Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

My for-profit business, Conservatorio, had ongoing construction projects in the area. I knew from the outset that even denting the deep Santa Ana gang culture would take years and many hundreds of thousands of dollars more than our grant covered, but the temptation was too great. Importantly, I had a solid base to work from.

Participation and motivation 130

Participation and motivation Construction Governance Nonprofits 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

These forces, often abetted by public transit investment or publicly subsidized construction projects, disrupt neighborhood stability and have a name. When people are forced to leave, these neighborhoods often lose their cultural vibrancy and sense of community that made them appealing to new residents in the first place.

Culture 98

Culture Construction Community Development Education 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

Image Credit: Chiara F on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. Volumetric means that the modular units are constructed off-site with flooring and ceiling included. Two key advantages of volumetric modular construction are that it can be done at low cost and high speed.

Poverty 119

Poverty Community Development Construction Finance 119

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values. The household suffered a loss of income when she and her husband’s work hours were reduced, and the household food expenses were increased due to school (reduced lunch program) closures due to COVID-19. Why You Need a Great Story.

Ethics 118

Ethics Construction Poverty Values 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The power of movements is based in the ideas that fuel them, that inspire people to come together and work toward the realization of a shared goal or values.”

Social Entrepreneurship 128

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Universities Law 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

For example, our organization, One Acre Fund , supplies over 4 million African smallholder farmers with the finance, supplies, and training to grow more food, plant more trees, and earn more money. percent of climate adaptation finance need of smallholders is currently being met by all actors combined.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

Bloomerang

AUGUST 26, 2024

Serve food. Schedule regular check-ins to discuss their contributions, celebrate successes, and provide constructive insights. Public recognition boosts confidence, creates a culture of appreciation, and motivates everyone to strive for excellence. Start with a fun icebreaker or thank-a-thon. Bring in guest speakers.

Participation and motivation 111

Participation and motivation Nonprofits Construction Values 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 11, 2023

As such, AAPI health data approaches that buck traditional racial constructs are crucial to developing solutions that more effectively address this population’s health inequities. This inclusion can ensure that research objectives and data collection take place in culturally appropriate ways.

Health 105

Health Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Public and Social Policy 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 14, 2023

As a multiracial person—and as an anthropologist by training—I intentionally cross boundaries in every aspect of my life, from household decor to food to my own values. There are significant cultural, political, and societal differences between places that may limit their relevance. But this is particularly unnerving to me.

Health 105

Health Universities Construction Culture 105

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to a 2014 study of wage theft in California and New York , wage theft doesn’t just hurt low-wage and immigrant workers, it also contributes to poverty, increases the need for SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program, formerly known as “food stamps), and increases the cost of public assistance services.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 105

Beth Kanter

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It begins with learning, habituation, and cultural shifts to fully harness AI benefits responsibly. He described how volunteers, previously spending hours on research for culturally resonant welcome baskets, turned to Copilot for quicker insights. The path may seem daunting, but the key is to start with your people.

Public and Nonprofit Management 63

Public and Nonprofit Management Production Nonprofits Construction 63

NonProfit Hub

JULY 14, 2014

It’s all about knowing your unique audience, your culture, and making that culture accessible. The problem with Faber College is that it’s a boring, uninspiring institution with practically no culture (that we can see.) Know your culture. So you’ve got culture, now get creative and express it. Knowledge is Good.”.

Education 47

Education Education Culture Universities 47

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Fundraising Planning and Climate Report ’s findings show the following: Adjust fundraising strategies : Based on the report’s predictions, consider adjusting your fundraising strategies to align with the current socioeconomic and cultural climate, and donor preferences.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Finance Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Hub

JULY 14, 2014

It’s all about knowing your unique audience, your culture, and making that culture accessible. The problem with Faber College is that it’s a boring, uninspiring institution with practically no culture (that we can see.) Know your culture. So you’ve got culture, now get creative and express it. Knowledge is Good.”.

Education 31

Education Education Culture Universities 31

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2024

This sponsor may also be able to offer relevant in-kind donations like leashes, dog beds, and pet food. CSR statistics indicate that 71% of employees believe it’s very important to work at a company that has a culture of giving. Employees value working at companies that support charitable causes.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Values Construction Homelessness 52

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2024

This sponsor may also be able to offer relevant in-kind donations like leashes, dog beds, and pet food. CSR statistics indicate that 71% of employees believe it’s very important to work at a company that has a culture of giving. Employees value working at companies that support charitable causes.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Values Construction Homelessness 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2024

She didn’t know what they were until the elders told her: “The way food used to be,” they’d said, and she couldn’t imagine the kinds of food that came covered in plastic. It was the hands of her ancestors that constructed the water system they still drink from, the very houses they live in; they were the original Keepers.

Children 52

Children Food Culture Construction 52

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 140

Food Culture Agriculture Public and Social Policy 140

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. And they were getting lots and lots of food donations because everyone feels great about running down to the dollar store, Food Lion, and grabbing a couple boxes of cereals or canned items. And we know we’ve all done that.

Children 109

Children Curriculum and Teaching Education Education 109

iMarketSmart

APRIL 18, 2022

In western culture, tithing originated in windfall gains. They have abundant food and drink. Death avoidance is a deeply rooted psychological construct of its own. In experiments, if money is earned by effort, people are less likely to donate it.[9] 9] The more effortful the earning, the less likely the donation.[10]

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Psychology Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 11, 2023

MW: And so, I want to position that for funders, for people who are leading philanthropic organizations, to be able to think differently and workshop ideas for integration with peers, and grapple constructively with the myriad complexities associated with implementing racially equitable principles and practices. CS: He wants to do that.

Construction 110

Construction Leadership Philanthropy Culture 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

.” Against the will of many Ngāti Maru members, countless acres were opened for British settlement, which rendered the tribe nearly landless, led to generations of economic, cultural, social, and spiritual hardship. Little announced that the government would also deliver a settlement or reparations.

Governance 98

Governance Health Public and Social Policy Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Logging and related forest management work are widely described in labor market data as among the most hazardous occupations , but wages are often equivalent to those of warehouse or fast food employment.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 118

Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The second wasn’t fully accomplished: to understand how gender dimorphism, in which too often women are dominated or considered of lesser value, became the cultural norm. Johanson believes vegetarian females like Lucy are smaller because they had to conserve their food energy for pregnancy, birth, and suckling. How does this happen?

Leadership 52

Leadership Sociology Culture Children 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

A familiar scent wafts from the kitchen where your aunts are warming food they prepared earlier. Today, we face racially redlined access to midwifery that reflects our nation’s deeply racist political, economic, and cultural history. Your partner whispers reminders of your beauty , your strength , your power.

Health 131

Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy Ethics 131

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Culture change is slow, but it is central to us as a movement that we are intentionally creating together. Among the 15 local cooperative businesses and democratic collectives we count in our ecosystem, many focus on arts and cultural strategies to strengthen our solidarity economy.

Culture 119

Culture Collaborations Construction Environmental 119

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2022

There are many lessons to be learned from Indigenous aquaculture practices, especially in the areas of climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, resource management, and food sovereignty. Āina momona stretch across and uplift the ecological and cultural functioning of the entire watershed, from mountaintop to nearshore.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Environmental Food Culture 105

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

They heavily overrepresent cultural artifacts produced in the Global North. They heavily overrepresent cultural artifacts produced by the wealthy and people who had access early on to digital technologies and the bandwidth to digitize their activities online. The data heavily overrepresent men.

Nonprofit governance and management 95

Nonprofit governance and management Technology Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 95

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 10, 2024

Our organization, the Boston Ujima Project , which is a home for arts and cultural organizing, political education, and investment in Black-owned and cooperative businesses—and to which Turner contributed until his passing in 2019—is just one part of a much larger story. The need for food sovereignty is urgent, to hear Samad tell it.

Food 131

Food Community Development Medical Nonprofit governance and management 131

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

It was something that I knew existed, but I didn’t know how dependent I was on it until I got to college and started to pay my own food bills. From New Orleans, I learned how to go about constructing a community land trust. That co-op, that CSA, was a lifesaver for us. It has its positives and negatives.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 139

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

” It’s all about cultural competency and how communications staff can not only be more inclusive and therefore effective in their communications work products, but also lead these conversations within their own nonprofits. At worst, it exposes us to other cultures and traditions. Stay tuned for much more in 2018!

Race and Ethnicity 117

Race and Ethnicity Culture Construction Production 117

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The myth of American meritocracy is not merely an occasional story; it is upheld daily by social systems, structures, and cultural narratives. The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Teams of chefs confided that even if their restaurant reopened, they could not abide one more day of toxic kitchen culture. Over coffee and Proof pastries, Banerjee celebrated the moment by saying: “Some of my favorite and most healing things in life include dance, yoga, cannabis, food, and fashion.” Photo by Osian Bellinger.

Universities 81

Universities Finance Manufacturing Production 81

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 31, 2025

The TransCap Initiative , where I work, has spent the last six years building the field of systemic investing , an investment approach designed to meet the nature and magnitude of societys greatest challenges: the transformation of our food, energy, mobility, urban, and industrial systems. future of mobility, climate change, etc.)

Universities 98

Universities Agriculture Construction Finance 98

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 7, 2025

What Animals Eat Termites & How to Deter Termites Termites may be small, but theyre a critical part of the food chain. In many cultures, termites are a delicacy. Packed with nutrients, termites are a sustainable food source in various parts of Africa, Asia, and South America. Humans and Termites Yes, humans eat termites too!

Construction 52

Construction Food Activism Culture 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Many West Germans I spoke with expressed issues with the visa process, pointing out how immigrants get state support for housing, food, and so on but are not allowed to work until their visa is handled. Addressing the concern that refugees may undermine local culture is no easy task, especially if it isn’t rational in the first place.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Governance Healthcare Culture 121

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

We must begin to replace the vast architecture of private supports that women construct around their loved ones with a robust health and human services infrastructure capable of supporting the needs of all families. 64 Such strategies could be revived and reinvigorated to ease the gratuitous labor burden they place on poor women.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Health Associations Children 141