NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts. Even where work requirements do lead to increases in employment, they mostly keep people in poverty. In some cases, the share of families living in deep poverty increased.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism. In this community, poverty remains a challenge: 16.4 percent of families live below the poverty line, a poverty rate more than six percentage points higher than Seattle.

Community Development

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This cannabis retailer encourages customers to recycle the plastic that encases certain cannabis products by offering a $4 pre-rolled joint for every piece of packaging they return. This year, they are back with an all-new holiday campaign to tackle period poverty. We have two fabulous presenters.??

Public and Nonprofit Management

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The National Retail Federation predicts that holiday sales this year will increase 4.1 For nonprofits that have online stores or receive a percentage of profits from ethical retailers, it could be a banner year for online sales. percent to $586.1 billion and that online shopping will jump a whopping 12 percent to $96 billion.

Retail

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. Meanwhile, at Tugaloo College—a historically Black college in Jackson, Mississippi—the newly formed Reuben V.

Food

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

Through a series of successfully negotiated community benefit agreements , BAMBD CDC has ensured the addition of low-income housing and below-market rate retail spaces to private developments. Noni Session of EB PREC (and a member of our cooperative) nurtures a dream to revitalize historic Seventh Street in West Oakland.

Culture

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. Today, there are six times more Black-owned businesses downtown than there were five years ago, with 22 percent of downtown retail stores now owned by people of color. The city’s Black business district was devastated.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

For example, one study found that, in the period 2011-2012, nearly 55–60 million low-income Indians were pushed into poverty because of aspirational consumption, resulting in a reduction of about 13 percent of their daily calorie intake.

Production

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 15, 2024

The UN goals include climate change measures, increased access to quality education and healthcare, gender equality and the eradication of poverty. Family philanthropy and retail giving contributed to overall private philanthropy growth of 10%.

Philanthropy

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

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

poverty level, and another 17% qualified in the category of ALICE ® ( A sset L imited, I ncome C onstrained, E mployed). ALICE nonprofit employees live in households that earn more than the federal poverty level, but less than what it costs to survive in the counties where they live. The national data will be tracked over time.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

Image Credit: Justin Wilkens on unsplash.com In 2021, more than 40 percent of all retail stores that opened in the United States were dollar stores. Increasingly, dollar stores are driving “grocery stores and other retailers out of business” (6), according to a recent report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

Retail

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to shatter previous records by reaching at least $218.3 The Little Market is a 501(c)(3), charitable organization founded by women to help alleviate poverty by sourcing their good from artisan groups in over 25 countries. billion in 2021.

Ethics

Selfish Giving

MAY 1, 2019

Discount retailer Big Lots has raised $2.6 An interesting article on how online real estate hub Zillow partnered with media company Attn: to produce an original docu-series that covers housing issues and social causes such as LGBT discrimination and poverty. million dollars in more than 1,400 stores for Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Children

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to increase 14 percent to $163 billion in 2019. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade. All profits from merchandise sales go directly toward supporting PETA’s work for animals.

Ethics

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2023

Barbie’s comeback was too good to pass up, and it has yielded millions of dollars in retail partnerships so far: trademarked shoes, ice cream, watches, and more. Writer Alex O’Keefe told CNN that he was “living below the poverty line” while writing the hit show The Bear for FX, and saw very little money while the studios made millions. “We

Manufacturing

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Now law, HF 2310 creates an even more supportive environment for community solar—ensuring that low- and middle-income families receive the full retail rate of solar, and that subscription models require a majority of public interest and low-to-moderate-income subscribers, among other elements. See also Deborah A.

Energy

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to increase 14 percent to $163 billion in 2019. Serrv International is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade. All profits from merchandise sales go directly toward supporting PETA’s work for animals.

Ethics

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

From poverty wages to sky-high rents to environmental disasters, many of the crises we face today are linked to outsized and entrenched corporate power. Over the past five years, PowerSwitch Action has experimented with weaving together seven local affiliates in California to grow statewide power.

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While in Tanzania, I noticed that most clothing sold in local markets was retail surplus purchased from abroad. As the United States has imported cheap goods from abroad, domestic manufacturing has suffered—part of the cause of persistent poverty in many US counties, especially in rural communities.

Public and Social Policy