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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding. million to the North Carolina Community Foundation to support recovery needs across Western North Carolina. CDP encourages giving grants locally as much as possible.

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Ending Child Poverty: Lessons from a One-Year Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

NonProfit Quarterly

This expanded child tax credit was incredibly effective: child poverty went down by a record-breaking amount , lifting an estimated 2.9 million children out of poverty, reducing food hardship, decreasing parent financial stress, and more. Schools closed, unemployment and poverty skyrocketed, and health and wellness plummeted.

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Diaspora Philanthropy 3.0

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While it has, by far, the largest number of poor people in the world, India has arguably pulled more people out of poverty over the last 20 years than any other country in history (with the possible exception of China). MacArthur Foundation , Bridgespan , and others). India remains a country of contradictions. and Catherine T.

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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’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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The Digital Divide and Climate Disasters

NonProfit Quarterly

Providing rescue services, shelter, food, and water to residents will always come first, before the long process of rebuilding infrastructure. As the nonprofit Internet Society Foundation explains , The growing risk of natural and climate-related disasters is causing more and more disruption to peoples lives.

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Our Task Ahead: Reclaiming Revolutionary Struggle in Atlanta and the South

NonProfit Quarterly

Unlike many organizations that rely on large foundation grants, Scott and his cofounders were intentional about rejecting funding that came with restrictions. Project South was born out of necessity, created to serve as a space for political education, movement building, and base development among Southern communities.

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How to Move Guaranteed Income from Program to Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Barbara Olsen on Pexels If you want to reduce poverty, cash matters. Springboard to Opportunities —the organization we both work for—began operations in 2013 with the goal to break cycles of generational poverty that are particularly persistent in Black communities.