NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. In some ways, laws don’t matter when it comes to organized worker power.

Law 139

Law Governance Leadership Poverty 139

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. They may fund “justice” but rarely target laws that force willing employers to deny someone a job because of their nationality.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. Can we create laws to give people money? They can control what we do with it.

Governance 125

Governance Homelessness Insurance Poverty 125

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. Equal access to the ballot box is not only a fundamental part of our democracy, it is also required by law. Consider, for example, approaches to ensuring voting access.

Technology 122

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 122

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Starting a nonprofit requires a decent amount of time and energy. Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community. Look into pro-bono services offered by local bar associations or law firms. What questions should you ask before starting a nonprofit? State and federal regulations for starting a nonprofit.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 110

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“We’re proud to say that each soft organic cotton t-shirt is made with renewable energy and is designed to be sent back to us to be recycled at the end of its lifecycle.” Earthjustice utilizes their advanced knowledge of environmental law to save natural habitats, reduce pollution, and promote clean energy.

Children 105

Children Nonprofits Environmental Agriculture 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.”

Energy 121

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 121

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 3, 2024

But as the New York Times reported, in recent years the 27 countries that make up the European Union have been trying to clean up their act: “They enshrined into law an ambitious target to cut planet-heating emissions by more than half by 2030. Renewable energy, such as solar, is a significant initial investment.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Energy Law Food 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Likewise, the Centre for Inclusive Capitalism is mobilizing business leadership around achieving a Just Energy Transition. Beyond failing to address the worst impacts of climate change, even energy transition investments can have negative impacts on vulnerable people and create risks for businesses.

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Race and Ethnicity Energy 109

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities. “As The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 133

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?

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Climate change as an undesirable side-effect of the fantastic innovation of using fossil fuels for energy is an example. The problem has gotten worse.”

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When we don't have the means to process the impact of the experience, our autonomic nervous system fragments off the related energy and information from our awareness, but we hold it unconsciously in our body and mind until we heal from it. But what does systemic trauma actually look like? How can we recognize it when we experience it?

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

People living in poverty face greater fallout from climate change, as do people of color , Indigenous communities , and people with disabilities, who are four times more likely to die in disasters than people who do not have a disability. Island nations are extremely vulnerable.

Construction 72

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 72

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Issues related to justice, race, inequalities, affordability, and poverty are much less likely to be funded.” million to environmental law, $75.5 “Conservation” was a major keyword in many of the summaries—indicating that the issue is a topic funders are highly interested in funding. million to management and technical assistance, $76.7

Environmental 98

Environmental Foundations Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, which “ was signed into law in 1988 to create an orderly system to get federal assistance to state and local governments in the wake of natural disasters.”. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. And it’s been a big problem.

Governance 140

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 140

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Center works with a combination of science, law, activism, and creative media to protect the lands, waters, and climate that people, wildlife, and all types of communities and ecosystems need to survive. The US has 5% of the world’s population but consumes 30% of the world’s resources and creates 30% of the world’s waste.”

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

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. How do we stand in our power in terms of what we need and deserve for our lives and our communities?

Leadership 111

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Over the years, the mobile home has acquired a less desirable reputation, a stigma that the homes are cheaply made or associated with poverty. Such changes improve the energy efficiency of mobile homes and can help keep them safe in a changing world. That reputation is shifting.

Manufacturing 61

Manufacturing Construction Urban development Poverty 61

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 14, 2024

This is why many nonprofits often seek Board members who are CEOs of large companies, partners in law firms, and other high-profile executives. One of our clients serves single moms who are trying to climb out of poverty and create a better life. They don’t have a facility where they can show the work happening.

Fundraising 59

Fundraising Fundraising Food Children 59

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

Image Credit: Effi on istock There are two very different (and antagonistic) renewable energy models: the utility-centered, centralized energy model—the existing dominant one—and the community-centered, decentralized energy model—what energy justice advocates have been pushing for.

Energy 98

Energy Construction Environmental Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Below the lake is a large natural gas deposit which the Congolese government recently sold to Symbion Power and Alfajiri Energy. They experience higher rates of homelessness, increased levels of poverty, and increased exposure to violence. In 2023, Moyo had led an anti-fossil fuel protest at Lake Kivu.

Activism 132

Activism Environmental Governance Poverty 132

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2022

This is why many nonprofits often seek Board members who are CEOs of large companies, partners in law firms, and other high-profile executives. One of our clients serves single Moms who are trying to climb out of poverty and create a better life. Or maybe the nonprofit’s work all happens remotely and there isn’t even an office.

Fundraising 127

Fundraising Fundraising Food Children 127

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. What are the effects of the poverty of this kind of knowledge on the strength of left movements?

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Poverty Sociology 122

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

trillion bill, which is only true if you count the $650 billion for roads and infrastructure that was already law before the bill’s passage. The provision is estimated to have reduced childhood poverty by 41 percent , lifting 3.7 million children out of poverty in 2021. None of those policy changes made it into law.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Governance Poverty Healthcare 126

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Tara Raghuveer and John Washington, “The Case for the Tenant Union,” Poverty & Race 32, 1 (January–March 2023): nonconsecutive pages spanning 1–18. Naveena Sadasivam, “Welcome to Utah, where pipeline protests could now get you at least five years in prison,” Grist , March 21, 2023, org/protest/utah-critical-infrastructure-law-felony/.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 134

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

When former Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su celebrated newly unionized workers on the floor of Alabamas New Flyer bus manufacturing plant in June 2024 , it marked one victory in a growing number of innovative efforts to ensure that no one is left behind in the Souths burgeoning clean energy economy.

Energy 89

Energy Manufacturing Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 89

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. That’s a powerful energy. If the energy is there, that’s a huge piece of it.

Culture 119

Culture Energy Governance Leadership 119