NonProfit PRO

JULY 3, 2025

million nonprofit organizations play a crucial role in our society by addressing important community needs like healthcare, education, affordable housing, food insecurity and many other important social causes. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic", setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Nonprofit governance and management

Candid

MAY 29, 2025

At the top of the list were nonprofits helping people in the United States who need food, shelter, or other basic necessities (40%) and religious institutions (churches, mosques, or synagogues, (37%), followed by disaster relief (29%), animal welfare (24%), educational (21%), and health care or medical research (19%) organizations.

Disaster Relief

Candid

JULY 24, 2025

That figure is unchanged from 2024 and places nonprofits above every other sector, including the military (45%), small businesses (42%), private foundations (38%), the media (20%), and local (25%), state (22%), and federal (18%) government. This is both encouraging and sobering. And nonprofits earn public trust in making that possible.

Volunteerism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

The left has often undercut a notion of a mutualist future by insisting that every problem needs a large centralized government solution. Just as Hemstreets community built Opportunity Threads, Reverend Dr. Pastor Heber Brown organized within his community of Black parishioners in Baltimore to help form the Black Church Food Security Network.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 29, 2025

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.

Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 7, 2025

Healing the Hood In 2021, Heal the Hood launched one of its first official initiatives, opening a free store that aimed to help lighten the financial burden on families by providing staples, like food and household goods, for free. But the first iteration needed tweaking. A call was put out requesting groceries.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Candid

JANUARY 29, 2025

These include categories like grants, donations from individuals, support from companies, and earned income from services or products.

Insurance

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 16, 2025

To have a say on what gets built and who it is for, shapes more than just housing, it determines its communal purpose: whether there’s a place to buy groceries, whether food businesses can afford to operate, and whether neighbors have spaces to gather, grow, and connect. The path to community ownership isn’t easy, however.

Food

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. Today, our communities face multiple challengesranging from accelerating climate change to growing income inequality, from refugee crises to housing crises, and from basic food access to self-serving financial systems. It turns out, quite a lot.

Nonprofit governance and management

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Leading the nation’s largest homebuilder, Reckford gathers partners to bring grocery stores to food deserts, medical care to those neighborhoods and he won’t need to be brought up to speed. Reckford CEO Habitat For Humanity Reckford was preaching that a house is just the first step in building community long before anyone else.

Civil Society

Candid

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Hardest hit by flooding was the Central Appalachia region, where years of disinvestment by government and philanthropy left the region ill prepared. Insurance companies also treat flooding differently, so philanthropic funding is needed even more. How much relief funding has been invested in the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season?

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms.

Finance

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 23, 2025

The State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey comes amid inflation, uncertainty, and federal government funding pullbacks that impact education, healthcare, affordable housing, arts and culture, and more. One survey respondent from New Hampshire said, “Many of the food insecurity resources are being cut. setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("pid",

Nonprofit governance and management

Candid

JUNE 11, 2025

An analysis by Candid found that over 14,000 nonprofits would deplete their reserves within three months without government grants, putting an estimated 2.8 As government support dwindles—for free school lunches, community health clinics, housing initiatives, etc.—needs million jobs at risk and impacting nearly every U.S.

Collaborations

Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This may involve coordinating with your local government to reserve a park or close off certain streets. In-Kind Donation Drive Nonprofits like homeless shelters and food banks often see an increased need for their services in the winter months, and an in-kind donation drive is the perfect opportunity to gather needed supplies.

Fundraising

Candid

JUNE 16, 2025

At a time when nonprofits across the United States are facing the loss of government grants and increased scrutiny, it’s become ever more important to ensure the value and impact of nonprofits is recognized. For example, for just one dollar, Feeding America provides 10 meals—roughly 12 pounds of food.

Values

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Governments have returned ownership and management of millions of hectares of land in at least 39 countries. Engage government in collective action to create conditions for favorable tenure rights policies. Intentional partnership with government officials has been essential to recent progress.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While governments, foundations, educators, and unions typically focus on job placements as key to improving people’s economic stability, they often overlook individuals who cannot commit to traditional employment schedules. For one, directly or indirectly, the government is usually the biggest employer of flexible labor in any area.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

Many worry that legislation similar to a bill passed last year by the House, which would have allowed the government to easily revoke the nonprofit status of organizations it opposes under thepretense of fighting terrorism, will be introduced again in 2025. Been helped by a food bank or a church in your local communityor know someone who was?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

One key advantage of a CGM is its ability to help people understand how specific foods, ingredient combinations, and meal timing can impact blood sugar levels. Governments and healthcare providers must recognize the potential for CGMs to improve diabetes outcomes and take the steps required to make them more accessible for everyone.

Management

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A Cautionary Tale: Overcoming Governance Nightmares in Nonprofit Organizations No one enjoys it when a nonprofits board doesnt work well together. Explore the realities and challenges of food insecurity. Updates by topic! Learn how culturally responsive leadership can help bring out the best in your nonprofits team.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

Declining Volunteer Numbers Until recently, most of us were largely unaware of the importance of bees to our food supply and didnt think about bees, except to try to avoid them. government began collecting data on volunteering, reported the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland.

Volunteerism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 7, 2025

For example, many state and local governments in India have shown great interest in scaling up innovations developed by NGOs , which stretches each donated dollar. Resources channeled to India can have significant impact due to some unusual aspects of the Indian landscape.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Even the federal government [was] pushing what they called self-help co-ops. She talked about how if we dont own our own land and create our own food, we will never be able to fight for our political rights because they use food as a weapon, and poverty keeps us from having the strength and stability to be in the political fight.

Food

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

The misleadership class had a general agreement that the movement would not disrupt governance agreements and so the Atlanta Project-SNCC were often excluded from those discussions because we would not comply with the PR and marketing campaigns that Atlanta was the city too busy to hate despite its repression of Black people, Nwangaza said.

Poverty

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 11, 2025

Rather than funding climate adaptation and food security separately, funders could support Indigenous-led initiatives that combine traditional ecological knowledge with modern agricultural innovation to build both climate resilience and food sovereignty.

Agriculture

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For example, are you starting to consider purchasing a warehouse for your food bank? Effective governance requires a commitment to all aspects of their role, not just the parts that might seem most appealing or convenient. But sometimes, you may need some specific skills, depending on what issues are being faced.

Ethics

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

While nonprofits were already struggling in a climate of decreasing donors and increasing donor churn , funding freezes from the federal government have created a host of challenges. Moving galas, food drives and more online. It’s cliche but true, garbage in garbage out. When it comes to making decisions from data, less is more.

Technology

Bloomerang

APRIL 28, 2025

This includes all 501(c) designations such as churches, cultural centers, food banks, disaster relief organizations and many others. As recently as 1940, there were only 12,500 secular charitable tax-exempt organizations. Today, there are more than 1.5 million tax-exempt organizations in the nation.

Disaster Relief

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future.

Nonprofit governance and management

Candid

APRIL 3, 2025

institutions, and occasionally government spending and donations from high-net-worth individuals (e.g., For example, a private funder may donate to community foundation, who would then regrant that money to a nonprofit such as a local food pantry. MacKenzie Scott). If youre trying to understand U.S.

Foundations

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

So, Beautiful Solutions was, right from the beginning, designed to be learning from anywhere in the world where people were growing democratic economies and governance. RP: A big one for this moment is how to relate to government and state power. We are trying to shift the values at the heart of how we do economy and governance.

Governance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 20, 2025

The US administrations sudden freeze of billions in foreign aid triggered a humanitarian crisis: food programs halted, clinics shuttered, safe water deliveries interrupted. During COVID, bold partnerships and government action fast-tracked changes that once took decades. Governments that once hesitated embraced professional CHWs.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In August 2024, the Global Mercy, the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, docked at the port of Freetown for a 10-month field service to provide surgical operations and educational training by invitation of the government of Sierra Leone.

Medical

Elevation

JUNE 16, 2025

For example, ads can appear at the top of Google search results for terms like “volunteer abroad” or “food bank near me,” guiding users to key landing pages that drive engagement. Google prioritizes charitable organizations while excluding schools, hospitals, and government institutions. or an equivalent designation elsewhere.

Nonprofit governance and management

Candid

JULY 7, 2025

Federal funding for nonprofits is in a state of flux, and the future of many government grantmaking programs is uncertain. Though many private foundation funders and individual donors have said they plan to step up their giving and address the current challenge , they won’t be able to fill the gap left by the loss of government grants.

Manufacturing