NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For the last few years, there have been major clashes between Mississippi’s state government and its majority-Black capital city. Yet, despite the mayor’s efforts to create a path for continued city governance, his pleas have gone unheard.

Environmental 103

Environmental Health Poverty Governance 103

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. However, in America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. This disproportionality demands systemic solutions.

Poverty 107

Poverty Agriculture Culture Community Development 107

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

Communities and Economies In looking beyond borders, there is much to learn from Indigenous Peoples—populations with extensive diversity across cultures, languages, and systems of governance. In addition to differences in governance and leadership principles, the economies of Indigenous societies were distinct from those of Europeans.

Health 92

Health Poverty Public and Social Policy Culture 92

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

1 Philanthropy’s Conflicting Commitments Over the course of the last two and a half years, Marguerite Casey Foundation has supported efforts across the country to reimagine safety, increase access to public dollars, and seed in everyday people’s imagination the belief that our government dollars should be used to improve their lives.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 133

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Schoenberger Palliative measures such as needle-exchange programs form a third model of neoliberal urban-poverty governance alongside policing and paternalism. By Chana R.

Poverty 52

Poverty Governance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Those living in poverty, near highways or dump sites, or without access to clean cooking options are also at higher risk. Across the world, the burden largely remains on individuals to protect themselves from pollution rather than governments tackling the sources. standard was introduced.

Nonprofit governance and management 123

Nonprofit governance and management Health Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 123

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

People living in poverty face greater fallout from climate change, as do people of color , Indigenous communities , and people with disabilities, who are four times more likely to die in disasters than people who do not have a disability. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development and Research, “Of the 8.5

Construction 65

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 65

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Then, we’ve been trying to compare the information given by the federal government and the one been given by the Puerto Rico government, which was usually different in terms of the amount of money. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. The wording, the categories of the information.

Governance 138

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 138

Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

Data to pinpoint needs in specific communities Unfortunately, government survey data does not accurately represent “hard-to-count” at-risk populations who are less likely to speak English or to trust the government—which includes many of the people nonprofits like CASL serve.

Governance 59

Governance Food Health Collaborations 59

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Johnson will determine whether a local government has the constitutional right to make it a crime for a person to live outside and unsheltered when no other option is available. Half of all renters now spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, and nearly 600,000 people are homeless.

Homelessness 141

Homelessness Law Poverty Governance 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2024

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), this destabilization can lead to “cumulative community stress, increases in poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and forced migration.” In the wake of emergencies like wildfires or floods, people may be forced to move , to leave their communities and support systems.

Health 94

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP) is an example of a systems designer that helps coordinate across employers, aspiring workers, recruiters, government agencies, and trainers to prioritize and direct the investments needed to establish “good labor mobility” in key corridors around the world.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 5, 2023

billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. billion (about $1 billion) in 2020, while government spending was SGD 36.6 billion (about $1 billion) in 2020, while government spending was SGD 36.6

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 91

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

We witness, time and again, the stark gap between what people need and what local, state, and federal governments are willing to provide; it’s clear there’s an opportunity and responsibility for philanthropy to step in.

Philanthropy 99

Philanthropy Poverty Governance Environmental 99

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It is jointly governed by members of the Nakoda and Aaniiih nations, and includes a 22,000- acre (over 34,000 square miles) bison reserve, home to a herd of over 500 buffalo. A Montana State study from 2019 estimated that the poverty rate statewide for Native communities exceeded 30 percent. Eric Henson et al.,

Nonprofit governance and management 139

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 139

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

RB: The last installment of the report uplifts how mass incarceration exacerbates poverty. Issues of poverty and racial bias in the South are super salient and continue to be a problem.” Issues of poverty and racial bias in the South are super salient and continue to be a problem. There was this zero-sum game mindset.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 117

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

Leadership 106

Leadership Poverty Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity 106

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In contrast, guaranteed income gives cash to people living below the poverty line or with inconsistent or no income and entails a qualifying process. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King advocated for guaranteed income as the simplest and most effective solution to poverty. Though related to universal basic income (UBI), it is not the same.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Nonprofit governance and management 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They don’t want to talk about poverty. Across the world, the safest communities are not those that are the most policed but rather are those with the best resources—those that meet their residents where they are and strengthen trust between community and government,” his campaign website reads.

Poverty 136

Poverty Health Education Education 136

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism. In this community, poverty remains a challenge: 16.4 percent of families live below the poverty line, a poverty rate more than six percentage points higher than Seattle.

Community Development 123

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 123

NonProfit Leadership Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

She went to Uganda where she lived and worked with an NGO on strategic planning and board governance. I was assigned to Starting Right Now for my project,” Erin says, “which is an organization that exists to solve generational poverty by ending homelessness for students. Erin took some time off from practicing law to travel.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Law Universities Leadership 98

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. My first thought was, ‘Here we go.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

The federal government recommends at least one educator per three to four infants for safe, quality care. The Center for American Progress wrote in a 2021 report, “Parents who spend thousands of dollars each year on child care are often surprised to hear that their children’s teachers make poverty-level wages.”

Insurance 95

Insurance Children Poverty Education 95

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

Public and Social Policy 66

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Poverty 66

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

Fifty percent of its residents were born outside of the US and identify as Latino/a ; about half of all families in the neighborhood live below the official poverty line. We also need our government agencies to protect us. East Boston is a historically working-class, immigrant neighborhood.

Race and Ethnicity 120

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 120

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to a 2014 study of wage theft in California and New York , wage theft doesn’t just hurt low-wage and immigrant workers, it also contributes to poverty, increases the need for SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program, formerly known as “food stamps), and increases the cost of public assistance services.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. At the same time, these jobs have incredibly high rates of burnout, are physically taxing, mentally exhausting, and often poorly paid.

Curriculum and Teaching 87

Curriculum and Teaching Healthcare Civil Society Technology 87

Candid

JULY 2, 2021

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership.

Civil Society 91

Civil Society Governance Health Leadership 91

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

Communities at Risk In an article about childhood lead exposure and disparities, the Kaiser Family Foundation writes that “areas with higher blood lead levels are associated with low home ownership, high poverty, and residents who are a majority people of color.” No amount of lead is safe in the blood.

Curriculum and Teaching 71

Curriculum and Teaching Environmental Children Public and Social Policy 71

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. In several of these cooperatives, either governments or civil society or development institutions have played roles as catalysts to sow the initial seeds. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

Food 96

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 5, 2023

From displacement and poverty to illness and environmental degradation, the urgent challenges facing the world today call for innovative approaches that combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear understanding of the problems and a firm footing in communities. ”—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2019.

Collaborations 112

Collaborations Culture Governance Technology 112

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But the gains of the half century after emancipation were reversed in the following 50 years, as Black people lost land due to fraudulent tactics by government entities, banks, and individuals. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans owned 15 million acres of land. Here’s one of many stories of Black land loss.

Food 112

Food Agriculture Governance Children 112

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For example, during the Great Depression and the decades that followed, in a process called redlining, the government-sponsored Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board systematically denied loans to Black and Brown folks, excluding them from home ownership. million school-aged children every day.

Food 126

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 126

The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tosha’s experience in mental health services and government contracting roles helped her see the benefit of systems and designs thinking. When the conversation moves towards funding from the federal government, this methodology holds an entirely independent weight. What are some potential unintended consequences?

Education 52

Education Education Governance Poverty 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

While organizations like the China Disabled Persons’ Federation aim to support the rights and interests of disabled individuals through assistance obtaining welfare subsidies and other services, only the most severely disabled individuals qualify for government financial aid.

Nonprofit governance and management 82

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 82

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This is especially relevant at a time when the planet is behind on several SDGs , including those related to poverty reduction and food security. The challenge is that carbon markets weren't designed to work for people in poverty.

Philanthropy 97

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 97