Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community. Look into pro-bono services offered by local bar associations or law firms. Determine the type of leadership your nonprofit would benefit from What skills or connections would you like board members to have?

Nonprofit governance and management 110

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mali Obomsawin: I would like to acknowledge that I’m a citizen of a nation that is not one of the nations in so-called Maine, so in terms of federal Indian law sovereignty, it does not apply to me in that context. They don’t just happen automatically without some of that Land Back politics, law, policy kind of thing. CS: Interesting.

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

With a background in law and education, Jackson founded JUSTUS Kitchen to create healing food experiences that inspire folks to reconnect with themselves, the earth, and one another, inviting us to grow together toward collective liberation. 15 This has had tangible physical and economic repercussions for entire communities.

Food 140

Food Culture Agriculture Public and Social Policy 140

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. In doing this work, five key food systems leadership practices have emerged.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 94

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Center works with a combination of science, law, activism, and creative media to protect the lands, waters, and climate that people, wildlife, and all types of communities and ecosystems need to survive. Organic farmers on small, diverse operations already knew that the agricultural system was rigged.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

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. World Justice Project (WJP) works around the world to advance the rule of law. All are problems that philanthropy can and should help address.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Now, normally, if youre an engineer, having been the president of your chess club is indicative of a certain kind of leadership. So, we would have massive challenges to deal with from a standpoint of agriculture and basic human survival. AI is not inherently a tool that must be used to consolidate wealth and power.

Nonprofit governance and management 95

Nonprofit governance and management Technology Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 95

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Historically, Black people have been dispossessed of land in the United States through enslavement, violence ( including lynching ), and discriminatory laws and practices. For Black communities, land reclamation holds its own meaning.

Governance 132

Governance Agriculture Food Production 132

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Promise of Shared Stewardship to Support Vital Conditions Stewardship , though far from a new practice, is a departure from the way many of us might think of leadership, as focused on advancing individual or organizational interests. As in North Sound, there is a significant migrant farming community due to large agricultural businesses.

Health 97

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 97

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. These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities.

Public and Social Policy 133

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Like most states, New York requires by law that cities deposit funds in commercial banks, tying public money to these detrimental practices of Wall Street banks and often leaving communities underinvested and vulnerable to disinvestment and discrimination. But meaningful transformation requires changing state law.

Finance 136

Finance Law Poverty Governance 136

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Law enforcement practices that oversurveil and underprotect poor communities of color deputize women to keep men “out of trouble” while failing to support women’s safety. They must be radically remade. 1 (2018): 235–59, [link]. Council on State Governments, Confined and Costly. Washington, DC: CSG Justice Center, June 2019.

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. They are asking EV proponents, “What sacrifice are you making?”

Manufacturing 116

Manufacturing Environmental Energy Governance 116

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Building leadership through education and training is always a worthwhile investment in advancing social change.

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. 22 This momentum is not new.

Manufacturing 122

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. 25 This encourages heroic notions of individualized leadership at the top. 35 Envisioning new forms of leadership. Empowering workers. 29 The consequences of this wave have been significant.

Public and Social Policy 133

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