NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Other factors impact repair of the electric grid, including, most notably, privatization of the distribution part of the energy system. The energy company is not showing reliable data or maps or anything that people can see and be confident about the numbers they are giving. Minet says, “That has been going on for the past two years.

Governance 139

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 139

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

For example, in Robeson County, where almost three-quarters of residents are Black or Indigenous, many continue to experience poverty and hunger because they lack the support necessary to return from devastating, increasingly frequent climate events.

Philanthropy 105

Philanthropy Poverty Environmental Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Harmful assumptions about payment behavior effectively criminalizes poverty and understates the harm that water shutoffs cause to low-income communities. The pilot also showed the importance of building staff capacity, which can look like hiring from and developing leadership in impacted communities.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Universities Collaborations 140

Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. It is the principle of donating time and energy towards a greater cause. Volunteers can develop leadership skills, project planning skills, and task management skills.

Volunteerism 111

Volunteerism Volunteerism Participation and motivation Disaster Relief 111

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. This includes the expertise and leadership of people with disabilities. Yet institutions and funders continue to underinvest in their leadership and expertise.

Technology 122

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 122

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. Most importantly, the team has elevated a new generation of diverse leaders who are contributing new energy to Akron’s civic spaces. The city’s Black business district was devastated.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2021

For example, look at these examples of great vision statements: Tesla: To accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Now, I’m certain the world is not fully embracing sustainable energy, but we’re getting there. Most importantly, your leadership should reflect the ideal you’re asking your organization to achieve.

Energy 81

Energy Culture Values Nonprofits 81

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. Others have embarked on a collective healing process. But what does systemic trauma actually look like?

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

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. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development and Research, “Of the 8.5

Construction 72

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 72

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

What I cared about was poverty, poor people, and those on the margins—those with less material resources. CS: You also talk about the power of leadership—and I know that when you went to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, your aim was to combine this work with leadership. I was a financial aid student in medical school.

Health 118

Health Medical Leadership Healthcare 118

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In that section on food, in constantly thinking about coming up in the Mississippi Delta, a place where we are surrounded by the most fertile soil in the world, that even in the space of fertility, of growth, of a history of harvest, there exist food deserts of pain, and there exist lack and poverty that’s exasperated by environmental injustices.

Environmental 126

Environmental Food Poverty Culture 126

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For example, look at these examples of great vision statements: Tesla: To accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Now, I’m certain the world is not fully embracing sustainable energy, but we’re getting there. Most importantly, your leadership should reflect the ideal you’re asking your organization to achieve.

Energy 69

Energy Nonprofits Culture Values 69

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Over the following years, GSF leadership shifted their spending policy from a purely formulaic model to one informed not only by their perpetuity and investment goals but by their foundation’s mission and the current circumstances. What support do they need?

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 131

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Starting a nonprofit requires a decent amount of time and energy. Determine the type of leadership your nonprofit would benefit from What skills or connections would you like board members to have? Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

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

Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

When nonprofits value the worth of their employees by creating competitive financial packages, recognizing that staff are choosing service work as a career, and prioritizing time to develop their skills and nurture their leadership, we can change how we have historically undervalued nonprofit employees, and everyone will benefit.

Poverty 52

Poverty Values Health Nonprofit governance and management 52

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 15, 2023

There are so many hard, intractable problems we have made traction on, such as poverty, vaccines. So rather than feeling fearful of the future and wallowing in a sense of helplessness, focus your energy on creating the type of future that you want. Take The Lead Leadership Tip of The Week: “It’s not sexy or popular to be positive.

Culture 52

Culture Poverty Health Energy 52

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

This is a high-energy interactive workshop that will shift your focus from viewing fundraising as overwhelming or a backburner project to an inspiring activity. Marcy will provide guidance on important topics from leadership and staff partnerships to major gift motivation and coaching. And it’s how you manage your data. Jeff Kutash.

Public and Nonprofit Management 53

Public and Nonprofit Management Foundations Technology Education 53

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Institutions, hierarchies, and forms of leadership rooted in Western colonial ideology are failing, being renegotiated, and getting deconstructed—even in the face of intense backlash. Our leadership, needed now more than ever, is being tested like never before.

Leadership 111

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, youth activists and organizers continue to be outspoken, recognizing that the climate crisis continues to worsen, exacerbated by such concurring injustices as poverty and wealth inequality, authoritarianism, and genocide. You are deciding what kind of a world we are growing up in. Forsyth and Crystal L.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

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 110

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Race and Ethnicity Energy 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 11, 2024

Today, we see philanthropy taking on a similarly complementary role in helping low-income communities access the benefits of clean energy. Its success and thought leadership in poverty alleviation shine a light on another benefit of strategic philanthropy.

Philanthropy 129

Philanthropy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Governance 129

Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

Each year they give prizes ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 to 15 people over the age of 60 creating new and innovative ways to tackle tough social problems, from reforming education to improving healthcare, curbing global warming to ending poverty.

Social Entrepreneurship 28

Social Entrepreneurship Non-Profits Entrepreneurship Advertising 28

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

The BPRA would create a public energy option in New York by expanding the ability of the New York Power Authority, the state’s public utility, to finance, build, and operate affordable, reliable renewable energy. Last week, the Build Public Renewables Act passed in the New York State Senate.

Energy 122

Energy Non-Profits Poverty Environmental 122

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. We pay our diverse network of speakers and facilitators for their time and contributions in our community-building events and leadership programs. We advocate for parity between the business and nonprofit sectors.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They know that young people, who represent the future of the country, must be protagonists in this process because their energy, ideas, and fresh perspectives are essential to imagining and building a peaceful country. Without their voice and leadership, any efforts at peace, reparation, and reconciliation will be incomplete.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Public Policy 132

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Center’s Population and Sustainability program works to decrease consumption of climate-intensive energy, food, and goods in the Global North. This includes toxic chemicals found in everyday products, used in pesticides, and released as pollution into the environment from energy extraction and industrial processes.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The authors also conflate TBP with other approaches attempting to challenge the top-down decision-making systems that have dismissed or ignored “real people”—the same people who struggle daily with racism, poverty, and related challenges, and who usually have the best ideas for addressing them.

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The statement of intent from the government in part reads : “At this historic juncture, we must act to ensure stability and peace, tackling the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality, entrench our constitutional democracy and the rule of law, and to build a South Africa for all its people.” With an estimated 55.5

Philanthropy 95

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 95

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. HN: That’s definitely a part of it. HN: In organized labor, the members are everything.

Law 139

Law Governance Leadership Poverty 139

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment. 7 It provided environmental protections and ecological restoration pathways to address the human-caused damage, destruction, and degradation of ecosystems by extractive industries.

Public and Social Policy 133

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

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Image credit: CarlFourie on istock.com A new initiative from the World Bank, Mission 300, aims to bring green-energy electrification to 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Mission 300 aims to address these challenges by leveraging both public and private capital to invest in renewable-energy infrastructure.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Energy Participation and motivation 144

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 81

Energy Manufacturing Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 81

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

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 96

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 96

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 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. “Some of the things we need now are actually dreams of the past.”

Technology 140

Technology Health Production Manufacturing 140

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As Rosenthal has detailed , especially in the early years, Fund leadership favored those that they perceived as providing the greatest impact in order to justify the Funds existence as a Clinton Administration start-up in a hostile legislative environment. Nonetheless, tensions within the CDFI sector have been present from the beginning.

Community Development 116

Community Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 116