Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

However, virtually none of the financing the global community has marshaled to fight climate change is directed toward them, and they feature in almost no high-level policy conversations about climate priorities. Despite the clear case for supporting them, smallholders are virtually excluded from global climate finance and policy.

Philanthropy 111

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 111

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

One of the major barriers for the billions of people who lack safe water and sanitation is access to financing to fund the solutions they need to survive. Each month, they help create financial opportunity that previously did not exist for people in poverty. Creating powerful solutions. The value of efficiency.

Non-Profits 131

Non-Profits Poverty Finance Health 131

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A job that pays less than childcare costs, imposes schedules on short notice, and doesn’t offer benefits cannot help people escape poverty. But because of narratives about what poor people and people of color deserve, they are relegated to jobs that perpetuate cycles of poverty and disenfranchisement. They’re effective.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 96

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. The lack of access to financing [meant that the grant] nearly destroyed the organization. An ally had reached out separately to Seed Commons , a cooperative network of funds that finance worker cooperatives across the United States.

Finance 103

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 103

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Though Jackson could have accessed millions of dollars in federal funding through the American Rescue Plan Act, the city has had issues with how the state allocated and dispersed funds, which led the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to file a complaint alleging discrimination in 2023.

Environmental 98

Environmental Health Poverty Governance 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. All are coached through the licensing process and learn how to secure financing.

Curriculum and Teaching 90

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 90

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that time, ESG integration has been enshrined in thousands of pension fund and asset manager ESG policies, while regulations such as the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) now require the practice of financial market participants. All of this is why the recent report “ Does ESG integration impact the real economy?

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Participation and motivation 101

Candid

JUNE 4, 2021

As more than ten thousand people a day continue to die from COVID-19 around the world, a report from the Rockefeller Foundation calls for urgent action and proposes financing models for ensuring equitable global access to vaccines.

Finance 59

Finance Manufacturing Poverty Health 59

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2023

By Jonathan Ng & Rob Mills In recent years, the concept of innovative finance has become increasingly popular in the international development community, especially as a way to mobilize more funding to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet there is a limit to applying commercial finance thinking to the development sector.

Finance 100

Finance Production Governance Poverty 100

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We’re not talking about our financing system. Despite a focus on innovation, few participants drew from examples of creative alternatives to healthcare delivery, financing, and policy, such as healthcare cooperatives , BIPOC-led wellness spaces , and patient capital vehicles. There were major fractures that we saw.

Health 90

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Finance 90

The Charity CFO

APRIL 22, 2024

Get our FREE GUIDE to nonprofit financial reports, featuring illustrations, annotations, and insights to help you better understand your organization's finances. Do You Struggle to Make Sense of Your Financial Statements? Get the free guide! The post How to Prevent Burnout in Your Nonprofit appeared first on The Charity CFO.

Public and Nonprofit Management 52

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Culture 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Often, the result is rural poverty. percent of rural residents lived below the poverty line, compared to 11.9 It supports a population of over 380,000 residents, 21 percent of whom live in poverty, 15 percent of whom are Black, and 15 percent Latinx. As of 2019, an estimated 15.4 percent of urban and suburban residents.

Poverty 87

Poverty Children Culture Food 87

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. Companies like Wellthy use AI to offer customized care coordination tools and support, and companies like Carefull use advanced AI and machine learning techniques to detect fraud and enable adult children to manage the daily finances of their aging loved ones.

Curriculum and Teaching 103

Curriculum and Teaching Healthcare Civil Society Technology 103

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Similarly, CORE, the East Los Angeles effort, has the backing of a CDFI, Genesis LA , which was able to access $10 million in New Markets Tax Credits to help finance the acquisition of four properties. Purchasing land was, in a sense, the easiest step.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 98

iMarketSmart

MAY 8, 2024

So, now that they have achieved financial and business success, they’re still going to view their finances through their prior experiences. The real-life Erin struggled with fairly extreme poverty for many years. For a person who has gone through that experience, they know how it feels to struggle, to fail, to gain, and then lose.

Philanthropy 96

Philanthropy Participation and motivation Poverty Finance 96

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

They also worked with the organization’s leadership to craft articles on how Water.org and its partners work to empower people in poverty with safe water to protect and save lives. Water.org helps people get access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing, such as small loans.

Non-Profits 132

Non-Profits Civil Society Health Poverty 132

Candid

JULY 2, 2021

billion to expand its work to increase options for and access to contraceptives in partnership with UNFPA Supplies Partnership , Family Planning 2030 , the Global Financing Facility , and the Shaping Equitable Market Access for Reproductive Health initiative.

Civil Society 91

Civil Society Governance Health Leadership 91

The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this space, the consideration is for students experiencing poverty and multilingual learning scenarios. Get our FREE GUIDE to nonprofit financial reports, featuring illustrations, annotations, and insights to help you better understand your organization's finances. So, how is the equation balanced? Get the free guide!

Education 52

Education Education Governance Poverty 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

Indeed, the creative process can be particularly useful in contexts of poverty and hardship, where it can be difficult for people to think beyond their immediate opportunities and constraints, and imagine alternative futures. The 2010 documentary Waste Land offers a good example.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Target financing. To be treated that way, nonprofits in Russia have to receive financing from foreign stakeholders and participate in political activity which is very broadly defined and interpreted. Commonly given as grants for scientific or sociological research, free-of-charge in most cases. Nonprofits That Change Life.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Fundraising Fundraising 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 5, 2023

This insight, along with research showing that families in chronic poverty have less cognitive ability to plan for the future and improve their situation, inspired AWWA to explore a new way of supporting their clients. Over time, it observed a troubling pattern: Many of the same families cycled in and out of its programs.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 106

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

The next Google or Facebook has yet to emerge from places plagued by chronic poverty, and even when a high-tech sector sets foot in low-income regions, it often exacerbates income inequality. Yet, these attempts have not significantly reverted economic decline.

Entrepreneurship 120

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Finance Food 120

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the 1930s and ’40s, banks and federal government officials redlined Summit Lake—a neighborhood named for its beautiful glacial lake—making it virtually impossible for anyone to qualify for a mortgage in the neighborhood or for any property owner, commercial or otherwise, to qualify for financing to make improvements.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A minority of nonprofits have more than six months of cash in reserve, according to reports like the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s State of the Sector ; many have less than three months of operating reserves on hand.

Nonprofit governance and management 122

Nonprofit governance and management Health Nonprofits Leadership 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Finances started dwindling, and it became more difficult to keep up with the farm’s demands. A rural, Black-majority county of nearly 19,000 people, Warren has one grocery story in a 45-mile radius and, according to the US census , has a poverty rate of 22.8 It wasn’t long before Ambert felt the impact of her husband’s passing.

Food 111

Food Agriculture Governance Children 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In Cape Town, there was a modern apartment, a car, and a job in high-end finance. Poverty is not about the absence of material possessions. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.” ” The worlds could not have been further apart. Her neighbors and later her colleagues were largely illiterate.

Children 77

Children Leadership Poverty Education 77

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Spade questions whether this method can achieve liberatory ends, arguing against the idea that change will occur if a “nonprofit report shows that poverty is bad, or cops are racist.” Movement Financing Dilemmas So, back to Spade’s question on whether social movement activists should get paid.

Medical 113

Medical Universities Nonprofits Culture 113

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

This article concludes the series : Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Fortunately, a new approach to rural housing that pairs a flexible form of modular housing with community-based finance shows considerable promise. Studies show that secure housing is critical to reducing generational poverty.

Poverty 109

Poverty Community Development Finance Construction 109

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. Vision statement: We seek a world of hope, inclusion, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security.

Public and Social Policy 82

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 82

Getting Attention

MARCH 9, 2015

Business Development Manager Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York, NY). Marketing Strategist The Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Associate Project Editor Appalachian Mountain Club (Boston, MA). Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Marketing Services and Media Manager AVID Center (San Diego, CA).

Communication 65

Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Associations 65

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 100

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

In late 2021, a small Zimbabwean community-based organization, Score Against Poverty (SCORE), with help from the Canadian government, decided to test out a different approach. We also trained the local staff on ways to harvest data and report, especially finances to meet the needs of the donor.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

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 136

Finance Poverty Environmental Production 136

iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In one, a poverty relief charity was described as either, “Meeting the immediate needs of people,” or “Creating lasting improvements that would benefit people in the future.” Well, Jon spent his career helping other people get their finances in order. Journal of Personal Finance, 17 (2), 9-21. Journal of Personal Finance.

Psychology 52

Psychology Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Finance 52

The Agitator

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

groups that have demonstrated the skill and staying power — groups like Greenpeace, The Southern Poverty Law Center, and ASPCA, to name a few — are rockin’ and rollin’ in committed monthly donors. sustainer program for Greenpeace.]. Here’s my first suggestion.

Fundraising 45

Fundraising Fundraising Retention Poverty 45

The Charity CFO

APRIL 25, 2024

According to their website, “At Connections, we provide a comprehensive network of services and support to help people living in poverty become economically self-sufficient. Summary For each of these organizations, Connections and Vermont Adult Learning, their growth resulted in increased complexity in their finances.

Nonprofit Accountability 52

Nonprofit Accountability Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

Specifically, we propose using federal tax credits, combined with Medicare and Medicaid dollars, to restructure the ownership and financing of the nursing care industry. Here, by social financing, we refer primarily to impact investing and social impact bonds (Geobey and Harji 2014; Han, Chen, and Toepler 2020; Rosenman 2019).

Public and Social Policy 86

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Finance Nonprofit governance and management 86