NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

After months of quiet preparation, we went public with a community forum at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Student Center in late January 2009. On October 2, 2009, Chicago was ejected from the hunt on the first vote on that cold, crisp Friday morning—a testament to the power of grassroots activism.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

When enough mutualist networks and organizations are active, you may even wind up with an ecosysteman abundance of shared resources, experience, social capital, and financing, both centralized and grassroots, all sustaining projects serving a wide variety of community needs. It isnt charity, it isnt selfishness.

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Ann Green

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The goal here isn’t that you should immediately start participating in every activity we’ve listed. However, we recommend actively engaging with peer-to-peer donors to show them the impact of their gifts and increase the chances they’ll become recurring donors. Also, research disclosure regulations so you comply with marketing laws.

Participation and motivation 179

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Fundraising Leadership

AUGUST 11, 2023

But she did make her dream happen in a very big way by using her power, immense talent and voice in an enormously successful global musical career, activism and presence in the social justice equity movement and advocacy for truth and personal power.

Activism 98

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Implements new avenues of fundraising techniques, keeping abreast of industry trends, issues, and changes in the law pertaining to donations.” Implements new avenues of fundraising techniques, keeping abreast of industry trends, issues, and changes in the law pertaining to donations.”

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Pairing these network building activities with capacity building opportunities prepares our members to engage in food systems advocacy efforts, as well as creating opportunities to advocate for self-identified policy priorities on municipal, state, and national levels. Learn new structures Food Policy Councils take different forms.

Public and Social Policy 94

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MAY 22, 2017

Stacy Harbaugh is the Communications Director for Midwest Environmental Advocates, a Madison, WI-based public interest environmental law center. It is Midwest Environmental Advocates’ mission to support citizens’ efforts to protect public health and the environment using sound science and the law. to 4:00 p.m.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

14 However, human activities such as burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, landfills, toxic agricultural practices, and transportation have increased the natural rate of these gases in the atmosphere. Educational institutions and industry leaders must actively work to dismantle systemic racism. degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.36

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Moreover, the reliance on AI-driven tools has contributed to the militarization of police forces, which further alienates communities and distances law enforcement from community-based approaches.15 1 (February 2023): 283307; and Jie Chen et al., You Can Opt Out, accessed November 13, 2024, www.ajl.org /campaigns/fly. 2 (Summer 2024): 2642.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2024

In the wake of the 2023 US Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action as practiced in colleges and universities, experts say these cases could be the tip of an anti-DEI legal iceberg for nonprofits and philanthropic institutions. The nonprofit and philanthropic sectors are at growing risk. “A

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 31, 2025

In 2016, during the middle of her third year of law school, Lauren Blodgett received a diagnosis of a rare and severe autoimmune condition. Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good?

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Such moments are lauded and pedestalized but often lack further interrogation into why activism to reclaim formerly Black-owned land is necessary in the first place. The model being developed in California, merging both legislative advocacy and activism, could, we believe, be scaled nationally. Clearly, much work remains to be done.

Law 133

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This record acts as a form of permanent punishment, limiting our ability to participate in civil society through a complex web of laws in Illinois that punish people with criminal records, often indefinitely. The informal economy is a diversified set of economic activities that are unprotected and unregulated by the state.

Public and Social Policy 132

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

According to research from the University of Colorado Boulder , since the systems were trained on faces that reinforce the gender binary, they are also deficient in recognizing genderqueer, nonbinary, and transgender people.

Public and Social Policy 125

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A New Court Tactic The youth were represented by Our Children’s Trust, a nonprofit law firm. But as Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, told the New York Times, “This was climate science on trial, and what the court has found as a matter of fact is that the science is right.

Environmental 136

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Or consider if the retirement money of our prestigious public universities and their medical centers, where cleaners, cafeteria staff, and medical assistants care for students and patients, was invested in one of the largest corporate landlords in the country, and this landlord doubled their rent or evicted their families.

Public and Social Policy 143

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

Darity and Kirsten Mullen , “the capable and culpable party” that set and enforced policies and laws to actively build the assets of white families and destroy the assets of Black families. Universities are starting to confront their legacies and ties to slavery. Foundations could follow this model.

Philanthropy 134

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Advertising Universities 134

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 8, 2023

Among the key takeaways: Right to Protest: “Greater emphasis is needed by civil society and supportive states on protecting freedom of peaceful assembly, including by developing preventative actions, advocating for law enforcement reforms and ensuring perpetrators of violence against protesters are held to account” (11).

Civil Society 121

Civil Society Governance Taxation Law 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

Okinawa also tops the nation in unemployment rates , irregular employment rates, and single-parent household ratios , while having the lowest university enrollment rate. Toward Equity and Self-Determination In his paper, “ A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass ,” Harvard Law School Professor J. percent of the country’s total land area.

Public and Social Policy 140

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

A law professor at Seattle University , advocate for queer and trans liberation, and long-time participant in movements for racial and economic justice, Spade spoke on payment and movement work at a virtual forum organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. If people are just like ‘I don’t do activism unless I get paid.

Medical 122

Medical Universities Nonprofits Culture 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

That requires addressing high levels of corruption, a lack of rule of law, weak civil service capacity, poor public service delivery, and a lack of both transparency and accountability. All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty. World Justice Project (WJP) works around the world to advance the rule of law.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise.

Collaborations 132

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 132

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This question was at the center of an experiment led by the Nonprofit Democracy Network , a fiscally sponsored project of the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Liberation is an active, daily practice. Cited in Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement , (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 290.

Leadership 130

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A recent study by the university policy research center I direct, CoLab for Community and Behavioral Health Policy, confirmed this capacity gap among mental health “policy intermediaries”—nongovernmental organizations that work closely with government to inform policy development.

Health 126

Health Public and Social Policy Governance Collaborations 126

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. In May of 2018, the European Union law called that Genera l Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect.

Public and Social Policy 140

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 20, 2024

Doing so means transforming our governing institutions, laws, regulations, and customs in a more fundamental way than tinkering around the edges with policy and programs. We need love “not merely in the personal sense,” as James Baldwin put it, “but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

They heavily overrepresent cultural artifacts produced by the wealthy and people who had access early on to digital technologies and the bandwidth to digitize their activities online. If you were the president of the womens chess club at your university, that should count extra for you, right? Thats completely within our capacity.

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Nonprofit governance and management Technology Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 99

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2024

Dr. Apryl Williams, an assistant professor in communications and media at the University of Michigan, said in a TIME article, “These memes are actually doing logical and political work…[and] highlighting and sort of commenting on the racial inequality in a way that mainstream news doesn’t capture.” She is quiet and “strategic.”

Race and Ethnicity 135

Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Health Philanthropy 135

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

Community Reinvestment Strengths and Shortfalls NCRC was formed in 1990 to defend the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act , a law created to undo the structural racism embedded in redlining. To assess risk, the newly formed Federal Housing Administration hired the University of Michigan’s Ernest Fisher and Prudential’s Frederick Babcock.

Finance 116

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 116

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 7, 2023

Within just two months of graduating, 18 of the 22 graduates were invited to serve on a nonprofit board or were in active conversations with at least one organization about board service, while the remaining graduates were in longer-terms conversations with local nonprofits. It is my duty to use the skills and talents I have to give back.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 11, 2023

In the years following the march, our nation would see some semblance of progress, with the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed into law. These laws—these milestones of progress—are the scaffolding for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry that we know today. As Geoff K.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Law Values 144

Candid

MAY 29, 2024

Coined by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the term refers to the fact that combinations—or intersections—of social identities such as race, class, and gender result in different experiences and treatment. What is intersectionality? The librarian receives a single hard copy of a book on bisexual Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Poverty 115

Poverty Associations Law Universities 115

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Getting to Know Mark Jordan, Our Board Chair Mark Jordan joined the Momentum Nonprofit Partners Board of Directors five years ago, and he has been an active and engaged board member ever since. After high school I attended the University of MS with a double major in finance. I have two adult sons and one daughter-in-law.

Law 103

Law Environmental Nonprofits Finance 103

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

With the backing of US public interest law firms Our Children’s Trust and Earthjustice , the young Hawaiian plaintiffs are determined to fight for a better future for their community. The second approach uses tort law to sue polluters for the damages they have caused.

Governance 112

Governance Law Culture Environmental 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 11, 2022

ESG for Regulation: Helping governments make and monitor policies, compliance, and laws. However, until we have a universally accepted standard for ESG reporting, it will continue to be difficult to compare ESG performance across companies using different frameworks. ESG for Assurance.

Social Enterprise 137

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Candid

JUNE 4, 2024

But in 2022, GoVoteNYC partnered with Columbia University professor Donald Green to conduct randomized testing of grantees’ voter mobilization tactics. Young people are among the most active and engaged organizers and canvassers, yet right now, many feel disillusioned about the candidates.

Law 111

Law Collaborations Universities Leadership 111

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Create a list of donors who have not donated in 18 months and point them toward an upcoming event, or other activity. It need not be a solicitation.

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