The Charity CFO

JANUARY 22, 2025

From Humble Beginnings to Rapid Growth Chicago Eco House started in 2014 with a mission to use sustainability to alleviate inner-city poverty. Lessons for Nonprofit Leaders Adopt an Entrepreneurial Mindset Blackwell’s background in community organizing and entrepreneurship has been crucial in navigating challenges.

Entrepreneurship 52

Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Nonprofits 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The poverty rate is 52.4 In the 20th century, Atlanta emerged as a hub of Black entrepreneurship and education. In Memphis today—and indeed throughout the South—Black Americans are organizing to rebuild cultural institutions and restore Black economies. But today,100 years later, the same neighborhood looks very different.

Culture 122

Culture Poverty Governance Finance 122

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. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

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. We also deliberately sought out people outside the entrepreneurship ecosystem who had a desire to work with children.

Curriculum and Teaching 105

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Réjane Woodroffe’s leadership experience in the remote Eastern Cape of South Africa gives funders and entrepreneurs a lesson in what it means to drive change alongside your community. Poverty is not about the absence of material possessions. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.”

Children 81

Children Poverty Leadership Education 81

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Over the following years, GSF leadership shifted their spending policy from a purely formulaic model to one informed not only by their perpetuity and investment goals but by their foundation’s mission and the current circumstances. What support do they need?

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 131

Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

Each year they give prizes ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 to 15 people over the age of 60 creating new and innovative ways to tackle tough social problems, from reforming education to improving healthcare, curbing global warming to ending poverty.

Social Entrepreneurship 28

Social Entrepreneurship Non-Profits Entrepreneurship Advertising 28