NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. In 1996, when the law was enacted, 68 percent of families with children living in poverty received welfare; in 2019, it was 19.5

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 90

The Kindful Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Donate hygiene, cleaning, or non-perishable food items. Mission: Helping Women Period is committed to supplying menstrual health products to people that menstruate who are either homeless or low-income. Impacting: Menstrual health. Host a menstrual health product drive. Impacting: Women’s health.

Poverty 121

Poverty Health Philanthropy Education 121

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

An example of this was profiled at NPQ in 2019, when we published a detailed study about the closure of a food co-op that had opened three years before in a Black community in Greensboro, NC. On its website, ILSR maintains a set of maps showing the overlay of poverty and store location in multiple metropolitan areas.

Retail 121

Retail Food Law Governance 121

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The climate crisis is not only a product of greenhouse gas emissions… but also of an ideological shift that was imposed by colonization and capitalism to justify violation of sacred land-, water-, and airways—domination that taught Americans to speak of “resources” instead of “relatives.”. A sovereignty focus has many implications.

Nonprofit governance and management 131

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 131

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade.

Ethics 129

Ethics Children Poverty Education 129

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Most of them rely on rainfed agriculture, leaving them open to shocks like droughts and storms that can wipe out their crops and leave them without enough food to see their families through the year. The challenge is that carbon markets weren't designed to work for people in poverty.

Philanthropy 113

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 113

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

In 2022, the Center’s Population and Sustainability program looked at the environmental threats that are putting reproductive health and justice at risk. The Center’s Population and Sustainability program works to decrease consumption of climate-intensive energy, food, and goods in the Global North.

Agriculture 74

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 74

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

“In cities like Richmond, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, which had experienced ‘food apartheid,’ the need for locally grown, healthy food supported the rise of urban farms that employed returning citizens. Public resources flowed into health and human services, gender-affirming care, and equitable housing.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Most of those who belong to the BoP live outside the formal economy and face unmet needs in basic areas such as food, financial services, and education. Examples include microcredit, affordable mobile phones, low-cost health care and education products, and mobile banking.

Production 113

Production Non-Profits Education Education 113

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

PNW Production on pexels.com. Specifically, policymakers do not consider Black women living in poverty when developing programs that help people purchase and retain ownership of a home. This is a core tenet of racially just policies and programs. Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Homelessness 89

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 16: World Food Day — #WorldFoodDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 3: World Wildlife Day — #WorldWildlifeDay. 8: International Women’s Day — #IWD20.

Poverty 145

Poverty Health Technology Nonprofits 145

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

“A mission statement is a short statement of why your Nonprofit exists, what its overall goal is, identifying the goal of your operations: what kind of product or service do you provide, who do you primarily help, and your geographical region of operation. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Education 94

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Survival was less a miracle than a product of the self-reliance that the Indigenous children had developed due to their upbringing. Take, for example, the Nurturing Care Framework issued by the World Health Assembly (part of the World Health Organization ), in partnership with UNICEF (United Nations’ Children’s Fund) and the World Bank.

Children 121

Children Civil Society Culture Health 121

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 78

Poverty Children Culture Food 78

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Foundations 113

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

million children out of poverty. By early 2023, however, Governor Tim Walz was declaring , “Now is the time to go bold” and pledged to “lead the nation in ending child poverty.” Minnesota is not the first state to do this—California has a standards board for fast food workers , for instance. Child tax credit ? Paid family leave?

Public and Social Policy 81

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 81

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade. Food & Drink.

Ethics 107

Ethics Children Production Manufacturing 107

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. Typically, we say that the American Dream ideology individualizes and pathologizes poverty. He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing. This man has to ward off the specter of elder poverty by becoming a landlord.

Manufacturing 140

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Healthcare 140

Getting Attention

MARCH 9, 2015

Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Communications & Marketing Coordinator Riverside Community Health Foundation (Riverside, CA). Digital Production Associate Revolution Messaging (Washington, DC). Director of Product Marketing Playworks (Oakland, CA). Tacoma, WA). RECENT JOB POSTS.

Communication 65

Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Associations 65

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade. Food & Drink.

Ethics 40

Ethics Children Production Manufacturing 40

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For instance, if a worker with disabilities is deemed only half as productive as a nondisabled worker, then the nonprofit is entitled to pay half the standard wage rate. The older you get, the more likely you live in poverty.” Bitty and Beau’s opened their first shop in Wilmington, NC, in 2016.

Race and Ethnicity 121

Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Law Education 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Smallholder farmers produce at least a third of the global food supply. As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. Though these farms are small, typically under two hectares, their cumulative impact is large. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

Agriculture 100

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 100

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

12 Its demands include freedom for all imprisoned and detained people; resistance to surveillance, policing, and militarized responses to COVID-19; access to quality healthcare now and in the future; access to housing, food, and economic security; and international efforts to end US imperialism and militarism.

Construction 73

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 73

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2011

While the majority of consumers believe that companies have the power and duty to support several issue areas (from education to the environment to health to human rights and to hunger), economic development is the most popular. Consumers more and more vote with their wallets to purchase products with an environmental or social benefit.

Volunteerism 49

Volunteerism Volunteerism Environmental Poverty 49

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? As conditions worsen, the size and scope of the nonprofit sector have grown—employing more of the workforce, increasing revenue, and contributing more to gross domestic product. 28 Yet an approach that prioritizes “Black faces in high places,” Pérez insists, is insufficient.

Public and Social Policy 69

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 69

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Although tech companies tend to obscure the fact, and the public rarely realizes it, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are not the purely automated processes tech companies claim they are, but rather the product of human work. Workers in poorer countries fare even worse. corporation OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.

Non-Profits 125

Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Production Food 125

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 118

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

A simple search will reveal countless articles related to health, lifestyle, family, and popular culture. For example, a health organization could write a blog post about the benefits of people consuming less salt. An environmental organization could write about which commonly bought food packaging items can be recycled.

Nonprofits 109

Nonprofits Children Culture Health 109