Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

Elizabeth Leslie is the Communications Manager for the League of Women Voters of California, a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Please note that Tennessee Nonprofit Network monitors all bills that impact nonprofits and the communities they serve, but we only take positions on issues impacting the entire nonprofit sector and align with our public policy agenda. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here. Did we miss any important bills?

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2023

Going beyond traditional restoration practices, they’re advocating for policy changes that will ensure equitable park planning and soil restoration processes, as well as community stewardship of the land. We should be able to grow edible food in our yards and community gardens without worrying about the toxicity of the soil.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 20, 2023

Clients will still need food, shelter, and education. Deleterious public policy will continue to threaten our communities’ well-being. Ultimately, leadership must not lose sight of how a change—leadership transition or otherwise—can harm the clients you serve. Animals will still need to be spayed and be adopted.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 24, 2017

Over 70% of nonprofits working in Other Public Benefit Research or Advocacy; Environment and Animals; and Human Services, Housing, Food, and Jobs said community engagement was a high or essential priority for 2017 (left side of the graph). Interested in the results for fundraising or branding goals?

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Anedot

JUNE 15, 2022

Sonoma Family Meal envisions an equitable, sustainable, and resilient food ecosystem. At their community kitchen, they convert locally sourced ingredients and rescued perishables into meals for families and seniors experiencing food insecurity.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Adimika Arthur, Founding Executive Director of HealthTech4Medicaid, then led a discussion of the ways that public policy and convening intersect with these issues.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 20, 2023

Clients will still need food, shelter, and education. Deleterious public policy will continue to threaten our communities’ well-being. Ultimately, leadership must not lose sight of how a change—leadership transition or otherwise—can harm the clients you serve. Animals will still need to be spayed and adopted.

Organizational Change 52

Organizational Change Leadership Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 52

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

This farm supports 20 immigrant and refugee farmers and emerging food entrepreneurs. Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.” The land trust also owns a small urban farm, which it leases to a refugee services nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Their “Healthier Kids For Our Future” grants focus on food insecurity and mental health. They continue to proactively invest in leadership and advocacy, and public policy change within our children’s behavioral health systems. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

Public mistrust of governments’ ability to act with their interests in mind existed long before COVID-19, but the pandemic accelerated and hardened this skepticism. As global majority countries struggled with operational challenges, the dynamics around COVID-19 changed.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Our taxonomies cover a wide range of areas such as public health, education, workforce development, financial health, social capital, housing, and food security. This standardization allows for apples-to-apples comparisons across programs and studies. Next Steps for Impact Science. So how do we make it happen?

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was marketing laundry detergent, cat food, dog food, kids’ cereals, whatever,” he recalls. Then they gave me another account, which was public broadcasting. This was the first time public broadcasting had hired an advertising agency to build audience.

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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. To the extent dollar stores drive out grocery stores, residents’ access to healthy food is reduced. What can be done about this pattern?

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A local nonprofit, CATCH of Boise, began assisting them by providing them with food and water.” By February 2023, the family had been charged with multiple misdemeanors related to staying on federal land longer than allowed. Bad Public Policy “[Criminalization] is bad public policy.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

So it is not affiliated with the Tribal governments in a direct way or overseen by them but led by more grassroots organizers, who work directly in community for food sovereignty, rematriation, and land returns. But in our focus area of supporting Wabanaki communities and Tribal governance, we fund language, we fund food sovereignty.

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iMarketSmart

JULY 12, 2022

Instead of handing you a menu, the waiter says, “We cook good food. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 25 (1), 24-38. [4] Behavioural Public Policy , 1-22. [9] Fortunately, there is another answer. You’ll find it at any restaurant. Menus can be clear and simple. Suppose you visit a new restaurant.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Please note that Tennessee Nonprofit Network monitors all bills that impact nonprofits and the communities they serve, but we only take positions on issues impacting the entire nonprofit sector and align with our public policy agenda. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here. Did we miss any important bills?

Education 52

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Here is a typical day: Before 8:00 am: Shower, dress, pack my one-year old daughter’s bag for the day, make her food and dress her. I work with our public policy team to discuss any PR initiatives they should be aware of. She tweets from @LaurenLLawson. She attends a Montessori daycare, which is 15 minutes from our home.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the following conversation, two expert leaders—Nick Hart, president of the Data Foundation, and Jason Saul, founder and executive director of the Center for Impact Sciences at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy—share thoughts about the next phase of the evidence movement. Evidence 1.0

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

22 Yet as racial justice movement leader Dedrick Asante-Muhammad has detailed, a race-neutral or “race-blind approach to addressing racial economic inequality has left the nation hobbled in public policy efforts to undo ongoing structural racism.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

Food, Bills, and Rent The 2021 expanded child tax credit—passed by Congress in March 2021 as part of the American Rescue Plan Act —was as monumental as it was brief. Among the top priorities for families that received the expanded credit, the March study found, was food.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Public policy, however, can make a tremendous difference. The tax credit also reduced food insecurity among families and helped parents afford basic necessities. Other indicators of material hardship also increased, including food insecurity among families with kids.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.” The rate is highest for Black women, whose amount owed is 113 percent of the amount borrowed—double the ratio for white men borrowers (56 percent) and Asians (47 percent for women and 45 percent for men).

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