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Cultivating a Just Climate Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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.

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5 Tips To Help Your Nonprofit Receive MacKenzie Scott Funds

Bloomerang

Her priorities are to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital.” Her team’s focus has been on “identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results.

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Guest Post: The Power of “Yes”

Twenty Hats

I became the volunteer manager at a non-profit, FACETS , that works with people struggling with homelessness and poverty. FACETS staff had shared their frustration about having work interruptions when they needed to get supplies from the shared food pantry. Now FACETS has a “Pony Express” shuttle service!

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Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Wouter Vandersypen , Chris Claes & Steven Serneels Imagine being in charge of a profitable vegetable cooperative in Benin. You know the cooperative can increase its income and improve its resilience if most of this year’s profit is set aside for investing in new hardware. You also know that your members are very poor.

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Making the Affordable Aspirational: Increasing the Adoption of Frugal Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. Notco’s solution brings many functional benefits and allows a more affordable way of producing non-animal ingredients.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

A word about inkind gifts: Of course you should always thank a donor who gives an inkind gift, such as a donation of bottled water, laundry detergent, pet food, or whatever. Because of you, one Haitian child has a brighter future and the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty. But the rules are a bit different around IRS language.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. While we started with leaders serving in executive director roles, we have also led cohorts of non-ED senior staff and are planning a cohort for community organizers.