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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

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 also come from a family of grocery workers and managers. When I was little, my dad managed a large local grocery. A Positive Vision of Food Sovereignty.

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Black Organizers in Boston’s Roxbury Neighborhood Provide a Path Forward

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drew Katz Black Bostonian communities citywide have more than just something to say for themselves: their economies are building institutions that prioritize asset-based community development and are creating the foundations for a local solidarity economy. The need for food sovereignty is urgent, to hear Samad tell it.

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Newsletter: Your Nonprofit Needs an Audience ; Wash-for-a-Cure Aims to Raise $100,000 ; Can You Use a DAF to Pay for an Event Ticket?

Selfish Giving

About the same time last week I was speaking at the New Strategies Program at Georgetown University about audience-centric fundraising , Mark Hrywna at The Nonprofit Times was preparing to release an article that highlights just how much nonprofits need to focus on audience-building and raising more money from individuals.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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Newsletter: This Charity Pin-up Raised $323M ??; Krispy Kreme Launches Dough-nate for a Donut ; Brand Activism vs Social Good: What’s the Difference?

Selfish Giving

This month you can buy a shamrock at 20,000 retails locations. In February, Idaho-based Jackson Food Stores with 230 convenience stores in six western states raised $187,000 for the Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence. Brain Food 1. The campaign has been around for 37 years. That's a lot of green!

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

There’s nothing more exciting than making the decision to start a nonprofit! But first, you need to build a solid foundation so your nonprofit will thrive, not struggle. Seriously, about half of all new nonprofits don’t make it through the first year or so. Everyone starts a nonprofit to make a difference.

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Newsletter: Raise More Money at Checkout; Valentine's Day Cause Marketing ; Best Place to Sell Girl Scout Cookies

Selfish Giving

Nonprofits need to be ready to adapt. And, as Clark Sweat at CMN has said, nonprofits have to ask: "How do we insert ourselves into that?" This week, parents are calling for a boycott of the movie Peter Rabbit because it makes light of a character's food allergy. Checkout charity is changing. Sony Pictures has issued an apology.

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