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.

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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.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

According to the AP , based on research from the University of San Diego, in more than 70 percent of countries, “the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter.” For that city’s Black households? The rate climbs to 15 percent.

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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.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

And there are several other ways that agrivoltaics can be used to mitigate the effects of climate change: Renewable Energy By generating solar power, agrivoltaics reduces reliance on fossil fuels and decreases greenhouse gas emissions. The location produces sufficient electricity for over 300 households through its 1.2-megawatt

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Why Energy-Efficient Renovations Are Good Investments In an age where sustainability is not just a trend but a necessity, energy-efficient renovations have emerged as a cornerstone in modern property development and ownership.

Energy 52

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Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

According to a study conducted by Carol Dweck, a renowned psychologist at Stanford University, individuals with a growth mindset are more likely to embrace challenges, persevere through obstacles, and ultimately achieve their goals. Focus on the positive feelings and let the emotion ignite the energy that creates unstoppable forward momentum!

Culture 148

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Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

According to a study conducted by Carol Dweck, a renowned psychologist at Stanford University, individuals with a growth mindset are more likely to embrace challenges, persevere through obstacles, and ultimately achieve their goals. Focus on the positive feelings and let the emotion ignite the energy that creates unstoppable forward momentum!

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

12 GHGs such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are naturally occurring gases that absorb energy from the sun and trap heat inside the atmosphere reflected from the earth’s surface. According to NASA, the average surface temperature of Earth “was about 2.45 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.36 degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have watched the nonprofit sector, which ranges from large hospitals and universities to the small magazine that’s being folded in someone’s living room, being ever more caught up in the matrix of what we might call late-stage capitalism. Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws. JH: I agree.

Public and Social Policy 124

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Risk of Lower-Income Work “The lower you are in [an] income group, your exposure increases,” said Sunil Dahiya, an analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air , explaining that oftentimes people with lower incomes work outdoors, which increases their risk. This is a big problem in the rural area,” she said.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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. Too often, Adelzadeh cautions, “Western pedagogies of stewardship, typically channeled through agencies and universities. Eric Henson et al., Assessing the U.S.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My Most importantly, the team has elevated a new generation of diverse leaders who are contributing new energy to Akron’s civic spaces.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 14, 2024

SD: The nonprofit sector has had government functions thrust upon it—so much so, that government is the leading funder of nonprofits. When I’m traveling outside of the US and I tell people that I work for nonprofits, they’re like, “Oh, that’s what our government does.” We need universal basic income and universal healthcare.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Organized by the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Wellspring Cooperative , a worker co-op network based in nearby Springfield, the conference set to develop deeper ties between unions and worker co-ops—and to advance organizing for a solidarity economy. We must organize “building by building,” Smalls emphasized. “We

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Throughout my 35-year career as an optometrist turned social entrepreneur, I have practiced continual self-renewal in pursuit of a world where equitable access to eyeglasses is universal, especially for the poorest and most remote communities. For the next ten years, I felt like I had limitless energy.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

As Brazilian movement scholar Rodrigo Nunes, argues in his recent book about movements like Occupy and the Arab Spring, there is not one universally correct answer to the question of how we make change. knew that changing government policy towards asylum-seekers would require more than quick and large protests. However, GetUp!

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. Image Credit: Amina Filkins on pexels.com [W]e must be relentless in centering the needs and voices of workers. The worker cooperative model is one of our best tools for achieving that goal.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Keep in mind that policy makers are not just government officials. What a foundation invests in is a matter of institutional policy, as is university admissions criteria, for example. The Petey Greene Program was founded in 2008 at Princeton University to recruit college students and community volunteers to tutor people in prison.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

He was legendary for fearlessly taking on the most powerful political leaders, medical institutions, and universities when they did not prioritize the interests of people in poverty. ” This notion extends to many other fields of leadership in business, government, and the nonprofit sectors.

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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. losing primary intact forest results in biodiversity declines —it is unlikely we will have universally agreed-upon targets for all biodiversity measures anytime soon.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

Agriculture 105

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Even the transition to renewable energy is threatened by a shortage of some 7 million workers needed to do things like install solar panels on roofs. Canada and countries in Europe, East Asia, and Oceania with governments from left, right, and center have all recently expanded visa pathways to address workforce shortages in key industries.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Of course, I am aware that there is no universal definition of what love is, but I feel for certain that most humans agree that when love is expressed, it is nonharming and nonviolent in nature and is the most powerful force for harnessing feelings of belonging, safety, and interconnectedness vis-à-vis our internal experience of self and other.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

NeedsList has benefited from government grants to test and scale our software in other countries, and this funding has proved critical to allowing us to prove our model. Startups don’t have the same in-house staff as universities, larger companies, or INGOs.

Public and Social Policy 119

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Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

According to a study conducted by Carol Dweck, a renowned psychologist at Stanford University, individuals with a growth mindset are more likely to embrace challenges, persevere through obstacles, and ultimately achieve their goals. Focus on the positive feelings and let the emotion ignite the energy that creates unstoppable forward momentum!

Culture 78

Culture Technology Energy Universities 78

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Over the past year, we have been working with a multidisciplinary coalition of partners led by The Wellbeing Project and Georgetown University to apply insights from the field of trauma healing to the practice of systems change. But what does systemic trauma actually look like? How can we recognize it when we experience it?

Public and Social Policy 140

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re super involved with Cal State University. My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. Where are we not putting our energy? And lastly, energy. . Okay, great.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Statistically, our girls were more likely to drop out of high school or become teen parents than they would be to graduate high school prepared for university. Five years in, the energy of community engagement and the momentum of a few early wins had dwindled. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Every community is unique.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Lisa Lee (Associate Vice President of Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech), Dr. Reuben Warren (Director of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University), and Dr. David Holtgrave (Assistant Director for Translational Research in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy).

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

A Burden on Local Governments Despite the need for housing, is it simply too risky to build in areas of the country at highest risk for climate disaster? “I don’t think developers and decision-makers are willing to acknowledge that we are living in a new era of extreme weather.”

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 23, 2024

Walker has received 16 honorary degrees and university awards and was listed among TIME ’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2016 and Rolling Stone ’s “25 People Shaping the Future” in 2017, WSJ Philanthropy Innovator of the Year in 2020, and Inside Philanthropy’ s Philanthropy Leader of the Year in 2023.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 18, 2024

Show how the current situation leads to long-term expenses for government programs. Project the Economic Benefits of Your Policy: Cost-Savings Analysis: Show how your policy will save the government money. Partner with universities or research institutions for expertise.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

He said the foundation’s prior grants to NGOs enabled its priorities to seep deep into policymaking through the appointments of its grantees to the regulatory councils that govern American fisheries. In essence there is evidence of oil companies paying for energy coverage, the Waltons paying for water coverage. It’s beyond problematic.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

7 This means that in 2020, the year of the so-called racial reckoning, “one of the largest financial [government] bailouts since the Great Depression” actually served to further the racial wealth gap. Regarding deaths during the Middle Passage, see Steven Mintz, “The Middle Passage,” Digital History, University of Houston, 2016, www.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

It will take a network of dedicated nonprofits, concerned citizens, government intervention – and BP’s commitment – to restore the Gulf Coast to is former state. But you know that it will take more than just BP’s response to rebuild businesses, reclaim livelihoods, reestablish wildlife and restore the environment. And if so, how?

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Fundraising Coach

JUNE 11, 2024

Establish data governance. As Double the Donation’s nonprofit data collection guide explains, choosing platforms that seamlessly integrate reduces the time and effort required for data management and allows your team to focus that energy on mission-critical activities instead. in Marketing Management from the University of Tampa.

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