Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The African Development Bank for example, seeks to promote sustainable economic growth and reduce poverty in Africa, while the International Red Cross focuses on protecting and assisting victims of armed conflict. These projects typically take place in peaceful and lower to middle-income countries where poverty remains prevalent.

Poverty 111

Poverty Finance Governance Health 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In research I did with collaborators for the Broke Project , we found that most stories, profiles, and vignettes related to work to end poverty follow this pattern: while an organization is the protagonist, poor people are defined only by their experience with poverty. The land was vacant for 32 years.

Homelessness 138

Homelessness Culture Poverty Collaborations 138

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

Ethics Construction Poverty Values 118

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

By shopping at any of the 48 online stores listed below, socially conscious and ethical consumers can channel some of their consumer spending power into the nonprofit sector and the Greater Good. The Field Museum Store offers gifts for those interested in science and cultural, natural, and human history. 28) Home T :: thehomet.com.

Ethics 103

Ethics Children Production Manufacturing 103

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Online Gift Catalog by People for the Ethical Treatment on Animals: PETA has everything you could possibly imagine for animals lovers, particularly vegans and vegetarians. Online Gifts Catalog by PBS: Ideal for supporters of public television, PBS’s online shop has videos and books ranging in topics from arts and culture to travel.

Children 92

Children Poverty Ethics Medical 92

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Oxfam : To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 5, 2023

From displacement and poverty to illness and environmental degradation, the urgent challenges facing the world today call for innovative approaches that combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear understanding of the problems and a firm footing in communities. ”—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2019.

Collaborations 136

Collaborations Culture Technology Governance 136

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

By shopping at any of the 48 online stores listed below, socially conscious and ethical consumers can channel some of their consumer spending power into the nonprofit sector and the Greater Good. The Field Museum Store offers gifts for those interested in science and cultural, natural, and human history. 28) Home T :: thehomet.com.

Ethics 40

Ethics Children Production Manufacturing 40

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Art & Culture. We’re a way for you to shop with intention for ethically-sourced handcrafted wares – and to share in the joy of empowering makers in ten thousand villages.” ” “With every purchase we make to add products to our collection, we’re creating sustainable jobs and preserving cultural traditions.

Children 105

Children Environmental Nonprofits Agriculture 105

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

My experience with this balance around ethical – and equitable – storytelling is not just from a fundraiser and consultant, but also from a person with my own lived experience. . Poverty Porn” Doesn’t Raise More Money. Although the harm created by poverty porn might be unintentional, the impact is real.

Non-Profits 243

Non-Profits Poverty Ethics Public and Nonprofit Management 243

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 15, 2024

Unlike in Palestine, where local authorities have made it clear that it is in the best interests of Palestinian children for their care to remain in Palestine , most of these countries had no oversight to check the nature or ethics of these adoptions, much less stop them entirely. What Went Wrong?

Children 137

Children Poverty Governance Psychology 137

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. Aligning investments with ethical missions is not just the right thing to do—it's good business.

Curriculum and Teaching 119

Curriculum and Teaching Healthcare Civil Society Technology 119

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 127

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 127

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 117

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 117

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2024

It made me attuned as to what it was to feel like you don’t belong and how important it is to create social structures and a culture that is deeply welcoming and inclusive for everybody. That ethic of approaching philanthropy as an organizer is what foundations that I have seen at their best do.

Philanthropy 128

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Ethics 128

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. It prioritizes building personal, social, emotional, and cultural capacities of human beings—instead of irrational consumption. Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Organizers who have long relied on agitation and confrontation to hold institutions accountable may need to develop new skills and new allies to shift both culture and capacity. Capitalism maintains poverty and economic disadvantage for a segment of the population just as surely as it generates extreme wealth for the one percent.

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Governance Non-Profits Foundations 109

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment. This led to the requirement of US federal agencies to secure the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of Indigenous Nations related to their environment, lands, water, livelihoods, and culture.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 128

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 88

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 88

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 133

Public and Social Policy Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 133

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Tech and AI: Technically Optimistic by Raffi Krikorian, the Chief Technology Officer at Emerson Collective – His newsletter, Technically Optimistic, keeps you updated on the issues, innovations, ethics, and legislation around A.I. The Substack continues his observations on organizational psychology and company culture.

Communication 105

Communication Nonprofits Food Health 105

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. Typically, we say that the American Dream ideology individualizes and pathologizes poverty. This man has to ward off the specter of elder poverty by becoming a landlord. AT: To redefine security, we need to cultivate an ethic of vulnerability. What would this let us create?

Manufacturing 144

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 144