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From Band-Aids to Blueprint: How Nonprofits Can Engineer Systems Change through Advocacy and Public Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

We see the hunger they alleviate, the education they provide, the homelessness they address, but the root causes remain, casting long shadows over countless lives. It's about shifting power dynamics, dismantling harmful policies, and creating a new blueprint for a more equitable future. But the vision is worth the fight.

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Safety in Solidarity: How to Safeguard Movement Groups and Members

NonProfit Quarterly

This spring, they applied their training during their first public event since the shooting—a farm blessing—collaborating with local organizations on security measures. Participants came from diverse organizations, including homeless shelters and a queer youth summer camp.

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Elevating Voter Engagement: A Partnership Between AZ Impact For Good and Nonprofit VOTE

Non Profitvote

Laurie Liles, the Chief Public Policy Officer, shares insights into this impactful collaboration and its significance in empowering communities through active participation in the electoral process. In partnership with Nonprofit VOTE, AZ Impact For Good amplifies its mission by promoting voter engagement across the state.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

Develop partnerships and alliances with other organizations that serve BIPOC communities, and collaborate on initiatives that promote diversity and inclusion. Participate in public policy debates and advocacy efforts that affect underserved communities, and represent the interests and concerns of those communities.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits would be trusted to hire the right consultants and form partnerships that are collaborative and generative toward their racial and economic justice goals. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This required a sustained emergency posture and high degrees of creativity, agility, and collaboration. Tara McGuinness and Anne-Marie Slaughter position this as a new approach at problems that is distinct from traditional policy making and is people-centered, experiential, data-enabled, and designed to scale.

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Resiliency Strategies for Nonprofits in Times of Political and Financial Instability

NonProfit Quarterly

billion in backlogged bills, 90 percent reduced homelessness services, and the denial of support to more than 3,600 adults and 4,200 children seeking refuge in domestic violence shelters. Digital advocacy shouldnt just informit mustinvite collaboration and inspire action. The fallout was devastating: $16.7 3 (2022): 822842.