Candid

JUNE 27, 2024

Ensuring impact in any area requires examining if, how, and why outcomes vary by gender; exploring solutions that work for women; addressing root causes; and acknowledging women’s “lived experiences, leadership, and genius,” the authors write. For example, women spend 25% more time in poor health over their lifetimes than men.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Poverty Health Leadership 52

Anedot

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Location: San Rafael, CA Hours: Full-time, salaried, exempt status Salary Range: $95,004 – $122,148 BACKGROUND The Agricultural Institute of Marin is an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Rafael, California. At least 2 years’ experience in a leadership role. MBA or advanced degree, a plus.

Finance 52

Finance Non-Profits Agriculture Food 52

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It does not surprise, then, that Black neighborhoods face health disparities relative to their white neighbors, with marked differences in rates of infant mortality, asthma, gun violence, and life expectancy. The current Louisville co-op organizing effort is committed to BIPOC leadership, a departure from earlier food activism practices.

Food 111

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Yet, all too often, their investments inadvertently exacerbate inequitable power dynamics in communities, reinforcing existing disparities and underlying health and wealth-building challenges. Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders.

Food 122

Food Finance Community Development Culture 122

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The total giving to date has been consistent with four priorities outlined by Scott in establishing the fund: Education, Equity & Justice, Economic Security & Opportunity, and Health. Comparing 2023 to prior years, giving to health increased, for example, while giving to education and arts and culture decreased.

Race and Ethnicity 88

Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy Education Education 88

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2024

Termed שמיטה ( shmita , literally “release”) in the Torah, Jewish law mandated that every seven years, all agricultural activity cease: “The land must be given a rest period, a sabbath to God” (Leviticus 25: 1–7). Another respondent talked about “nursing themselves” back to health. Today, sabbaticals have spread broadly.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Activism Leadership 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 19, 2023

Imagine talking about a decline in agriculture but not talking about farmers. Twice in my career, I was fortunate enough to bring in a big gift, only to have leadership—who knew nothing about fundraising work—simply demand more money. Amazing right?

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Culture Agriculture 98

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Determine the type of leadership your nonprofit would benefit from What skills or connections would you like board members to have? For example, you might seek board members who have former leadership experience, work well within a team, and are impeccably organized and punctual. Hire staff members According to the Health of the U.S.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

Governments representing deeply indebted nations are often unable to invest in health care, education, and other services, which, in turn, threatens their very political survival. Moreover, developing countries typically lack key technologies and financial resources that could help them become more resilient to climate change and its impacts.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance Civil Society 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Those are the human services organizations, environmental organizations, organizations focused on justice, hospitals, health organizations. Review current strategic plan and process, share info with the leadership to begin the conversation. And their programs may have changed, but they also might have found some programmatic stability.

Nonprofit governance and management 128

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofits Energy Public and Nonprofit Management 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

You came into this world very much from the public health perspective and had to learn about the conservation world. 16 Scholars have now also shown that the best kinds of conservation have Indigenous people in leadership and other kinds of firm roles. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 2022). Allison Kanoti et al.,

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

13 Nor has the movement adequately acknowledged the Black, Indigenous, and diasporic communities of color whose work and leadership it drew from. For example, the Black origins of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) were eclipsed by white farmers, 14 and Indigenous fights against government-provided commodity foods were marginalized.

Food 140

Food Culture Agriculture Public and Social Policy 140

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

I remember seeing the smoke rising from the trees every thousand feet or so during the dayillegal logging followed by slash-and-burn agriculture. The African-descended Quilombola population live in tight-knit communities surrounding the Tocantins River, and rely on fishing and agriculture to survive. It was sobering.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In this series, movement leaders explore what’s possible if philanthropy adopts a reparative model—one which supports the leadership of BIPOC communities, not just by writing grants, but by shifting assets and control over resources to frontline communities. This article introduces a new NPQ series titled Community-Driven Philanthropy.

Philanthropy 132

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Agriculture Culture 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The lucky grantees included clusters on clean energy, next-gen agriculture, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, and robotics, among others. A year into implementation, both regions have learned important lessons about leadership, governance, DEI, and more. Establish a strong leadership and governance model from the start.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Manufacturing Governance 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 1, 2024

In 1990, governments around the world, with the leadership of the United States, began a 13-year effort to map human DNA through the Human Genome Project (HGP). People were afraid that employers and health insurance companies would use the data from genome mapping to discriminate, and they demanded a public policy response.

Collaborations 108

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Ethics Public Policy 108

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To create change in such a system requires systems leadership. But food system leadership requires (and offers) something different than most other systems, precisely because of how central and omnipresent food is in everyone’s lives. Finally, imagine the food scraps left over in these community members’ kitchens.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 94

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE 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? Now, normally, if youre an engineer, having been the president of your chess club is indicative of a certain kind of leadership.

Nonprofit governance and management 95

Nonprofit governance and management Technology Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 95

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

Health 97

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 97

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

3 During and after climate disasters, access to such essential services as women’s and girls’ mental and physical healthcare overall is often severely constrained, 4 and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including maternal care, becomes limited or stops altogether. It empowers women and girls to become leaders.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 132

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

Owned and operated by approximately a dozen Black farmers on a 5,700-acre farm, it continues today after winning a $12 million US Department of Agriculture settlement due to previous unjust credit denialas an agribusiness and economic development initiative on a 1,600-acre retreat center and working farm near Albany, GA.

Poverty 102

Poverty Philanthropy Agriculture Education 102

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

In 2022, the Center’s Population and Sustainability program looked at the environmental threats that are putting reproductive health and justice at risk. In 2022, the Center’s Population and Sustainability program looked at the environmental threats that are putting reproductive health and justice at risk.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In this series, movement leaders explore what’s possible if philanthropy adopts a reparative model—one in which it supports the leadership of BIPOC communities, not just by writing grants, but by shifting assets and control over resources to frontline communities. In other words, landownership, food access, and healthcare are intertwined.

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Agriculture Food Public and Social Policy 131

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. The delta is a largely rural, agricultural area with a troubled history of racial and economic disparities.

Food 126

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The work happening at the rice mill now is both healing for the land that has been harmed by industrial agriculture and healing for the people who are able to have autonomy and ownership over the production of this crop after a painful ancestral history of slavery and sharecropping.

Governance 132

Governance Agriculture Food Production 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Consider, for example, that most government health systems leave billions behind : half of health facilities in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, for example, lack reliable electricity, while 12-15 percent have no electricity at all. The population-scale solution is not to fund NGO-run health, education, and justice systems.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For example, corporate and philanthropic dollars don’t always flow toward economic justice movements for a variety of reasons, which include everything from a lack of understanding of new leadership and organizational structures to grappling with supporting leaders of color dismantling systems of economic and social oppression.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These successes transformed our agricultural practices, so that rather than relying on large commercial farms, regenerative farming practices gained prominence, creating food sovereignty. Public resources flowed into health and human services, gender-affirming care, and equitable housing.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 133

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Unexpected evidence of this comes from demographer Christopher Wildeman’s rigorous investigation of the population-level health consequences of mass incarceration. Wildeman examined the relationship between changes in the national imprisonment rate and changes in American life expectancy, a central indicator of overall population health.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Health Associations Children 141

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 30, 2023

Mines there rely on a water-intensive brining process that, according to a Friends of the Earth report, “consumes, contaminates, and diverts scarce water resources away from local communities,” causing illness and disrupting local agricultural and grazing economies.

Manufacturing 116

Manufacturing Environmental Energy Governance 116

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

But that was a group of African American families who came together to own, co-govern, control land resources and have an agricultural cooperative and really come together to self-determine. And the problems with parent co-ops is like after five years, if your child ages out, you lose your leadership. One share, one vote.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 105

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

When they first trained me to be a home health aide, and I was nervous about the tests, they built up my confidence and had tutoring if I needed help. Building leadership through education and training is always a worthwhile investment in advancing social change. My co-op] is like my second family.

Public Policy 96

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 96

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Because investing in broad-reaching organizing efforts in the US South that emphasize the leadership and economic equality of Black workers against multinational corporations might just launch the nation’s most significant effort yet in the movement to build democracy. To finally win the Civil War. And then of course there’s John D.

Manufacturing 122

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 122

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The writers in this Substack list cover nonprofit leadership, academia, and other intriguing subjects. Public Health: Your Local Epidemiologist by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina – Dr. Katelyn has a Master’s degree in public health and a Ph.D. This list is focused on long-form Substacks frequently publishing content.

Communication 115

Communication Nonprofits Food Health 115

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

25 This encourages heroic notions of individualized leadership at the top. The results can be seen in growing efforts to empower workers, design democratic and effective management and leadership, and build economies rooted in values of solidarity. 35 Envisioning new forms of leadership. Empowering workers.

Public and Social Policy 133

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