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.” 6 And it got me thinking about how the construction of this dam reflects a broad and long pattern of environmental injustice globally.

Environmental 87

Environmental Race and Ethnicity Construction Nonprofit governance and management 87

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Often portrayed in Western feminist literature as the disempowered, the excluded, and needing rescue, India in fact continues to be reinvented by the heads, hands, and hearts of her women—from farmers, to craftswomen, to political leaders, to social reformers. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

Food 115

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 115

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Image credit: venuestock on istock.com Nine years ago, the Economic Policy Institute reported that over $50 billion a year is stolen from workers nationally —that’s more than the cost of all robberies, burglaries, and motor vehicle thefts combined. This theft occurs daily and disproportionately affects immigrant workers.

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 90

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meanwhile, the Poor People’s Campaign’s efforts to secure a cut to US military spending calls for an end to systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism and the war economy. 20 But just as these systems were deliberately constructed, they can be deliberately deconstructed. This history is important.

Construction 78

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 78

iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For example, death reminders make people more protective of their social group – and more resistant to outside groups.[5] 5] Group opinions and social “norms” become more powerful.[6] 6] People become more interested in social prestige,[7] fame,[8] a positive life story,[9] personal heroism,[10] or putting their name on something.[11]

Psychology 52

Psychology Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation 52

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 133

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 133

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The trauma we carry affects the way we look at the world and ourselves, and therefore plays a role in determining the future course of social systems. Seeing trauma through a systems lens can inform strategies for social change in a multitude of ways.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

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. ” By mid-2018, the New Zealand government had signed 73 settlements into law, valuing $2.24

Governance 89

Governance Health Public and Social Policy Culture 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure access to safe and affordable housing, to be unhoused— and to live in places that are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 99

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 20, 2022

More than 1,500 housing leaders have been trained in the new narrative , and 24 fellows (most of whom have experienced housing instability) practiced the new narrative in community actions and national forums, spurring concrete policy wins across the country, such as changes to restrictive zoning in Denver.

Values 120

Values Public and Social Policy Collaborations Culture 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By Tim Hanstad To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed ; “Only government has the capacity to address social and environmental problems on a national scale.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. Without access, these communities become isolated and, as a result, experience reduced economic, educational, and social opportunities.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 122

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series examines the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 99

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

Image Credit: RDNE Stock project on pexels.com What is social housing? But to make it more than just a slogan, you need policies and institutions to make that right into a reality. Not so long ago, social housing was rarely discussed in the United States. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing.

Public and Social Policy 107

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 107

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives. The result is that public funding will largely benefit wealthier households. 8 This system of publicly regulated monopoly utilities is still with us today.

Energy 88

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 88

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Since it isn’t, the public sector steps in to nudge the market. Mission 300 aims to address these challenges by leveraging both public and private capital to invest in renewable-energy infrastructure. Subordinated debt, where public lenders agree to be repaid after private lenders. Why hasn’t electrification happened already?

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Energy Participation and motivation 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

This model forces communities to pay the enormous costs of unneeded transmission line construction and bear the massive burden of transmission line failures. And this tyranny has now spread to the federal level, as substantial public investment is now set to go toward large-scale renewable energy projects across the country.

Energy 81

Energy Construction Environmental Governance 81

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2024

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. It arises in moments of social tumult, like the one in which we’re living. These concepts seem as if they have contradictory meanings, but they fit together because social cohesion requires social change.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Poverty Sociology 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

Public and Social Policy 68

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 68

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 12, 2024

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. Steve Dubb: In your introduction, you write that we’re in a period of transition from neoliberalism—policies that systemically favor corporations over working people —to something else.

Public and Social Policy 92

Public and Social Policy Governance Healthcare Insurance 92

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2019, the US Census Bureau also reported that, after adjusting for the cost of essentials such as housing, gas, and electricity, California had the highest level of “functional poverty” of all 50 states, at 18.2 These results created a unique opportunity to advance worker ownership policy.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Law Poverty Healthcare 117

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Johanna Bozuwa, the executive director of the Climate and Community Project, details how the corporate capture of climate policy has impeded the public’s ability to respond effectively to the climate crisis. 5 Tenants are confronting [corporate] capture by organizing toward a world in which housing is guaranteed as a public good.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

A new social contract —that is, a structural change in the relationship of the public to the government, the 1930s New Deal being the quintessential US example—seemed to just maybe be at hand. The struggle for a more progressive social contract continues. million children out of poverty. Paid family leave?

Public and Social Policy 80

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 80