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Clarios Foundation Pledges $20 Million to Unicef to Improve Environmental Health for Children

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEYLLOU, AFP, Getty Images Since 2013, smallholders in Senegal have been learning farming practices adapted to climate changes. billion Gates Foundation grant will expand such climate-related help across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

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What Michael Bloomberg's Plan to Transfer His Company to Charity Could Mean for Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento Alastair Grant, PA Wire, AP Michael Bloomberg has given extensively to education and to nonprofits focused on arts and culture, the environmental, public health, and improving city governments around the world.

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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This reality shouldn't justify exploitation but rather highlight that our current economic systems fail to value forms of labor that are critical for community health. Yet creativity is essential to fortifying Americas social fabric, community health, and local economies.

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James Irvine Foundation Commits $186.5 Million to Continue Its Fair-Work Program

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Prest Samanta Helou CLEANWash Mobile, a worker-owned cooperative, is prioritizing job safety, fair wage and hour laws, environmental protection, and community health initiatives for the hand-carwash industry in Los Angeles.

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Common Good Achieves B Corp Certification

NonProfit PRO

Health and happiness advertising agency Common Good has been granted B Corp status—a private certification of for-profit companies of social and environmental performance—by nonprofit B Lab.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on istock.com The ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS, is about the lack of access to clean water and the way a community’s health and wellbeing are impacted when this vital resource is unavailable, but there are other crucial factors at play.

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People-Powered Movements Helped Our Grandfathers Push Through the New Deal. They Can Save Those Programs Now.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

trillion in cuts, which means reductions of up to 60 percent to programs such as food stamps, environmental protection, health care, child care, education, and possibly Social Security and Medicare. Scott Applewhite, AP House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, have squeaked through a budget demanding $3.6