Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 115

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

From vast riparian watersheds to fisheries to croplands, few corners of the nation’s ⎯ and the world’s ⎯ food systems have escaped the eyes of the Walton family. Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 116

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2024

Image credit: DOERS on istockphoto.com Studies of climate change impacts “have largely focused on physical health,” according to a policy brief issued in summer 2022 by the World Health Organization (WHO). This, in turn, can lead to forced migration as families attempt to flee conflict.

Health 82

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 82

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

The most pernicious one is the narrative regarding small, locally led organizations and our low expectations of them (which is not exclusive to the social change space). In Uganda, the 40-plus members of Food Rights Alliance mobilize and organize communities for collective action to advance the cause of ending hunger and malnutrition.

Civil Society 96

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Food 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

With all this in mind, academics and policy makers have called for the international community to prioritize debt-for-climate swaps, an initiative through which a nation’s debt is forgiven in exchange for investment in climate change adaptation and mitigation, thereby addressing both crises at once.

Public and Social Policy 87

Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance Civil Society 87

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. Every nonprofit was formed for the benefit of the public good and to serve a certain purpose, right? So let’s see oops, yeah.

Nonprofit governance and management 124

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofits Energy Public and Nonprofit Management 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. Deep Listening Is Necessary for Social Change. Social Justice Organizations at a Crossroads. By SSIR Editors. How to Have Better Political Conversations.

Civil Society 103

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 103

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Her approach has benefited from a rigorous selection process informed and strengthened by advisors with ears to the ground—who have relationships with people on the frontlines of social change work—and by an emphasis on investments that reveal and address inequities in the philanthropic field. Some philanthropists have already done just this.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Agriculture Culture 126

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 3, 2024

It’s made recent and notable strides in advancing climate policies and innovations, but in a dramatic shift, Europeans are starting to vote against them. The Fall of Green Policies Historically, Europe has been one of the world’s top polluters. A mere five years later, those gains were lost.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Energy Law Food 108

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

“Land Back as a movement, as a political and legal movement by Tribal nations across Turtle Island, has focused on the return of things that have been taken from us through colonial policies. These are things that were purposely taken from us through colonial policies and forced assimilation—that sort of thing. CS: Thank you.

Nonprofit governance and management 87

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 87

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Image Credit: Adam Wilson on unsplash.com This is the f ifth article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus.

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 88

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Food changes into blood, blood into cells, cells change into energy which changes up into life. food is life. This work we’re doing in food culture is ultimately healing work. it’s only the seeds, and the land, and the food, that have the capacity to take that grief, and to metabolize and digest it.

Food 139

Food Culture Agriculture Health 139

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

My mom was part of what we’d now call a CSA (community-supported agriculture). It was something that I knew existed, but I didn’t know how dependent I was on it until I got to college and started to pay my own food bills. SD: You have spoken before about your experience working in public education prior to moving to Mississippi.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 135

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

7 Although women and girls experience the greatest impacts of climate change, national climate policies rarely consider their unique needs. Girls get taken out of school to care for siblings and/or help with locating food and water, disrupting their education and future opportunities. It empowers women and girls to become leaders.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. When families lack the income for food, transport, school fees, uniforms, and essentials like menstrual products, girls are the first to drop out of school.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 122

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

This article profiles three organizations from which we hail—the Center for Biological Diversity, Marbleseed (formerly the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service), and Wellspring Cooperative—that have grown to focus on addressing the many social, political, economic, and environmental ills that are a direct outcome of capitalism.

Agriculture 73

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 73

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.

Public and Social Policy 57

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 57

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Via the efforts of private and public actors, programs, and policies, including discriminatory loan programs, market forces, intimidation, and terrorism. In the face of so much loss and opposition, asset reallocation can be a powerful tool for achieving self-determination for Black farmers and Black agricultural communities.

Philanthropy 114

Philanthropy Agriculture Food Public and Social Policy 114

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Health Associations Children 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level.

Food 116

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 116

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series examines the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 99

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Another piece of this painting would look like a landscape of advocacy and policy change institutions that prioritize racial and economic justice to level the playing field. The reality is more complicated.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 118

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

4 Our accomplishments are minor in comparison to what we would have achieved had we had the full support of the municipal authorities and institutions, buttressed by a beneficial set of policies and procedures that supported local labor, procurement, and production.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Production 133

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The vital conditions are an evolution, not a replacement, of the social determinants model that has been prevalent since the early 2000s. Urgent services include everything from urgent care clinics to food pantries and homeless shelters, or services needed following a shock like a natural disaster or pandemic. Of the area’s 1.2

Health 69

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 69

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Not only is it impossible to develop an advanced economy without it, but something as simple as cooking becomes dangerous—many turn to charcoal, wood, agricultural waste, and animal dung as fuel, which all create toxic fumes. Since it isn’t, the public sector steps in to nudge the market. Every few days, the electricity would go out.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Energy Participation and motivation 128

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

5 Election Implications for Climate Policy In Europe, 2024 has been a decisive year for climate activism. The future of the regions environmental policies is being shaped, with youth climate activists playing a vital role. And the pressing question arises: What implications does this have for climate policy?

Public and Social Policy 65

Public and Social Policy Environmental Law Children 65

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

2 It has been edited for publication here. In cities like Richmond, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, which had experienced ‘food apartheid,’ the need for locally grown, healthy food supported the rise of urban farms that employed returning citizens. The year is 2053. The buzzing of delivery drones fills the air.

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 109

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Over the course of our lecture series, we’ve talked a lot about the crucial role that community plays in building alternatives to capitalistic models of access, resource distribution and social equity. And we’ll also hear from Amaha Selassie of Gem City , a food cooperative in Dayton, Ohio. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I have.

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 85

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

Public Policy 68

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 68

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. As you may have noticed, it is campaign season here in Montana, with the general election less than 1 month away.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With this, I’m trying to get at the way insecurity is not just exacerbated but generated by our economic and social conditions. At the beginning of the book, I say that manufactured insecurity is a feature of any hierarchical social arrangement, not just capitalism. If we don’t have public transit, we take an Uber.

Manufacturing 140

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 140

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

It started with the early rise of the agricultural industry built on chattel slavery, when cotton was king of the exported cash crops—although tobacco, sugarcane, and rice were good business as well. This is why we must organize the South: to set the country back on a path toward building a multiracial democracy. To finally win the Civil War.

Manufacturing 105

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

And, over time, the for-profit corporation has occupied more and more social space; its tentacles reach into politics , our economy , our daily life , and—perhaps most insidiously—our culture and ideas. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 117