Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

Indeed, the creative process can be particularly useful in contexts of poverty and hardship, where it can be difficult for people to think beyond their immediate opportunities and constraints, and imagine alternative futures. The 2010 documentary Waste Land offers a good example. Contacts and collaborative opportunities.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

They also worked with the organization’s leadership to craft articles on how Water.org and its partners work to empower people in poverty with safe water to protect and save lives. 3) Social media content highlighted the actions of Water.org to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Non-Profits 132

Non-Profits Civil Society Health Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

This includes the expertise and leadership of people with disabilities. Yet institutions and funders continue to underinvest in their leadership and expertise. Inclusion and equity across every level of tech design, deployment, and governance is crucial.

Technology 120

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 120

Candid

JULY 2, 2021

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership.

Civil Society 82

Civil Society Health Governance Leadership 82

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 Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. 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

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. By failing to make a coordinated effort to support a new leader and leadership approach, the agency isolated her.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 124

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The poverty rate is 52.4 Agbo also insists that the investment be not in traditional structures and institutions but in the governance and ownership by the communities working to build wealth. In Memphis today—and indeed throughout the South—Black Americans are organizing to rebuild cultural institutions and restore Black economies.

Culture 119

Culture Poverty Governance Finance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They don’t want to talk about poverty. Across the world, the safest communities are not those that are the most policed but rather are those with the best resources—those that meet their residents where they are and strengthen trust between community and government,” his campaign website reads.

Poverty 139

Poverty Health Education Education 139

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Government and philanthropic funding for the nonprofit social sector routinely fail to cover the full cost of providing services and restricts how nonprofits can use that funding by disallowing or limiting investments in necessary infrastructure, such as technology, marketing, and talent.

Retail 83

Retail Homelessness Poverty Health 83

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

We witness, time and again, the stark gap between what people need and what local, state, and federal governments are willing to provide; it’s clear there’s an opportunity and responsibility for philanthropy to step in.

Philanthropy 103

Philanthropy Poverty Environmental Governance 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This lack of financial security can have a complicating ripple effect throughout an organization, making it hard for leadership to make decisions, address crises, and forecast future opportunities. “An We requested this knowing that operating reserve initiatives worked best when they were championed and governed by the board.

Nonprofit governance and management 134

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofits Health Leadership 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. In several of these cooperatives, either governments or civil society or development institutions have played roles as catalysts to sow the initial seeds. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

Food 121

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards , a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, A New Framework for Boards, Ananda Valenzuela challenges traditional governance models and offers a new vision for boards that empower rather than constrain. To get there, however, requires an understanding of how boards came to be.

Nonprofit governance and management 62

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 62

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Hard-wired into systems and programs at all levels of government and the private sector, these policies bolstered white Americans’ stability, wealth, and access to opportunity while concentrating the effects of segregation, displacement, destabilization, gentrification, and poverty on BIPOC populations.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Leadership 118

Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 25, 2024

But we do have tools at our disposal to make leadership less lonely and more joyful and open. Why Is Leadership So Lonely? Leadership takes many forms and often requires sacrifices. In my experience as an executive director, several factors have made leadership feel especially isolating. Read on to learn more!

Nonprofit Leadership 52

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Nonprofits Poverty 52

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards , a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, A New Framework for Boards, Ananda Valenzuela challenges traditional governance models and offers a new vision for boards that empower rather than constrain. This [collective governance] framing inherently challenges the top-down board knows best assumption.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Culture Poverty 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

People living in poverty face greater fallout from climate change, as do people of color , Indigenous communities , and people with disabilities, who are four times more likely to die in disasters than people who do not have a disability. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development and Research, “Of the 8.5

Construction 70

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 70

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

Public and Social Policy 77

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Poverty 77

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Réjane Woodroffe’s leadership experience in the remote Eastern Cape of South Africa gives funders and entrepreneurs a lesson in what it means to drive change alongside your community. Poverty is not about the absence of material possessions. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.”

Children 81

Children Poverty Leadership Education 81

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In a nutshell, Kampani’s investment strategy is as follows: The social impact the investment unlocks (reducing poverty and vulnerability of smallholder farmers) is central to the decision-making. Active involvement in the governance of the investee. However, few have been successful to date, and important gaps remain.

Finance 110

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Over the following years, GSF leadership shifted their spending policy from a purely formulaic model to one informed not only by their perpetuity and investment goals but by their foundation’s mission and the current circumstances. What support do they need?

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 6, 2024

These cross-border payments not only support individual livelihoods, but they also help alleviate poverty by providing financial resources for basic needs like healthcare and education, enhancing national economic stability , and helping to take the pressure off burdened social services system s. billion in 2021 and $20.1

Governance 55

Governance Technology Collaborations Poverty 55

Anedot

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This aligns with Canal Alliance’s mission to break the generational cycle of poverty among Latino immigrants and their families. Contribute reports for government agencies and funders. The objective is to empower clients, facilitating their ability to overcome obstacles and enhance their holistic well-being.

Management 52

Management Nonprofit governance and management Insurance Psychology 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Spade questions whether this method can achieve liberatory ends, arguing against the idea that change will occur if a “nonprofit report shows that poverty is bad, or cops are racist.” As Spade puts it, “when we pay for things ourselves it is really different than when we get grants from wealthy people in their foundations or the government.”

Medical 120

Medical Universities Nonprofits Law 120

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Consider whether your community has a wide range of potential giving sources willing to help out, including individual donors , corporate sponsors, foundations, and government agencies. Determine the type of leadership your nonprofit would benefit from What skills or connections would you like board members to have?

Nonprofit governance and management 89

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million pairs of affordable reading glasses to low-income customers in remote areas, creating a path out of poverty by extending productive livelihoods, and generating $1.8B To date VisionSpring has sold 8.7 in economic impact.

Social Enterprise 115

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Health Production 115

Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Supercharge your board fundraising Board fundraising is one of the thorniest challenges in nonprofit leadership. Board agreements can be flexible but they do help organizations take governance far more seriously. Even if you never learn to love fundraising, it is a part of nonprofit leadership and we need you. You are the ‘doer.’

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit governance and management Governance 98

Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

When nonprofits value the worth of their employees by creating competitive financial packages, recognizing that staff are choosing service work as a career, and prioritizing time to develop their skills and nurture their leadership, we can change how we have historically undervalued nonprofit employees, and everyone will benefit.

Poverty 52

Poverty Values Health Nonprofit governance and management 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The contract award, in short, was a huge win, but for CRH leadership and staff, celebration quickly turned to concern. Community leaders also knew that if they didn’t act, profit-seeking firms would, exacerbating the already grave problem of dwindling affordable housing in Puerto Rico.

Non-Profits 119

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

In late 2021, a small Zimbabwean community-based organization, Score Against Poverty (SCORE), with help from the Canadian government, decided to test out a different approach. How visible that resentment is depends on the power of those not benefiting or being penalized. All of this builds the capacity of the local agency.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 11, 2024

They warn that strategic philanthropy is dangerous because “it diverts attention from fundamental reforms less palatable to wealthy donors and from the fact that government and corporate behavior are responsible for the ills of society.” We know of no foundation—even the largest—that thinks it replaces government.

Philanthropy 123

Philanthropy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Social Policy 123

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 104

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 104

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Institutions, hierarchies, and forms of leadership rooted in Western colonial ideology are failing, being renegotiated, and getting deconstructed—even in the face of intense backlash. Our leadership, needed now more than ever, is being tested like never before.

Leadership 109

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Many leaders of nonprofits, foundations, and collective efforts are starting by engaging their leadership team, human resources departments, and boards in conversations about historical harm and trauma-informed leadership. Others have embarked on a collective healing process.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 15, 2022

In response to research that shows nearly 1 in 3 nonprofits lack any professionals of color on their boards (BoardSource) and to foster more inclusive and equitable communities, the Nonprofit Leadership Center launched the Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship in 2021. They are diverse, fluid and ever-changing.

Nonprofit governance and management 130

Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Leadership Nonprofits 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. Image Credit: Ketut Subiyanto on pixels.com The need for childcare is well known. What can be done to address this gap?

Curriculum and Teaching 101

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 101