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How to Make Guaranteed Income Work: Ten Lessons from Newark, New Jersey

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

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This holiday season, give back by shopping for unique gifts from nonprofit online stores. In this gift guide, you’ll find selections from nonprofits that you won’t see in regular shops. What’s more, your purchases from nonprofit shops will support the essential work of these organizations and the individuals they help year-round.

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How the homeless can Tweet - and tell their stories

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Mark used to be homeless, and now he does all kinds of amazing things for the homeless, including blogging at Hardly Normal and documenting via video the stories of people in the situation he once knew all too well here at InvisiblePeople.tv. Horvath is currently reaching out to public libraries across the U.S.

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Measuring Nonprofit Impact: 25 Key Metrics & Other Tools for Success

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Nonprofit organizations are constantly striving to create a positive impact on the world around them. Whether it’s through social services, environmental conservation, or advocacy for marginalized communities, nonprofits are at the forefront of creating a better future for all. The answer lies in metrics and tools.

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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite multiple warnings, fines, and legal notices directing them to leave, they had stayed because they were otherwise homeless. A Broader Crisis: Criminalizing Homelessness Homelessness is, of course, a national problem with broad scope.

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How to write a strong nonprofit mission statement

Get Fully Funded

Writing a nonprofit mission statement can feel like an intimidating task. A nonprofit mission statement isn’t supposed to include everything you do. Unfortunately, most nonprofits have long, verbose mission statements that pack in every single thing they do, using lots of long words and jargon. Well, good news!

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Profit at What Cost? An Interview with Ray Suarez, host of Going for Broke

NonProfit Quarterly

I was in conversation with the managers of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP). And now we’re in season two with our production partners, Wisconsin Public Radio. And it attracted the attention of an organization that has partnered with EHRP before and that is Wisconsin Public Radio. They are homeless.

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