NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That changed when a team from Reimagining the Civic Commons decided to reinvigorate public spaces in Akron’s systemically disinvested neighborhoods, including Summit Lake. Moving at the Speed of Trust Employing deep listening, engaging in meetings, and building one-on-one relationships with neighbors…helped inform public space design.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Image Credit: lilartsy on unsplash.com This is the third article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Public school teachers are not just educators.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 145

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Aruta & Kelly Davis A convergence is happening between the climate and mental health movements, and social impact practitioners need to pay attention. Characterizing the relationship between these two complex problems is often challenging because the true tolls of the mental health and climate crises are inseparable.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 16, 2023

It also has an adverse impact on workforce productivity and inflicts economic losses on workers whose health and working conditions are affected by extreme heat. This July, Rio de Janeiro signed a public-private partnership with Consortium Rio Solar to implement the Carioca Solarium project.

Health 98

Health Public and Social Policy Energy Collaborations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Limited access to education is also a social vulnerability: the systemic barriers further exacerbate the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities. The climate crisis is an urgent and pervasive threat, and it disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

Race and Ethnicity 111

Race and Ethnicity Environmental Education Education 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2023

The piece struck a chord with many NPQ readers, as it did for the Health Justice desk. Looking back on that time offline, I recognize how important it was to my work as a health justice practitioner to create space for play, creativity, and dreaming. million fund to enable sabbaticals for BIPOC leaders.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Medical 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right. Why is that?

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Energy Social Enterprise 116

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 9, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Mingook Kim on unsplash.com Two major problems confront California’s energy policy. Second, California’s energy laws and business models are rooted in injustice. These two major problems are perfectly illustrated in the passage of Net Energy Metering 3.0, This policy decision was complicated.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Energy Environmental Non-Profits 115

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. Compassionate capitalism and public-private partnerships held the key to jumpstarting our impact.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Health Energy Leadership 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy. For instance, the Crux Alliance—a network of six policy expert NGOs—was founded on the premise that getting the details of climate policy right is essential to real-world carbon reductions.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Energy Nonprofit Administration and Development Collaborations 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The CLIMA Fund , a collaboration across four public foundations supporting tens of thousands of grassroots groups advancing climate justice solutions, has learned a lot about the diverse and powerful ways grassroots movements create scaled impact. Relationships. Relationships and connectivity are the lifeblood of movement building.

Agriculture 128

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Energy Governance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Image Credit: Yassine Khalfalli on unsplash.com This is the sixth article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Environmental Health Economic Issues 116

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. Consider the climate crisis. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.

Nonprofit governance and management 144

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

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!

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Universities Finance 143

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

By Dai Ellis & Oliver Sabot Snatched from the jaws of defeat, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will hasten the transition of key markets—for energy, vehicles, cement, and more—toward “greener” technologies. To understand what is possible, we can look to the field of global health.

Finance 116

Finance Health Manufacturing Governance 116

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Following the retirement of a long-standing CEO, I assumed the top job for a sprawling organization with a rich history, commitment to enabling social change agents, and an opportunity to leave a mark on our work and city. Our nation and Baltimore were thrust into a public reckoning on racial injustice and systemic inequality.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Leadership Energy 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Much of the workforce today, from blue-collar workers in factories to electricians, plumbers, educators, and health care providers, depends on problem-solving and real-time decision-making. Three big social changes would be necessary for such a path, and each one of them is a tall order. The tech sector can change, too.

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Technology Production Civil Society 142

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

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Water Alliance is changing that question to, “How can utilities, communities, and policy makers work together to create an environment in which shutoffs for low-income families are not necessary?”. Guided by the alliance, the teams gathered data that would inform policy changes for water utilities. For García, this was troubling.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Universities Collaborations 140

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

However, decarbonizing puts a significant portion of LA’s already vulnerable renter community at risk as it can impact housing affordability and increase energy burdens. With nearly two million renters, half of which are rent burdened, meaning they spend most of their income on housing and energy costs and cannot afford to pay higher rents.

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Energy Non-Profits Law 103

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Breath and brotherhood are enormously important to the work of the collective of socially engaged artist-activists that I cofounded several years ago. Others wrongly believe that bisexuals enjoy all the same social privileges and advantages that straight people have. Creating space to breathe freely.

Race and Ethnicity 130

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Culture Philanthropy 130

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 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 31, 2023

It inspired them as they marched and protested as part of the Black Lives Matter movement; it inspired them as they engaged in nonpartisan campaigns to change state and local policies; and it inspired them as they worked to get out the vote. As a sophomore, Kahlila collapsed from dehydration at a school event.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Participation and motivation Poverty 98

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. There’s also the kind of “emotional labor” involved in courting individual donors.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Nonprofits 124

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 18, 2024

Why Economics is your friend as a nonprofit advocate By Kevin Dean, President & CEO Tennessee Nonprofit Network Last year, at a conference out of town, I shared coffee with an old friend as she recounted her incredible public policy journey. Nonprofits excel at highlighting the human cost of social issues.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Healthcare Homelessness 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

By Trevor Zimmer In May, the COVID-19 national public health emergency officially ended. As the world emerges from this period of death, economic displacement, and social reordering, it will take years to fully understand how the pandemic impacted households, communities, and countries.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Health Finance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Vital Energies. In Ayurveda, one of the world’s oldest healing systems, the word doshas refers to the vital energies that animate life. These energies consist of specific combinations of the five basic elements: space, wind, fire, water, and earth. Vata is the energy of movement, made of wind and space. I’m a hothead.

Energy 122

Energy Culture Public and Social Policy Food 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 18, 2024

A sense of urgency to address large social problems—and frustration with the fragmentation of philanthropic giving broadly—has pushed many of these funders to explore new ways of validating and amplifying their giving strategy. Funding the last mile. One is that it may divert funding away from other important areas.

Fundraising 115

Fundraising Fundraising Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

The group leading the effort is SAGE Development Authority , a public power authority owned by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which gained international recognition for its leadership in the non-violent protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. “For our people and me, this project is a prayer,” says Joseph McNeil, Jr.,

Leadership 122

Leadership Poverty Culture Public and Social Policy 122

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

First, blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of new content use in your e-newsletter and share on social media which increases traffic to your website and awareness of your nonprofit’s brand. The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Nonprofits Food Environmental 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

When I joined Mothers Out Front as executive director, one of our organizers put this clearly for me: our climate justice work means that we are on the forefront of intersecting social justice movements. It can also look like making sure our PTO policy supports working parents.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Culture Leadership 111

Getting Attention

JANUARY 4, 2013

Communications Project Manager , Energy Trust of Oregon, Inc. Health Policy Technical Writer/Editor , Futures Group (Washington, D.C.). Marketing Account Manager for Rural Teen Campaign , Rescue Social Change Group (telecommute within VT). Senior-Level Writer , AAAS Office of Public Programs (Washington, D.C).

Public and Social Policy 71

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Marketing Marketing 71

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. Financial guarantees are a powerful tool, yet they are underutilized in the social sector. A guarantee can also be a means of sharing financial risk.

Community Development 109

Community Development Finance Energy Nonprofit governance and management 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

JAMA Pediatrics released a study last year that reported a significant increase in the number of children diagnosed with mental health conditions between 2016 and 2020—with increases, particularly in anxiety and depression.

Public and Social Policy 73

Public and Social Policy Children Environmental Philanthropy 73

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

Governments representing deeply indebted nations are often unable to invest in health care, education, and other services, which, in turn, threatens their very political survival. For debtors, there may be political resistance, a lack of public support, or concerns about unintended consequences or trade-offs.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance Civil Society 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

Image Credit: Ibrahim Hafeez on pexels.com To solve our most pressing challenges, we need the total sum of human intelligence and emancipatory energy in our society. People with disabilities are leading policy change, technology development, and workplace evolution. But space needs to be made. Hands need to reach out.

Technology 122

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 122