NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Philanthropy often relies on large, national intermediaries that lack local knowledge and relationships.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Indigenous cultural traditions in the region have long embraced the interdependence of humans with the land, water, and the more-than-human world. As in much of Native America, a vibrant cultural revitalization is underway here, bridging past and present and elevating Indigenous worldviews and traditions long suppressed by colonization.

Health 105

Health Culture Poverty Activism 105

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values. This is the main challenge (Ex: poverty, disease, discrimination) the character must face. Because the letter didn’t include an inspiring story that touched donor’s hearts. Why You Need a Great Story. Humans are hardwired to respond to stories.

Ethics 118

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

He named his initiative Sekem and created a conglomerate of organizations that today enable a broad range of economic, social, educational, and cultural activities in a beautiful and safe environment. However, recent psychology research promotes a less deficit-oriented approach.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139

Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Gates Foundation pledged $315 million over three years to CGIAR , a global research partnership focused on the needs of smallholder farmers, in support of efforts to help them adapt to a surge of climate threats that, in turn, are exacerbating global hunger and poverty. Read more. . November 4, 2021. November 3, 2021.

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Construction Poverty Culture Healthcare 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2023

Barbie may be one of America’s emblematic cultural exports, but the toy’s production has only ever happened overseas. Everything about Barbie ’s publicity so far—from Robbie’s referential press tour outfits to the millions being made from brand partnerships—is a profitable testament to the cultural power of the Mattel corporation.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Culture Production Technology 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

Drawing from the lessons we’ve learned at One Are Fund navigating the absorption and implementation of big bet philanthropy, we offer two constructive actions each for donors and doers to ensure big bet philanthropy leads to even bigger social change down the road: 1.

Finance 119

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is instead an exercise in liberating the constructs of creativity from being the prerogative of the Western, masculine, or the allegedly educated, while reclaiming what rural women of India have championed for thousands of years. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

In late 2021, a small Zimbabwean community-based organization, Score Against Poverty (SCORE), with help from the Canadian government, decided to test out a different approach. Within ten months, this locality and cultural approach was quickly supported by the evidence in practice.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Systems are not mechanical constructs or impersonal faceless institutions. The non-profit Glasswing International, for example, mobilizes youth, communities, and government agencies to address the root causes and consequences of poverty, violence, and forced migration. Systems carry trauma because they are relational.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

Soft skills, relationship building, and culture will all still matter across industries and job types. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. While this sounds like bad news for workers, cheapening tenure and reducing the costs of turnover, workers are more than their technical knowledge.

Curriculum and Teaching 122

Curriculum and Teaching Healthcare Civil Society Technology 122

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

JULY 23, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. SD: You’ve written about how bridging is “one of the pillars to create a culture of belonging.”

Culture 108

Culture Technology Law Construction 108

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. SD: You’ve written about how bridging is “one of the pillars to create a culture of belonging.”

Culture 98

Culture Technology Law Construction 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In 2021, FHO gave these organizations a $1 million, three-year grant to encourage broad adoption of the new housing justice narrative, in part by working with artists and creators to shift the cultural landscape. FHO: How do race and poverty enter into the narrative on housing? Individual FHO members also gave a total of $7.3

Values 131

Values Public and Social Policy Collaborations Culture 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The problem in many settings isn’t merely that elected leaders are enacting self-serving or misguided policies (though there is that too); many or even most countries also suffer from a supply-side problem: they lack the capability, systems, institutional culture and practice to deliver for their citizens.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.

Governance 135

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 135

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

JANUARY 18, 2024

These structures go beyond the physical infrastructure of poles, wires, and pipes to encompass the culture, laws, institutions, and power structures that shape who gets to live today and who gets to live—and even thrive—in the coming decades. We can lead with justice toward a climate-resilient system that values everyone.

Energy 119

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

26 Even so, Isabelle Moses, Faith in Action’s chief of staff, explained that, after Reed left, it required “a comprehensive effort to transform the culture of the national staff team through self-examination around race and gender” that lasted more than three years. Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black?

Public and Social Policy 96

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Davarian Baldwin, a professor, urbanist, historian, and cultural critic who has written widely about universities, delineates how the corporate capture of higher education has harmed university life and culture. They offer solutions. 13 Tenant unions are not a new concept.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 134