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Deaths from Climate Change are Poverty Deaths

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Max Winkler on Unsplash “When people die of heat, they are actually dying of poverty,” the New York Times wrote in 2023 about a devastating heat wave during which 10 people died in Texas. But around the world, the climate emergency underscores the ongoing emergency of poverty. But all those measures still cost money.

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Reshaping the Idea of Rural America: Stories from Our Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Rural communities have varied local economies, which include manufacturing , healthcare, the service sector, and agriculture. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC.

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Should We Build New Homes in a Burning World?

NonProfit Quarterly

With the increase of new industries in the area has come a flood of new construction; thousands of workers at a new car manufacturing plant, for example, need a place to live. to Corpus Christi, Texas—a flood- and hurricane-prone region with deep pockets of poverty, poor health and economic and racial inequities.”

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Rockefeller calls for boosting global access to COVID-19 vaccines

Candid

The longer vaccination efforts are delayed in developing countries, the greater the risk COVID -19 never goes away and that new variants will continue to emerge," said Bruce Gellin, the foundation's chief of global public health strategy. "No No one is safe from COVID-19 until everyone is safe, and that means being vaccinated.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Little Market is a 501(c)(3), charitable organization founded by women to help alleviate poverty by sourcing their good from artisan groups in over 25 countries. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade. Health & Beauty. 22) Serrv International :: serrv.org.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

Seeking to address the root causes of food insecurity in its own backyard, the Anthem Foundation (a philanthropic arm of the major Indianapolis-based health insurance company, Anthem, Inc. ), funded the initiative with a $2.45 These ideals and beliefs are built into how EFAI works. million grant to LISC Indianapolis.

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