NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 17, 2024

For instance, according to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), “While there has been an overall 42 percent decline in breast cancer deaths over the last three decades—there is a persistent mortality gap between Black women and White women.” Human rights violations against Black women still abound in medicine and health policy.

Medical 113

Medical Health Public and Social Policy Environmental 113

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

” As a frequent participant in funder calls and donor working groups, our team at the Roddenberry Foundation has seen this “systems change fatigue” up close and personal. As a collaborative effort with multiple funding partners , we have regular conversations with foundations from across the globe.

Civil Society 97

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Food 97

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 12, 2023

And I knew that unstable, unaffordable, and unsafe housing meant families had to choose between rent and food, utilities, medicines, and childcare. Despite the intersectional social and economic challenges we address, philanthropy is typically organized by siloed programmatic areas. As Charles Rutheiser of the Annie E.

Philanthropy 107

Philanthropy Homelessness Public and Social Policy Foundations 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 14, 2024

Data from the National Center for Education Statistics tells us that as of 2021, public school students in the U.S. Just as press releases and surveys can show us intent, foundations’ actions can best be measured by our checkbooks. The latest Justice Is the Foundation data, covering grants made from 2019-2021, was released last month.

Education 90

Education Education Philanthropy Foundations 90

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Residents, regardless of zip code or how much money they have, can breathe clean air, eat healthy and culturally appropriate food, and have a safe, affordable place to call home. The importance of housing as a social determinant of health has been well-documented by researchers and philanthropies alike.

Health 103

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 103

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

Leadership 99

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 99

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. This is particularly important in social impact, where we need evidence to make decisions related to policy, funding, and programs, so we can solve intractable problems. million studies.

Public and Social Policy 107

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Governance 107

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 114

Civil Society Environmental Governance Public and Social Policy 114

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Hanley Family Foundation. American Legion Child Welfare Foundation. Cigna Foundation. RBC Foundation – USA. Autism Science Foundation. The David & Lura Lovell Foundation. Anthem Foundation. Foundation for Autism. O’Neill Foundation.

Health 103

Health Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Healthcare 103

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Furthermore, schedule changes and social isolation heightened uncertainty and anxiety. A survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that three-quarters of LGBTQ+ people (74 percent) reported that worry and stress from the pandemic negatively impacted their mental health compared to half (49 percent) of non-LGBTQ+ people.

Health 85

Health Public and Social Policy Governance Collaborations 85

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Food changes into blood, blood into cells, cells change into energy which changes up into life. food is life. This work we’re doing in food culture is ultimately healing work. it’s only the seeds, and the land, and the food, that have the capacity to take that grief, and to metabolize and digest it.

Food 137

Food Culture Agriculture Health 137

Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

said Cory Howat, Executive Director of the Catholic Community Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana. “We For example, some foundations or organizations don’t support faith or religion-based organizations, said Gillian Doucet Campbell, Director of Stewardship and Development for the Anglican Diocese of Niagara in Ontario, Canada.

Philanthropy 124

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Leadership 124

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Sewall Foundation; and Kate Dempsey, state director of The Nature Conservancy in Maine, discuss the future of Tribal sovereignty, Land Back, and rematriation of the planet. These are things that were purposely taken from us through colonial policies and forced assimilation—that sort of thing. CS: Thank you.

Nonprofit governance and management 88

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 88

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Jess Daggers , Alex Hannant & Jason Jay In the face of complex social and environmental challenges, our best efforts often only address a symptom, rather than root causes, even as unintended consequences create new problems. Investors who think about social change tend to be rooted in a linear, reductionist form of logic.

Finance 128

Finance Public and Social Policy Environmental Food 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The CLIMA Fund , a collaboration across four public foundations supporting tens of thousands of grassroots groups advancing climate justice solutions, has learned a lot about the diverse and powerful ways grassroots movements create scaled impact. Relationships. Quantity over quality.

Agriculture 125

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Energy Governance 125

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

2 It has been edited for publication here. In cities like Richmond, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, which had experienced ‘food apartheid,’ the need for locally grown, healthy food supported the rise of urban farms that employed returning citizens. The year is 2053. The buzzing of delivery drones fills the air.

Public and Social Policy 107

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 107

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 116

Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

In addition to representing Candid, I was there to learn about trends in the European philanthropic sector and explore opportunities for collaboration. Philea (Philanthropy Europe Association) is the offspring of the recent merger between the European Foundation Center (EFC) and the Donors and Foundations Network in Europe (DAFNE).

Philanthropy 101

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Leadership 101

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

A familiar scent wafts from the kitchen where your aunts are warming food they prepared earlier. The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. Your partner whispers reminders of your beauty , your strength , your power.

Health 116

Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy Ethics 116

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the Rippel Foundation, we are part of a broad movement to change this. This effort focuses on the Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being and shared stewardship —a collaborative, power-sharing approach to improving health and wellbeing. What is the Vital Conditions Framework?

Health 73

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 73

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2024

And what would it take for us to realize solidarity in our relationships, our communities, our social movements, and our governments? Rather it’s the product of considerable effort, organizing, and a willingness to reimagine just about every facet of a social structure that rewards the few while sowing division among the many.

Public and Social Policy 127

Public and Social Policy Construction Law Civil Society 127

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Over the course of our lecture series, we’ve talked a lot about the crucial role that community plays in building alternatives to capitalistic models of access, resource distribution and social equity. And we’ll also hear from Amaha Selassie of Gem City , a food cooperative in Dayton, Ohio.

Public and Social Policy 87

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 87