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Small Firms Are Still a Big Missed Opportunity in Development Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The problem is not lack of potential impact; SMEs represent nine out of 10 firms, the biggest employers worldwide, and without helping these firms grow, we cannot create jobs, lift people from poverty, empower women, or innovate solutions for the climate crisis. Why is philanthropy still hesitant? Business owners aren’t “poor enough.”

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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

In a preliminary statement to the complaint, the plaintiffs cite Thomas Sowell’s 1998 poem, “The Poverty Pimps’ Poem,” ( Let us celebrate the poor, Let us hawk them door to door. There’s a market for their pain, Votes and glory and money to gain. Let us celebrate the poor.

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Commentary: The Full Potential Of The Social Sector  

The NonProfit Times

That freedom has enabled them to conquer new horizons in business, revolutionizing online retail, the electric car market, and even the commercial space market. 22% of those workers are living below or just above the poverty line. Jody Levison-Johnson, Ph.D.,

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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

The economy should not exist merely to serve markets or maximize profits or even gross domestic product (GDP); it should work to uplift human flourishing, equality, and shared prosperity. These policies work together to stabilize household incomes, reducing poverty and providing the foundation for wealth building.

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Our Task Ahead: Reclaiming Revolutionary Struggle in Atlanta and the South

NonProfit Quarterly

The misleadership class had a general agreement that the movement would not disrupt governance agreements and so the Atlanta Project-SNCC were often excluded from those discussions because we would not comply with the PR and marketing campaigns that Atlanta was the city too busy to hate despite its repression of Black people, Nwangaza said.

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Defying the Odds: The Case for Investing in Organizing Workers in the South

NonProfit Quarterly

With more than half of the nations Black workforce living in the South and more than one in five Southern workers making less than $15 an hour , a two-tiered labor market exists that perpetuates the legacy of slavery and injustice in the modern economy. But the times are changing.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

For many people with diabetes, particularly those living below the poverty line, the cost of CGMs makes them unattainable. Meanwhile, over the last few years, companies like ZOE and Oviva have been marketing CGMs as trendy, health-optimization tools for people who dont have diabetes.