NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Boards are notorious for expending tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources of nonprofit leaders who are already stretched thin by the demands of the job. According to anti-oppression practitioners Both / And , The NPIC shifts the focus to service delivery and away from root causes, such as poverty, racism, and exploitation.

Nonprofit governance and management 66

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 66

The Charity CFO

JULY 30, 2024

Originally in design and advertising, she decided that utilizing her skill sets to help people (and value helping people), was closer to what she wanted to do. That’s a Great IDEA The mission and vision of Capital IDEA is to lift working adults out of poverty and into living-wage careers through education and career advancement.

Leadership 98

Leadership Poverty Manufacturing Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In turn, this shifts nonprofits focus away from addressing underlying systemic problems like poverty and racism to superficial solutions that are more palatable to the rich. What makes the difference between the two is the people: their values and the culture they build together.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Culture Poverty 52

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. The migration opportunity requires a good recruitment industry to provide the value-added services that enable workers and employers to find each other across borders.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

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. Despite payment moratoriums, “the number of customers who continued to pay regularly suggests how strongly they value water services,” the Water Alliance report details.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Universities Collaborations 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

For example, one study found that, in the period 2011-2012, nearly 55–60 million low-income Indians were pushed into poverty because of aspirational consumption, resulting in a reduction of about 13 percent of their daily calorie intake. At the same time, eliminate factors along the value chain that increase the final price.

Production 124

Production Non-Profits Education Education 124

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2021

Perhaps it was the fact that businesses were purchasing prefab values that led to the backlash. Team members want to see values lived out, not published or printed for wall decor. For example, look at these examples of great vision statements: Tesla: To accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

Energy 81

Energy Culture Values Nonprofits 81

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Their work is geared toward accelerating the transition to cleaner renewable energy by elevating women of color leaders, specifically those in the US South who often go unrecognized and underresourced. That work is vital, yet it is full of the now familiar traumas of being a woman leader of color.

Environmental 98

Environmental Psychology Insurance Poverty 98

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Perhaps it was the fact that businesses were purchasing prefab values that led to the backlash. Team members want to see values lived out, not published or printed for wall decor. For example, look at these examples of great vision statements: Tesla: To accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

Energy 69

Energy Nonprofits Culture Values 69

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

MAY 30, 2023

Yet, all individuals in social impact face a similar challenge, whether addressing things like housing, health care, or poverty. Similarly, the detrimental impacts of climate change on mental health and the value of connection to nature in supporting well-being are causes for these issues to come together.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 105

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. Many people all over the world face different challenges and problems. It also benefits volunteers themselves.

Volunteerism 111

Volunteerism Volunteerism Participation and motivation Disaster Relief 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 21, 2023

As foundations increasingly acknowledge the centuries of systematic and institutional racism that have led to intergenerational trauma, cycles of poverty, and reduced life expectancies in communities of color, they are working to re-examine philanthropy’s history and reimagine its role.

Foundations 98

Foundations Philanthropy Construction Poverty 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Family philanthropy is, at its core, the act of a collective—rooted in the values of a family, carrying forward its name and legacy, and engaging its members. As a sector, we embrace and value family philanthropy as both a vehicle for bringing families together and a responsibility to our communities.

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 131

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—and other communities experiencing systemic inequities—value and benefit from community and collectivism.

Technology 122

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 12, 2023

I knew my energy was depleting, and I had been met with rejection after rejection from potential clients because they did not have the “budget” for mental well-being initiatives. Connect mental health to personal, cultural, and organizational values. Inside, I could feel myself disintegrating.

Health 98

Health Culture Energy Universities 98

Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

In my two decades of experience, I have seen the immense rewards of creating an organization that values, nurtures, and believes in providing better working conditions for employees. Our sector needs to shift from a paradigm of scarcity and fear to one of worth and value. We saw that we needed to value what each brings to the table.

Poverty 52

Poverty Values Health Nonprofit governance and management 52

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.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

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

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Starting a nonprofit requires a decent amount of time and energy. Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. Plus, the value of one hour of volunteer work is an estimated $31.80. What questions should you ask before starting a nonprofit?

Nonprofit governance and management 110

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

The Charity CFO

APRIL 25, 2024

According to their website, “At Connections, we provide a comprehensive network of services and support to help people living in poverty become economically self-sufficient. This is built upon our mission and values.” The other 20% is the high-value, CFO work of analysis and guidance. The same is true when managing finances.

Nonprofit Accountability 52

Nonprofit Accountability Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 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. Social sector organizations address our nation’s most challenging issues—poverty, homelessness, social justice, education and the environment. Jeff Kutash.

Public and Nonprofit Management 53

Public and Nonprofit Management Foundations Technology Education 53

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 20, 2022

FHO: How do race and poverty enter into the narrative on housing? So, we’ve learned to talk about housing with messages that are values-based. Plus, when we start with an affordability frame we’re entering the issue with a policy prescription rather than emphasizing the value that’s really at stake.

Values 131

Values Public and Social Policy Collaborations Culture 131

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Only 1 percent of Black business owners were able to obtain loans in their founding year, for example, and the mean value of business equity held by Black Americans is four times lower than that of white Americans. Easing the Energy Transition. million jobs. Cutting Food Waste Emissions.

Energy 111

Energy Finance Environmental Food 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Property values shoot up, as does the cost of living, and lower-income households are displaced. Currently, an estimated 20 percent of emissions in the United States comes from the energy used in homes. by storing solar energy), and thinking about what happens to housing after major climate events.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? Some of the strategies that I am most excited about are efforts like mutual aid and participatory budgeting , where people are actively pouring energy back into [strengthening] local government. It is systemic and values based.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Volunteerism Volunteerism 115

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

However, a foundation can pick and choose which issues to support through creating grants based on its desires and values. Issues related to justice, race, inequalities, affordability, and poverty are much less likely to be funded.”

Environmental 98

Environmental Foundations Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 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. Are we valuing our labor?

Leadership 111

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 111

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 14, 2024

One of our clients serves single moms who are trying to climb out of poverty and create a better life. For example, an organization that supports people with Phenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic metabolic disorder, can build site traffic by offering high-value content to people with PKU or with a loved one with PKU.

Fundraising 59

Fundraising Fundraising Food Children 59

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. 7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives.

Energy 119

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 119

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. 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.

Public and Social Policy 132

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

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that grantmaking should rely on professional staff to make expert decisions, reflecting philanthropy’s move from a values-based tradition to a more technocratic bent. Those values aren’t just a “vibe.” Who gets to make the decisions about where philanthropic dollars go?

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The solidarity economy is a global movement that offers a framework to connect practices that are aligned with the values of solidarity, democracy, equity, sustainability, and pluralism (not a one-size-fits-all approach), all of which articulate a post-capitalist system that puts the welfare of people and planet front and center.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This involves opening spaces for participation at the highest levels of decision-making, offering training and resources, and above all, listening to and valuing young people’s perspectives. Young people must be seen not only as beneficiaries, but as key partners in the design of policies and programs.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Public Policy 132

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. For example, I quote Marx and Engels quite a bit, and had been reading Marx’s book Das Kapital.

Governance 120

Governance Homelessness Insurance Poverty 120

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of our clients serves single Moms who are trying to climb out of poverty and create a better life. For example, an organization that supports people with Phenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic metabolic disorder, can build site traffic by offering high-value content to people with PKU or with a loved one with PKU.

Fundraising 127

Fundraising Fundraising Food Children 127