The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This could leave nonprofits working on other critical issues, such as poverty alleviation and education, with limited funding and support. Civil society organizations must be responsive to these evolving expectations and demonstrate their effectiveness in achieving social and environmental outcomes.

Civil Society 92

Civil Society Disaster Relief Technology Ethics 92

NonProfit Leadership Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It empowered us to think outside the box and avoid getting siloed into our own organization or job so we could really take into account the external and environmental factors and how they impact the ability to achieve your mission.” While she learned the most in marketing, her favorite semester focus was the first on strategic planning. “It

Nonprofit governance and management 239

Nonprofit governance and management Law Universities Nonprofit Management 239

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 21, 2012

Southern Poverty Law Center sent me one email in April asking for a renewal. I received no communications whatsoever (after the automated receipt from Network for Good on their behalf) from the other five: Rails to Trails Conservancy , Environmental Working Group , First Book , Homes for Our Troops , or Women for Women International.

Retention 227

Retention Homelessness Poverty Communication 227

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

We want them to be environmentally, fiscally and socially-responsible. The top five causes Americans want the sports world to support are: Education, Children’s Causes, Health, Poverty and Mental Health. But we are truly witnessing a new day when a league or team’s bottom line will be directly impacted by their social purpose.

Poverty 164

Poverty Health Environmental Education 164

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 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 29, 2023

In recent years, the group, labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as right-wing extremists , has been painting a different picture of itself—as a disaster relief organization. But while residents and town officials are working to oppose dangerous militia operations, the town is also protecting itself from environmental harm.

Governance 134

Governance Disaster Relief Law Civil Society 134

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Indeed, the principles of resource stewardship long championed in many Native American communities are critical to restoring environmental balance. A Montana State study from 2019 estimated that the poverty rate statewide for Native communities exceeded 30 percent. Fort Belknap Reservation: Montana Poverty Report Card.

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Food Environmental 140

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But the Center aspires to do more—to advance economic empowerment in an environmentally sustainable way. Census figures confirm that Camden is a poor city (with a poverty rate of 33.6 However, persistent poverty plagues the city’s residents. Food pantry work is important. Advancing urban agriculture in Camden. percent Black).

Food 145

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 145

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This is especially relevant at a time when the planet is behind on several SDGs , including those related to poverty reduction and food security. These farming families can play a significant role in mitigating climate change if they’re equipped with tools to maximize the environmental gains their land can deliver.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 126

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

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.

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 128

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

My inspiration was seeing the lived experiences of Black people in America not really reflected in environmental conversations. IC: I think your book is very clearly a mix of your personal experiences, as well as both environmental history and political history. Black America called for climate action, climate solutions.

Environmental 126

Environmental Food Poverty Culture 126

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

It also requires redesigning the institution’s infrastructure by granting decision-making power to workers outside the management suite, designing in accountability to environmental justice communities, and co-developing transition plans. Last week, the Build Public Renewables Act passed in the New York State Senate.

Energy 122

Energy Non-Profits Poverty Environmental 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 31, 2024

Given the important benefits forests provide—not merely holding and absorbing heat-trapping CO 2 but improved air and water quality, biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation, and more—we urgently need a new approach for funding the climate, biodiversity, and social benefits of forest preservation, expansion, and management.

Finance 141

Finance Poverty Environmental Production 141

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 21, 2025

By Daniela Afonso , Mariana Cabral , Ana Pimenta & Ricardo Zzimo Impact investing arises from a deep desire to use finance to address complex societal challenges such as poverty, climate change, and gender inequality. Additionally, what potential negative externalities could arise from not interacting, whether social (e.g.

Collaborations 75

Collaborations Health Finance Management 75

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Black people who couldn’t access federal loans to buy homes in the suburbs were often relegated to industrialized areas, where exposure to toxic waste and other environmental hazards is unavoidable. As a 2021 United Nations report condemning environmental racism in the United States noted , most of these people are Black.

Food 132

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 132

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It’s the pooling and sharing of resources—knowledge, expertise, relationships, money—that create the conditions for worker-led and community-owned enterprises to move the needle on issues plaguing our neighborhoods and to advance economic, environmental, and racial justice. That compost, when it’s deployed, has a real impact.

Non-Profits 137

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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. How can we do a better job of bridging the gulf between housing and other sectors, such as environmental justice?

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Poverty 126

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

As a Black cisgendered woman, a first-generation college student from the deep South, and a person born in poverty, social justice movements have touched every aspect of my life. So, how do I, as a person in a position of power, navigate these dynamics without causing harm?

Leadership 126

Leadership Poverty Culture Values 126

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

Image Credit: Jon Tyson on unpsplash.com In 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final strategy to reduce lead exposure. One of the stated goals of that report was to “identify communities with high lead exposures and improve their health outcomes.”

Curriculum and Teaching 75

Curriculum and Teaching Children Environmental Public and Social Policy 75

Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to Fidelity Charitable , it’s “the act of purposefully making investments that help achieve certain social and environmental benefits while generating financial returns.” The Heron Foundation , for example, works with mission-aligned, poverty-oriented investment managers to grow its assets. What is impact investing?

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental Foundations Philanthropy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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. So, she started the co-op. She was able to raise money to get land. She had people farming together.

Food 89

Food Activism Poverty Leadership 89

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

Dr. Alison Body, head of impact and research at the UK environmental charity Global Action Plan , and until recently a lecturer in philanthropic studies at the University of Kent , also urges a shift toward solidarityand much greater recognition of childrens agency. So, she wondered, how do we break out of this pity?

Children 61

Children Philanthropy Education Education 61

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

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. The expanded (but now expired) child tax credits alone cut childhood poverty by 30 percent in only six months. This work is urgent.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 126

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

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. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Oxfam : To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But community and labor leaders, housing and other advocacy groups, and environmental justice organizations are fighting back. In California this election year, we’re seeing efforts to reverse recent gains to advance racial and economic equity. A trust-based dynamic between power-building organizations and funders.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Foundations Poverty Environmental 105

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. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

Getting Attention

JUNE 15, 2015

Goldman Environmental Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Marketing Strategist Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Associate Web Producer , Director of Marketing and Creative Services , Marketing Manager & Multimedia Associate Clinton Foundation (New York, NY). Communications Associate. Louis, MO). Santa Rosa, CA).

Marketing 68

Marketing Marketing Environmental Associations 68

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Across the country, organizations are advocating for the movement of these dollars to communities that are on the front lines of economic inequality, racial injustice, and environmental degradation. The sad truth is that philanthropy has often opposed—or at least declined to support—these efforts.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Using market mechanisms, many social entrepreneurs have followed the example of Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank to set up enterprises with a main objective of tackling social or environmental issues. Financial capital | We find that the satisfaction and happiness of entrepreneurs increases with access to financial capital.

Social Entrepreneurship 128

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 128

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This includes building transnational activism that links anti-war, anti-militarism, and anti-nuclear work with the efforts of those campaigning for economic justice, environmental protection, open borders and migrant rights, anti-racism and anti-fascism, equality, and police and prison abolition.

Construction 110

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 110

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The poverty rate is 52.4 The intentional integration of cultural narrative, strategic reinvestment, and community ownership is the most viable and maybe the only path forward to create both social and environmental impact. But today,100 years later, the same neighborhood looks very different.

Culture 122

Culture Poverty Governance Finance 122

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

While 501(c)(3) nonprofits serve as cornerstones of positive change, addressing critical issues ranging from poverty and hunger to healthcare and environmental protection, their impact can be significantly amplified by stepping beyond direct service delivery. Is your mission to promote environmental sustainability?

Public Policy 72

Public Policy Environmental Education Education 72

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Supporting Healing Justice and Holistic Security The JPB Foundation , which funds US-based medical research, poverty issues, and the environment, got involved with the Hive Fund when the senior officer for environmental justice, Anna Loizeaux, heard their focus areas of climate, gender and racial justice.

Environmental 98

Environmental Psychology Poverty Insurance 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

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. But the new infrastructure brought environmental benefits, too.

Public and Social Policy 129

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 129

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

During the pandemic, economic inequity and social and environmental injustice became hypervisible. The world became interested in what marginalized people knew about their own survival and paused to consider the cost of racism and environmental destruction as those two forces intersect and conspire with extractive economic systems.

Culture 128

Culture Retail Community Development Collaborations 128

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. Contamination often drives up treatment and therefore service costs and is a pervasive environmental justice issue.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Many others are feeling distress as they process the realities of widespread environmental and biodiversity loss. Yet, all individuals in social impact face a similar challenge, whether addressing things like housing, health care, or poverty. as well as slow-onset events (e.g., sea-level rise, melting of ice, etc.)

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 105