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 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Simply stated, government’s inability to create profound change requires both funders and the organizations they support to adopt a different way of thinking about problems and their solutions. In work like this, there is no disruption taking place.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Health Education Education 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

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

In 2021, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 54 percent of all public school districts required updates of at least two major systems, including HVAC systems, roofing, and structural integrity. Indeed, the entire system is in dire need of an overhaul.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 145

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Ultimately, this self-questioning convinced Akuno that changing ownership of the economy was critical to liberation; that there had to be a pivot in strategy toward cooperatives and toward the construction of a solidarity economy. Land ownership, Akuno pointed out, facilitates two important things.

Education 141

Education Education Governance Food 141

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2022

At Grantli, I have created a state resources page where you can find useful links to state government departments and various other resources. The Point32Health Foundation prioritizes healthy aging and access to healthy food. The US Government estimates the Extra Help is worth about $5,100 per year. Areas served: Vermont, US.

Insurance 124

Insurance Nonprofit governance and management Foundations Education 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the Andes mountains, the traditional floating homes of the Uros people are inspiring low-cost, eco-friendly construction techniques worldwide that can improve water quality and biodiversity.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Construction Culture Manufacturing 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Families don’t have enough warm food to eat ; enough clean, cool water to drink; or enough safe places to go to escape extreme temperatures. Placing the onus on individuals or small groups to help with extreme weather ignores the responsibility of governments to protect their people.

Poverty 136

Poverty Energy Health Manufacturing 136

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Again, governments are not businesses, and universities are not automobile manufacturers. 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

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

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. Latinx and other immigrant community commercial corridors allow residents to access foods and products native to their country of origin and, therefore, help preserve their cultural identity.

Culture 98

Culture Construction Community Development Education 98

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

When treated as a single “industry,” nonprofits are the third largest workforce in America, behind retail and food services, employing 12.3 As you read, keep in mind that some data may have changed, and continue to do research as new studies are released! Let’s first look at the sheer mass of the sector. million people in 2016.

Retail 76

Retail Agriculture Manufacturing Food Services 76

Bloomerang

AUGUST 26, 2024

Serve food. Schedule regular check-ins to discuss their contributions, celebrate successes, and provide constructive insights. By implementing these strategies, you’ll engage your board members and ignite their influence, leading to a more dynamic and effective governance team. Start with a fun icebreaker or thank-a-thon.

Participation and motivation 111

Participation and motivation Nonprofits Construction Values 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We looked at spending across the social impact sector; including government , global and domestic philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management; and found that globally we are spending an extraordinary amount of money—roughly $72 trillion annually—making social spending the world’s largest financial market.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 1, 2023

The Amazon Basin spans Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Guyana, Colombia, Bolivia, Suriname, French Guiana, and Venezuela, with myriad Indigenous and local communities depending on it for temperature regulation, drinking water, food, shelter, building materials, and transportation. We’re not here asking for money.

Environmental 105

Environmental Children Construction Finance 105

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. The federal government began utilizing “Asian-Pacific Islander” to indicate race in the 1980 Census.

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. the system and rules that govern who decides what knowledge is and isn’t shared and with whom). But this is particularly unnerving to me.

Health 105

Health Universities Construction Culture 105

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 21, 2024

Consumers, Organizations, Governments, we all have our part to play. Made with fruits and veggies in mind, these totes are perfectly constructed for leaves and dirt to fall through rather than settling on your freshly bought goods. Luckily, there are already millions of people who have made to switch to reusable grocery bags.

Food 52

Food Construction Environmental Governance 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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. But they happen to have an amazing partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank and they could stretch those dollars. donation into $219.04

Children 109

Children Curriculum and Teaching Education Education 109

iMarketSmart

APRIL 18, 2022

You give and the government matches your gift with a tax benefit. Your dollars become more powerful because the government pays for part of the cost of the gift.”. They have abundant food and drink. Death avoidance is a deeply rooted psychological construct of its own. Match language – Yes. Rebate language – No.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Psychology Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management 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

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

After decades of neglect, federal and state governments are making substantial investments to combat the wildfire crisis. After decades of neglect, federal and state governments are making substantial investments to combat the wildfire crisis.

Public and Social Policy 118

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

Hundreds of us gathered to acknowledge how the Crown—as New Zealand’s government is still known colloquially today, as the successor to British colonial rule—unlawfully confiscated the Ngāti Maru (a Māori tribe) land more than 150 years ago. .” This meaning was fitting for the event. billion. .”

Governance 98

Governance Health Public and Social Policy Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

12 Its demands include freedom for all imprisoned and detained people; resistance to surveillance, policing, and militarized responses to COVID-19; access to quality healthcare now and in the future; access to housing, food, and economic security; and international efforts to end US imperialism and militarism. Working Beyond Hope.

Construction 109

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 109

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It has been very common for governments to request AI models that can identify fraud in a public benefits systemfor instance, in the applications they receive for childcare benefits or unemployment benefits. Well, those models have failed spectacularlyand routinelyin many different countries. And you talk about reshaping this idea of risk.

Nonprofit governance and management 95

Nonprofit governance and management Technology Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 95

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. When families lack the income for food, transport, school fees, uniforms, and essentials like menstrual products, girls are the first to drop out of school. million people.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

A familiar scent wafts from the kitchen where your aunts are warming food they prepared earlier. They were erased by government-backed campaigns to move birth out of the hands of Black midwives and into the hands of white male obstetricians. Niles and Drew, “Constructing the Modern American Midwife.”.

Health 131

Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy Ethics 131

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. Ironically, an estimated 85 to 90 percent of the food eaten in Hawai‘i comes in on a ship or barge. 5 Our loko i‘a too are highly degraded.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Environmental Food Culture 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.

Education 98

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 98

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. Chokwe’s role was enlarged because we have a strong mayor type of government. Probably not.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 139

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 10, 2024

Opened in 2023, this full-service grocer focused on the African diaspora through food (including a halal butchery, restaurant, cafe, and gathering space) has the audacious goal of controlling the food marketplace and attaining food sovereignty. 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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Food Sovereignty Purpose: Organize autonomous, self-organized food-production networks capable of producing enough food to address the caloric needs of the people identified through the activities of our mutual aid networks, and transform these networks into self-sustaining entities of noncommodity exchange.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Production 137

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

Nowhere is this more evident than in the construction and decimation of the social safety net. The number of people going hungry increased from 35 million in 2019 to 50 million in 2020, overwhelming food banks around the country. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 122

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Back in 2019, I published a study on what I called “cooperative cities” in which I wrote about how local governments in a dozen US cities create enabling environments for developing and sustaining worker cooperatives. Only a handful of municipal leaders at the time referred to this work as “community wealth building.”

Finance 120

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 120

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

The simplified answer to this question is that in the mid-1970s—after Watergate, the Vietnam War, and other fundamental lies told to the American people—you had kind of the highest level of distrust of government and institutions. Another was focused on horrible working conditions at a food warehouse in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.

Construction 116

Construction Healthcare Leadership Activism 116

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

After all, it’s hard for local farmers to sell their crops or eggs or cattle when they’re competing with free food from a foreign government or institution. The major imports are high-value-added manufacturing products, refined petroleum, and staple foods. Leaders are also avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Energy Participation and motivation 144

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. Yet how much pinning down does there need to be?

Universities 98

Universities Agriculture Construction Finance 98