NonProfit Leadership Center

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For the Cook: Handmade Wooden Cutting Boards UTEC is a nonprofit that helps young people overcome the challenges of poverty, gang involvement, and unemployment. As you celebrate the holidays this season, thank you for supporting nonprofits that strengthen our communities.

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

For families in dire poverty, the cost of flying to India for treatment would seem impossible. With the country in a dire state, the population traumatized and exhausted, Charles was inspired to assist his countrymen in another way: poverty relief. Thats where organizations such as Sick Pikin (Sick Child in the Krio language) step in.

Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? However, the pressing need for equity as relates to both the tech industry and healthcare makes digital health a very complex challenge.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In the face of rising mortality rates, reproductive justice advocates have turned to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to help safeguard access to emergency abortions. Its purpose is to ensure that all patients, regardless of wealth or status, receive medical treatment in emergency situations,” attorneys Alicia K.

Medical

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 24, 2025

Image Credit: Lagos Food Bank Initiative on Pexels The United States is cutting nearly all foreign aid, with sub-Saharan Africa being the most affected region, losing billions of dollars in funding that previously supported health, humanitarian, and development programs.

Disaster Relief

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. “Medical ageism wasa matter of life and death.” Medical ageism is crucial.

Medical

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Racism and poverty were the forms of violence that made Cole and Walker vulnerable and ultimately led to their deaths. Ignoring medical needs is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. They die because they live in a country that continues to ignore medical need. Neglecting school children is violence.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? However, health innovation, when narrowly defined as the application of technologies, often overlooks the broader socioeconomic contexts in which it is deployed.

Health

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 country submitted its proposal in October 2020.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

More broadly, the Southern Poverty Law Center report noted that the United States had only signed three of the nine core UN human rights conventions. Minimum Income: More than a few cities have adopted some form of basic income as an important anti-poverty measure, and other countries have had programs for years.

Public and Social Policy

Anedot

APRIL 3, 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.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As the American Psychological Association wrote in 2020 , upon the 30th anniversary of the signing of the ADA: True equality remains elusive, especially for people of color with disabilities and for those whose socioeconomic position makes access to health care and other services more challenging.

Law

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 28, 2025

“At one point, I was getting so many medical bills that I just stopped opening them.” She also knows that receiving this care often leaves her saddled with medical debt. At one point, I was getting so many medical bills that I just stopped opening them,” Anita said in an interview with NPQ. million people into medical debt.

Medical

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. Canal Alliance is a nonprofit champion of immigrants who are challenged by a lack of resources and an unfamiliar environment. San Rafael, CA. San Rafael, CA.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 5, 2025

If she didn’t have Medicaid, she would either be racking up costs on a payment plan or would have to make a difficult decision about the various other medications and treatments she needs for chronic health issues — all of which she relies on Medicaid to cover. Because of her conditions, Habein works very little.

Insurance

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 30, 2025

Roosevelt’s advisors wanted to include a national health insurance system as part of the Social Security program. That did not take place, and in 1950, efforts to create a universal health insurance system were defeated. The program covers nearly four in 10 children , including 80 percent of children who live in poverty.

Healthcare

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 26, 2025

Poverty, social exclusion, and a lack of worker rights have long been drivers of trafficking and bonded labor, but the ecological damage wreaked by climate change not only supercharges those forms of vulnerability but, in turn, leads desperate workers to carry out further destruction.

Public and Social Policy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This and other questions start to get answers in new projects that map a growing movement to strengthen democracy, close divides, build civic health, and more. Takiyah McCathern, an assistant principal at a high-poverty middle school in Wilkes County, N.C., raises money to pay for medical physicals required for students to play sports.

Philanthropy

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Partners In Health :: @ PIH.

Poverty

Anedot

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Canal Alliance exists to break the generational cycle of poverty for Latinx immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success. As a Behavioral Health Clinician, the primary focus of this role is to provide therapy services/behavioral health interventions to individuals, families and groups of Canal Alliance clients.

Health

Anedot

AUGUST 29, 2024

Behavioral Health Clinician JOB DESCRIPTION This is a hybrid position Canal Alliance is currently piloting a 4 Day Work Week, with business hours Monday –Thursday, 8am-6pm. Position Summary: Canal Alliance exists to break the generational cycle of poverty for Latinx immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success.

Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

When the legendary physician and advocate Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away at the age of 62 in February, he was called a hero , a visionary , and a global health giant. ” While Paul was a world-renown expert in both infectious disease and medical anthropology, he believed that technical expertise is often overrated.

Nonprofit Leadership

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Smith To achieve climate justice, biodiversity, and health equity goals, most societies need rapid change. Take the way that energy and health are often treated as separate issues. They are typically studied by different researchers, and policy choices on energy and health are usually made in isolation from each other.

Energy

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

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

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.

Food

Fundraising Coach

JULY 19, 2019

As an expert on the brain, poverty, and nonprofits, I think there are several things that those of us in the nonprofit field need to know about the brain. . While all of us have different constituents, clients, and program participants, many of us are working with people who are living in poverty. How the brain impacts our clients.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This exclusion had consequences not just for the posterity of Black families, but for Black health. The cooperative, which sought Black self-sufficiency, offered affordable housing, entrepreneurial opportunities, and education to tenant farmers, as well as a pig bank and access to fresh produce to feed families living in poverty.

Food

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

About one third of US households live in “energy poverty,” among them disproportionate numbers of Black, Latinx, and Native families. Many families must decide between paying their utility bill or paying for medication. Many families must decide between paying their utility bill or paying for medication.

Energy

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. They drive change through networks and relationships, and use the power and influence that emerges.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million pairs of affordable reading glasses to low-income customers in remote areas, creating a path out of poverty by extending productive livelihoods, and generating $1.8B Community Health Entrepreneurs earned a better living. To date VisionSpring has sold 8.7 in economic impact. It seemed a perfect match. If so, how?

Social Enterprise

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2023

Innovative finance is based on the premise that there is not enough money from governments and philanthropic organizations alone to address pressing global issues like poverty, climate change, and access to electricity and clean water. This involves pricing based on overall value, not just the estimated costs to conduct an activity.

Finance

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

Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Heron Foundation , for example, works with mission-aligned, poverty-oriented investment managers to grow its assets. One foundation looking to improve health outcomes in one country is a good thing.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Leaders asked for training support for their staff, coaching, mental health support, and healing justice practices support from the Hive Fund. The continuous ask for this kind of support indicated to the fund that they were on the right track with their new grantmaking approach.

Environmental

Anedot

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This aligns with Canal Alliance’s mission to break the generational cycle of poverty among Latino immigrants and their families. The objective is to empower clients, facilitating their ability to overcome obstacles and enhance their holistic well-being.

Management

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. Everyone brings a policy to the class, such as child behavior guidance or administering medication.

Curriculum and Teaching