NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Now Musk is accusing Ramaphosa of having openly racist ownership laws, referring to a new land expropriation law that took effect in January 2025. This law was passed in 2024 after nearly five years of parliamentary debate as an effort to address racial land inequality in South Africa, a legacy of apartheid. percent of its R44.4

Health

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

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. Some US companies paid people with disabilities 22 cents an hour in 2024 and were cited for doing so.

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. 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

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

Johnson signed Medicaid and Medicare into law. said in a 1966 speech at the annual meeting for the Medical Committee for Human Rights “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.” The program covers nearly four in 10 children , including 80 percent of children who live in poverty.

Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image credit: Barbara Olsen on Pexels If you want to reduce poverty, cash matters. Springboard to Opportunities —the organization we both work for—began operations in 2013 with the goal to break cycles of generational poverty that are particularly persistent in Black communities.

Public and Social Policy

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. Population Council :: @ Pop_Council.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This record acts as a form of permanent punishment, limiting our ability to participate in civil society through a complex web of laws in Illinois that punish people with criminal records, often indefinitely. Rehabilitation includes medical and psychological care, as well as legal and social services.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

A law professor at Seattle University , advocate for queer and trans liberation, and long-time participant in movements for racial and economic justice, Spade spoke on payment and movement work at a virtual forum organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. What does he mean by “attack and steal”?

Medical

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. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Oxfam : To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

Poverty

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 29, 2024

Nonprofits will need to build from a past rooted in charity and move toward a model of liberation—a future where our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions are structured so all people can thrive. To play their part, many of these institutions will need to embrace their own transformation. Still, it is necessary.

Nonprofit governance and management

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

This network works to collectively influence change across Minnesota, including through a nascent effort at the University of Minnesota Medical School that convenes community leaders and academic advisory boards across the university to address how the institution as a whole engages with community leaders.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

Equal access to the ballot box is not only a fundamental part of our democracy, it is also required by law. This includes assessment of the reliability of these tools and examining their potential to reduce medically necessary care or otherwise deny treatment to participants—especially disabled people of color.

Technology

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Earthjustice utilizes their advanced knowledge of environmental law to save natural habitats, reduce pollution, and promote clean energy. Mending Kids “Mending Kids gives sick kids life-saving surgical care while advancing education and training towards medical sufficiency in their communities. Environmental. Earthjustice.

Children

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

That requires addressing high levels of corruption, a lack of rule of law, weak civil service capacity, poor public service delivery, and a lack of both transparency and accountability. All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty. World Justice Project (WJP) works around the world to advance the rule of law.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In total, more than a dozen law enforcement officials were waiting, undercover or in hiding, to surprise the Roberts family. A 2015 study by the US Forest Service notes : National forest law enforcement officers regularly encounter “nonrecreational” campers whose tenure exceeds established stay limits (generally 2 weeks).

Homelessness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

An Inspiration In the eyes of medical experts , the future of medicine is to prioritize keeping people healthy for longer periods. For example, the Australian Medical Association’s recent health vision is a departure from a tradition of what they call “sickcare” to a genuine health care. Medicine 3.0: Medicine 2.0 Medicine 3.0

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I could see those patients in my office, give them some medication, and see them again at their follow-up appointment a month later, their situation basically unchanged—or I could do something different. In the Central Falls/Pawtucket HEZ, nearly a third of residents live in poverty, and one in three are recent immigrants.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Tyler, Chief Health Officer at RHIA Ventures, took participants through an analysis of the healthcare harms that Black women have experienced over the centuries, from medical experimentation on enslaved women to forced sterilization. What impact can those shifts have without broader systemic reforms to address racism and poverty?

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 30, 2023

In a recent New York Times article, Lydia Polgreen poignantly explained these connections, “My experience tells me that these laws are really about something else: a step along the path to a rigid enforcement of gender norms, roles and presentation.” The current attack on healthcare for trans youth is one tragic example of this.

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It also reinforces an individualized medical model of intervention as the solution. The non-profit Glasswing International, for example, mobilizes youth, communities, and government agencies to address the root causes and consequences of poverty, violence, and forced migration.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, which “ was signed into law in 1988 to create an orderly system to get federal assistance to state and local governments in the wake of natural disasters.”. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. This population is entitled to certain services.

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression? Mair, and Derek Angus, “Applying Syndemic Theory to Acute Illness,” Journal of the American Medical Association 327, no. How do we stand in our power in terms of what we need and deserve for our lives and our communities?

Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Someone who is dealing with administrative duties—that is, the heavy load of paperwork and record keeping that is put on people when they try to acquire the benefits to which they are entitled by law. And a holistic view of what it means to stay healthy is to treat all of her.

Health

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 14, 2024

This is why many nonprofits often seek Board members who are CEOs of large companies, partners in law firms, and other high-profile executives. One of our clients serves single moms who are trying to climb out of poverty and create a better life. They don’t have a facility where they can show the work happening.

Fundraising

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Because of the new obstacles posed by Texas’s abortion law, Cox faced difficulties seeking the potentially life-saving procedure. Strict abortion laws funnel people further into poverty by forcing many people to carry pregnancies to term but doing little to care for the children once they are born.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 15, 2024

Cases of abuse post-adoption, such as the death of 13-year-old Hana Williams , who was adopted from Ethiopia, have led countries that previously were a source of adoptees to implement laws that limit international adoptions. Some adoptees do feel they’ve been saved—particularly those who were true war orphans and those who had medical needs.

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

Between 2010 and 2019, 138 SIBs accounting for $441 million in capital have been issued globally, ranging in causes from workforce development to education and medical services (Hulse, Atun, and McPake 2021). British Medical Journal 339. The Geographies of Social Finance: Poverty Regulation through the ‘Invisible Heart’ of Markets.”

Public and Social Policy

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2022

This is why many nonprofits often seek Board members who are CEOs of large companies, partners in law firms, and other high-profile executives. One of our clients serves single Moms who are trying to climb out of poverty and create a better life. Or maybe the nonprofit’s work all happens remotely and there isn’t even an office.

Fundraising

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

million children out of poverty. None made it into law. By early 2023, however, Governor Tim Walz was declaring , “Now is the time to go bold” and pledged to “lead the nation in ending child poverty.” The paid family and medical leave system does not take effect until 2026. Those gains are already wiped away).

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

10 And when debtors can’t pay, we are disciplined with steep penalties, high interest rates or loan denials, and damaged credit scores—not to mention poverty when unpayable bills come due. 20 Healthcare The national crisis of medical debt is growing at an explosive pace. All debts are someone else’s assets.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

The legislative session frequently found itself in the national spotlight starting with legislation banning adult-oriented entertainment, including drag shows, in certain settings and banning adolescent medical procedures and some medications related to gender identity. 20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits.

Nonprofit governance and management

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

The legislative session frequently found itself in the national spotlight starting with legislation banning adult-oriented entertainment, including drag shows, in certain settings and banning adolescent medical procedures and some medications related to gender identity. 20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits.

Nonprofit governance and management