NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Adimika Arthur, Founding Executive Director of HealthTech4Medicaid, then led a discussion of the ways that public policy and convening intersect with these issues.

Health 118

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Finance 118

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

This farm supports 20 immigrant and refugee farmers and emerging food entrepreneurs. A particularly useful tool would be community “opportunity to purchase” legislation, which could function like tenant “ first right to purchase ” laws. The land trust also owns a small urban farm, which it leases to a refugee services nonprofit.

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

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

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Public and Social Policy 132

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

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here.

Education 52

Education Education Public and Social Policy Law 52

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As the executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center, Zoe Polk, wrote recently for NPQ about the PSLF program , “Legal aid attorneys like me work to ensure that millions of low-income people of color stay in their homes, are paid fair compensation, expunge faulty criminal records, and access immigration relief.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 132

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here.

Health 52

Health Nonprofit governance and management Healthcare Public and Nonprofit Management 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Our taxonomies cover a wide range of areas such as public health, education, workforce development, financial health, social capital, housing, and food security. Or how Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw makes it easy for lawyers to quickly find the closest matching case law. Next Steps for Impact Science. So how do we make it happen?

Public and Social Policy 111

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

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more.

Leadership 110

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mali Obomsawin: I would like to acknowledge that I’m a citizen of a nation that is not one of the nations in so-called Maine, so in terms of federal Indian law sovereignty, it does not apply to me in that context. They don’t just happen automatically without some of that Land Back politics, law, policy kind of thing.

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Until it was.

Public Policy 98

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. Law professor and activist Dean Spade has noted that the students he teaches often seek to be “nonprofit executive directors” even as they lack a clear idea of what they want to do. Emily Kawano et al.,

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 133

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As journalist Alissa Quart has documented , these obstacles are less a “bug” than a feature: The system is designed to accentuate shame and discourage people from applying for benefits to which they are by law entitled. It is time for guaranteed income to become public policy across the United States.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Poverty Public Policy Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

During the 2021 legislative sessions, over 440 bills with provisions that restrict voting access were introduced in 49 states, with southern states like Georgia, Florida, and Texas delivering some of the most restrictive provisions via laws, according to the Brennan Center. 5 Chattel slavery made a lot of people a lot of money.

Manufacturing 121

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 121

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Public policy, however, can make a tremendous difference. The tax credit also reduced food insecurity among families and helped parents afford basic necessities. Under current [child tax credit] law…an estimated 19 million children receive little to no credit due to their families’ earnings being too small.

Poverty 131

Poverty Children Law Food 131

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

According to a 2022 report by the Indian government-backed public policy group NITI Aayog , the number of Indian gig workers is expected to rise to 23.5 Indian labor law leaves millions of gig workers ambiguously defined. million by the decade’s end.

Insurance 136

Insurance Public and Social Policy Food Governance 136

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. In towns like Big Sandy, nonprofits like our health centers, food pantries, and Rotary clubs are a big part of the fabric of our communities. What are three specific ways in which, if elected, you would partner with and strengthen the nonprofit sector?

Public and Social Policy 98

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Public funds amounting to billions of dollars are turned into private profits for services using your assets. Today, our communities face multiple challengesranging from accelerating climate change to growing income inequality, from refugee crises to housing crises, and from basic food access to self-serving financial systems.

Nonprofit governance and management 128

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 128

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. Evidence 1.0

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Governance Finance Law 128