is life. This work we’re doing in food culture is ultimately healing work. it’s only the seeds, and the land, and the food, that have the capacity to take that grief, and to metabolize and digest it.

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Food Co-op Leaders Say the Cure for Gentrification Is Solidarity

NonProfit Quarterly

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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Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Awards $123.5 Million for Homelessness Prevention

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

million to address fertilizer's effect on climate change, food security, and energy. 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

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What Do You Do When Donor Money Gets Tighter?

NonProfit PRO

Prices have gone up, everywhere, especially caused by the general inflation, higher energy and gas bills and higher cost of food. Donors are starting to find it harder to donate because of their financial situations.

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To Reduce Carbon Emissions, Set Out a Fridge

NonProfit Quarterly

These are just a few of the food items one might find in the most unusual of places: in a refrigerator placed out on the street. These can also offer fresh vegetables, dairy, meat, and other perishable food items. Image credit: Mx. Granger, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Fresh produce. Even leftover pizza. Enter the fridge.

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Agrivoltaics Offer Solutions to Simultaneous Climate and Health Challenges

NonProfit Quarterly

And there are several other ways that agrivoltaics can be used to mitigate the effects of climate change: Renewable Energy By generating solar power, agrivoltaics reduces reliance on fossil fuels and decreases greenhouse gas emissions. The location produces sufficient electricity for over 300 households through its 1.2-megawatt

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Prioritizing Sustainability? Get Help From Digital Waivers

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Studies show that roughly 20% of the world’s waste comes from offices with each worker contributing about two pounds of paper, plastic, and food waste each day. Additionally, storing documents online can be more energy efficient because your organization won’t need to maintain well-lit, climate-controlled spaces for the files.

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