NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This article introduces Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level. These communities still live under food apartheid.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2023

What does the struggle for Black food sovereignty look like at the local level? In this webinar conversation, five Black food justice leaders share their experiences. All five panelists were all article authors of NPQ ’s fall 2022 series on Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At present, one of UNEC’s most critical projects is to convene a multi-partner collaboration in the city’s Northeast Corridor neighborhoods to transform our local food system. I’ve observed the inner workings of a complex food system that, when it functions well, nourishes our bodies, families, and cultures.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 22, 2023

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar on “Remaking the Economy: Black Food Sovereignty, Community Stories.” He used to pay for food stamps at that time to make sure that people were eating healthy—he also had a loan system. View the full webinar here. My dad was a forerunner.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JUNE 7, 2023

By Dion Dawson Last week’s debt deal and the recent end to pandemic era food programs have left many charities worried about how to feed everyone seeking help. Instead, they should adopt approaches that ensure healthy food is always available to all who need it — regardless of congressional actions.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. Downtown grocery stores have recently disappeared, exacerbating food apartheid: between 2016 and 2018, five grocery stores in Louisville’s urban core closed. Some of these projects were top-down in conception and execution.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address. This work is worth supporting.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 23, 2023

In Nigeria, as in the US, people are looking for ways to fight food insecurity and maintain agricultural production amidst climate change and the changing rainfall patterns—including increased flooding—that it is triggering. Akaka’s family cultivates common food crops like yam and maize.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2023

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar on “Remaking the Economy: Black Food Sovereignty, Community Stories.” And today, they lack, and they have to buy food because of the politics. In the inner city we have, in our nonprofit we’ve been in, we’ve had a food pantry for 30 years. Same people.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

When one of us in the community gave birth, we would support the new mother for 40 days in this manner by bringing food. It impacted the local food system in South Phoenix, and many food-based businesses faced closure. Prior to the pandemic, the business, Sana Sana Foods , was thriving, with a well-known food truck.

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Way back in 2002, she started as the communications and marketing director for the North Texas Food Bank. When anyone wanted to do a food drive, we said yes, whether it was Joe Bob’s Tire Shop or AT&T." The food bank has come a long way in the past 15 years. Colleen Brinkmann, North Texas Food Bank. Brands Command.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 1, 2022

ezCater, a provider of corporate food solutions, announced a new tax-exempt ordering platform for nonprofit organizations. With ezCater, organizations set their tax-exempt status once and it automatically applies to catering orders from over 95,000 restaurants on the ezCater platform, saving them time and money.

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Bloomerang

MAY 25, 2023

Food banks have played a pivotal role in our communities for decades, and they will continue to positively impact the millions of people who struggle with food insecurity each year. According to the USDA , over 10% of households in America worked with food security at some point in 2018.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 17, 2023

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and the Seeding The Future Foundation announced the return of the annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JANUARY 20, 2023

Rapid inflation is, naturally, leading to concerns that it’s getting harder for Americans to put food on the table. By Sam Polzin and Jayson Lusk MediaNews Group/Orange County Re/MediaNews Group via Getty Images Grocery prices soared by 11.8 percent in 2022 — the swiftest pace since the early 1980s.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Foundation gave $50 million to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to endow a dual-degree program for physician-scientists, and the Rockefeller Foundation has awarded $11 million to promote Indigenous farming practices to safeguard the global food system from the effects of climate change.

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Donorbox Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The best way to address this food insecurity in your neighborhood is with a food drive. Individuals can run food drives on their own or in conjunction with local nonprofit organizations. The post How to Run Successful Food Drives to Help Your Community appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

I’m fascinated by the whole food truck phenomenon. We have a number of food trucks here in Boston and I just finished watching The Great Food Truck Race on The Food Network. I’m also heading out to Los Angeles today for the Blogworld Expo and am hoping to sample some of their great food trucks!

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Selfish Giving

AUGUST 31, 2011

I came across this appeal at my local Whole Foods Market. These types of cause marketing promotions are common at Whole Foods. This is the first time I’ve seen a QR code at the register at Whole Foods. This is the first time I’ve seen a QR code at the register at Whole Foods.

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 8, 2017

"One in six people in the United States reportedly struggle with hunger, and yet, at the same time, up to 40 percent of all the food produced in the U.S. Source: Metro I hate wasting food. isn’t eaten." Ask my kids. It drives me nuts. And it drives them crazy because I'm always yelling at them about it.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Take the recent partnership between Massage Envy and Second Harvest Food Bank in the Santa Clara and San Mateo counties in California. Second Harvest Food Bank is a member of Feeding America , the largest national hunger relief charity in the U. Second Harvest Food Bank is a certified member of Feeding America.

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Selfish Giving

JANUARY 12, 2022

Brain Food 1. Corporate Giving Officer, Scholarship America , Saint Peter, MN ($66k - $91k) Do you have a partnership position you are trying to fill? Hit reply and share the job posting with me! I'm happy to post it here for FREE. ????

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Selfish Giving

AUGUST 14, 2017

If you’re operating in the cause marketing space and you’ve never heard of Smithfield Foods , you’re missing out. To provide some scale, Smithfield is one of the largest global food and consumer packed meats companies in the world, to the tune of $14 billion.

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Selfish Giving

MARCH 22, 2010

My second stop this weekend was at Whole Foods , a grocer I’ve written glowingly on for their passive cause marketing programs. She asked me to support the Whole Planet Foundation , a nonprofit started by Whole Foods to help fuel economic development in poor countries, mainly through microfinancing.

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Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

JULY 8, 2023

When you hear the name, Kellogg’s, your mind may automatically think of some of your favorite breakfast foods. Well, Kellogg’s does more than just make popular breakfast foods and snacks. The breakfast food innovator, Will Keith Kellogg started the WK Kellogg Foundation in 1930. Well, Kellogg’s does more than just.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. How does a community come together to build community wealth and advance Black food sovereignty? A little over two years ago, Black food advocates came together in Raleigh to form the Black Farmers’ Hub.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 17, 2023

KLaunch and BlueSky Commerce announce the launch of FoodBridge, an e-commerce and AI-powered engine built to create a new pathway to economic sustainability for food banks. Once deployed, citizens can shop a food bank’s digital storefront via their mobile device.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 19, 2023

We’re not talking about the food; we’re talking about scale. So, here’s what the fast food of fundraising has to offer other income channels. If major gift fundraising is Morton’s, social fundraising is McDonald’s. The great thing about the scale of social fundraising is that you get a lot of data.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 10, 2023

Nearly a quarter of Americans report experiencing regular food challenges, and more than 10 percent of US households are “food-insecure ,” meaning they lack access to enough food to support an active, healthy life for all household members on a daily basis.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 22, 2023

The foundation also launched the “Food for Climate Solutions” program, which fosters a thriving local and regional food system in Western Washington. The Russell Family Foundation announced it will prioritize addressing the climate crisis throughout its investment strategy, operations, and grantmaking.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 9, 2011

I’m in the middle of developing a marketing strategy, including a website revamp, for a local food bank. As part of any strategy process, I like to take a look at what other similar organizations are doing, so I’ve perused the websites of dozens of small food banks across the U.S. donate, volunteer, get food).

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Selfish Giving

AUGUST 9, 2023

✅ Environmental sustainability, K-12 education, and food insecurity are the top priority areas (Page 8). Brain Food 1. Nonprofits must do everything possible to help companies operate efficiently and effectively. The nonprofit that helps the most may get the most. Need to deliver some bad news at work?

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As we walked back to the car with our food, I asked why she had left a tip. After all, the cashier did nothing except hand us our food. "It Being asked to leave a tip, even after simple transactions like picking up food in a drive-thru or buying a muffin or water, is becoming more common. Brain Food 1.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 18, 2022

The Perot donation will give immediate and lasting support to the fight against hunger. The gift provides $10 million that will be permanently invested in the NTFB’s Feeding North Texas Foundation.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

Exposed and At Risk: Opportunities to Strengthen Enforcement of Pesticide Regulations for Farmworker Safety was recently released by the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, in partnership with the nonprofit Farmworker Justice. “You just have to put on a mask and take care of yourself the best you can.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 8, 2023

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar on “Remaking the Economy: Black Food Sovereignty, Community Stories.” But what happens is, because of the difficulty in developing new markets—particularly around food security, around the individual market, among other things—they’re not thinking of this as a mindset.

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