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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology. For many nonprofit workers—especially those who work in social assistance, the arts, or the religious sector—wages just can’t keep up with rising costs.

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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series 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. How can a community reduce food insecurity?

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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. But it is past time to move from programs to policy.

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In a new era for the nonprofit ecosystem, collaboration is key to survival

Candid

For too long, many nonprofits have been treated—and seen themselves—as stopgaps, filling holes left by broken systems, offering services where public institutions have failed. We need specialists who deeply understand housing policy, food insecurity, or mental health access. So too must be our responses.

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Public Dollars for Public Good

NonProfit Quarterly

What do community organizing calls for police abolition and recent federal public investments like the American Rescue Plan Act (more popularly known as ARPA) have in common? Public investments like ARPA have reawakened a commitment by politicians to use our dollars to improve access to quality housing, schools, and jobs.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

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. For many people with diabetes, particularly those living below the poverty line, the cost of CGMs makes them unattainable.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

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