Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

The most common characteristic we saw in social finance or capital market investments targeted at these focus areas was the need for massive tax subsidies provided by governments or “loss reserve” coverage most often coming from philanthropic sources.

Marketing 122

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 122

Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2024

A strong and effective board can help provide strategic direction, keep your finances in check, and uphold a high standard of governance. Few things are more critical to your nonprofit’s success than your board of directors. These are simple, free tools to promote your organization and celebrate and welcome your new board members.

Participation and motivation 105

Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Leadership 105

The Agitator

MARCH 25, 2018

In a sector desperate for growth new solutions and approaches to financing must be explored. Why are there few market-makers in the nonprofit sector that could provide more financing options to generate growth and scale? There’s a Forest Resilience Bond underway that seeks to finance desperately needed wildfire prevention.”.

Finance 56

Finance Fundraising Fundraising Homelessness 56

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

The crucial insight,” write governance scholars Christopher Ansel and Jacob Torfing , “is that no single actor has the knowledge, resources, and capacities to govern alone in our complex and fragmented societies.” How many government officials understand what it takes to launch a business?

Collaborations 132

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 132

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Nonprofits surveyed by the Toronto Foundation widely believe (65 percent) that the pandemic will significantly threaten their finances for the next five years. Although the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines offers some hope of normalcy in the future, organizations predict the pandemic’s socioeconomic impacts are likely to last much longer.

Civil Society 75

Civil Society Philanthropy Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 75

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

They share the history, they share the finances, all of that. . If they want to be a volunteer for the organization different from a governing board member or working board member and they just want to give time, that’s fine. Now, somebody is sitting in a corner going, “That’s all they doing? But tell the story. .

Fundraising 126

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

­­ A 1983 US government study documenting the placement of hazardous waste landfills in low-income and Black communities was one of the first studies to highlight the intersection of environmental issues and racial inequity. To date, it has worked with more than 250 entrepreneurs, who have raised more than $9 billion in financing.

Energy 111

Energy Finance Environmental Food 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But leaving aside this important point, which has a lot to do with the original intent and governance of a given platform, it is hard to argue that platforms are not an effective and efficient vehicle for scale. To date, there are only a few examples of purpose-driven organizations adopting platforms successfully.

Homelessness 130

Homelessness Governance Technology Activism 130

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? The structure of the overall economy, and government responses or inaction to these conditions, are at the heart of why most nonprofit organizations were formed—to ameliorate the effects of market failure. If not, why not?

Public and Social Policy 132

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

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

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. If governments can work with a publicly owned bank that makes modest profits and reinvests those profits in the communities that own it, they can participate in a restorative local economy. It turns out, quite a lot.

Nonprofit governance and management 128

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

And those machines are being sold to city governments for millions of dollars, even though their accuracy rate is less than 10 percent. All those things being informed ultimately by their finances and the debt that they’ve taken on. A third example is free broadband for all communities, rural and urban.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits Production 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Mike Koprowski: Success will be when race no longer predicts one’s likelihood of experiencing unaffordable rent, homelessness, and living in areas of concentrated poverty—when we have eliminated those things altogether for all people.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 111

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Now, most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages —primarily for the well-to-do—and residential land is zoned for single-family homes and suburban sprawl.

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 143

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. The hub will educate and guide tenants to manage or own their own housing and support various resident and community governance structures.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Image credit: Seattle City Council on Wikimedia Commons Across the country, renters and unhoused people are organizing to demand that all levels of government address the nation’s housing crisis. Public housing—directly funded by the government and hence affordable to the lowest income people—is a fundamental cornerstone of social housing.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 130