NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

What do community organizing calls for police abolition and recent federal public investments like the American Rescue Plan Act (more popularly known as ARPA) have in common? Public investments like ARPA have reawakened a commitment by politicians to use our dollars to improve access to quality housing, schools, and jobs.

Public and Social Policy 139

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 23, 2025

By Alex Ash Narratives are an essential prerequisite to social change. These stories are championed uncritically by the media , are present in nascent industrial policies , and are reinforced by a majority of business leaders. For example, a headline from Tech Policy Press reads Why Hasty AI Regulation Could Hurt Africa.

Public and Social Policy 122

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It reaches into healthcare, finance, justice, education, and public policy, promising to streamline and elevate. Nonprofit leaders dedicated to social justice know that AIs power to shape lives will further entrench the biases weve fought for generations to dismantle if left unchallenged.

Ethics 98

Ethics Public and Social Policy Technology Finance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Many factors contribute to BIPOC underrepresentation in climate-related STEM fields, including financial constraints, a lack of role models, systemic racism within educational institutions and the workforce, and limited exposure to STEM education. 32 The report notes that there are higher exposures to particulate matter (PM2.5)

Race and Ethnicity 111

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

We have seen in the JTICthe Just Transition Investment Communitythat many of the foundations, the funding members, actually trace back the origin of their wealth, and from there, move toward a sort of dreamlike state of asking: This was our past. And they write all of that in their investment policy statement, for example.

Public and Social Policy 119

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As a leader in the space, RRI plays a coordinating role as one of the fields system orchestrators , and the Skoll Foundation has deepened our understanding of land tenure by supporting and learning from their work. Engage government in collective action to create conditions for favorable tenure rights policies.

Public and Social Policy 111

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 25, 2024

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) (in this case, the “ India Stack ”) is at the heart of a revolution that is transforming the Indian economy. This was the start of the Aadhaar project, which offered a universally accessible ID, a foundational form of digital identification. It was easy enough to use it that she preferred it to cash.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The multiracial, multiethnic group of about 50 people—including heads of family foundations, institutional philanthropy, funder collaboratives and intermediaries, donor organizers, and advisors to wealthy donors—nodded and snapped in support. We disagree. After all, there is no reason to push back so hard against a losing team. “One

Philanthropy 111

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 111

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Image credit: ROCKETMANN TEAM on Pexels The movement work to which I am called requires a multiracial, multigenerational coalition of organizers and advocates to shift policies and systems toward giving power and land back to Indigenous and Black people. I was raised as a Pentecostal Christian (COGIC) by a single, divorced mother.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Culture Medical Education 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair The field of social entrepreneurship often takes its normative foundations for granted. Social enterprises seek to address social problems using business strategies. Understanding how social innovation directly affects people’s lives is essential.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 14, 2024

Like an earthquake is the sudden culmination of years of building tension, the dramatic shifts in America’s racial and education justice landscape over the last decade emerged from trends long preceding it. Data from the National Center for Education Statistics tells us that as of 2021, public school students in the U.S.

Education 119

Education Education Philanthropy Foundations 119

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

Nonprofit Management 238

Nonprofit Management Management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 238

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By Paul Cann Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early death; these are also linked to anxiety, depression, suicide, dementia, and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.

Health 138

Health Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 138

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Black women are three-to-four times more likely than White women to die from pregnancy-related complications, regardless of their education or financial status. Effective health education isn’t just about providing information; it’s about empowering individuals and communities to advocate for their health and make informed decisions.

Health 105

Health Education Education Healthcare 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. After all, social justice is by nature utopian. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Thanks to prison privatization, corporations, many of whom, like CoreCivic , are publicly listed companies, have a perverse incentive to boost their stock prices and keep prisons full by lobbying for policies like harsher policing, longer sentencing, and incarceration for non-violent crimes.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 126

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

CareQuest Institute collaborates with a wide range of partners to achieve its mission of improving the oral health of all through work in grantmaking, research, health improvement programs, policy and advocacy, and education, as well as leadership in dental benefits, care delivery, and innovation advancements.

Medical 59

Medical Public and Social Policy Health Volunteerism 59

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 24, 2017

Will the way an arts organization approaches its communications work vary significantly from a social service agency? Raising awareness of our issues to educate people on our cause. Advocating on our issues to change hearts and minds. “Engaging our community” is the #1 nonprofit communications goal overall.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Food Philanthropy 139

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It calls for AI that is designed explicitly to dismantle systemic inequities and address the social ills caused by historical and present-day injustices. For those impacted by AIcommunities, workers, everyday peoplesuch policies serve as essential protective barriers. Workers deserve to benefit from the productivity gains AI offers.

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Public and Social Policy Health Environmental Ethics 68

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? Some refer to this as the “ data divide ”—the increasing gap between the use of data to maximize profit and the use of data to solve social problems.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Imagine your outrage if you were a public school teacher and your pension fund invested in a company that supported and lobbied for vouchers and charter schools. Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Pension Funds: Whose Capital? Our Capital!

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Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Universities Finance 143

Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Candid’s Issue Lab is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing social sector knowledge. Here we highlight some of the most popular publications from 2023.  HBCUs have been critical in educating Black people, developing Black leaders, and addressing inequality throughout U.S.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Education Education 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

By Kartik Akileswaran , Jonathan Mazumdar & Angela Perez Albertos “When I was preparing to come to Delhi for a job, everyone in the village laughed and asked how it was possible that my village education would find me a job in a big city," recalled a 22-year-old Tabassum Naaz in 2010. Education is not the silver bullet.

Manufacturing 136

Manufacturing Education Education Foundations 136

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Yet despite these breakthroughs, the social sector has only begun to scratch the surface of open 990 data’s capabilities.

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Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 126

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 17, 2025

Following undergraduate work at Loyola University Maryland, Smith earned a masters in social work from Rutgers University, and later in 1995, a doctorate from New York University in clinical social work with a concentration on the effects of corporate culture on relationships, focused on women.

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Public and Social Policy Leadership Culture Universities 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Casey Foundation. Getting our housing system to work better for all—especially for families of color who have long experienced discrimination and bias—will require a long-term concerted endeavor with coordinated efforts from a broad host of public, private, and community actors. By Funders for Housing and Opportunity.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Foundations 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While the legal impact of the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action was limited to higher education, it has already had ripple effects across the charitable sector. Meanwhile, the structural, societal changes we seek do not happen on their own; they require policy advocacy. Philanthropy has a critical role to play.

Nonprofit governance and management 130

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Ethics Foundations 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For as long as most of us can remember, social enterprises and social movements have sought to disrupt systems from the outside or to make fundamental policy changes from the top down. In Education. We see the same thing in organizations focused on educational attainment. By Jim Bildner & Stephanie Khurana.

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Public and Social Policy Health Education Education 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

By 1948 Cafritz had amassed such wealth from real estate development that he incorporated a foundation bearing his and his wife’s name. It is also one of several DC-area foundations profiled in a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) on “ Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People.”

Philanthropy 134

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Advertising Universities 134

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2023

What policies are further perpetuating inequities? We recognize that [institutions] shy away from centering racism [in discussions], and when we do that, we will not succeed in truly achieving a Culture of Health,” explained Rich Besser, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We are highly regulated,” she shared.

Health 119

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Race and Ethnicity 119

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine 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. The reparations landscape in the United States—and around the world—is evolving rapidly.

Philanthropy 134

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 134

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

For organizations with other funding priorities, check out these specific areas: Education , Arts & Culture , Environmental Conservation , and Youth Programs. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Hanley Family Foundation. American Legion Child Welfare Foundation. Cigna Foundation. RBC Foundation – USA.

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Health Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Healthcare 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city. Consider the climate crisis.

Nonprofit governance and management 144

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 144

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In this interview with NPQ , The Sentencing Project’s codirector of research, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, discusses the series, particularly the last installment, which examines how mass incarceration deepens inequality and harms public safety. Better investments could be made with public resources.” How can this disparity be combated?

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 128

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Walton…and individual family foundations have directed tens of millions of dollars to support journalists, newsrooms, and journalism organizations. The foundation board is legally independent of Walmart. Journalism is welcoming the new infusion of philanthropy. There’s more. And grants are promised with no strings attached.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 136

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There are areas of concern—none more prominent than the massive backlash against progress on social justice issues. These trends threaten trust in philanthropy at a time when public trust in institutions of all kinds is declining. Education donors and school leaders were unprepared for the backlash and politicization.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Foundations Activism 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. Jule Hall: I’d just like to note how we approach nonprofits.

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Public and Social Policy Law Governance Nonprofits 124