Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

A subset of funders have started to shift resources into the hands of advocates calling upon the government to undergo a process of redress and repair. This move recognizes the federal government as, in the words of scholars William A. Universities are starting to confront their legacies and ties to slavery.

Philanthropy 133

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Advertising Universities 133

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A New Court Tactic The youth were represented by Our Children’s Trust, a nonprofit law firm. As NPQ reported in May 2023, “young people and environmental groups are increasingly turning to the courts as a means of indicting governments and corporations for their role in exacerbating the problem” of climate change.

Environmental 117

Environmental Governance Law Energy 117

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate first-ever standards to govern disposal of coal ash and limit the wastewater discharge of toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Cook, Ph.D.

Civil Society 85

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Urban development Law 85

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

9495, putting the bill through “regular order” by being granted a Rule from the House Rules Committee, which the bill will definitely get at today’s Rules Committee meeting, according to Mark Micali, vice president of Government Affairs at The Nonprofit Alliance in Washington, D.C. House Rules Committee will consider H.R Section 4 of H.R.9495

Universities 116

Universities Foundations Finance Law 116

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 111

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 111

EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

DACA paved the way for these children of immigrants to obtain work authorization and relief from deportation, enabling them to go on to universities and build careers and families. They hold the government accountable for unjust immigration laws and educate the American public on the longstanding importance of immigrants in the US.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Law Children Governance 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 11, 2022

ESG for Regulation: Helping governments make and monitor policies, compliance, and laws. ESG for Assurance exists to help business leaders and investors make better financial decisions by providing data that enables them to account for environmental, social, and governance risks. ESG for Assurance. ESG for Regulation.

Social Enterprise 127

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Nonprofit governance and management Governance 127

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Tangled titles disproportionately affect Black and Brown families due to inequitable access to legal services and persistent discrimination that has broken many families’ trust in the systems governing property ownership. Tangled titles arise when a property owner passes their home or land down to multiple heirs without a clear title.

Law 105

Law Insurance Philanthropy Community Development 105

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Candia-Bailey took her life on January 8, 2024, less than nine months after the university announced that she had been appointed to serve as the vice president of student affairs at the Missouri HBCU. Moseley, the university’s president who has since been put on paid administrative leave as an outside law firm investigates the abuse claims.

Universities 98

Universities Health Leadership Culture 98

Philanthropy 2173

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. That's the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Governance 96

Governance Law Universities Foundations 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But the release of landmark research in 2013, combined with a concerted campaign by the Aspen Institute and partners such as Candid and the nonprofit research centers at the Urban Institute, Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, made a strong case for greater transparency and efficiency. A Key to New Insights and Practices.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 117

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern. This might include: 1.

Civil Society 104

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 104

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 119

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 20, 2023

The Nonprofit Talent Summit, co-presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners , Christian Brothers University Institute for Leadership Development , and Mid-South Philanthropy Network , is perfect for nonprofit executive directors, board members, HR professionals, COOs, directors, and managers.

Nonprofit governance and management 88

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Organizational Change Law 88

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . BackRubbing doesn’t work.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Law 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

As Brazilian movement scholar Rodrigo Nunes, argues in his recent book about movements like Occupy and the Arab Spring, there is not one universally correct answer to the question of how we make change. knew that changing government policy towards asylum-seekers would require more than quick and large protests. However, GetUp!

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Medical 121

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 22, 2023

Image Credit: Thiago Matos on pexels.com A new preliminary report by the American Association of University Professors is sounding alarms over a slew of legislative and political maneuvers by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature. If you think this isn’t going to happen [elsewhere], think twice.” Last year, Gov.

Education 107

Education Education Curriculum and Teaching Public and Social Policy 107

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 10, 2023

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. Community Reinvestment Strengths and Shortfalls NCRC was formed in 1990 to defend the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act , a law created to undo the structural racism embedded in redlining.

Finance 106

Finance Law Governance Entrepreneurship 106

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have watched the nonprofit sector, which ranges from large hospitals and universities to the small magazine that’s being folded in someone’s living room, being ever more caught up in the matrix of what we might call late-stage capitalism. Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Nonprofits 96

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. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise.

Collaborations 123

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 123

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A 2019 report from a government study found “false positives to be between 2 and 5 times higher in women than men.” According to research from the University of Colorado Boulder , since the systems were trained on faces that reinforce the gender binary, they are also deficient in recognizing genderqueer, nonbinary, and transgender people.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Ethics Race and Ethnicity Law 98

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Under current law, more than 90% of taxpayers don’t itemize, meaning less than 10% of taxpayers have a tax incentive to increase their donations to important causes. Small charitable gifts increased after the enactment of the temporary universal charitable deduction. That temporary small non-itemizer generated $10.9

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Universities Law Governance 98

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 107

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Governance 107

Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

City Safe provides armed and unarmed security professionals to protect government, residental and commercial sites. Women in law enforcement in the U.S. “ Women in #law #enforcement in the U.S. Maryville University reports, “The U.S. She has grown the company from the original 10 employees to now more than 400.

Race and Ethnicity 98

Race and Ethnicity Law Nonprofit Administration and Development Sociology 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As the Nicaraguan government tightened its grip on authoritarian rule, it was threatened by civil society organizations who possess the power to hold them accountable, receiving funds they do not control and investing those funds in services that preserve human rights, protect democracy, and empower individuals.

Civil Society 107

Civil Society Governance Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 21, 2023

How do we organize to put Joy’s Law, and more broadly collective intelligence, to work?” According to Haselmayer, these principles can be practiced universally; there is space for everyone in the slow lane.” Again, governments are not businesses, and universities are not automobile manufacturers. Subscribe here.)

Social Entrepreneurship 109

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Universities Law 109

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 If we fall short, the money from Louisville’s city-county government could be rescinded. million to help make a co-op grocery a reality. There are still many steps to take. The grocery store has over 600 member-owners; we need more.

Food 105

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Scott served seven years in prison after being arrested on federal drug charges shortly after obtaining his law degree from Louisiana State University in 1994. Both men experienced how easy it is for young Black men to be swept up in the criminal legal system.

Poverty 125

Poverty Health Education Education 125

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

A law professor at Seattle University , advocate for queer and trans liberation, and long-time participant in movements for racial and economic justice, Spade spoke on payment and movement work at a virtual forum organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. What does he mean by “attack and steal”? Those are wins.

Medical 114

Medical Universities Nonprofits Law 114

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

University of Mississippi professors Meagen Rosenthal and Anne Cafer explain that Black Americans are more likely to lack health insurance, a regular source of healthcare, or both. For the last few years, there have been major clashes between Mississippi’s state government and its majority-Black capital city.

Environmental 93

Environmental Health Poverty Governance 93

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 18, 2023

To help address increasing numbers of dropout students, the Japanese government created a new law on educational opportunities, which came into effect in 2016. The law stipulates that national and local governments are responsible for securing educational opportunities outside of school as a measure against truancy.

Children 97

Children Law Governance Education 97

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Communities want back artworks and artifacts that are of exceptional importance,” says Elizabeth Marlowe , director of museum studies at Colgate University. These recent changes shift the burden of proof onto universities and museums displaying Native American remains and belongings.

Ethics 96

Ethics Culture Universities Retail 96

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

They are also partnering with Boston University to map reparations projects. While popular narratives suggest that Black people lack wealth because of individual choices, it is the 404 years of collective harm by federal, state, and local governments, private industry, and individuals that has created the wealth gap.

Philanthropy 113

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 113

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Worker co-ops are businesses owned and governed by their employees. As Courtney Berner of the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives wrote in NPQ , before 2010, only one percent of US co-ops formed were worker co-ops; between 2016 and 2019, the rate jumped to 47 percent.

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 103

MNA Association

JUNE 12, 2023

These nonprofits” are the very organizations government and communities count on for quality of life: kid’s summer food programs, houses of worship, 4-H, shelters and sanctuary, and more. HB307 ultimately passed and was signed into law. I ask that we work consistently and with intention to communicate our message during the interim.

Public Policy 98

Public Policy Taxation Public and Nonprofit Management Agriculture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

This network works to collectively influence change across Minnesota, including through a nascent effort at the University of Minnesota Medical School that convenes community leaders and academic advisory boards across the university to address how the institution as a whole engages with community leaders.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rawls is known for producing an egalitarian theory of justice that has had a towering influence on the theory and practice of politics and law. Private entities cannot offer universal accountability, effectively coordinate strategies, or ensure that contributions and benefits are fairly shared.

Social Entrepreneurship 108

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 108