NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In Rochester, a nine-year-old girl suffering from a mental health crisis who verbalized suicidal thoughts was pepper sprayed by the police officers that responded to her family’s call to 911 for support. Four out of five girls in juvenile detention suffer from a mental health disorder.

Health 120

Health Public and Social Policy Culture Law 120

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Image Credit: Reneé Thompson on unsplash.com COVID-19 impacted the physical health of millions across the country, hitting marginalized communities the hardest. Less visible was the pandemic’s impact on behavioral health, an umbrella term for mental health, substance use disorders, and life stressors.

Health 108

Health Public and Social Policy Governance Collaborations 108

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). And as the climate crisis continues, whose mental health is most at risk? They may lose their homes.

Health 102

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 102

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That changed when a team from Reimagining the Civic Commons decided to reinvigorate public spaces in Akron’s systemically disinvested neighborhoods, including Summit Lake. Moving at the Speed of Trust Employing deep listening, engaging in meetings, and building one-on-one relationships with neighbors…helped inform public space design.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

Collaborations 131

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Aruta & Kelly Davis A convergence is happening between the climate and mental health movements, and social impact practitioners need to pay attention. Characterizing the relationship between these two complex problems is often challenging because the true tolls of the mental health and climate crises are inseparable.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 105

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Image Credit: lilartsy on unsplash.com This is the third 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 school teachers are not just educators.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 141

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2024

The Letter to the Donors of America suggests that a more holistic approach is needed when evaluating an organization’s health and impact. If an organization budgets for a small surplus each fiscal year, they are creating enough financial cushion to be able to invest in new and innovative operations that could boost their social impact.

Public and Social Policy 232

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 232

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Image Credit: Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels For Black Americans, health statistics are staggering, with dire implications. Effective health education isn’t just about providing information; it’s about empowering individuals and communities to advocate for their health and make informed decisions.

Health 101

Health Education Education Healthcare 101

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2024

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. Along with feelings about climate change eroding mental health, climate events can contribute to loneliness.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Sociology Health Medical 133

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 5, 2023

Public institution spending dwarfs private philanthropy in most countries in the world. billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. Unfortunately, the success of this transfer process is hit-and-miss and thus slows social innovation.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 16, 2023

It also has an adverse impact on workforce productivity and inflicts economic losses on workers whose health and working conditions are affected by extreme heat. This July, Rio de Janeiro signed a public-private partnership with Consortium Rio Solar to implement the Carioca Solarium project. The results reach far beyond Curitiba.

Health 91

Health Public and Social Policy Energy Collaborations 91

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Age, poverty, ethnicity, and marginalization exacerbate existing gender inequalities and pose particular threats to women’s livelihoods, health, and safety. According to data from the organization UN Women , approximately 20 million more women live in poverty than men, significantly affecting their health and wellbeing.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Poverty Health Environmental 134

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? So, what keeps them alive today?

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? Some refer to this as the “ data divide ”—the increasing gap between the use of data to maximize profit and the use of data to solve social problems.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 110

Fundraising Leadership

OCTOBER 31, 2024

election2024 ” The mission of civility during this time applies to private companies, non-profits (that are legally mandated to be non-partisan), as well as larger public companies with an extensive employee base and perhaps a distanced hierarchy of ownership. A recent LifeStance Health survey of 1,052 U.S. That’s #citizenship.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Non-Profits Culture 119

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It reaches into healthcare, finance, justice, education, and public policy, promising to streamline and elevate. that favored names on resumes associated with White identities over those associated with Black identities. Facial recognition technologystruggles to accurately identify Black and Brown faces.

Ethics 97

Ethics Public and Social Policy Technology Finance 97

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The American Red Cross has spent and distributed all funds designated for Haiti relief on shelter, emergency relief, health, cholera prevention, water and sanitation, livelihoods, and disaster preparedness,” the statement continued. The organization’s social media feeds do not appear to have been updated since early 2022.

Poverty 143

Poverty Public and Social Policy Education Education 143

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Imagine your outrage if you were a public school teacher and your pension fund invested in a company that supported and lobbied for vouchers and charter schools. Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Pension Funds: Whose Capital? Our Capital!

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Universities Finance 143

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Breath and brotherhood are enormously important to the work of the collective of socially engaged artist-activists that I cofounded several years ago. Others wrongly believe that bisexuals enjoy all the same social privileges and advantages that straight people have. Creating space to breathe freely.

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Culture Philanthropy 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. ” during check-in meetings.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 124

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The number of pedestrians struck and killed by vehicles reached—and then surpassed—a 40-year high in 2021, according to the latest national data released by the Governors Highways Safety Association, a nonprofit representation of US state and territorial highway safety offices.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Health Nonprofit Administration and Development Culture 124

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

billion, a National Governors Association memo cites. The Water Alliance is changing that question to, “How can utilities, communities, and policy makers work together to create an environment in which shutoffs for low-income families are not necessary?”. Water utilities suffered revenue losses totaling $13.9

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 137

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2023

We see what communities across the country are now establishing : park equity—the fair and just distribution of parks and green spaces so all communities have access to these health-promoting resources. Residents are working to assess the environmental and health burdens associated with former oil drilling sites and other contaminated lands.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Environmental Health Public Policy 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Recent media coverage of several large and deadly fires, alongside the federal and state wildlands management response, have focused public concern toward wildfire risks on public lands, and in particular coniferous forested lands. How do we create social change to meet those objectives?

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Insurance Governance Management 118

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 3, 2023

The Conference + Catalyst are presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners in partnership with the Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration. Our speakers Xavier Ramey is the CEO of Justice Informed, a social impact consulting firm based in Chicago, IL.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public Policy Ethics 108

Getting Attention

JULY 29, 2014

Communications Operations Manager , Public Policy Institute of California (San Francisco, CA). Communications Outreach & Media Associate , Rainforest Alliance (New York, NY). Public Health Communications Manger , Canyon Ranch Institute (Tucson, AZ). Social Media Manager , Not For Sale (San Francisco, CA).

Public and Social Policy 70

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Marketing Marketing 70

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world. Kellogg Foundation in partnership with the University of New Mexico This report examines how W.K.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Culture Health 98

Getting Attention

MARCH 16, 2015

Communications Director Center on Policy Initiatives (San Diego, CA). Communications Manager RSF Social Finance (San Francisco, CA). Director Of Corporate Partnerships And Cause Marketing National Parks Conservation Association (Washington, DC). Director of Marketing and Finance Michigan Optometric Association (Lansing, MI).

Communication 71

Communication Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Finance 71

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Innovators, company founders, and other tech enthusiasts have long tried to sell the public on the idea that AI will create a path to a brighter future. AJL combines “art and research to illuminate the social implications and harms of AI.”

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Ethics Race and Ethnicity Law 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 18, 2024

A sense of urgency to address large social problems—and frustration with the fragmentation of philanthropic giving broadly—has pushed many of these funders to explore new ways of validating and amplifying their giving strategy. One funder’s enthusiasm for a project can inspire others to put capital they would otherwise not move into use.

Fundraising 112

Fundraising Fundraising Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 112

Getting Attention

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Communications Officer National Women’s Health Coalition (New York, NY). Digital Communications Associate National Organization for Women (Washington, D.C.). Director of Communications—Policy The New Teacher Project (Location flexible). Marketing Associate Atlanta Mission (Atlanta, GA). Vincent de Paul (Phoenix, AZ).

Marketing 69

Marketing Marketing Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 69

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Manifesting Love 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? For those impacted by AIcommunities, workers, everyday peoplesuch policies serve as essential protective barriers.

Public and Social Policy 58

Public and Social Policy Health Environmental Ethics 58

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Legislation requiring nonprofits to disclose donor lists to legislators, for any reason, poses a significant threat to this trust and, consequently, the health of the entire nonprofit sector. Donors should have the freedom to support causes they believe in without fear of retribution, harassment, or social pressure.

Civil Society 89

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Nonprofits 89

Getting Attention

DECEMBER 14, 2012

1) Communications/Policy Project Manager. 1) Communications/Policy Project Manager, Robert M. Brandon & Associates. Work involves public policy research, drafting written material (issue briefs, press releases, op-eds, etc.) We offer a competitive salary and health benefits. 2) Fundraising Writer.

Public and Social Policy 58

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits Public Policy 58

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

First, blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of new content use in your e-newsletter and share on social media which increases traffic to your website and awareness of your nonprofit’s brand. The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Nonprofits Food Environmental 141

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Public entities with unique governmental powers, land banks acquire vacant, tax-delinquent properties that are causing harm , improve them, then dispose of the properties to support community goals. Over decades, racist policies and practices, including intentional disinvestment, have shaped our neighborhoods. CLTs serve many purposes.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Governance Community Development Agriculture 113