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 127

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 127

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In fact, a recently released Government Accountability Office report indicates the five largest corporate owners possess 300,000 of the nearly 450,000 institutional investor-owned homes across the United States, a trend that has only further consolidated the market.

Nonprofit governance and management 126

Nonprofit governance and management Construction Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 126

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. In short order, the worker co-op movement needs to grow its capacity to educate, finance, and support the incoming wave of worker-owned businesses.

Manufacturing 119

Manufacturing Education Education Governance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To that end, a report from the nonprofit Transform Finance , Alternative Ownership Enterprises: An Introduction for Mission-Oriented Investors , authored by Andrea Armeni, Curt Lyon, and Julie Menter, seeks to advance the conversation. Cooperatives These are member-governed businesses in which each member has an equal say.

Non-Profits 80

Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Finance 80

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We looked at spending across the social impact sector; including government , global and domestic philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management; and found that globally we are spending an extraordinary amount of money—roughly $72 trillion annually—making social spending the world’s largest financial market. .”

Public and Social Policy 111

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

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? Another piece of this painting would look like a landscape of advocacy and policy change institutions that prioritize racial and economic justice to level the playing field. If not, why not?

Public and Social Policy 132

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

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy and Sector Voice The Executive Director works actively with nonprofits, policymakers, philanthropy, government, business, media, and the public at large to advance public awareness and understanding of and support for the nonprofit community in Montana.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 76

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Public Policy 76

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. As you may have noticed, it is campaign season here in Montana, with the general election less than 1 month away.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 98

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Duranti-Martinez highlights the “strong local ecosystems, public support, and collaboration among cooperatives” (21) that are enabling such rapid growth. Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.” Ownership is through a limited liability company.

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

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

The Charity CFO

JULY 10, 2023

In return, nonprofits need to abide by sometimes strict rules regarding financial transparency , governance, and other regulatory issues. These groups naturally have a significant interest in public policy related to their industries, so they’re allowed by law to advocate for policies and get involved in political issues.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Agriculture Public Policy 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Image Credit: AndreyPopov on iStock The seeds of a financial system that works for the public are already all around us, from credit unions and loan funds to community bonds and Green Banks. The Bank of Rochester would make history as the first full-fledged municipal public bank in the United States.

Finance 136

Finance Law Poverty Governance 136

iMarketSmart

APRIL 6, 2022

Journalists, financial advisors, finance magazines. One fundraising experiment in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy gave one group of donors positive financial reports documenting a charity’s efficiency while another group of donors did not receive this information. Will the (diabolical) government annex the land?

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy 52

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

Public Policy 94

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 94

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In response, the IRA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund includes a “ direct pay ” provision that actively supports nonprofits (along with state and local governments, tribal nations, and territories) to engage in this work by offering coverage of up to 70 percent of a project’s costs.

Energy 131

Energy Environmental Community Development Public Policy 131

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The difference now for working people in the South is that state governments throughout the region have long acted as an extension of corporate industrial interests, doing union-busting work on their behalf—for free—and acting as a barrier to democratic systems of governance so as to maximize the profits drained from the people of their state.

Manufacturing 122

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the following conversation, two expert leaders—Nick Hart, president of the Data Foundation, and Jason Saul, founder and executive director of the Center for Impact Sciences at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy—share thoughts about the next phase of the evidence movement. Is the government doing that?

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Governance Finance Law 125

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

But to respond effectively, it is important to understand dollar stores’ growing importance, how communities are responding, and how public policy might better support community-based businesses. State governments can…[reinforce] local planning agency authority to reject developments that are not in accord with community needs.

Retail 133

Retail Food Law Governance 133

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Entering HLTH (pronounced “health”), an annual conference focused on the business of health—from healthcare startups to government agencies and insurance companies—feels as overwhelming as healthcare itself. We’re not talking about our financing system. We’re not talking about the lack of funding for our public health system.

Health 115

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Finance 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

Having helped lead the management office for COVAX Delivery, I present lessons learned from the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines—the largest public health intervention in human history—to better prepare for and mobilize responses to the future. Global guidance and support should be designed with country implementers in mind.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Health Finance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

22 Yet as racial justice movement leader Dedrick Asante-Muhammad has detailed, a race-neutral or “race-blind approach to addressing racial economic inequality has left the nation hobbled in public policy efforts to undo ongoing structural racism.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 94

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A year ago, Charles Rettig, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner, compared the taxes that the US federal government should collect, at current tax rates, with what it does collect. The gap, he contended in testimony to the US Senate Finance Committee, approached, or even exceeded, $1 trillion a year.

Law 141

Law Taxation Governance Public Policy 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. Public funds amounting to billions of dollars are turned into private profits for services using your assets. The Peoples Money for the Peoples Needs What difference could a public bank make? It turns out, quite a lot.

Nonprofit governance and management 128

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. The keystone to implementing (or thwarting) policy objectives are institutions—public, private, or those in between.

Public and Social Policy 131

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We also work with peer philanthropies on policy, advocacy, and organizing to pool grants, co-invest capital, and collaborate on learning opportunities for funders and the field. A lot of that investment has to come from the federal government, but some also comes from the local level.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For decades, student loans have been a huge moneymaker for the federal government, which holds over 90 percent of all student debt in the US. Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.” Student debt cancellation doesn’t fix racial capitalism.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 132