Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 11, 2023

Yet, despite this consensus, the Rainforest Foundation Norway showed, in 2021 , that efforts to recognize Indigenous land rights and support their forest conservation were getting less than 1 percent of all climate financing, with the vast majority of funding going to international organizations or development contractors.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Environmental Public and Social Policy Governance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Imagine a civil society in which communities, individuals, and leaders (nonprofit, social movement, philanthropy, business, education, and more) regularly engage in the process of self-examination for the sake of improving our world. It is crucial to pause and consider the extent of these influences, which often go unnoticed.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Race and Ethnicity Culture Health 119

Candid

JULY 2, 2021

The Bill & Melinda Gates , Ford , and Open Society foundations have announced commitments of $2.1 The commitment includes $650 million to expand the foundation's support for women's empowerment collectives and efforts to strengthen the care economy, improve women's financial inclusion, and reduce barriers to paid work; and $1.4

Civil Society 91

Civil Society Health Governance Leadership 91

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This research, conducted in partnership with the Arymax Foundation and SEFORIS (a multidisciplinary program funded by the European Commission to investigate the potential of social entrepreneurship in Europe and worldwide), enabled us to identify how the field of social entrepreneurship reflects the country’s social inequalities.

Social Entrepreneurship 128

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2022

There are many examples of leaders countering this myth, like the Fellows in the Civil Society Fellowship. They start by moving clients away from thinking of racism as something associated with personal bigotry and bias toward an understanding that is historical, cultural, and structural. Love People to Shove Systems.

Leadership 116

Leadership Civil Society Collaborations Universities 116

iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Association of Fundraising Professionals. Identification as a challenge in key account management: Conceptual foundations and a qualitative study. Civil Society. Value creation and firm sales performance: The mediating roles of strategic account management and relationship perception. 9] Levis, Bill (February 5, 2015).

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Fundraising Public and Nonprofit Management Management 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 24, 2024

A market innovation like creating a sustainable seafood market is unlikely to create enduring systems change without building strong relationships with civil society. The Garfield Foundation offers a different example of how networks with capacity achieve systems change that evades individual groups.

Civil Society 133

Civil Society Energy Collaborations Leadership 133

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. The conference will explore the role of civil society organizations in finding common ground, ways to facilitate collaboration, combatting disinformation, and other topics.

Civil Society 111

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 111

Philanthropy 2173

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

.* Here's my question for nonprofits and foundations and activists and associations - to civil society, basically - how do we trust you and your research? This is a sector-wide issue.

Civil Society 52

Civil Society Governance Culture Associations 52

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. Foundational efforts in these areas are underway. Her email is skeating@techsoup.org.

Civil Society 105

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Ethics Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To date, most funders investing in artificial intelligence—including McGovern, Schmidt Futures, and Open Philanthropy—have focused primarily on understanding AI’s potential risks, or supporting AI’s positive impacts on society, in the longer-term. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. This might include: 1.

Civil Society 128

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

What, then, should major donors and foundations do?I More than a century later, Gardner observed that, our tradition of voluntary association is still vital. [We should] remind people that their lives have been touched by numerous nonprofits, whether they know it or not. Whats a Donor (or Concerned Citizen) to Do? It isnt ideological.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 119

Nonprofit Administration and Development Charitable Organizations Philanthropy Homelessness 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When contemplating migration that can deliver massive income gains to low-income households and benefits to both sending and receiving economies—but must maintain public support in a difficult political climate—public, private, and civil society actors all play important roles in a complex system’s effective functioning.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 27, 2020

I've been arguing for several years now that civil society is dependent on digital systems, which are not neutral, designed with civil society in mind, or inately democratizing. This is the entire premise of the Digital Civil Society Lab. That's another way of saying civil society is digital civil society.

Civil Society 40

Civil Society Governance Activism Associations 40

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

The intellectual most associated with classical utilitarianism (also known as consequentialism) is the 18th-century British philosopher and legal scholar Jeremy Bentham. Feeney contributed to over 1,000 public-sector buildings on five continents, yet none bear his name nor that of his foundations.

Ethics 122

Ethics Public and Social Policy Universities Philanthropy 122

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

I went to a Muslim foundation philanthropy event in Dearborn, recently. We were able to recruit 29 foundations to sign on to this pledge to increase their funding to at least 30 percent to BIPOC-led environmental justice movements. We’re feeling the need to raise awareness within our”—let’s say—“corporation” or “foundation.

Philanthropy 105

Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Recruitment Foundations 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

Civil society and humanitarian organizations are attuned to the reality that these streams of people generate massive amounts of data that can, for instance, help channel aid to the neediest, predict disease outbreaks, and much more.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Ethics 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

How Tech Moves Fast and Breaks Workers In 2021, IT for Change, with support from the Ford Foundation, undertook a major study of the digitization of the economy to try to understand how the internet has affected work and workers’ rights.

Race and Ethnicity 145

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance 145

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One is that many foundations, under the guise of philanthropic pluralism , have supported a status quo that has harmed South Africa’s Black majority. If foundations see themselves as part of civil society, they must stop doing this. Thirty years ago , South Africa held its first democratic post-apartheid elections.

Philanthropy 95

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 95

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Solidarity economies are most often associated with ethical, cooperative economic practices, like local currencies, community land trusts, community gardens, fair trade, and cooperatives. These practices and their associated values—cooperation, sustainability, justice, interdependence, autonomy—make possible a transformative vision.

Non-Profits 116

Non-Profits Universities Collaborations Civil Society 116

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

People joined from more than 15 countries, representing business, government, and civil society. Industry leaders like Jim Bonham of the ESOP Association are pushing to adjust this seven-year window. Why Employee Ownership So, what is employee ownership?

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Finance Non-Profits 138

Candid

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Energy Foundation through Keecha Harris and Associates. In early 2025, the project will conduct its first pilot, including a philanthropic learning community in the Southeast, supported by Democracy Fund, Fetzer Institute, MacArthur Foundation, and RBF. The early design work was supported by Schmidt Futures and U.S.

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Governance Philanthropy Energy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. In 2018, SABSA also established its own foundation, which operates independently from the clinic, to operate more sustainably.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Nonprofit governance and management Health 113

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Those are among the bleak findings of a recent pulse survey by The Communications Network , a professional association for communications leaders in the social good sector, including nonprofits and foundations. Public statements in response to government actions have been relatively rare, especially among private foundations.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 101

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 20, 2020

The second was that said recession would reveal the fragility of our built institutions, including nonprofits and foundations. Buried in this crisis is the opportunity to re-examine what we need from civil society and philanthropy and how we get it. One was that the year would bring a global recession.

Civil Society 40

Civil Society Philanthropy Public Policy Law 40

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Quanita Toffie: To underscore what Naa already shared around reproductive justice being not just about choice, it’s also about access—so, being able to afford to have an abortion, afford the cost associated with traveling hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic, and so on—there is no choice when there is no access for our communities.

Law 98

Law Healthcare Health Public and Social Policy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Can you expand on what this means, both as a messaging strategy and a foundation for movement efforts? The Social Democratic Party, which is associated with social housing policy, has won every single fair election in the last 100 years—because its signature policy initiative is literally tangible. It’s a good phrase.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Public and Nonprofit Management Energy 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Who owns an enterprise, and what rights are associated with that ownership, determines a large part of who controls and benefits from the economy. The clothing manufacturer and retailer Patagonia is now controlled by a PPT, while Newman’s Own is foundation-owned. providing renewable energy or healthy food).

Non-Profits 139

Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 139

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash Civil society organizations are on the front lines of advocating for or against the most divisive issues in the United States. The links are almost entirely to civil society organizations fighting to protect the rights to free expression, free assembly, voting, reproduction, and work.

Civil Society 59

Civil Society Law Education Education 59

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Going even further back, in 1977, Charles Lindblom, onetime American Political Science Association president, authored Politics and Markets: The World’s Political-Economic Systems , in which he argued that in capitalism, business occupies a “privileged position” that offers business elites disproportionate policy influence.

Public and Social Policy 133

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 13, 2025

Central to this looming threat is Project 2025 , a comprehensive policy agenda spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation that aims to dismantle protections for LGBTQ+ people , ban diversity initiatives , and defund gender-affirming care under Medicaid. This alignment is no coincidence.

Civil Society 126

Civil Society Law Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 126

Philanthropy 2173

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I strongly suggest both foundations, their associations, and their media stop "both-sidesing" this and call out the threats to the sector that are coming from their own. It's part of a sustained campaign against perceived liberal or left(ish) civil society. One source of attack is the Republican Party. Yup, crickets.

Civil Society 91

Civil Society Universities Philanthropy Foundations 91

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2025

For example, in December, ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit he filed by issuing a formal apology and agreeing to donate $15 million to his planned presidential foundation and museum. In November, the Freedom of the Press Foundation reported 75 assaults on journalists since January 1, 2024a 70 percent increase compared to 2023.

Governance 113

Governance Civil Society Foundations Construction 113