NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

This expanded child tax credit was incredibly effective: child poverty went down by a record-breaking amount , lifting an estimated 2.9 million children out of poverty, reducing food hardship, decreasing parent financial stress, and more. Schools closed, unemployment and poverty skyrocketed, and health and wellness plummeted.

Poverty 116

Poverty Children Social Policy Food 116

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In recent years, baby bondspublicly funded trust accounts created to provide children born into low-wealth families with a guaranteed financial foundation upon reaching adulthoodhave evolved from idea to movement. The First Baby Bond Baby Addressing immediate needs alone will never break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Universities 94

Candid

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding. million to the North Carolina Community Foundation to support recovery needs across Western North Carolina. CDP encourages giving grants locally as much as possible.

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Disaster Relief Insurance Medical 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 7, 2025

While it has, by far, the largest number of poor people in the world, India has arguably pulled more people out of poverty over the last 20 years than any other country in history (with the possible exception of China). MacArthur Foundation , Bridgespan , and others). India remains a country of contradictions. and Catherine T.

Philanthropy 114

Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Foundations 114

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

Through our Southern Workers Opportunity (SWO) fund, in collaboration with the AFL-CIO, the Ford Foundation, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), we have committed more than $10 million in multiyear grants since 2022 to Black- and Brown-led worker organizations in the region.

Collaborations 116

Collaborations Manufacturing Law Philanthropy 116

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 2, 2025

As the nonprofit Internet Society Foundation explains , The growing risk of natural and climate-related disasters is causing more and more disruption to peoples lives. Internet Poverty A 2019 report from the US Department of Health and Human Services noted that over one in six people living in poverty had no access to the internet.

Poverty 95

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Technology Food 95

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 9, 2025

In September 2024, two months before the American public voted Republicans into control of every branch of the US national government, that question was definitively answered at a private, non-political gathering of philanthropic foundation executives and their communications officers. billion goal.

Homelessness 116

Homelessness Poverty Foundations Law 116

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

Unlike many organizations that rely on large foundation grants, Scott and his cofounders were intentional about rejecting funding that came with restrictions. Project South was born out of necessity, created to serve as a space for political education, movement building, and base development among Southern communities.

Poverty 105

Poverty Philanthropy Agriculture Education 105

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 24, 2025

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Health 130

Health Nonprofit governance and management Retail Public and Nonprofit Management 130

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Poverty Public Policy Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 2, 2025

While these stores continue to make money for shareholders, workers face a relentless grind of poverty wages, unsafe working conditions, and corporate-driven understaffing that puts safety at risk. Now is the time to start demanding your labor rights, because you have built that foundation.

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Health Poverty Education Education 101

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This isnt just a denial of financial services; its a denial of possibility, locking communities into cycles of poverty and keeping doors closed to upward mobility. Imagine entire neighborhoods, once redlined and systematically denied opportunity, now being neglected again by algorithms that equate zip codes with financial risk.

Ethics 98

Ethics Public and Social Policy Technology Finance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

Image Credit: Etienne Girardet on unsplash.com Many people working in nonprofits and philanthropy say they want to reduce poverty, and increasingly, foundations, nonprofits, and social-movement organizations are developing communications strategies and telling stories that aim to dispel the myth that the US economic system is equitable and fair.

Poverty 127

Poverty Ethics Philanthropy Culture 127

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 21, 2023

As foundations increasingly acknowledge the centuries of systematic and institutional racism that have led to intergenerational trauma, cycles of poverty, and reduced life expectancies in communities of color, they are working to re-examine philanthropy’s history and reimagine its role.

Foundations 98

Foundations Philanthropy Construction Poverty 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research is dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research. The Population Council conducts research worldwide to improve policies, programs, and products in three areas: HIV and AIDS; poverty, gender, and youth; and reproductive health. American Nicaraguan Foundation :: @ ANF.

Poverty 111

Poverty Medical Civil Society Education 111

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 27, 2016

If you’re working on anti-poverty initiatives, for instance, consider writing about the root causes of poverty or effective programs. He was formerly an assistant managing editor at The Chronicle of Philanthropy and a senior vice president at The Council on Foundations. Find Creative Ways to Position Your Point of View.

Public and Nonprofit Management 196

Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Philanthropy Leadership 196

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

We cannot achieve our mission of sustainability and creating opportunities to pull themselves from abject poverty. David J.Dunworth from Trinity International Ministries FBO PMA Building a strong foundation for sustainable growth. Our mission is growth-oriented, but to achieve that growth, we must set the foundation to scale.

Volunteerism 63

Volunteerism Volunteerism Healthcare Agriculture 63

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

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Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 130

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 21, 2012

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation sent 8 emails in 8 months, but 4 of them came in May. Southern Poverty Law Center sent me one email in April asking for a renewal. Southern Poverty Law Center also stood out for me, but not in a good way, because of the annoying plastic mail and phone call. No direct mail.

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Retention Homelessness Poverty Communication 227

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One is that many foundations, under the guise of philanthropic pluralism , have supported a status quo that has harmed South Africa’s Black majority. percent of the country’s 63 million people living in poverty, gross domestic product growth that slowed to 0.6 Today, that democracy is fraying. Today, that democracy is fraying.

Philanthropy 97

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 97

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

They are increasingly a vector attack, used as pathways for bad actors to get into government or foundation information technology (IT) systems. This could leave nonprofits working on other critical issues, such as poverty alleviation and education, with limited funding and support. Hungary and Iran.

Civil Society 92

Civil Society Disaster Relief Technology Ethics 92

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

When they do not have access to funds, families in poverty depend on getting the water they need through temporary, charitable fixes, or they walk hours to find it from natural sources, or they may pay up to 20% of their income to buy it. Each month, they help create financial opportunity that previously did not exist for people in poverty.

Non-Profits 133

Non-Profits Poverty Finance Health 133

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Despite living near Yale, an elite Ivy League university, the people I knew were working hardreally hardand still struggling to get by, often trapped in cycles of poverty. Each leader and organization that joined had a unique reason to get involved, but all realized that poverty in Connecticut doesnt stop at a towns border.

Poverty 98

Poverty Public and Social Policy Children Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At the Marguerite Casey Foundation, we believe this moment provides an opening for movements to shift public dollars to support the public goods our nation so desperately needs and to ensure that our dollars, in the public sector, are used to realize our dreams. Philanthropy has had a complicated relationship with the government.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Casey Foundation. 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. Casey Foundation’s mission is to create a brighter future for America’s children, young people, and families.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Poverty 126

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 26, 2010

Don’t ask me what foundations you should send your grant applications to. If I offer to do the work for you for a fee, don’t give me a sob story about how you are a poor nonprofit (nearly everyone reading this blog is associated with a nonprofit so claiming poverty doesn’t make you stand out for special attention).

Production 179

Production Poverty Associations Communication 179

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This year, they are back with an all-new holiday campaign to tackle period poverty. Manager, Corporate Partnerships & Cause Marketing, Lupus Foundation of America , Washington, DC ?? Every year, the social impact agency Public takes its holiday gift-giving budget and puts it to good use for a social issue in the world.

Public and Nonprofit Management 130

Public and Nonprofit Management Retail Poverty Food 130

Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Elton John AIDS Foundation. Prism Foundation. Pride Foundation. PFund Foundation. Horizons Foundation. The Vermont Community Foundation. The New York Women’s Foundation. Stonewall Community Foundation. New York Foundation. Maine Community Foundation. New Harvest Foundation.

Foundations 131

Foundations Culture Charitable Contribution Nonprofits 131

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

In a 2021 poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. The Virginia Early Childhood Foundation announced it will provide paid training to over 60 early childhood educators in their Early Educator Fast Track Initiative. The median pay for a childcare worker nationally was $13.11

Insurance 106

Insurance Children Poverty Education 106

Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Fund, the San Francisco Foundation, and the California Wellness Foundation, have long partnered with power-building organizations such as Oakland Rising and statewide networks like PICO California. Foundations across California have begun to work together in strategic alliances.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Foundations Poverty Environmental 105

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 16, 2017

It’s a problem we hear a lot, so that’s we’ve developed a BRAND NEW WEBINAR with the help of Mark Rovner who has worked with organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. TOMORROW, August 17th. Eastern (10:00 A.M

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Marketing Marketing Fundraising Fundraising 103

Candid

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Foundations can support equitable access to public funds At Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF), we’re confronting this problem head-on. In 2023, we launched our Public Dollars for Public Good (PDPG) funding initiative to challenge the concentration of power and restore faith in government as a force in service of all people.

Governance 116

Governance Poverty Philanthropy Foundations 116

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Furthermore, many inner-city students face a range of social and economic challenges outside of school, such as poverty, crime, and family instability, which can make it difficult for them to succeed in school.

Leadership 121

Leadership Poverty Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity 121

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 23, 2024

That kind of shared toolbox will provide a new foundation that lets us leverage shared resources at scale, connect across silos, and solve big problems together driving impact. True transformation will come when we move from scattered collaborations to a comprehensive platform that supports the entire sector.

Public and Nonprofit Management 59

Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 59

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Trust in institutions—including philanthropy—began declining dramatically, opening the door for more public critique of foundations and big-dollar donors as elitist, nontransparent, and plutocratic. But even a decade ago, the limitations of what came to be called “ strategic philanthropy ” were evident. Those values aren’t just a “vibe.”

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Governance 131

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2021

A donor advised fund is NOT a private foundation, nor does it operate as such. 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.” Scott has not chosen to do.

Non-Profits 139

Non-Profits Poverty Charitable Organizations Philanthropy 139