NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

For many people with diabetes, particularly those living below the poverty line, the cost of CGMs makes them unattainable. While these uses of CGMs may have merit, this trend has transformed their reputation from critical medical devices into lifestyle gadgets. The rebranding is problematic for several reasons.

Management

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

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

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 Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem.

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

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