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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Puerto Rican Advocates Pursue Community Control of Renewable Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

In its wake, a grassroots movement to create distributed, renewable energy has gained considerable ground. The logic behind this community movement for distributed, community-owned renewable energy is clear. Public Policy: A Hit and a Miss Are the lessons of Hurricanes Maria and Fiona being taken to heart?

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Nicole Gustafson

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

She earned her bachelor’s degree in Educational Ministries from Houghton College in 2008 and graduated from SUNY Empire State College with a Master of Arts in Social and Public Policy in December of 2020. In her spare time, Nicole serves as a vestry member at St.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

An investment portfolio that limits energy investments to renewables, for example, may well outperform a portfolio that includes fossil fuel firms; holding on to fossil fuel stocks is arguably riskier. This analysis, offered by Triodos , a firm with over $6 billion (5.9

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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. In an A pril 2024 article in The Appeal , they detailed the power of the combination of stop energy with a start agenda.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. It offers (and, in fact, human life requires) daily opportunities for system engagement and system change.

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Do you have a Nudge Unit? Maybe you should.

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

The behavioral economists behind the favorite book Nudge are advising UK policymakers (and the Obama administration) on how to use insights into how people think to advance public policy. Here’s what The Economist says: A set of trials in Britain focused on energy efficiency.