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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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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. This work is urgent. It won’t be easy.

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Fighting for Cleaner Air in East Boston

NonProfit Quarterly

We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. Fifty percent of its residents were born outside of the US and identify as Latino/a ; about half of all families in the neighborhood live below the official poverty line.

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Should We Build New Homes in a Burning World?

NonProfit Quarterly

Amid varying and escalating environmental crises, is new construction keeping up with the pace of climate change—or should it even try? to Corpus Christi, Texas—a flood- and hurricane-prone region with deep pockets of poverty, poor health and economic and racial inequities.” Island nations are extremely vulnerable.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better.

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How to write a Strong Nonprofit Mission Statement [Template + Examples]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Bright Pink: Bright Pink helps to save lives from breast and ovarian cancer by empowering women to know their risk and manage their health proactively. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proceeds benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit that works to defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. The Little Market is a 501(c)(3), charitable organization founded by women to help alleviate poverty by sourcing their good from artisan groups in over 25 countries.

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