Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 15, 2023

By Tiffany Manuel & Dana Bourland What if government, the philanthropic sector, and community advocates could pull a policy lever and advance housing, climate, and racial justice all at once? Public comment ended in April 2023, and HUD will likely release the final rule sometime later this year.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Environmental Finance Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team. My first thought was, ‘Here we go.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 5, 2023

Public institution spending dwarfs private philanthropy in most countries in the world. billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. billion (about $1 billion) in 2020, while government spending was SGD 36.6

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 124

Anedot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Oversee all aspects of administration and day-to-day operations, ensuring effective use of resources and adherence to policies, and legal/regulatory requirements. IT, communications/marketing, finance, administrative support). Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communications, and public speaking skills.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 52

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2024

Unfortunately for the nonprofit sector, higher overhead costs are correlated to an organization being irresponsible with its finances, ineffective, unable to carry out its mission, and even unethical. It’s time for the sector to unite in educating the public and funders on the importance of building capacity. What can I do?

Public and Social Policy 234

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 234

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Jess Daggers , Alex Hannant & Jason Jay In the face of complex social and environmental challenges, our best efforts often only address a symptom, rather than root causes, even as unintended consequences create new problems. Investors who think about social change tend to be rooted in a linear, reductionist form of logic.

Finance 135

Finance Public and Social Policy Environmental Food 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

Collaborations 132

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

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Emerging technological innovations in healthcare have the potential to transform public health and healthcare delivery systems, making them more efficient, personalized, and accessible. 8 Such technical hindrances have slowed down response times, particularly in rural areas, where resources are sparse.

Health 53

Health Technology Healthcare Medical 53

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? Some refer to this as the “ data divide ”—the increasing gap between the use of data to maximize profit and the use of data to solve social problems.

Public and Social Policy 111

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

In the realm of social change, community-based leaders are skilled at influencing and using momentum to advance local solutions but often lack all the financial resources they need to push those solutions to their full potential. What if local governments had sufficient organizational infrastructure to engage cross-sector community members?

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 119

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For this to change, there must be a fundamental shift in how transitions to employee ownership are financed. Policy gains have been significant, especially at the state level. How to Increase Field Capacity to Finance Employee Ownership How do workers buy businesses from retiring owners? This happens—sometimes.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Yet despite these breakthroughs, the social sector has only begun to scratch the surface of open 990 data’s capabilities.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Companies can also create goals for their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies that both improve the well-being of suppliers in the near term and lay a foundation for them to minimize their environmental footprints in the future. Innovation. Companies can also look beyond their own walls for innovative ideas.

Health 122

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Worker co-ops are businesses owned and governed by their employees. In Chicago, speakers surveyed the growth of the past 20 years while setting forth goals to bring worker co-ops fully into the economic mainstream through movement infrastructure, public policy, and culture building.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Thanks to prison privatization, corporations, many of whom, like CoreCivic , are publicly listed companies, have a perverse incentive to boost their stock prices and keep prisons full by lobbying for policies like harsher policing, longer sentencing, and incarceration for non-violent crimes.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 126

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? So, what keeps them alive today?

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 124

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Image Credit: Jacob Culp on Unsplash Headlines about which cities have the most or least affordable housing markets often oversimplify the issue; the reality is that cities have a range of residential types with a range of social and economic implications for the people who live there. CDFIs can help finance these efforts.

Construction 71

Construction Public and Social Policy Finance Poverty 71

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 17, 2025

What is the governance around AI, so you have to teach people how to use it and the impact it will have. The report continues, AI could reinforce the dominance of wealthier nations in high-value sectors like finance, pharmaceuticals, advance manufacturing, and defense. But AI is dependent on the human intelligence that surrounds it.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Leadership Culture Universities 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

And while governments and private organizations have initiated transitions through a first wave of limited interventions, these market shifts are happening too slowly to reduce emissions at a pace that would limit warming to 1.5 The policy-setting, financial, and regulatory powers of governments will be absolutely critical.

Finance 116

Finance Health Governance Manufacturing 116

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 22, 2023

By comparison, the $75 million (33) that Jahi indicates is invested in social justice is roughly one millionth as much. One sign of this is the rapid growth of what is variably called “socially responsible investment” or “impact investment.” But the phrase, “impact investing,” implies pursuing some positive social benefit.

Nonprofit governance and management 121

Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 121

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

Or are they hovering ‘inside,’ focusing on internal items like day-to-day operations, finance, or programs? What is advocacy, and why it matters You have a big, bold vision to better the world with your nonprofit—whether you’re developing programs and influencing policies around education, social justice, human rights, or animal rights.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Participation and motivation Education 113

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The product of historic policies and practices that blocked Black people from gaining wealth while simultaneously creating pathways to wealth for white Americans , the issue continues to plague our country. Racial and gender wealth inequality is a longstanding American embarrassment. The legacy of such practices continues today.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Governance Retail Finance 133

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Recent media coverage of several large and deadly fires, alongside the federal and state wildlands management response, have focused public concern toward wildfire risks on public lands, and in particular coniferous forested lands. How do we create social change to meet those objectives?

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Insurance Governance Management 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. This is particularly important in social impact, where we need evidence to make decisions related to policy, funding, and programs, so we can solve intractable problems. million studies.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 111

Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 28, 2024

This can result in a range of problems – from finances to fundraising to long-term sustainability. Note that this is for US 501(c)(3) public charities, not private foundations. Responsibility 1: Nonprofit Boards Set and Enforce Policy At the most basic level, boards are the governing body of the nonprofit organization.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

By Trevor Zimmer In May, the COVID-19 national public health emergency officially ended. As the world emerges from this period of death, economic displacement, and social reordering, it will take years to fully understand how the pandemic impacted households, communities, and countries.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Health Finance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Public entities with unique governmental powers, land banks acquire vacant, tax-delinquent properties that are causing harm , improve them, then dispose of the properties to support community goals. Local government wins because properties are back in productive use, generating taxes. Image Credit: Savvas Stavrinos on pexels.com.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Community Development Governance Agriculture 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

Governments representing deeply indebted nations are often unable to invest in health care, education, and other services, which, in turn, threatens their very political survival. For debtors, there may be political resistance, a lack of public support, or concerns about unintended consequences or trade-offs.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance Civil Society 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

39 And federally financed programs have been accused of sterilizing 25 to 42 percent of Native American women in the 1970sand it is reported that nearly 25 percent of Native American and Alaska Native women have undergone sterilization. And that figure is increasing at a rate faster than even technology and finance. 10 Only 35.1

Race and Ethnicity 73

Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health Medical 73

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. There are communities like hers all over America. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

Health 130

Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Throughout my 35-year career as an optometrist turned social entrepreneur, I have practiced continual self-renewal in pursuit of a world where equitable access to eyeglasses is universal, especially for the poorest and most remote communities. Compassionate capitalism and public-private partnerships held the key to jumpstarting our impact.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Health Energy Leadership 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 16, 2023

And it´s not happenstance who lives in these communities; it’s often the result of structural racism and economic forces like gentrification and displacement that drives those with fewer resources into places with less social and physical infrastructure to support better health. The results reach far beyond Curitiba.

Health 98

Health Public and Social Policy Energy Collaborations 98

Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Government funding and donor support. Make any necessary adjustments to your written plans to keep your finances on track. This could include leaders from various sectors such as business, education, healthcare, and social services, as well as individuals with expertise in areas such as finance, fundraising, and legal affairs. .

Nonprofit governance and management 120

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Collaborations 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 11, 2023

Twenty-five percent of the entire Amazon Basin is on legally recognized Indigenous Territories, which are generally better protected than even government parks and reserves. Even less support has reached rightsholder women , despite the essential role of women in forest management and their exclusion from many governance structures.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Environmental Public and Social Policy Governance 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

By Stephan Manning & Yeşim Uygur Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the socioeconomic structures around them. However, artists and artistic projects have the power to do much more.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. Financial guarantees are a powerful tool, yet they are underutilized in the social sector. One confounding challenge is low field awareness.

Community Development 109

Community Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Energy 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 22, 2024

Financing is important to ringfence money for researched impact before investing in business scaling, and regulatory enforcement for minimal quality standards is also essential before tools reach children’s hands. It is therefore imperative to provide them with high-quality products that have documented evidence of positive impact.

Public and Social Policy 72

Public and Social Policy Finance Education Education 72