NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. .” SD: Going forward, how can better health outcomes be achieved in nursing home facilities?

Medical 85

Medical Nonprofit governance and management Healthcare Public and Nonprofit Management 85

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

On a rainy day, Echol Cole and Robert Walker sought refuge inside the truck because segregation laws forbid them from sheltering inside a building. Racism and poverty were the forms of violence that made Cole and Walker vulnerable and ultimately led to their deaths. Contempt for poverty is violence. Ghetto housing is violence.

Poverty 122

Poverty Medical Insurance Healthcare 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 2, 2025

The head of the EPA has asked the White House to repeal the endangerment finding, which says that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare, contradicting climate science. For poverty and climate action, none of the targets are on track. How should companies respond this catastrophic backsliding?

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Energy Poverty Governance 97

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 14, 2025

But the Supreme Court is weighing whether people who rely on Medicaid for their health insurance have that right, and if they dois it enforceable by law? Congress passed the law that led to its creation based on its power under the Constitutions spending clause, which allows Congress to subject federal funds to certain requirements.

Healthcare 111

Healthcare Law Health Insurance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2025

These funding cuts included federal funds that had been allocated toward community violence intervention (CVI) programs, which use a public health approach to address gun violence. The funds were allocated through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act introduced by then-Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and signed into law in 2022.

Law 105

Law Health Poverty Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Nonprofit health clinics have closed, leaving neighbors without access to potentially life-saving care. Yentel also commented on broader political dynamics in her defense of the sector: These actions arent about government efficiency or about reform.

Governance 94

Governance Nonprofits Law Health 94

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Image Credit: Gage Skidmore and ITU Pictures on Wikimedia Commons On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed executive orders announcing the United States intention to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) and suspend foreign aid. The new law is hardly confiscatory.

Health 109

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Law 109

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

Board of Education , talked about the importance of education to our democratic society; Sandra Day O’Connor, warned that “the rule of law is seriously threatened by Americans’ alarming lack of civic knowledge.” Although never voted into law, it provides a template for establishing and funding a childcare assistance program.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Law Children Nonprofit Administration and Development 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 11, 2025

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. In Poland, we had the Law and Justice Party, after an eight-year reign, similarly lose power.

Law 61

Law Governance Communication Civil Society 61

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Donya Khadem, counsel for the Equal Protection Initiative at Legal Defense Fund, told NPQ that the three organizations represented in the lawsuit are direct service providers whose staff are in the community every day seeing and directly addressing people who have lived experiences with health challenges, poverty, joblessness.

Nonprofits 116

Nonprofits Poverty Governance Health 116

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Many of these policies came from federal anti-discrimination laws passed following the civil rights struggle of the 1960s and were later expanded to include people with disabilities. What could have an even more devastating impactis another of Trumps demands: that people return to in-person work.

Law 122

Law Governance Health Education 122

Anedot

MARCH 24, 2025

About the Organization Canal Alliance exists to break the generational cycle of poverty for Latino immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success. The Senior Staff Attorney will also train, mentor and supervise support team (such as law fellows, legal advocates, and paralegals). San Rafael, CA.

Race and Ethnicity 52

Race and Ethnicity Insurance Participation and motivation Children 52

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress temporarily implemented a child tax credit initiative that in 2021 cut child poverty nearly in half, lifting millions out of poverty, according to a US Census report. This provision allowed the expanded credit to have especially positive impacts in reducing child poverty.

Poverty 129

Poverty Children Law Food 129

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

The National Marine Life Center forcus on rehabilitating stranded sea turtles, seals, dolphins, porpoises & whales while advancing scientific knowledge and education in marine wildlife health & conservation. Partners In Health :: @ PIH. Southern Poverty Law Center :: @ SPLCenter. amfAR :: @ amfAR.

Poverty 113

Poverty Civil Society Medical Education 113

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 132

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Image credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on istock.com The ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS, is about the lack of access to clean water and the way a community’s health and wellbeing are impacted when this vital resource is unavailable, but there are other crucial factors at play.

Environmental 111

Environmental Health Poverty Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. 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. East Boston is a historically working-class, immigrant neighborhood.

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 128

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Scott served seven years in prison after being arrested on federal drug charges shortly after obtaining his law degree from Louisiana State University in 1994. They don’t want to talk about poverty. They don’t want to talk about mental health. They don’t want to talk about all the causes of crime.

Poverty 139

Poverty Health Education Education 139

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. This work is urgent. It won’t be easy.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 126

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Bright Pink: Bright Pink helps to save lives from breast and ovarian cancer by empowering women to know their risk and manage their health proactively. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better.

Public and Social Policy 127

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Poverty 127

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Her grantmaking in 2020 appears to follow a regular pattern of proportionality—perhaps a “power law distribution,” a mathematical pattern found across natural and socioeconomic systems where one quantity varies as a power of another. We’ve identified an additional $480 million in grants directed to serve people with disabilities. Conclusion.

Poverty 98

Poverty Health Law Universities 98

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 Health Governance Leadership 91

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. 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.

Public and Social Policy 133

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. These intrapreneurs are creative and self-motivated.

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 125

Getting Attention

APRIL 20, 2015

Digital and Print Publications Designer , Hesperian Health Guides (Berkeley, CA). Digital Marketing Specialist , Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Development Communications Associate , Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Scottsdale, AZ). Director of Marketing & Communications , The Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Marketing 68

Marketing Marketing Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 68

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In research I did with collaborators for the Broke Project , we found that most stories, profiles, and vignettes related to work to end poverty follow this pattern: while an organization is the protagonist, poor people are defined only by their experience with poverty. They also commit to 1.

Homelessness 138

Homelessness Culture Poverty Collaborations 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

They may fund “justice” but rarely target laws that force willing employers to deny someone a job because of their nationality. They may fund “poverty reduction,” but that usually means 25 percent income gains in the country of residence, rather than 1,500 percent income gains in a high-income country.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Getting Attention

MARCH 9, 2015

Communications & Marketing Coordinator Riverside Community Health Foundation (Riverside, CA). Marketing Strategist The Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Social Media—Graphic Designer America’s Tooth Fairy: Children’s Oral Health Foundation (Charlotte, NC). Communications Manager Seeding Labs (Boston, MA).

Communication 65

Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Associations 65

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. There is a danger both to society and to one’s mental health to have a rigid notion of who they are.

Culture 110

Culture Technology Law Construction 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s been this way for centuries , beginning with the displacement of Native People in the 1800s and continuing with the use of eminent domain laws to take desirable land away from thriving Black communities. Another began to advance health equity through housing.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Leadership 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 3, 2024

The laws and the way society is structured all had to change. I asked these children, who lived in a rural area and were experiencing poverty, to reflect on the world around them and then started designing interventions that would address some of the issues they were identifying.…Whether People want change to happen. “We

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Children Education Education 126

Candid

JUNE 27, 2024

Women are disproportionately affected in areas including health care, sustainable agriculture, forced displacement, economic development, literacy, democracy, and mass incarceration While efforts that ignore gender will be limited in effectiveness, those that address gender likely will have ripple effects into other areas. health care system.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Poverty Health Leadership 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

Data released in 2022 by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE, “Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics”) shows that unemployment and informal labor are higher among this group, which is also more exposed to violence and poverty. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

Public and Social Policy 78

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Poverty Law 78

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. There is a danger both to society and to one’s mental health to have a rigid notion of who they are.

Culture 98

Culture Technology Law Construction 98