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Research Friday: The Self-Sufficiency Standard

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For nearly 50 years, the Federal Poverty Limit (FPL) has been the standard measure used by governments and nonprofit organizations serving low income individuals and families to determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs. As part of a. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to.

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

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Poverty in these countries is defined as falling short of food, not being able to send children to school, having limited or no access to safe drinking water, living in unstable houses and, perhaps worse, feeling powerless as the conflicting or corrupted governments don’t offer any means to get out of poverty 3.

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Diversity recruitment key to nonprofit boards achieving mission

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Furthermore, greater than half of nonprofit boards (52 percent) serving clientele of 25 percent to 49 percent Hispanic also do not have any Latinos board members, according to The Urban Institute study, Nonprofit Governance in the United States: Findings on Performance and Accountability from the First National Representative Study.

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