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Black Co-op Farms: Building a Worker Strategy in Mississippi

NonProfit Quarterly

This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level.

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Newsletter: How to Host a Shopping Day Fundraiser ; Crayola Launches a Cause-Related Flower Business ; Are Corporations Really Committed to Ending Childhood Hunger?

Selfish Giving

Third, and this is critical, ask businesses to host a point-of-sale fundraiser and/or donate a percentage or portion of sales from a product or service for a week or two before the event. Your nonprofit raises money. How one supermarket chain is combining point-of-sale with product donations. Brain Food 1. Clevah, right?

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How to Eliminate the Myth of Meritocracy and Build the World We Deserve

NonProfit Quarterly

In 1935, the Social Security Act, introduced by the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established an idea that expressed the value that (some) Americans deserve a government that will not allow them to slide into poverty if they fall on hard times, become ill, and/or age out of the workforce. None of this was an accident.

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How Dollar Store Kudzu Consumes Local Economies—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

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. To the extent dollar stores drive out grocery stores, residents’ access to healthy food is reduced.

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Can Public Power Advance Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

But at the EconCon conference held in Washington, DC, in June, hosted by the Omidyar Network and a dozen nonprofit think tanks, speakers offered a far broader definition of public power— namely, the power of government to act on behalf of the public. This outsourcing of services is a major reason for the rapid growth of the nonprofit sector.

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Opportunity! Nonprofit Communication Jobs

Getting Attention

Post YOUR comms job here —nonprofits, grantmakers, B Corps & vendors serving nonprofits. Cause Marketing Business Development Leader , Phil & Co. Database Administrator , Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (San Francisco, CA). Digital Production Assistant , Trilogy Interactive (Berkeley, CA or Washington, DC).

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Fixing the Forests Problem in the US

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Adam Wilson on unsplash.com This is the f ifth article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus.