Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Poverty is not about the absence of material possessions. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.” A majority of households had lost a child to diarrhea and one in nine households had lost three or more children to this illness of bad water and poor sanitation. We don’t try to control that.

Children 78

Children Leadership Poverty Education 78

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Every community is unique.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 5, 2023

From displacement and poverty to illness and environmental degradation, the urgent challenges facing the world today call for innovative approaches that combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear understanding of the problems and a firm footing in communities. ”—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2019.

Collaborations 125

Collaborations Culture Governance Technology 125

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? And in that story, federal government policies, such as the Homestead Act , had never helped them, even though of course they did. And these should be within the ambit of the government—and in many other countries they are.

Public and Social Policy 95

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Volunteerism Volunteerism 95

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

In late 2021, a small Zimbabwean community-based organization, Score Against Poverty (SCORE), with help from the Canadian government, decided to test out a different approach. They were allowed to openly voice how they felt that Labola was unfair and how this affected relationships with wives and children.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The prize is valued at $100,000. The value proposition of your brand has to be simple and actionable. For UNICEF it was empathetic globals , “people who care about the developing world and feel very strongly that people and the government should do much more to help those in need.&#. The prize is worth the visit.

Food 198

Food Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 198

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Family philanthropy is, at its core, the act of a collective—rooted in the values of a family, carrying forward its name and legacy, and engaging its members. As a sector, we embrace and value family philanthropy as both a vehicle for bringing families together and a responsibility to our communities.

Philanthropy 127

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 127

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. The answer could be “both.”

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 85

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

By Nagatsugu Asato & Nobuo Shiga The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. Okinawa’s poverty rate is about 35 percent, which is twice the national average. percent of the country’s total land area.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Poverty Construction Law 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

a day to afford a decent and dignified standard of living : enough to afford acceptable housing, feed his family, send his children to school, and cover his farming costs. Four of his five children work rather than attending school to help the family get by. Understandably, not one of Afi’s children sees a future in farming.

Agriculture 101

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wainwright is the CEO of Family Life , one of Australia’s largest family services providers working with vulnerable children and their families. “If Intergenerational trauma occurs when one or more ancestors pass along unhealed trauma they experienced before having children or during pregnancy.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

­­ A 1983 US government study documenting the placement of hazardous waste landfills in low-income and Black communities was one of the first studies to highlight the intersection of environmental issues and racial inequity. By Daniel Epstein & Travis Barnes. ­­ million jobs. Cutting Food Waste Emissions.

Energy 102

Energy Finance Environmental Food 102

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Property values shoot up, as does the cost of living, and lower-income households are displaced. If we don’t expand the way we think about housing to include the impacts of climate change, our well-intentioned efforts to create, provide, and preserve housing will still leave vulnerable populations in untenable situations.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

For example, New York City created the innovative concept of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the Voluntary National Reviews that nations submit to the UN, in which local and regional governments adopt and track their progress toward the SDGs.

Collaborations 98

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. If they worked, they were seen as unfit mothers and had their children taken from them. But also included was what became known as welfare.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 104

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members. Although established in a more progressive era, when the public interest held more sway, microeconomic and market values have since come to dominate utility governance.

Energy 92

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 92

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Between 2017 and 2018, US immigration officials separated as many as 5,000 children from parents accused of crossing the border illegally. More than one-half of all Black children are investigated by child welfare authorities.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Children Collaborations Poverty 139

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The program includes classroom training in business development, finance, governance, democratic decision-making, and participatory management. The ownership structure of Mondragon Village Association derives from the co-op members’ existing bonds and values.

Non-Profits 134

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 134

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The solidarity economy is a global movement that offers a framework to connect practices that are aligned with the values of solidarity, democracy, equity, sustainability, and pluralism (not a one-size-fits-all approach), all of which articulate a post-capitalist system that puts the welfare of people and planet front and center.

Agriculture 83

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 83

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

The new studies bolster the case, long made by many liberal economists and policymakers, that poor families tend to spend cash welfare payments on their most pressing needs, to the benefit of the entire household and especially children. Among the top priorities for families that received the expanded credit, the March study found, was food.

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Universities 91

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This policy made history by repealing a program from the Social Security Act: Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the cash assistance program for families with children that started in 1935. Undermining Economic Autonomy Outside of these laws, White supremacists tried to find other ways to coerce Black people to work.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 137