Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. Other schools are observing the energy and momentum, and they are eager to join the movement. This values integration was not left to chance.

Education 75

Education Education Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 75

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A Cautionary Tale: Overcoming Governance Nightmares in Nonprofit Organizations No one enjoys it when a nonprofits board doesnt work well together. Community & Culture Working together lifts everyone up! Learn how culturally responsive leadership can help bring out the best in your nonprofits team. Updates by topic!

Nonprofit governance and management 74

Nonprofit governance and management Finance Collaborations Leadership 74

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards , a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, A New Framework for Boards, Ananda Valenzuela challenges traditional governance models and offers a new vision for boards that empower rather than constrain. This [collective governance] framing inherently challenges the top-down board knows best assumption.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Culture Poverty 52

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Create new patterns: As you become an expert at smashing limiting beliefs, it's time to start proactively create new patterns that keep your energy up and your mind in flow. Focus on the positive feelings and let the emotion ignite the energy that creates unstoppable forward momentum! Here's the deal: Your culture is your brand!

Culture 148

Culture Technology Energy Universities 148

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Create new patterns: As you become an expert at smashing limiting beliefs, it's time to start proactively create new patterns that keep your energy up and your mind in flow. Focus on the positive feelings and let the emotion ignite the energy that creates unstoppable forward momentum! Here's the deal: Your culture is your brand!

Culture 147

Culture Technology Energy Universities 147

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JULY 16, 2021

These could be nonprofits, government initiatives, green communities, etc. . They teamed with Energy Star, a program run by the U.S. Department of Energy. The program promotes energy efficiency. Namely, IMB has 11 green storage systems, all of which are approved by Energy Star. .

Marketing 140

Marketing Marketing Environmental Participation and motivation 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

And the US Green Building Council (USGBC), an intermediary promoting energy-efficient construction, developed guidelines and rating systems for sustainable cities and neighborhoods. From Experimentation to Diffusion of Urban Innovations The innovative role of dynamic cities has been referred to as government by experiment.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Construction Governance 119

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 20, 2024

Doing so means transforming our governing institutions, laws, regulations, and customs in a more fundamental way than tinkering around the edges with policy and programs. When everyday people, institutions, and government act in service, out of love for the particular needs of particular people, the benefits flow outward.

Nonprofit governance and management 141

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Law Philanthropy 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

For many people in Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities in the United States and across the globe, the connection to land is core to cultural identity, spirituality, and livelihoods. Moonsoon Fund, where Gloshay focuses her energies, has similar ambitions. Indigenous women are the backbone of their communities.

Finance 138

Finance Food Agriculture Governance 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

Scott Momaday During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global shutdown sparked an unexpected return to and reinvigoration of Indigenous culture in Peru. When the pandemic and government lockdown eliminated urban jobs, hundreds of thousands of people left Peru’s cities and walked home to their ancestral homelands.

Leadership 122

Leadership Poverty Culture Public and Social Policy 122

Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2024

However, it is alarmingly common for individuals to join nonprofit boards for self-serving reasons, rather than a genuine commitment to the cause, leading to a disengaged board and a pervasive culture of apathy. This lip service passion is not only unacceptable but detrimental to the missions of these organizations. Talk less and do more.

Participation and motivation 115

Participation and motivation Governance Ethics Nonprofits 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

Because these approaches also come with cultural differences and operate along different time scales, it can be hard for organizations to mobilize and organize at the same time. knew that changing government policy towards asylum-seekers would require more than quick and large protests. However, GetUp!

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Medical 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 11, 2023

Twenty-five percent of the entire Amazon Basin is on legally recognized Indigenous Territories, which are generally better protected than even government parks and reserves. Even less support has reached rightsholder women , despite the essential role of women in forest management and their exclusion from many governance structures.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Environmental Public and Social Policy Governance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws. JH: I agree.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Nonprofits 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It shapes and perpetuates Native identities, cultures, and worldviews.” It is jointly governed by members of the Nakoda and Aaniiih nations, and includes a 22,000- acre (over 34,000 square miles) bison reserve, home to a herd of over 500 buffalo. Overview of Stewardship Challenges. Adelzadeh’s report looks at four communities.

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 140

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

However, eight months after Lumumba was elected, he died of heart failure, and the anticipated alliance with the city government did not materialize. But, even so, the city government and the social movement represented by Cooperation Jackson and its allies have not always seen eye to eye. I was working 12 hours. It is not easy.

Education 141

Education Education Governance Food 141

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

6 Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing in Climate Work Geography and geospatial science, which are integral parts of Earth system science, use tools such as geographic information systems and remote sensing to study the physical and cultural environments on Earth. degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.36 degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

Race and Ethnicity 111

Race and Ethnicity Environmental Education Education 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Investment officers at foundations, nonprofit endowments, pension funds, and other impact investors would offer to buy SBA government-guaranteed loans for a small 1 percent premium above the going rate, on the condition that the loans are used to finance conversions to employee ownership. Increasing employee ownership is a worthy goal.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

There are also opportunities to advance equity and establish more community-responsive co-governance in the process. Because public dollars often have extensive reporting requirements, CTC feared that accepting these funds might invite financial instability and divert energy from existing programs.

Governance 106

Governance Community Development Environmental Collaborations 106

Fundraising Leadership

APRIL 14, 2023

Culture eats strategy for lunch.” Culture needs to be tailor made in every company with institutional memories, talents and environment, you design the mindset.” What is important too is to have a culture where innovation is key and the values are “courage, vision, equity and joy,” Bourla says. “ asks Bible. “We

Culture 52

Culture Race and Ethnicity Health Manufacturing 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Clearly, BECMA has benefitted from both the energy unleashed by the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020. We have [to have] the right culture and the right focus on developing our people, or else I think it’s unlikely that we’ll be able to sustain ourselves.” This included $1.5 This included $1.5

Nonprofit Administration and Development 110

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Culture Foundations 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“Then the delight, when your courage kindled, / And out you stepped onto new ground, / Your eyes young again with energy and dream, / A path of plenitude opening before you.” We neglected her dignity, her ability to choose a pair of eyeglasses that were culturally appropriate and aspirational.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Health Energy Leadership 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Her care for Black babies and their families is culturally centered, celebrating tradition and responding directly to anti-Black racism. Our practice also includes a cultural commitment to seeking out rather than reacting defensively to different vantage points, and funding and learning from unfamiliar community leaders.

Participation and motivation 134

Participation and motivation Health Environmental Children 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Social justice principles hold that inequity and oppression occur at multiple levels: individual, institutional, and societal or cultural. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level. Keep in mind that policy makers are not just government officials.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. Cultivate biodiversity-friendly organizational cultures. Contribute to ecosystem restoration.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When we don't have the means to process the impact of the experience, our autonomic nervous system fragments off the related energy and information from our awareness, but we hold it unconsciously in our body and mind until we heal from it. But what does systemic trauma actually look like? How can we recognize it when we experience it?

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Create new patterns: As you become an expert at smashing limiting beliefs, it's time to start proactively create new patterns that keep your energy up and your mind in flow. Focus on the positive feelings and let the emotion ignite the energy that creates unstoppable forward momentum! Here's the deal: Your culture is your brand!

Culture 78

Culture Technology Energy Universities 78

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The root of a unified board is its culture, so the best board retreats address the fundamental culture questions, “What should it mean to be part of this board?” and “How should our culture be manifested in board behavior and contributions?” Today, the best boards, no matter how big the organization, do work.

Participation and motivation 105

Participation and motivation Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Culture 105

The Charity CFO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Given the importance of individual donations, it’s not surprising that nonprofits spend a significant amount of time, money, and energy building a base of donors. Government Grants. Many large and mid-size nonprofit organizations rely on government grants to make money. Fundraising expenses are one clear example of this.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 10, 2023

I have seen these traits in many of the founders I have worked with as an executive coach and governance expert for organizations large and small. Far too many boards have only a cursory understanding of their role in leading and governing their organization. It usually begins with the board’s origin story.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Recruitment Governance Leadership 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Though ecologically and culturally rich, the county ranks in the bottom eighth in California for per-capita income. Five years in, the energy of community engagement and the momentum of a few early wins had dwindled. It was the best approach we knew at the time for transforming systems and policies to improve health equity.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life. Poor, rich, and everything in between: SDoH is typically used to illustrate poor health outcomes for underserved communities.

Health 130

Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 130

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Secret to Cost-Effective Solar Installations in Alberta As the demand for sustainable energy sources continues to rise, solar power has emerged as a promising solution. By reducing the initial costs, these incentives make solar installations more economically viable, accelerating the transition to cleaner energy.

Energy 52

Energy Governance Collaborations Technology 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Beyond prioritizing mental health education and interventions in our initiatives, social impact practitioners across all areas often face personal challenges as we dedicate our time and energy to witnessing and mitigating the world’s inequities. reducing individual carbon footprint, climate activism, support for climate policies).

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 105

Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2024

A strong and effective board can help provide strategic direction, keep your finances in check, and uphold a high standard of governance. These referrals come from trusted sources who understand the culture and know what the organization needs to thrive. Social media, especially LinkedIn. Young Nonprofit Professionals groups.

Participation and motivation 105

Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Leadership 105

NonProfit Hub

MAY 1, 2015

Both require time, energy and patience. John Fulwider, an author, teacher and coach for nonprofit executives, said the most successful nonprofits invest a lot of time and energy in board recruitment. Part of that is being really honest with them as in ‘This is how we do it’ and ‘This is the culture we have.’”.

Recruitment 76

Recruitment Nonprofit governance and management Energy Governance 76