Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Though these violations continue, over the last 10 to 15 years, we have increasingly seen momentum among rightsholders, their allies, and civil society in advocating for rights-based and community-led conservation. Additionally, social innovators are working to build companies understanding of and support for land tenure.

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Finance Collaborations 99

Philanthropy 2173

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The speaker series is open to anyone who wishes to engage with critical insights on the intersections and implications of digital dependencies with democratic norms and civil society values and actors. It is structured a as hybrid experience, allowing you to choose whether you’d like to attend in person or join us virtually.

Civil Society 52

Civil Society Values 52

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. Once a research grant demonstrated the model’s effectiveness, the clinic’s value became more widely understood.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Nonprofit governance and management Health 115

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. Create synapses for within-city learning.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Construction Governance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

Three developments, in particular, worry me: a drop in rates of giving to nonprofits; widespread staff burnout; and an increasing effort to target nonprofits based on their missions and values. First, I would suggest that we desperately need a campaign to help educate Americans about the value of the nonprofit sector. We can volunteer.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 121

Nonprofit Administration and Development Charitable Organizations Philanthropy Homelessness 121

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 23, 2024

The value of a volunteer hour in the United States during 2023 was $33.49, up $4.95 The value is estimated from data collected in 2023, the figure illustrates the valuable and significant contributions volunteers make every day to support our communities and nation. The lowest state value was in Mississippi at $25.42.

Civil Society 110

Civil Society Charitable Organizations Values Energy 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 11, 2025

Traditional state-centric security frameworks can actually generate insecurity through militarization that escalates the potential for conflict, through surveillance that undermines civil liberties, through resource diversion from human development, and by the exclusion of key voices from security decisions.

Agriculture 69

Agriculture Environmental Civil Society Collaborations 69

Boardsource

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Perhaps more than any other time in recent history, civil society, including governments, nonprofits and the philanthropic sector, is revisiting the fundamental premises that structure its institutions, determine its value and, literally, justify its existence.

Leadership 97

Leadership Civil Society Governance Values 97

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Though its size is not based on endowed assets but rather speculative stock value, the organization, which is still as of this writing a nonprofit , is valued at $86 Billion. I want to think about what it means - if anything - for civil society. First, it seems that no one in civil society or the U.S.

Nonprofit governance 87

Nonprofit governance Governance Civil Society Non-Profits 87

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 27, 2025

This process, visible to all members, would foster trust and accountability, ensuring that every voice is heard and valued in the decision-making process. Such a decentralized structure prevents dominance by any one entity and promotes equitable deliberation among the participants.

Health 109

Health Technology Healthcare Nonprofit governance and management 109

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Pressures on Civil Society Financial experts warn of cascading impacts. Without access to mortgages, there will be fewer potential homebuyers, which may lead to a drop in property values. While the insurance market is the canary in the coal mine, additional financial pressures are coming close behind.

Insurance 130

Insurance Civil Society Healthcare Energy 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. The integration of these values has led to transformative changes in many nafda schools. This values integration was not left to chance.

Education 75

Education Education Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 75

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. Constant downward pressure on price and inequitable distribution of value results in high social and environmental costs for farmers that consumers and investors rarely see.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

Philanthropy 2173

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

It's one of failing business models, new alternatives, a failure of professional ethics and practice to provide distinguishing value, an explosion of choices that consumers don't differentiate between, and a collapse of trust. It's not a pretty story. link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

Civil Society 40

Civil Society Ethics Values Nonprofit Organizations 40

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

If this disregard for people and our planet is fraying the fabric of our society and our democracy, it’s more than a moral issue: it is a historic opportunity for corporations to re-envision their purpose, their guardrails, and the value they deliver to all stakeholders—workers, customers, communities, shareholders, and our planet alike.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Public Policy 130

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Protecting donor privacy is not just about safeguarding individual rights; it's about upholding the values of a vibrant civil society. Legislation demanding donor disclosure does the opposite, silencing voices, chilling philanthropy, and ultimately weakening the very fabric of a healthy civil society.

Civil Society 89

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Nonprofits 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Were in a period of polycrisis, yet the business world, government, and civil society persist in their siloed approaches to solving it. By resourcing, growing, and mainstreaming social innovation, we can sidestep the boundaries that limit us to create new and shared public value. Our vision? trillion and growing.

Governance 81

Governance Philanthropy Collaborations Finance 81

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

So, we launched the first iteration of this project in partnership with them and developed a first-round set of stories, principles, and values. That was an initial debatedo we put all the principles and values in a section, because thats how we think of them holistically, or do we spread them out through the book? We chose the latter.

Governance 71

Governance Education Education Values 71

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 5, 2020

Original post Since we started the Digital Civil Society Lab I’ve been invited to countless conferences, workshops, and philanthropic or corporate launches of “some kind of tech” for “some kind of good.” What commercial applications call externalities, civil society and the public sector exist to address.

Civil Society 59

Civil Society Ethics Participation and motivation Universities 59

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

“We do think that anybody that dedicates their life in civil society should be able to take care of their monthly financial needs… Twenty-two percent of 13.9 What’s more, says Watkins, the findings suggest that the nonprofit sector is, in many cases, operating in contradiction to widely held values of labor justice and equity.

Poverty 120

Poverty Public and Social Policy Civil Society Healthcare 120

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 29, 2023

A Dangerous Rise Local militia groups have a broad range of beliefs and values. But experts warn that unless civil society takes a stronger stance in curbing local militia groups’ power, compounding water, food, and energy crises have the potential to allow these groups to thrive in the vacuum left by an ineffective civil response.

Governance 134

Governance Disaster Relief Law Civil Society 134

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The topics range from values-based social media strategies to the development of the nonprofit sector to the myriad of ways nonprofit facilities impact staff and the communities they serve, among many others. Capacity Building as a Tool for Transformation From Scarcity to Inspiration: Rethinking the Value of Nonprofit Facilities 2.

Leadership 59

Leadership Civil Society Values Nonprofits 59

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These laws, purportedly designed as a check on foreign interference, limit civil society organizations and restrict democratic practice by cutting off funding from foundations to movement organizations. And where is the African value system of this constitution and the rule of law?…If

Philanthropy 96

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 96

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 14, 2025

Meanwhile, embracing the public domain offers various benefits to the nonprofit sector and aligns with values of transparency and accessibilityembracing the public domain will help cultivate the nonprofit ethos of sharing and assistance, not exclusion and profit.

Culture 87

Culture Altruism and Helping Law Non-Profits 87

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This in turn has enabled a “philanthropic” colonization of the civil society within which people-based politics and social movements had been rooted. These approaches fail to enable democracy to work, because democracy is based on the equal value of each person’s voice in making collective decisions about the good of the whole.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Universities Civil Society Sociology 104

Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

“Generosity is a basic, positive human value. “ “Generosity is a basic, positive human value. In today’s climate, it is a tremendously undervalued tool for depolarization,” says @RadioFreeAsha, CEO of #GivingTuesday, a unique model of funding and community-based #philanthropy in 85 countries. ”

Civil Society 94

Civil Society Philanthropy Leadership Culture 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

Indeed, these digital technologies would enable people to transcend the geographic boundaries that constrained their ability to pursue the lives they valued, enabling them to acquire more social, economic, and political power. However, current reality is miles apart from that vision.

Race and Ethnicity 145

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance 145

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. That is how we deeply institutionalize values around giving, collective values around giving. What do we do to get there?

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Leadership 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This involves opening spaces for participation at the highest levels of decision-making, offering training and resources, and above all, listening to and valuing young people’s perspectives. Young people must be seen not only as beneficiaries, but as key partners in the design of policies and programs.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Public Policy 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

There is much greater pushback against the “shareholder values revolution”—which elevated cost-cutting and the interests of shareholders at the expense of workers—than at any other time over the last four decades. It also ensures that any productivity gains are shared more fairly between capital and labor.

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Technology Production Civil Society 142

The Volunteer Hub

JULY 15, 2022

According to a study , performed by the UK Civil Society, 14% of people cite “lack of time” as their main reason for not actively volunteering. By matching volunteers with skill-development opportunities you can ensure you are providing them with value in exchange for their time. Be Mindful of a Volunteer’s Time.

Recruitment 86

Recruitment Altruism and Helping Volunteerism Volunteerism 86

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 15, 2024

They may still be able to create value by deploying AI for internal operations. Nonprofits and civil society belong at the forefront of AI. . * * * What if nonprofits can’t find a way their programs could benefit from any of these AI use cases? Or if they don’t have a CTO or the tech talent to implement it?

Curriculum and Teaching 144

Curriculum and Teaching Health Education Education 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

DEC is able to achieve major policy wins because each member organization adds unique value to a carefully coordinated campaign effort that can ramp up at opportune policy moments. This networking led to the inclusion of civil society, businesses, and local organizations to enhance equity in the plans.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Energy Nonprofit Administration and Development Collaborations 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Mapping the Landscape of AI-Powered Nonprofits by Kevin Barenblat & Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink This kick-off article to an in-depth series Introducing AI-Powered Nonprofits shares a taxonomy of how nonprofits are leveraging AI for social good: Nonprofits and civil society belong at the forefront of AI.

Civil Society 83

Civil Society Philanthropy Universities Values 83

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Access to news is key to an engaged civil society, and without it, social worlds shrink and become suffused with disinformation and bias. When a few ultrarich entities prioritize profits over public information, stories are at a huge risk of being one-sided—or never made public at all.

Public and Nonprofit Management 136

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Civil Society Foundations 136

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

The effort involved training senior executives, both women and men, on how to be mentors, as well as working with the mentees to ensure that both groups strengthened their development and valued mutual learning during the mentoring sessions. It’s time to challenge stereotypes and retire gender roles that hinder their growth and development.

Nonprofit governance and management 126

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