NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 5, 2025

If she didn’t have Medicaid, she would either be racking up costs on a payment plan or would have to make a difficult decision about the various other medications and treatments she needs for chronic health issues — all of which she relies on Medicaid to cover. Because of her conditions, Habein works very little.

Insurance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Aruta & Kelly Davis A convergence is happening between the climate and mental health movements, and social impact practitioners need to pay attention. Characterizing the relationship between these two complex problems is often challenging because the true tolls of the mental health and climate crises are inseparable.

Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Smith To achieve climate justice, biodiversity, and health equity goals, most societies need rapid change. Take the way that energy and health are often treated as separate issues. They are typically studied by different researchers, and policy choices on energy and health are usually made in isolation from each other.

Energy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 12, 2023

On the outside, I looked poised, having just shared my lived experience from depression and suicide attempts to founding my social impact consulting company, Bearapy , to improve workplace mental health in the Asia-Pacific region. This work takes a toll on our mental health. Inside, I could feel myself disintegrating.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

The BPRA would create a public energy option in New York by expanding the ability of the New York Power Authority, the state’s public utility, to finance, build, and operate affordable, reliable renewable energy. Last week, the Build Public Renewables Act passed in the New York State Senate.

Energy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

When the legendary physician and advocate Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away at the age of 62 in February, he was called a hero , a visionary , and a global health giant. Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership. “Beware the iron cage of rationality.”

Nonprofit Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Two years ago, Raymond Foxworth of First Nations noted in NPQ that “Native people have long held a worldview that connects human and community health to the health of land and the environment. A Montana State study from 2019 estimated that the poverty rate statewide for Native communities exceeded 30 percent.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 31, 2023

Primed by the undocumented youth movement at the beginning of the decade, and drawing energy from the allied Movement for Black Lives in the latter half, these groups engaged growing numbers of adolescents in addressing local, regional, and even statewide issues. As a sophomore, Kahlila collapsed from dehydration at a school event.

Public and Social Policy

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

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Harmful assumptions about payment behavior effectively criminalizes poverty and understates the harm that water shutoffs cause to low-income communities. The pilot helped utilities embrace the critical role they play in ensuring their customers’ health and explore ways to relieve water debt stress.

Public and Social Policy

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. It remains encapsulated in a rigid legal straitjacket that limits its ability to react with agility to meet pressing social and economic needs and opportunities, such as the upcoming wave of solar energy development.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. Most importantly, the team has elevated a new generation of diverse leaders who are contributing new energy to Akron’s civic spaces. The city’s Black business district was devastated.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Even the transition to renewable energy is threatened by a shortage of some 7 million workers needed to do things like install solar panels on roofs. They may fund “poverty reduction,” but that usually means 25 percent income gains in the country of residence, rather than 1,500 percent income gains in a high-income country.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Their work is geared toward accelerating the transition to cleaner renewable energy by elevating women of color leaders, specifically those in the US South who often go unrecognized and underresourced. Leaders asked for training support for their staff, coaching, mental health support, and healing justice practices support from the Hive Fund.

Environmental

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Examples include microcredit, affordable mobile phones, low-cost health care and education products, and mobile banking. Jose Ordoñez founded the startup to provide decentralized solar energy services to families and businesses in off-grid villages. ” Another example is Kingo in Guatemala.

Production

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 21, 2023

As foundations increasingly acknowledge the centuries of systematic and institutional racism that have led to intergenerational trauma, cycles of poverty, and reduced life expectancies in communities of color, they are working to re-examine philanthropy’s history and reimagine its role.

Foundations

Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. It is the principle of donating time and energy towards a greater cause. Volunteering is linked to improved mental and physical health outcomes. It also benefits volunteers themselves.

Volunteerism

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Mission: To support 113 street paper enterprises in 34 countries in order to combat urban poverty. Grassroots Pakistan ● grassrootspakistan.ngo.

Non-Profits

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. A majority of voters supported replacing private health insurance with a universal government plan.

Governance

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

For example, if you are a health nonprofit, write a post about foods that help lower blood pressure, or provide tips on how to exercise at home. If you are a nonprofit that works with low-income communities, write blog posts that share recipes for low-cost meals and energy-saving tips. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

Disaster Relief

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 “I wanted to have a piece where you felt like you were reading a story, reading a novel, but it was backed up by data and science that you could go to and point to.”

Environmental

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

For example, if you are a health nonprofit, write a post about foods that help lower blood pressure, or provide tips on how to exercise at home. If you are a nonprofit that works with low-income communities, write blog posts that share recipes for low-cost meals and energy-saving tips. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

Disaster Relief

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

Image Credit: Ibrahim Hafeez on pexels.com To solve our most pressing challenges, we need the total sum of human intelligence and emancipatory energy in our society. This includes the expertise and leadership of people with disabilities.

Technology

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The mental energy required to actively engage multiple communities simultaneously is exhausting. Being constantly exposed to a barrage of new stories and images related to violence, poverty, injustice, and cruelty takes its toll. You should also regularly evaluate your physical and mental health.

Management

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Starting a nonprofit requires a decent amount of time and energy. Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. Hire staff members According to the Health of the U.S. What questions should you ask before starting a nonprofit? of the overall workforce.

Public and Social Policy

Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

Employees might need alternative cash flow or live close to poverty, which is especially difficult for employees with lived experiences. What if, instead, we measured nonprofits by retention, their willingness to use reserves for salary increases (excluding bonuses), and the number of employees living above the poverty line?

Poverty

Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Learn how the UN Foundation raised millions of dollars through their Nothing But Nets campaign, and the variety of campaigns they run on poverty, global warming, human rights, and international peace.

Poverty

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

For example, if you are a health nonprofit, write a post about foods that help lower blood pressure, or provide tips on how to exercise at home. If you are a nonprofit that works with low-income communities, write blog posts that share recipes for low-cost meals and energy-saving tips. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

Disaster Relief

Care2

JANUARY 19, 2009

Learn how the UN Foundation raised millions of dollars through their Nothing But Nets campaign, and the variety of campaigns they run on poverty, global warming, human rights, and international peace.

Fundraising

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

This is a high-energy interactive workshop that will shift your focus from viewing fundraising as overwhelming or a backburner project to an inspiring activity. Few things are more critical to your nonprofits health, success and sustainability than an effective board of directors. And it’s how you manage your data. Jeff Kutash.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.”

Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Image credit: Max Winkler on Unsplash “When people die of heat, they are actually dying of poverty,” the New York Times wrote in 2023 about a devastating heat wave during which 10 people died in Texas. But around the world, the climate emergency underscores the ongoing emergency of poverty. But all those measures still cost money.

Poverty

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Climate change as an undesirable side-effect of the fantastic innovation of using fossil fuels for energy is an example. The problem has gotten worse.” Medicine 2.0 Medicine 2.0

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

Anpetu Wi is not only the largest Native-owned alternative energy project in the world, but also a true form of just transition in which Native people will own and control the energy. “For our people and me, this project is a prayer,” says Joseph McNeil, Jr., general manager of SAGE.

Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Risk of Lower-Income Work “The lower you are in [an] income group, your exposure increases,” said Sunil Dahiya, an analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air , explaining that oftentimes people with lower incomes work outdoors, which increases their risk.

Nonprofit governance and management