Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Nor do psychology, economics, management science, critical theory, urban planning, operations research, or any other field.

Collaborations 132

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

The report Examining Disparities in Environmental Grantmaking: Where the Money Goes written by Dorceta E. Taylor and Molly Blondell surveyed over 30,000 environmental and public health grants distributed by 220 foundations, which awarded approximately $4.9 billion across three years—from 2015 to 2017.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

For example, New York City created the innovative concept of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the Voluntary National Reviews that nations submit to the UN, in which local and regional governments adopt and track their progress toward the SDGs.

Collaborations 105

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy 132

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

Some point to large-scale, government-run rental housing, while others also explicitly include housing cooperatives and community land trusts. But in the end, governments dragged their feet and promised change stayed on the drawing board. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing. In an era that we call Social Housing 1.0,

Public and Social Policy 111

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

KA: How does elite capture function in industries that aren’t organized directly around profit—specifically, the civil sector of nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, social services, etc.? That means I am astronomically more likely to, say, be invited to interview with Nonprofit Quarterly.

Construction 111

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

This order is a potential 5-alarm fire for nonprofits and the people and communities they serve. Federal grants make up about a third of nonprofit funding through direct grants, state pass-throughs, and other mechanisms for everything from scientific research to education to arts and culture to critical services for children and families.

Civil Society 142

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Civil rights, queer rights, Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, and organized labor movements have all long demanded secure, permanently affordable, and decommodified housing.

Public and Social Policy 143

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Part of this work involves connecting people with lived experiences of homelessness, precarious rentals, and manufactured housing with homeowners fearing gentrification and displacement. Nonprofit housing groups, in short, can be movement allies, not opponents. These all are interconnected and dynamic.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this. The bizarre incident was one of hundreds of similar scenes of confusion, fear, and uncertainty across the nonprofit world after the attempted federal funding freeze. The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this, as more are sure to come.

Public and Social Policy 119

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