Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

Through its iconic mobile showers, the San Francisco nonprofit LavaMae has found new ways to serve the homeless in the absence of more radical reforms of affordable housing. From Experimentation to Diffusion of Urban Innovations The innovative role of dynamic cities has been referred to as government by experiment.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Construction Governance 119

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

Those people could be government officials, business leaders, the media, or other leaders in the charitable sector. A youth services nonprofit working with government agencies to use a public building for a youth program.

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Participation and motivation Education 114

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

Unlike a Governing Board, often called a Board of Directors, an Advisory Board has no decision-making authority and does not issue directives or have fiduciary responsibility. Giving Advice The most obvious role for a nonprofit Advisory Board is to give advice to the Governing Board and staff.

Nonprofit governance and management 111

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2023

The Value of Faith Institutions Several church leaders—both from Jackson and beyond—spoke at a plenary session about the challenges and opportunities facing faith institutions. in North Carolina illustrated how Black homeowners suffer financially at both ends—they have both depressed real estate values and excessive property tax bills.

Finance 105

Finance Homelessness Healthcare Foundations 105

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

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The cost of obtaining CCV surety bonds is approximately 1-2% of the face value of the bond. I operate a small e-commerce business in Massachusetts that sells clothing online, and would like to run a promotion in which the company will donate $5 to a local, nonprofit homeless shelter for every special edition T-shirt sold through our website.

Law 147

Law Advertising Non-Profits Charitable Organizations 147

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

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Instead of using a term like “surplus value”—a Marxist term defining the value labor creates for capitalists—I called it profit. A majority of voters supported replacing private health insurance with a universal government plan. They are making plans that are keeping homeless communities from having housing.

Governance 116

Governance Homelessness Insurance Poverty 116

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. You can leverage trusted board members and donor networks to find great candidates who share your organization’s values. Review board lists for organizations with shared values.

Participation and motivation 104

Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Leadership 104

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Whether they are helping individuals and families navigate the far-reaching implications of the COVID-19 pandemic or are supporting systemic issues like homelessness or opioid abuse, their efforts are critical to helping people live better, more fulfilling lives. . Collaboration is critical to a holistic human approach to client support. .

Nonprofit governance and management 80

Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Homelessness Social Enterprise 80

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In response, asset managers have created and rebranded trillions of dollars of funds as ESG (environment, social, and governance) funds targeting socially minded investors. To serve this constituency, asset managers have long offered “values” or “socially responsible” (SRI) funds that offer a “negative screen.” Not so fast.

Environmental 129

Environmental Energy Finance Retail 129

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Keep in mind that policy makers are not just government officials. I’ve used this framework with a diversity of organizations—including cash-strapped ones and one backed by a billionaire—working on a diversity of issues, including homelessness, affordable housing, and public education. What partnerships and by when?

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 122

Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

This simple act will put board members in a strong position to explain the value of the nonprofit to others, making fundraising easier later on. For example, if you can explain that $500 will cover the cost of feeding one person for six months at your homeless shelter, you are more likely to get donors at that level.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Activism Homelessness 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

PowerCorpsBOS is specifically designed for young adults ages 18–30, who are underemployed and not in college or on a career track, and who are interested in the green industry and hands-on training; priority is given to youth experiencing homelessness, young people who have been in foster care, and other marginalized communities.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 114

Nonprofit Administration and Development Environmental Energy Nonprofit governance and management 114

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Urgent services include everything from urgent care clinics to food pantries and homeless shelters, or services needed following a shock like a natural disaster or pandemic. BeWellPBC in Palm Beach County, FL, offers a second example of the value of this approach. Housing insecurity, of course, leads to higher morbidity and mortality.

Health 95

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 95

Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

City Safe provides armed and unarmed security professionals to protect government, residental and commercial sites. careeradvice ” Being in the security space, Chan Shue says COVID ushered in new challenges and difficulties with high crime and homelessness is some urban areas. It is OK to be rejected.”

Race and Ethnicity 98

Race and Ethnicity Law Sociology Nonprofit Administration and Development 98

CNPE

JANUARY 6, 2022

all want a vibrant and safe downtown,” but am I really thinking about what would make a homeless family feel safe downtown? Challenged by the things happening in our city, and informed by the work of powell and others, CNPE realized the moment called for an expanded mission and a bold set of values. For example, I might say, “.

Race and Ethnicity 52

Race and Ethnicity Homelessness Values Governance 52

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 20, 2020

If your vision statement talks about your much-needed homeless housing program, and you plan to raise money for a new shelter through a major gifts drive, then you need to consider what you’ll need to make this happen. It outlines all of your programming and exactly what you expect your mission to do for those you serve.

Nonprofit governance and management 94

Nonprofit governance and management Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 94

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Also, getting a grant means a funder values your nonprofit and trusts you’ll put their money to good use. Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. It’s delivered monthly and is categorized by international, Canadian, Canadian Government, and Federal funding opportunities.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Foundations Nonprofits Nonprofit Administration and Development 98

Care2

MAY 11, 2011

telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Along the way Boaz met with inventors, entrepreneurs and government leaders and told the story of alternative, sustainable transportation in an interesting way. How else can you see organizations getting value out of the road trip platform?

Recruitment 72

Recruitment Fundraising Fundraising Homelessness 72

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

And homelessness is rising. A recent US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report identified 771,000 homeless people in January 2024, a record number that was 18 percent higher than the previous year, which in turn marked a 12 percent increase over 2022. Homelessness is being criminalized, observes Theoharis.

Homelessness 105

Homelessness Poverty Public and Social Policy Urban development 105

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The homelessness that happens, the lack of shelter, the lack of livelihood, the lack of security. But it also makes it very difficult to recognize that there’s value in something other than what we can see immediately. We’re contributing to a larger cultural shift as much as anything.

Psychology 133

Psychology Health Activism Public and Social Policy 133

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

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. Then they serve on a committee where they don’t have any governing decisions or they serve on a volunteer program. We’re not frowning on that.

Fundraising 126

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 2015, nine major philanthropies recognized a significant gap in the field: Few national funders were working to address the upstream causes of homelessness and the ramifications of unstable housing on Black and Brown communities. By Jeanne Fekade-Sellassie & Jennifer Angarita.

Collaborations 122

Collaborations Homelessness Philanthropy Foundations 122

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Policymakers and advocates say: Government must expedite the redevelopment of underutilized church property for affordable housing. Limited housing stock impacts families by raising their housing costs to unaffordable levels, forcing people to move or face homelessness. Society says: The housing problem could be solved!

Community Development 130

Community Development Finance Production Governance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Conceptually, the threshold for excessive wealth would be the point at which an individual can take the government hostage or otherwise damage democratic institutions. Since the birth of the United States, the federal government has seized over 1.5 What level would that be? billion paid to more than 123,000 Indigenous people.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public Policy 120

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

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 105

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 15, 2022

This transformational, 15-week program is designed to strengthen the board governance knowledge and skills of professionals of color while equipping nonprofit organizations to be genuinely ready to welcome these new members onto their boards. Community leaders should not look alike because communities are not homogeneous.

Nonprofit governance and management 130

Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Leadership Nonprofits 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

By James Anderson Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. Local governments are left bearing the brunt and have, understandably, so far struggled. Or take the ongoing global migration wave.

Nonprofit governance and management 144

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 144

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Or maybe the donation comes from a corporation whose work conflicts with your nonprofit’s values. For example, a computer or a printer for your office, a musical instrument if you work with children, or a bed if you help homeless people move into homes. Do not go into detail or discuss the opinions of individuals on the Board.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Homelessness 119

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, poor communities and people of color stood up to the federal government and the excesses of urban renewal , which had bulldozed many poor communities, especially communities of color. They provide homes for the homeless. They organized protests and tent cities. And now we have the data to prove it.

Community Development 134

Community Development Public and Social Policy Governance Production 134

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

However, a foundation can pick and choose which issues to support through creating grants based on its desires and values. million went to 163 organizations for issues related to Indigenous rights, governance, and development. The study points out, “Though foundations distributed $88.9 million to environmental law, $75.5 million.

Environmental 98

Environmental Foundations Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 98

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. Listening to and valuing the knowledge from the user group gave rise to novel suggestions like a central mailbox system.

Collaborations 132

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

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. That actually, there are other things that have value as well. Racial equity has value— is a value. And not everything that should be valued is monetary.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits Production 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Housing instability—whether through homelessness or frequent evictions and moves—creates chronic, toxic stress and exposes people to traumatic and unhealthy situations. The research finds that housing affects health through three pathways: housing stability, housing affordability, and access to a health-promoting neighborhood.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

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. By Daniel Epstein & Travis Barnes. ­­ million jobs.

Energy 111

Energy Finance Environmental Food 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But my mother valued the union for making sure her conditions were proper and for guaranteeing her pension when her employer. We’ll pull out the money that we promised to create some infrastructure, onramps and offramps to highways, the kinds of things that local governments do to entice new investment.” They are homeless.

Health 111

Health Insurance Production Homelessness 111