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Stand Together Foundation Launches $30M Initiative to Help Nonprofits Dealing with Poverty

NonProfit PRO

Grants News/Stats/Studies Initiative Poverty Stand Together Foundation

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Ending Child Poverty: Lessons from a One-Year Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

NonProfit Quarterly

This expanded child tax credit was incredibly effective: child poverty went down by a record-breaking amount , lifting an estimated 2.9 million children out of poverty, reducing food hardship, decreasing parent financial stress, and more. Image Credit: Michael Mims on unsplash.com.

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Give up your nonprofit poverty mentality

Get Fully Funded

Whether you celebrate Lent or not, now is a good time to think about something you can afford to give up in your nonprofit – your poverty mindset. Poverty mindset stunts a nonprofit’s growth. So how about giving up the poverty mindset and small thinking for the next 40 days and see what happens? General Fundraising Inspiration Leadership Management Personal/Professional Development poverty mindset small thinking

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Give up your nonprofit poverty mentality

Get Fully Funded

Whether you celebrate Lent or not, now is a good time to think about something you can afford to give up in your nonprofit – your poverty mindset. Poverty mindset stunts a nonprofit’s growth. So how about giving up the poverty mindset and small thinking for the next 40 days and see what happens? General Fundraising Inspiration Leadership Management Personal/Professional Development poverty mindset small thinking

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You can end global poverty forever - at least this video says so

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

While the video hails you as the hero who single-handedly ends global poverty and shows news reports of how the world is reacting to this supposed feat, it just doesn’t feel like something that is truly possible—or believable. Part of the problem is that it lacks a small, feasible call to action that could credibly make a dent in poverty. That it’s possible to see an end to extreme poverty within a generation.

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Discipline, Punish, and Palliate

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Schoenberger Palliative measures such as needle-exchange programs form a third model of neoliberal urban-poverty governance alongside policing and paternalism By Chana R.

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GuideStar Pulls Hate Group Designations After Threats

The NonProfit Times

Growing harassment and threats directed toward leadership and staff have led watchdog database GuideStar to remove its flagging of 46 suspected hate groups as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — at least for the time being. Advocacy Database Featured nptimes GuideStar Southern Poverty Law Center

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What’s Your Answer

The LAPA Blog

For me, I am a fundraiser because I believe the nonprofit sector can do a lot more to reduce poverty; so I raise funds toward achieving that aim, toward securing the necessary capital for designing and implementing anti-poverty policies and program solutions.

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Nonprofit Radio for December 19, 2022: Grameen Team Dream

Tony Martignetti

Trathen Heckman: Grameen Team Dream In his brand-spanking-new book, “Small Loans, Big Dreams,” Alex Counts recounts the story of Grameen Bank’s wild success moving millions of people out of poverty by elevating microfinancing for the poor.

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Gates Foundation to Increase Funding to $8.3 Billion This Year

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

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.

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On the First-Ever India Giving Day, the Highest-Earning Ethnic Group in the U.S. Gets a Chance to Step Up and Help Their Homeland

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

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

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Share Our Strength President and CEO Tom Nelson To Retire

NonProfit PRO

After 10 years of dedicated service to their mission to end hunger and poverty in the U.S. and abroad, Share Our Strength’s President and CEO Tom Nelson will retire effective June 30, 2022. News/Stats/Studies Koya Partners No Kid Hungry campaign Retire Retirement Share Our Strength Tom Nelso

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Why Funders Care About Capacity-Building

NonProfit PRO

So, if donors care about a mission, such as the eradication of cancer, ending poverty or high-quality education, they realize the source of fundamental change occurs with the partnership between technology and humans. Donors understand that data and technology are game-changers.

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Lillian D. Singh Joins Share Our Strength as Senior VP of Family Economic Opportunity

NonProfit PRO

As part of Share Our Strength’s executive team, Singh will lead the organization’s initiative to engage structural inequities that create, sustain, and perpetuate food insecurity and persistent poverty for families. .

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EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

GCAP , an international campaign fighting to raise awareness about poverty was struggling with this issue. To impact the World Banks anti-poverty policies, GCAP needed to show tangible grassroots support, difficult considering that its millions of members were spread out over 100 countries. The strategy behind the avatar plan is to raise awareness against poverty in a way that works both offline and online and also has some potential for media coverage.

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Student Loans Update

NonProfit Quarterly

Change the definition of “ discretionary income ” from income above 150 percent of the poverty line to income above 225 percent of the poverty line.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Study finds significant connection between poverty, poor health care. A significant link exists between poverty and high healthcare needs, a report from Robin Hood finds. Released in collaboration with Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy and the Leona M.

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What Nonprofit leaders need to know about the brain

Fundraising Coach

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. Living in poverty is more than just the reality of the financial burden of taking care of oneself and/or a family, it is so much more than that. Nonprofit work is stressful.

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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

Census figures confirm that Camden is a poor city (with a poverty rate of 33.6 However, persistent poverty plagues the city’s residents. Image Credit: sippakorn yamkasikorn on pixabay.com.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. It’s a complex tapestry of challenges: Prosperity or poverty, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation.

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How a Community of Long-Term Monthly Donors Make a Long-Term Difference

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When they do not have access to funds, families in poverty depend on getting the water they need through temporary, charitable fixes, or they walk hours to find it from natural sources, or they may pay up to 20% of their income to buy it.

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What privilege means and how we use it

CNPE

They will point to challenges they have faced in the past – and may be still facing – unemployment, poverty, health challenges, and more. I grew up in poverty. Both my parents grew up living in poverty. A guest blog post by Pamela Darnall, CEO of Family & Children's Place. .

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Changing the Economic Game in Rural America: Overcoming Financial Trauma

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the result is rural poverty. percent of rural residents lived below the poverty line, compared to 11.9 It supports a population of over 380,000 residents, 21 percent of whom live in poverty, 15 percent of whom are Black, and 15 percent Latinx.

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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Black Women’s Views on Homeownership Is Key to Progress

NonProfit Quarterly

Specifically, policymakers do not consider Black women living in poverty when developing programs that help people purchase and retain ownership of a home. PNW Production on pexels.com.

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Black Co-op Farms: Building a Worker Strategy in Mississippi

NonProfit Quarterly

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The Dawn of the Nonprofit Sector Dunning begins the history of the nonprofit sector in the 1960s, when protests against discrimination prompted political leaders to look for solutions to persistent poverty.

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SSIR Stories Around the World

Stanford Social Innovation Review

ARTICLE | Ending Period Shame and Poverty in Asia by Noriko Akiyama, Fan Li & Wenquian Xu. ARTICLE | What ‘Cash Plus” Programs Teach Us About Fighting Extreme Poverty by Imran Matin. By SSIR Global Edition Editors.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. isn’t nearly enough to move a farmer out of poverty; in most cases, incomes would need to increase by 100 to 300 percent or more.

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How to Make Guaranteed Income Work: Ten Lessons from Newark, New Jersey

NonProfit Quarterly

In contrast, guaranteed income gives cash to people living below the poverty line or with inconsistent or no income and entails a qualifying process. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King advocated for guaranteed income as the simplest and most effective solution to poverty.

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What Does Tribal Land Stewardship Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

A Montana State study from 2019 estimated that the poverty rate statewide for Native communities exceeded 30 percent. Fort Belknap Reservation: Montana Poverty Report Card (Bozeman, MT: Montana State University Extension, September 2019).

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More Than Just a Structure: The Myriad Impacts of Black Women’s Exclusion from Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

By combining Insight Center’s expertise in advancing race- and gender-equitable economic policy and Springboard’s deep field experience combating poverty by centering Black women, we provide context for understanding the housing market’s inequities. Image Credit: Jakob Owens on unsplash.com.

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Home Energy Assistance Fund (HEAF) Program Director

Arizona State University

Through collaborations with individuals and organizations, Wildfire develops and implements strategies to stop poverty before it starts.

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Big News: Startup Challenge to Fund & Showcase Social Impact Ventures By Women

Care2

million nonprofits in the US that are working in similar issue areas and trying to address global warming, poverty, the gender pay gap, affordable healthcare, education, etc. How do we disrupt the nonprofit sector? I’ve talked about the dire need for nonprofits to innovate over the years on Frogloop. Because there are over 1.5

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Black Women’s Pay Inequity Starts in the School System

NonProfit Quarterly

Higher Education Doesn’t Solve Poverty. Harris-Perry cites a 2015 report from the National Partnership for Women and Families to emphasize this point: one in four Black women live in poverty, a rate two-and-a-half times that of white women.

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New York Brings Power to the People

NonProfit Quarterly

About one third of US households live in “energy poverty,” among them disproportionate numbers of Black, Latinx, and Native families. About one third of US households live in “energy poverty,” among them disproportionate numbers of Black, Latinx, and Native families.

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What Is A Nonprofit Website Visitor Worth?

The Agitator

M+R studied the online fundraising performance of 84 organisations across the spectrum — environment, poverty, animal welfare, health, culture, international — to give the rest of us a treasury of data and insight. 61 cents. How do I know that? I’ve just read the superb M+R Benchmarks 2015 report, supported by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN).

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2023 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch digital marketing and fundraising campaigns.

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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

The Kindful Blog

Mission: WINS (Women In Need Society) is Calgary’s homegrown thrift charity founded in 1992 to provide basic needs to women in poverty and their families. Impacting: Poverty.

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Cultivating a Just Climate Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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 challenge is that carbon markets weren't designed to work for people in poverty. By Claire McGuinness & Matthew Forti.

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How Hawai?i Is Ending Youth Incarceration After More Than a Century of Colonization

NonProfit Quarterly

Due to historical trauma that predates the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Indigenous people are more likely to experience poverty than their nonindigenous neighbors—and in their own homelands.

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Ep177: Tech Company Partners with Oxfam for 'See a Demo, Get a Goat'

Selfish Giving

They are a fantastic animal to donate because almost singlehandedly they can lift a family out of poverty. Today on CauseTalk Radio , Megan and I talk to Lisa Lewis , Director of Marketing at Formation Data Systems (FDS) , a startup storage company, about an interesting cause marketing partnership with Oxfam involving giving goats to families in need!

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What Nonprofit leaders need to know about the brain

Fundraising Coach

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. Living in poverty is more than just the reality of the financial burden of taking care of oneself and/or a family, it is so much more than that. Nonprofit work is stressful.

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How to write a Strong Nonprofit Mission Statement [Template + Examples]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

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.