Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This is good news for our youth, many of whom experience mental health challenges rooted in intergenerational trauma, poverty, and social alienation. Far too many Native American youth grow up in environments where historic and contemporary trauma, poverty , and negative societal narratives shape their identities from birth.

Health 105

Health Culture Poverty Activism 105

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

11 Unique barriers to care, including stigma vis--vis mental health, language discrepancies, and poverty, put Latinx people in the United States at higher risk of receiving inadequate treatment than the broader population. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 10 Only 35.1 Arnett et al.,

Race and Ethnicity 72

Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health Medical 72

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 31, 2023

Grassroots youth organizing groups—many of which serve immigrant, refugee, Black, and Indigenous communities—can help participants overcome the poverty, racism, institutional injustice, and trauma they often suffer during their childhoods.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Participation and motivation Poverty 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Impoverished individuals are treated as passive recipients of solutions, with no active role in the process. The proposed work would integrate fundamental changes in programs and policies to transform driver education, active and latent safety measures, and the built environment.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

Drawing from the lessons we’ve learned at One Are Fund navigating the absorption and implementation of big bet philanthropy, we offer two constructive actions each for donors and doers to ensure big bet philanthropy leads to even bigger social change down the road: 1.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 21, 2023

As foundations increasingly acknowledge the centuries of systematic and institutional racism that have led to intergenerational trauma, cycles of poverty, and reduced life expectancies in communities of color, they are working to re-examine philanthropy’s history and reimagine its role.

Foundations 98

Foundations Philanthropy Construction Poverty 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Trauma is an invisible unhealed wound caused by an overwhelming event, series of events, or enduring conditions that remains active in our bodies, our psyches, and our ways of relating to others. Systems are not mechanical constructs or impersonal faceless institutions. It’s everywhere. But this comes at a high cost.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is instead an exercise in liberating the constructs of creativity from being the prerogative of the Western, masculine, or the allegedly educated, while reclaiming what rural women of India have championed for thousands of years. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

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. He had to quiet dissenters and have a very active core. Democracy requires agency.

Culture 108

Culture Technology Law Construction 108

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a Puerto Rico-based nonprofit that leverages community-based abandonment inventories, community–municipal partnerships, a rehabilitation and construction team, and in-house legal expertise to convert abandoned buildings and lots into opportunities for community-led development, the lack of access to financing nearly destroyed the organization.

Non-Profits 124

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 124

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to a 2014 study of wage theft in California and New York , wage theft doesn’t just hurt low-wage and immigrant workers, it also contributes to poverty, increases the need for SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program, formerly known as “food stamps), and increases the cost of public assistance services.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

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. He had to quiet dissenters and have a very active core. Democracy requires agency.

Culture 98

Culture Technology Law Construction 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

In late 2021, a small Zimbabwean community-based organization, Score Against Poverty (SCORE), with help from the Canadian government, decided to test out a different approach. How visible that resentment is depends on the power of those not benefiting or being penalized.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Avoidance Avoidance actively ignores personal mortality. In one, a poverty relief charity was described as either, “Meeting the immediate needs of people,” or “Creating lasting improvements that would benefit people in the future.” She can construct legacy “products” or giving opportunities that deliver this lasting impact.

Psychology 52

Psychology Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This includes building transnational activism that links anti-war, anti-militarism, and anti-nuclear work with the efforts of those campaigning for economic justice, environmental protection, open borders and migrant rights, anti-racism and anti-fascism, equality, and police and prison abolition.

Construction 109

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

Iti’s full-face moko (traditional tattoo), and his decades of activism, make him one of the most recognizable faces in New Zealand. By the mid-20th century, Māori had poorer health, education, and housing, and were more likely to face incarceration and poverty. Fighting racism put him in the spotlight.

Governance 98

Governance Health Public and Social Policy Culture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

FHO, which centers racial equity in cross-sector efforts to address the systemic causes of housing insecurity, is now actively searching out ways to invest in housing and climate justice. In this article, I talk about collective actions that funders can take to holistically address climate-related impacts on housing justice.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 111

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. B2P has constructed or supported over 450 trail bridges in 21 countries, reaching over 1.5 million people.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty. Borne overwhelmingly by the poorest and most vulnerable, it exacerbates their poverty and threatens their health. Where we have seen major, population-level, and systemic advances in social and economic well-being, governments have been the primary driving force.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Energy and utility justice movements aren’t just imagining versions of this future but also are actively working to build them; yet the formidable power structures of the electric and gas utility system often stand in the way. in California are actively seeking to bring utilities back under public and community control.

Energy 119

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

A recent study by economists at The New Schools Center for New York City Affairs demonstrates this capacity, finding that a New York City public bank could create 24,900 permanent jobs and 45,700 temporary construction jobs, build or preserve over 17,000 affordable homes, and generate $5.8

Finance 136

Finance Law Poverty Governance 136

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

This model forces communities to pay the enormous costs of unneeded transmission line construction and bear the massive burden of transmission line failures. A massive outpouring of clean-energy activism—including opposition from over 110 California organizations—resulted in defeat of the bill.

Energy 98

Energy Construction Environmental Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Earthquakes and human-caused activities like building roads without grading or proper drainage or placing fill during construction can also generate landslides. All these issues are compounded when evacuees live in poverty, don’t have the resources to rebuild, or lack family support. Medical treatment is disrupted.

Insurance 130

Insurance Medical Construction Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2024

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. People everywhere are attempting to support one another, and they face an active assault.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Poverty Sociology 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

19 While the need to employ an intersectional lens in movement work is widely acknowledged at a theoretical level, 20 actual movement activity often falls into narrower silos. Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? 28 Yet an approach that prioritizes “Black faces in high places,” Pérez insists, is insufficient.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 96

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The overall vision that emerges from these essays is hopeful—marked not just by a growing awareness of the problem of corporate capture but also by a growing resolve to confront it and construct a more democratic economy. 16 Next, anger.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 134

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 12, 2024

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. Often it was masked. That should give us hope.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Governance Healthcare Insurance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

million children out of poverty. By early 2023, however, Governor Tim Walz was declaring , “Now is the time to go bold” and pledged to “lead the nation in ending child poverty.” This spring in Minnesota marked a flurry of legislative activity. But many pieces of major legislation failed. Child tax credit ? Paid family leave?

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 98