NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 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. It was a form of mutual aid outside of the state.

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

percent of people in the United States were poor or low-income (earning between poverty-line income and twice that amount) in 2018. An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. And homelessness is rising.

Homelessness

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

What follows is a regrettable event in medical research related to this topic. Many find inspiration in the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American cancer patient whose tumor cells were taken without her consent in 1951leading to a multibillion dollar industry, while her family and descendants dealt with poverty.

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

For instance, GiveDirectly , a charity focused on direct cash transfers to alleviate poverty, faced a $20 million funding shortfall due to cuts from USAID. Some nonprofits are incorporating social enterprise models , developing revenue-generating initiatives such as microfinance programs or fair-trade businesses to ensure continuity.

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

In Nigeria, where health inequities are deeply rooted in systemic issues such as poverty, 1 gender inequality, 2 and inadequate governance (poor administration/planning), 3 the introduction of new technologies can sometimes deepen these disparities rather than alleviate them. In Nigeria, the doctor-to-patient ratio remains a critical concern.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

million people on antiretroviral medication. But Ramaphosa has painstakingly tried to tie foreign policy to national progress, which in every turn comes to economic growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. People living with HIV will get sick and die, with an increase in transmission and incidence. percent of its R44.4

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

With such low wages, its little wonder that adults with disabilities are living in poverty at a rate twice that of adults who dont have disabilitiesa statistic that mirrors the employment rates above. 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. Canal Alliance is a nonprofit champion of immigrants who are challenged by a lack of resources and an unfamiliar environment. 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. She may need surgery if they get larger and put too much pressure on her brain.

Insurance

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 30, 2025

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. As Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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. By Drew Lindsay Logan Cyrus for The Chronicle Several new efforts aim to catalog grassroots efforts to strengthen democracy and close divides.

Philanthropy

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

His ideas changed paradigms of public health and human rights, and he demonstrated that it’s possible to deliver world-class medical care to people in the most resource-poor settings imaginable. Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership.

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. 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

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The lack of income earned by Black men’s mass incarceration plunged many Black families into poverty for decades, caused the loss of homeownership, and eliminated other opportunities for Black families to build wealth over the long term. Rehabilitation includes medical and psychological care, as well as legal and social services.

Public and Social Policy

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

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

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Spade questions whether this method can achieve liberatory ends, arguing against the idea that change will occur if a “nonprofit report shows that poverty is bad, or cops are racist.” Such a liberal view assumes that injustice results from misunderstandings, and if misunderstandings are cleared up, then social progress will result.

Medical

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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. Soon after, the Black Panther Party established free medical clinics as well as a free breakfast program.

Food

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 29, 2024

In this article, we will describe PolicyLink’s relationship with love and accountability, which begins with the 100 million people in this nation who live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. This requires us to also be accountable to our colleagues, our partners in the equity movement, and to anyone who joins us to win on equity.

Nonprofit governance and management

Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Heron Foundation , for example, works with mission-aligned, poverty-oriented investment managers to grow its assets. A coalition of funders—public, private, and philanthropic—investing in drug research, development, and clinical trials to defeat tuberculosis can collectively shape advances in medical science as well as global markets.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

So, we’ve been identifying assets, both human and infrastructural, that others might not see or even imagine when they read headlines focused on crime and poverty on the Northeast side. Such lack of access is an injustice that feeds poor health outcomes, including higher rates of chronic diseases, such as diabetes.

Food

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Within a hospital system, medical providers are responsible for the delivery of care, while other departments steward the physical plant, and administrative departments are responsible for the bottom line. We often hear the sentiment, “I already work on poverty (or climate or health disparities, etc.) and that’s hard enough.

Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Supporting Healing Justice and Holistic Security The JPB Foundation , which funds US-based medical research, poverty issues, and the environment, got involved with the Hive Fund when the senior officer for environmental justice, Anna Loizeaux, heard their focus areas of climate, gender and racial justice.

Environmental

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. We are a nonprofit champion of immigrants who are challenged by a lack of resources and an unfamiliar environment. We believe everyone has the right to achieve their dreams.

Health

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