The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Philanthropy Data Commons is another example of sector-wide data sharing that could serve as a model for future collaboration. The 990 Data Infrastructure coalition — a joint effort by GivingTuesday, the Aspen Institute, the Urban Institute, Charity Navigator, ProPublica, Candid, and Citizen Audit — is a great example.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

Philanthropy at schools happens without us talking about it. Her researchincluding a recent book, Children as Change Makers: Unleashing Childrens Real Philanthropic Power shows that young people are typically seen in one of two ways within philanthropy: as passive recipients or as future inheritors of wealth.

Children

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 24, 2025

Together, the organizations are set out to backfill funding for critical resources, save programs fighting extreme poverty, and ultimately, save lives. “We believe the future of philanthropy depends on strategic partnerships that prioritize long-term solutions over fragmented, short-term fixes. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Health

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This could leave nonprofits working on other critical issues, such as poverty alleviation and education, with limited funding and support. They require us to open up new kinds of funds to meet the needs we know and direct philanthropy to the needs that will emerge.

Civil Society

Candid

JULY 28, 2025

Advocacy and awareness Organizations like the Student Basic Needs Coalition and Swipe Out Hunger are working to destigmatize student poverty and expand access to resources like SNAP benefits and campus food pantries. Since 2020, Last Mile has supported over 11,000 students in STEM pathways, achieving a 74% graduation rate.

Education

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

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 11, 2025

In turn, this shifts nonprofits focus away from addressing underlying systemic problems like poverty and racism to superficial solutions that are more palatable to the rich. Boards are unequal, inequitable models of governance, in which the wealthiest often impose their interests onto the nonprofits they oversee.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 10, 2025

With federal programs and resources being cut or weaponized, philanthropy must be restless and relentless. Image Credit: Shelby Murphy Figueroa on Unsplash Nonprofits and philanthropic organizations in the United States have never seen a moment like this.

Foundations

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

The coalition is also clear about the potential perpetuation of the disproportionate impact of systemic racism on West Tennessees Black communities, which have lower household incomes and higher poverty rates than majority White counties. But they need long-term support from philanthropy, nonprofit partners, and labor unions.

Energy

Candid

JULY 16, 2025

lived in poverty The economic indicators of child well-being showed little improvement in 2023. While down slightly from 17% in 2019, the child poverty rate was unchanged from 2022 at 16%—or nearly 11.5 Fewer children lived in high-poverty areas Only in the area of family and community did all four indicators improve or hold steady.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

According to anti-oppression practitioners Both / And , The NPIC shifts the focus to service delivery and away from root causes, such as poverty, racism, and exploitation. In doing so, philanthropy and the non-profit sector are able to promote anti-racism while keeping the world safe for capitalism.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Philanthropy Fuels the Fire Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress. 15 Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress. 15 Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress. It needs organizers and activists.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

While these funds are an essential part of nonprofits financing, Cicilline acknowledges that the magnitude of potential federal funding decreases and continuing service demands will create a financial void that cannot be filled by philanthropy alone. Poverty is seen as an individual problem, but it affects us all.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Blue Avocado

MAY 6, 2025

Soon after the dawn of our digitally focused new century, strategic philanthropy came on the scene, extolling the power of theories of change and offering the promise that data could help us solve the big problems that vex society. At the dawn of modern alternative energy, Shahs efforts faced daunting odds.

Altruism and Helping

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 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. Sara Hudson: Tell us about your journey and how you came to writing a book about philanthropy.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 11, 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. And I think philanthropy has a major role to play in that.

Law

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. For More on This Topic: Anti-DEI Lawsuits Threaten Nonprofits, Philanthropies Demand for DEI Exceeds Action, Report Finds

Law

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JULY 21, 2025

Trump administration cuts could deepen poverty. Trump administration cuts could deepen poverty. Many of the West Virginia county's residents rely on federal programs to get by. Many of the West Virginia county's 17,000 residents rely on federal programs to get by.

Food

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Takiyah McCathern, an assistant principal at a high-poverty middle school in Wilkes County, N.C., By Drew Lindsay Logan Cyrus for The Chronicle Several new efforts aim to catalog grassroots efforts to strengthen democracy and close divides. raises money to pay for medical physicals required for students to play sports.

Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 18, 2024

What happens when you give cash to those in need? In this episode, Phil Buchanan and Grace Nicolette discuss direct cash transfers in conversation with Jesús Gerena, president and CEO of UpTogether.

Poverty

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The move is a change in how it operates, putting more power in the hands of grantees and looking to accelerate the speed at which its gifts have impact. By Thalia Beaty Associated Press GRAND ISLAND, NEB. John Peterson/AP Laura McAloon, the Grand Island, Neb.,

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

To support South African democracy, philanthropy faces two challenges. The other is that global philanthropy itself is under threat as South African “populist” opposition advocates for so-called “ foreign agent laws.” percent of the country’s 63 million people living in poverty, gross domestic product growth that slowed to 0.6

Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 12, 2024

Prest BRAC USA Julia Roberts is set to lead BRAC USA, an organization that fights global poverty. Also, the Connecticut Community Foundation has named a new leader, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation will install its next president in the fall.

Poverty

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This is especially relevant at a time when the planet is behind on several SDGs , including those related to poverty reduction and food security. The magnitude of the problem warrants philanthropy and aid at scale. The challenge is that carbon markets weren't designed to work for people in poverty.

Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JANUARY 17, 2023

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In his annual letter, Gates chief executive Mark Suzman wrote that the increased grants were spurred by global failures to adequately respond to the spread of infectious diseases, reduce poverty, promote gender equality, and address the effects of climate change.

Foundations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As close observers of the world of family giving, we are convinced this is an historic moment for families and the future of philanthropy as well. What makes this moment perhaps the most notable time in the history of family philanthropy is that it is a time of crucial choices—with huge potential consequences and opportunities.

Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

About 40 percent live below the poverty line. By Jim Rendon Ivy Vainio In South Dakota, Native Americans living on the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Reservation face tough economic odds. Unemployment is as high as 80 percent. On a reservation nearly the size of Rhode Island, grocery stores are scarce, and a trip to the only…

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2024

Could you outline what some of those strategies and forms of power are, and talk about how philanthropy can support movement strategies and help build movement power? From my perspective, philanthropy has a pivotal role in supporting efforts to build the power of people who have been denied it. We can support efforts to engage.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that grantmaking should rely on professional staff to make expert decisions, reflecting philanthropy’s move from a values-based tradition to a more technocratic bent. But even a decade ago, the limitations of what came to be called “ strategic philanthropy ” were evident. Just Trust Whom?

Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

India’s first giving day, March 2, will raise money to improve education, health care, and gender equality and meet other important needs in a country with nearly 230 million people living in poverty.

Poverty

Ken Goldstein

MAY 14, 2015

I received a kind email from Erik Anderson, of the Donor Dreams Blog , suggesting I take on the subject of The Future of Philanthropy for this month's nonprofit blog carnival. In Erik's call for Future Philanthropy blogs he links to a TED Talk from 2007: Katherine Fulton on You are the future of philanthropy. Easy peasy, right?

Philanthropy

Candid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This is especially true for those who are living in poverty, have experienced trauma, or are facing other challenges. Philanthropy can invest in practical solutions to improve attendance and well-being. Here’s how philanthropy can help appeared first on Candid insights.

Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

True Charity, a conservative-leaning group of more than 200 nonprofits and churches devoted to poverty reduction, requires recipients to stick to a detailed work and self-sufficiency plan.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

Values

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

Image Credit: Etienne Girardet on unsplash.com Many people working in nonprofits and philanthropy say they want to reduce poverty, and increasingly, foundations, nonprofits, and social-movement organizations are developing communications strategies and telling stories that aim to dispel the myth that the US economic system is equitable and fair.

Poverty

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

GiveDirectly is using a Google-developed artificial intelligence tool to pinpoint areas with high concentrations of poverty and storm damage. GiveDirectly is using a Google-developed artificial intelligence tool to pinpoint areas with high concentrations of poverty and storm damage.

Poverty