Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Escher, Relativity Stairs Imagine a large - no, bigger, much bigger - nonprofit hospital, university, housing developer, or after school program. Right now, there are 13 universities in the U.S.A. with more than $10 billion endowments (one of which is a "public" university), with the largest topping $50 billion. There is one.

Nonprofit governance 87

Nonprofit governance Governance Civil Society Non-Profits 87

Candid

JULY 20, 2022

To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civil society organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. Optimistically, philanthropy and civil society have responded with creativity and flexibility.

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Civil Society Disaster Relief Retail 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

In fact, city leaders often follow the pioneering innovations of civil society organizations. The initiation power of civil society organizations does not end with “small wins.” .” Diffusion between cities does not only happen on the level of city governments. Some small wins even turn into legislation.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Construction Governance 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern.

Civil Society 128

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 21, 2023

It has enabled me to work with an incredible group of people here at SSIR , the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and Stanford University. It has been a privilege to help lead SSIR the past 17 years.

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Universities Philanthropy Leadership 98

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

A study by the University of Washington found that 60 percent of Washington-based organizations reported prioritizing low-income people in their COVID-19 response, followed by Black/African American communities (48 percent), Latinx communities (43 percent), and immigrant and homeless communities (41 percent each).

Civil Society 75

Civil Society Philanthropy Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 75

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 23, 2024

The latest value, calculated by the University of Maryland’s Do Good Institute, is measured based on annual average hourly earnings estimates that are available from the U.S. When you volunteer, you help hold up the foundation of civil society. Benefits are included in the final estimate. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Civil Society 110

Civil Society Charitable Organizations Values Energy 110

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Charitable dollars are essential to maintaining a healthy civil society, vital to both nonprofit charities and local governments that depend on these resources to achieve their critical missions. Small charitable gifts increased after the enactment of the temporary universal charitable deduction.

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Universities Law Governance 98

The NonProfit Times

JULY 17, 2024

Delivering on and scaling AI’s potential for impact on the SDGs is a collaborative endeavor that requires work across companies, universities, nonprofits, governments, and individuals to have real-world impact, according to the authors. More than 65% of these were open source, compared to 44% in 2022 and 33% in 2021.

Civil Society 64

Civil Society Ethics Healthcare Governance 64

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As the Nicaraguan government tightened its grip on authoritarian rule, it was threatened by civil society organizations who possess the power to hold them accountable, receiving funds they do not control and investing those funds in services that preserve human rights, protect democracy, and empower individuals.

Civil Society 116

Civil Society Governance Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

By Kristen Grimm , Claire de Leon , Michael Crawford & Diana Chun Trust for institutions across society is declining. This is not a theory but a fact, affirmed by leading experts like the Edelman Trust Barometer , Gallup , and General Social Survey by NORC at the University of Chicago. Trust doesn’t just happen.

Civil Society 142

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Health Governance 142

Candid

MARCH 13, 2023

We also committed to developing a new generation of tools designed to champion the causes, organizations, and knowledge that power civil society worldwide. It is a universal database that combines all data across Candid’s products and is the foundation of the unified platform. What is a unified platform?

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Production Foundations Universities 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. However, in recent years, there have been attempts to break this cycle.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Bridging the University-to-Workforce Gender Gap Many academically accomplished women struggle to surpass barriers and achieve top positions and competitive salaries after they graduate from college. Here’s a look at four of them. The majority of these students are women and the first in their families to access higher education.

Nonprofit governance and management 126

Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Participation and motivation Public and Social Policy 126

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Independent Sector is a broad cross-sectoral national membership organization that includes nonprofits, private foundations, and corporate giving programs with a mission to strengthen civil society. AW: Independent Sector is deeply committed to a civil society that promotes equity and justice. What do we do to get there?

Civil Society 96

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Leadership 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 1, 2024

Instead of hoarding access to AI and focusing solely on risk mitigation, universities, national laboratories, and industries from around the world need to work together to advance the technology’s benefits. Like AI, one of the main concerns around genome mapping was privacy.

Collaborations 141

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Ethics Public Policy 141

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But the release of landmark research in 2013, combined with a concerted campaign by the Aspen Institute and partners such as Candid and the nonprofit research centers at the Urban Institute, Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, made a strong case for greater transparency and efficiency.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

In trying to ensure that the rapid growth of technology is something that will benefit workers and societies as much as entrepreneurs and executives, there’s a role for all of us: employers and workers, academics and governments, as well as investors committed to seeing the technology they fund be used to increase the common good.

Curriculum and Teaching 122

Curriculum and Teaching Healthcare Civil Society Technology 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

As Brazilian movement scholar Rodrigo Nunes, argues in his recent book about movements like Occupy and the Arab Spring, there is not one universally correct answer to the question of how we make change. The answer is an “ecosystem” approach that looks at how different theories of change can reinforce each other.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Medical 124

Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 22, 2024

The nonprofit sector should get way more credit for being a bedrock of our society — for being the compass leading us all in the direction of a truly civil society. It deserves that.” - Joan Garry ( source ) “Nonprofits attract the best in society because they see beyond the economic gain.

Nonprofit Leadership 109

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Fundraising Fundraising 109

NonProfit Leadership Center

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

As community needs continue to exceed nonprofit capacity, The University of Tampa partners with the Conn Memorial Foundation and the Nonprofit Leadership Center to provide emerging nonprofit executives with a graduate-level education to lead our communities forward. million people and outpacing for-profit job growth three to one.*

Universities 147

Universities Race and Ethnicity Civil Society Nonprofit Leadership 147

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This record acts as a form of permanent punishment, limiting our ability to participate in civil society through a complex web of laws in Illinois that punish people with criminal records, often indefinitely. These restrictions force many people and especially Black people into the informal economy to survive.

Public and Social Policy 129

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 129

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A study on the working conditions in Kenya’s gig economy , for example, was written by two African researchers, who not only surveyed hundreds of gig workers but also involved civil society and policy makers during a multi-stakeholder dialogue and a panel discussion in Nairobi. However, our approach can only be the beginning.

Entrepreneurship 81

Entrepreneurship Public and Social Policy Civil Society Collaborations 81

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have watched the nonprofit sector, which ranges from large hospitals and universities to the small magazine that’s being folded in someone’s living room, being ever more caught up in the matrix of what we might call late-stage capitalism. They give money to get their name on the university. Caroline Crumpacker: Hello everyone.

Public and Social Policy 112

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Nonprofits 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

And over the past decade, public policy—by way of the Lei de Cotas (the “Quotas Law”), which establishes university quotas for Black and Indigenous students and people who studied in public schools—has made higher education more accessible to racialized and poor people.

Public and Social Policy 78

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Poverty 78

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As a professor at Princeton in 1949, Albert Einstein reflected on the place of human beings in the universe. In correspondence with a rabbi, he wrote that due to our limitations in our ability to experience the universe, our species is prone to a fundamental misunderstanding about our place in it.

Leadership 116

Leadership Civil Society Collaborations Universities 116

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Here the national trend seems to be to double down on a handful of elite, private universities, sell of our public universities for parts (or outsource teaching to online platforms), and then decry the inequitable system. Higher education.

Children 40

Children Insurance Universities Healthcare 40

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

One of them is Empreende Aí, an enterprise created by a couple that was originally from the southern region of São Paulo city, had the possibility to study business administration at university, and identified an opportunity to teach entrepreneurship to people from similar backgrounds.

Social Entrepreneurship 128

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 128

iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The universal hero story (monomyth) is an identity-enhancement journey. [26] One study examined 270 university fundraisers. 26] This universal story, called the monomyth, includes specific steps. Civil Society. It’s a problem of who we’re being. It’s a story-character problem. Focus on fundraiser actions.

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Fundraising Public and Nonprofit Management Management 52

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

All sectors have a role to play in achieving climate justice, but it’s fair to say that compared to government and civil society, business is late in addressing the challenge and is in fact frequently called out as part of the problem. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Race and Ethnicity Energy 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

Relying upon the universal nature and common language of the SDGs—and inspired by their interactions and relationships with their global counterparts —the participating US cities have become acknowledged leaders in taking on tough transnational issues through local action.

Collaborations 105

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 8, 2023

Image Credit: Jorm Sangsorn on istock.com Worldwide, civil society—from NGOs to grassroots activist groups to social movements to unions—is being undermined by global conflict, suppressive governments, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the spread of disinformation. And it’s more difficult than it sounds.”

Civil Society 104

Civil Society Governance Law Taxation 104

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

By Rafia Khader , Program Manager at the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and Managing Editor of the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society. It is this idea that propels the work of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Civil Society 101

Civil Society Fundraising Fundraising Poverty 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

At the same time, 10 to 25 percent of the $7 trillion spent on healthcare globally every year is lost because of corruption, an amount that exceeds the investments needed to achieve universal healthcare by 2030. School systems are similarly underperforming due to poor governance and weak state capacity.

Public and Social Policy 129

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 129

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Consider the $10 million lead gift in 2019 from writer and artist Carolyn Campagna Kleefield to California State University, Long Beach’s contemporary art museum that now bears her name. In 2002, the university shortened the building’s name to Memorial Hall in support of inclusion and academic freedom, and UDC sued for breach of contract.

Ethics 122

Ethics Public and Social Policy Universities Philanthropy 122