Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

By Trevor Zimmer In May, the COVID-19 national public health emergency officially ended. But the COVID-19 pandemic will not be the last novel infectious disease in our lifetimes, and climate change will be a threat to human and planetary health without equal.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Health Finance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Image Credit: PeopleImages on iStock The view from the trenches in frontline BIPOC communities fighting for resources is hopeful, though sobering: there has been a boom in energy and interest since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022. Proof of concept is strong, with exemplars around the country.

Energy 114

Energy Environmental Community Development Public Policy 114

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. While signing on is an important first step, following through with concrete and impactful action will be what truly matters.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

2 (Many teachers and public sector workers, by the way, do not receive Social Security benefits, which only adds to the insecurity. Pension funds should follow other institutional investors that are shifting from investing in fossil fuels to investing in clean, renewable energy. 18 As AFSCME Local 3299 lays it out: B.

Public and Social Policy 139

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy.

Race and Ethnicity 85

Race and Ethnicity Production Recruitment Collaborations 85

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 15, 2020

None of us has any expertise to offer on the science of coronavirus or appropriate public health measures. Invest in the communities to which you belong—bring whatever energy you can to them and let them, in turn, be a source of inspiration to you. In the future we will talk about the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020.

Public and Social Policy 40

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

Associations 113

Associations Public and Social Policy Insurance Agriculture 113

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Yet, one need only consider the lives lost, the school time squandered, and the continued mental-health toll to know that we will need to be much better equipped next time. In fact, I’ve argued that local governments were one of the few things that worked well during the pandemic. Her team launched the country’s first digital I.D.,

Nonprofit governance and management 144

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Very few leaders entered this work in order to build a professional career, but many of us have reluctantly or even unconsciously channeled our energies into surviving the nonprofit and philanthropic industrial complex as an end in itself. TLC fellows come from organizations that are building long-term power for and with BIPOC communities.

Leadership 105

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In contrast to systems like energy, transportation, or health care, where expertise is more well defined, food expertise tends to be irrefutable, requiring no advanced degree or professional experience. Finally, imagine the food scraps left over in these community members’ kitchens.

Public and Social Policy 59

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 59

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Right to Be Free from Environmental Harm The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) works toward equity and justice in environmental, energy, and climate policies. Human health is closely tied to these water systems as they provide drinking water, monitor groundwater usage, and divert or drain flood water.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Environmental Energy Health 111

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It remains encapsulated in a rigid legal straitjacket that limits its ability to react with agility to meet pressing social and economic needs and opportunities, such as the upcoming wave of solar energy development. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy.

Public and Social Policy 124

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

Public Policy 76

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 76

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As the parents to four young children, it’s been important to us to improve pediatric health care and neonatal intensive care so every newborn baby in our state has the best chance at a healthy life. In 2020, Carmen and I were privileged to contribute $4 million to help bring the upgraded neonatal intensive care unit to Bozeman Health.

Public and Social Policy 98

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

He’s mostly associated with his contributions to the education and health of southern Black people, but within his Standard Oil monopoly, Black and Mexican workers were recruited to live near the environmentally precarious refineries and paid sub-wages to do some of the nation’s dirtiest and most dangerous work.

Manufacturing 111

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

45 Additionally, worker cooperatives, once marginal in the world of public policy, have since 2018 won an impressive string of legislative victories at both the federal and state level. Esteban Kelly and Mo Manklang, “Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy,” Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine 30, no.

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