NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

Image Credit: PeopleImages on iStock What does impact investingthat is, investing with social benefit in minddemand of investors? Many in the field have long held it demands virtually nothing, that an investor can have a social impact without sacrificing a penny of their own.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

How does the field of public health—given its role in making decisions that impact entire populations—define ethics? How can it be used to advance health equity and social justice? Ethical values are critical to all that we do,” says Dr. Nancy Krieger , a professor of social epidemiology at Harvard T.H.

Ethics 119

Ethics Health Public and Social Policy Values 119

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JULY 2, 2024

Established nonprofit organizations play a vital role in addressing social issues, driving positive change, and enriching communities. This includes assessing market trends, analyzing donor behavior, and leveraging new technology to enhance operations and communication.

Public and Social Policy 209

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 209

Fundraising Leadership

JUNE 28, 2024

It’s about far more than public displays on social media, recruiting initiatives, one and done anti-bias and anti-harassment trainings.” It also bans policies or programs with ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ in their names,” reports the global law firm, Skadden. A study conducted shortly after the U.S.

Leadership 124

Leadership Public and Social Policy Law Public Policy 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

3 Built on the Sesan River, the dam was part of the Chinese government’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” which sought to expand its “foreign policy interests.” 4 The Cambodian government’s stated aim is for the dam to provide enough energy to stop power outages and further develop the country.

Environmental 115

Environmental Race and Ethnicity Construction Nonprofit governance and management 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair The field of social entrepreneurship often takes its normative foundations for granted. Social enterprises seek to address social problems using business strategies. Understanding how social innovation directly affects people’s lives is essential.

Social Entrepreneurship 130

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

Collaborations 132

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 132

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

Nonprofit Management 238

Nonprofit Management Management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 238

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Last year, our social impact startup hit a milestone that eludes 96 percent of female founders: we hit one million dollars in revenue. We know that for social entrepreneurs trying to solve global challenges, the system is rigged. Underneath every accomplishment lies a profoundly broken funding landscape for social innovation.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Non-Profits 119

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The climate crisis is an urgent and pervasive threat, and it disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. Limited access to education is also a social vulnerability: the systemic barriers further exacerbate the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities.

Race and Ethnicity 111

Race and Ethnicity Environmental Education Education 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

By James Anderson Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. Local governments are left bearing the brunt and have, understandably, so far struggled. Or take the ongoing global migration wave.

Nonprofit governance and management 144

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 144

Anedot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The position requires a versatile leader with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to lead and implement development and fundraising efforts that ensure financial sustainability. The Executive Director will be adept at program oversight, and at fostering community partnerships and volunteer engagement.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 52

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2024

It’s essential to communicate the value of these investments to stakeholders to shift the narrative and recognize that strategic overhead spending is crucial for achieving long-term mission impact. It’s time for the sector to unite in educating the public and funders on the importance of building capacity. What is the Overhead Myth?

Public and Social Policy 234

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 234

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. After all, social justice is by nature utopian. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

What little optimism remains to tackle such complex challenges is mostly placed in supranational schemes, such as the COP climate change conferences, or transformational national policy, such as the Green New Deal in the US. ” Scaling up social innovation takes time, but there are also varying ways it can be done.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Construction Governance 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 29, 2024

In May of 2024, scientists published a discovery that just might lead to one of the first opportunities for interspecies communication. Nonprofits decoding non-human communication with AI are just one example in a renaissance of AI-powered nonprofits (APNs) using AI to protect biodiversity and fight climate change.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law Environmental 137

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

Community-based organizations and local governments are starting to recognize where such individuals may fall through the cracks and are creating policies and networks for more inclusive disaster response and recovery. At the same time, these policies siphoned resources away from their communities.

Disaster Relief 136

Disaster Relief Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Insurance 136

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Having worked in the social sector for a little over a decade, I have firsthand experience with the art and science of getting social impact programs off the ground. It is meant to supplement, rather than replace, the existing social safety net and job sector and can be a critical tool for improving racial and gender equity.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 31, 2016

The public — and reporters — use these pages as the gateway to the tax forms. In GuideStar’s case, this means giving nonprofits the keys to telling the story about their work and impact on their public-facing pages. Governance. One of those spaces is GuideStar , the online repository of IRS tax forms for all registered U.S.

Public and Social Policy 151

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 151

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 29, 2017

Not surprisingly, Bezos’ unusual public request has drawn massive media coverage, in addition to more than 42,000 replies on Twitter. It also offers a great opportunity to talk about ‘ newsjacking ‘ — the public relations practice of using a hot item in the news to help generate media coverage for your organization.

Public and Social Policy 159

Public and Social Policy Nonprofits Governance Health 159

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Emerging technological innovations in healthcare have the potential to transform public health and healthcare delivery systems, making them more efficient, personalized, and accessible. Consequently, communities that were already marginalized continued to face limited access to essential healthcare services.

Health 57

Health Technology Healthcare Medical 57

Philanthropy 2173

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Pick an area of social, economic or political life and I can guarantee you people somewhere are trying to figure out how to govern energy systems, communication sites, health policy, economic policy, political campaigns, and nations in ways that account for our digital dependencies, something the 18th century thinkers were spared.

Civil Society 52

Civil Society Governance Public and Social Policy Energy 52

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 3, 2023

The Conference + Catalyst are presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners in partnership with the Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration. Our speakers Xavier Ramey is the CEO of Justice Informed, a social impact consulting firm based in Chicago, IL.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public Policy Ethics 108

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

One, by Kevin Musgrave , a Southeast Missouri State University communications professor cited above, focuses on attempts to fuse economic and religious thought. Conway of Caltech, titled The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , examines the role of corporate propaganda.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Marketing Marketing Governance 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. It erodes a high-functioning pluralistic democracy , compromises public health, and makes it impossible to solve collective problems like climate change.

Civil Society 142

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Health Governance 142

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy. For instance, the Crux Alliance—a network of six policy expert NGOs—was founded on the premise that getting the details of climate policy right is essential to real-world carbon reductions.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Energy Nonprofit Administration and Development Collaborations 132

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to The Generosity Commission, they instead are complex actions that go straight to the core of civil society and democracy, which includes declining trust of institutions and neighbors and social isolation. The report examines why the rates of both the number of donors and volunteering have plummeted for the past decade or more.

Civil Society 110

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Volunteerism Volunteerism 110

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

In the US, the federal government is already compensating Indigenous tribes to relocate. The local government claims that clay extraction pits dug by the kumars have stripped the riverbanks of its sturdy top layer of soil, leaving them more susceptible to the erosion caused by climate change.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 105

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Remember, communication and sharing platforms such as Facebook have only been with us for a little over a decade and a half. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 Looking back at the early years of platforms such as Facebook, Google, and email communications, many people were excited.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Law 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If environmental outcomes can become assets, why can’t social outcomes? Social impact, totaling $72.05 trillion in terms of government social spend, philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management could be considered the world’s largest financial market today.

Marketing 116

Marketing Marketing Public and Social Policy Governance 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 24, 2023

By Tia Martinez In seeking to improve the health outcomes of people in underserved communities, philanthropy’s results have, in general, been disappointing: Socioeconomic and racial injustices run so deep in these communities that strong barriers to change extend well beyond the health care system. Community grantees knew better.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Health Collaborations Foundations 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Clearing this fog is crucial for companies to confidently take decisive steps and communicate their impact. 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.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

There are communities like hers all over America. Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

Health 130

Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 130

Selfish Giving

JUNE 21, 2020

Cool Products has asked us to promote their sales campaign to our members and donors through email and social media. On the other hand, if promotional communications are done only “occasionally or sporadically,” they should not trigger UBIT. UBIT affects traditional corporate sponsorships (e.g., $X

Law 147

Law Advertising Public and Social Policy Activism 147

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It’s not just digital news nonprofits that benefit from their giving; the Waltons also give to legacy newspapers, websites, magazines, radio stations, and trade journals covering such subjects as agriculture, water policy, fisheries, conservation, and climate. There’s more.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 136

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

to collaborate, learn, shape and advance the nonprofit sector for the good of the communities we serve.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Governance Leadership 97