Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

The conversations remain small and overdue, but recent momentum is notable with new organizations , publications, resources, and frameworks exploring how philanthropy can—and, in the eyes of many, should—engage the movement for reparations in the United States. That remains true even if that wealth was donated to promote a public good.

Philanthropy 134

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Advertising Universities 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

By Trevor Zimmer In May, the COVID-19 national public health emergency officially ended. As the world emerges from this period of death, economic displacement, and social reordering, it will take years to fully understand how the pandemic impacted households, communities, and countries.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Health Finance 97

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

And while governments and private organizations have initiated transitions through a first wave of limited interventions, these market shifts are happening too slowly to reduce emissions at a pace that would limit warming to 1.5 The policy-setting, financial, and regulatory powers of governments will be absolutely critical.

Finance 107

Finance Health Governance Manufacturing 107

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

Conway of Caltech, titled The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , examines the role of corporate propaganda. It’s about shrinking the state—or its social programs, at least rhetorically. These policies have real-world effects. Another, by Naomi Oreskes of Harvard and Erik M.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Marketing Marketing Governance 100

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Policy gains have been significant, especially at the state level. The ability to earn a rate premium on low-risk government-guaranteed loans incentivizes actors throughout the business lending system to find more of these deals. But early public disclosure can result in a deal being lost to a competitor—or inflict other damage.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. There are communities like hers all over America. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

Health 123

Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 123

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 9, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Mingook Kim on unsplash.com Two major problems confront California’s energy policy. The economic benefits they provide continually miss the communities that need these benefits the most because governments have structurally excluded them in the past. This decision marks the third time the policy has been adjusted.

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Energy Environmental Non-Profits 88

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 17, 2025

What is the governance around AI, so you have to teach people how to use it and the impact it will have. The report continues, AI could reinforce the dominance of wealthier nations in high-value sectors like finance, pharmaceuticals, advance manufacturing, and defense. But AI is dependent on the human intelligence that surrounds it.

Leadership 78

Leadership Public and Social Policy Culture Universities 78

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 27, 2022

These huge organizations, apart from making big profits by advertising and selling their product, these companies also work on social and environmental issues that are occurring in the world. Nowadays, marketing is considered to be the court of social, environmental, public, and global concerns. What are global problems?

Marketing 52

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Leaders of this campaign have recognized that as demands to demilitarize the police and redirect funds gain traction across the United States, the government needs to reimagine its approach to “national security.” Abolishing the War on Terror, Building Communities of Care Grassroots Policy Agenda,” [link].

Construction 80

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 80

Pam Moore

MARCH 19, 2020

Listen to episode 267 of the Social Zoom Factor podcast for more details on each of the below 15 digital marketing and branding trends. However, this h asn't stopped lazy marketers from putting all of their digital eggs in social baskets they don't own such as Facebook and Instagram. Brands get BRAVE with digital and social media .

Marketing 78

Marketing Marketing Technology Ethics 78

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Forestalling this future demands an aggressive effort to invent, manufacture, and distribute new and better antibiotics. By vastly accelerating the antibiotic discovery process, generative AI—together with sound public policy—could play a part in solving the life-and-death struggle against AMR.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Governance Medical 130

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But child care is more expensive than ever, and the federal government hasn’t done enough to support families, especially working mothers. The federal government must act quickly to preserve and increase funding for child care. Now more than ever, families bear the brunt of the economic burden.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Children Governance Philanthropy 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The lucky grantees included clusters on clean energy, next-gen agriculture, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, and robotics, among others. A year into implementation, both regions have learned important lessons about leadership, governance, DEI, and more. Establish a strong leadership and governance model from the start.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Manufacturing Governance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

It’s trickle-down economics on steroids—in which some of the biggest corporations (usually led by White men) extract huge sums of public money for corporate and personal profit. [T]he T]he federal government has largely left each state on its own to compete against other states for jobs and tax revenues.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, there is a growing understanding that the gap is a result of a pattern of race-based policies , fueled and sustained by anti-Black narratives, that have systematically demolished the wealth and humanity of Black people while reinforcing inequities across generations. The existence of the $11.2 As Ibram X.

Philanthropy 144

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Culture Foundations 144

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Image Credit: Luriko Yamaguchi on pexel.com What is public power? In a word, a large share of public services during the neoliberal era of the past few decades has been outsourced. Why focus on “public power”? In a word, a large share of public services during the neoliberal era of the past few decades has been outsourced.

Public and Social Policy 77

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Insurance 77

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure access to safe and affordable housing, to be unhoused— and to live in places that are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 104

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Image credit: Roman Kraft on Unsplash It’s becoming increasingly hard to find a housing justice organizer who hasn’t been to Vienna or extolled the virtues of its social housing sector, and wants to do something similar in the United States. What is Social Housing? What’s harder to find is a political strategy to achieve as much.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

It’s time to work shoulder-to-shoulder with civil society and government to do the big, urgent work that no sector can accomplish alone, to adopt entirely new systems of operating that enable all people to thrive and reach their full potential and protect our natural environment. Moreover, the public wants meaningful and lasting change.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Public Policy 116

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? The reality is more complicated. This isn’t a criticism of anyone, but rather a healthy dose of reality.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 121

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. Conceptually, the threshold for excessive wealth would be the point at which an individual can take the government hostage or otherwise damage democratic institutions.

Public and Social Policy 93

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public Policy 93

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

4 Our accomplishments are minor in comparison to what we would have achieved had we had the full support of the municipal authorities and institutions, buttressed by a beneficial set of policies and procedures that supported local labor, procurement, and production.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Production 134

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

This article profiles three organizations from which we hail—the Center for Biological Diversity, Marbleseed (formerly the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service), and Wellspring Cooperative—that have grown to focus on addressing the many social, political, economic, and environmental ills that are a direct outcome of capitalism.

Agriculture 77

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 77

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Influencers have taken to social media to promote these devices, which monitor and optimize blood sugar levels to help with weight loss, improve athletic performance, or decrease tiredness. Advocating for Change Public policy solutions are necessary to narrow the healthcare gap.

Management 70

Management Healthcare Health Medical 70

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As Sarita Gupta and I note in our book The Future We Need , a healthy democracy is a system in which all people have various pathways to consult, confer with, and collectively govern themselves. Both aim to socialize the risks of operating a business while limiting the profitable rewards among a select few.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 89

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Since it isn’t, the public sector steps in to nudge the market. Mission 300 aims to address these challenges by leveraging both public and private capital to invest in renewable-energy infrastructure. Subordinated debt, where public lenders agree to be repaid after private lenders. Why hasn’t electrification happened already?

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Energy Participation and motivation 133

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

One of my favorite stories to tell is that, in 2018, a year-and-a-half into my work with that campaign, we brought the leadership team together—tenants, unhoused people, public housing residents from across the country. That analysis says that 70 percent of comments that were public comments were from tenants and allies.

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Governance Marketing Marketing 138

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Reunification Was a Shock for the East On October 3, 1990, less than a year after the Berlin Wall came down, East Germany’s government was dissolved and incorporated into the West. Economic upheaval aside, West Germans also made over two million claims for the restitution of real estate that had been nationalized under socialist policies.

Public and Social Policy 92

Public and Social Policy Governance Healthcare Culture 92

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

Image Credit: Dan Azzopardi on Unsplash It’s not sexy, but it’s true: the most important part of policy is implementation. But legislation only creates the opportunity for social change. Realizing these opportunities will require robust community organizing, public engagement, and government accountability.

Public and Social Policy 86

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Manufacturing 86

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 2, 2024

Black people continue to face limitations on the full exercise of their rights, from racist criminal justice policies to voter suppression. These violations have led to governments elected by and for a wealthy and white few, who entrenched their power through exploitation, dehumanization, and exclusion.

Public and Social Policy 129

Public and Social Policy Governance Law Health 129

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A report issued by the Atlantic Economic Council in February 2024 says the company can survive the net-zero transition, but only with government aid. Public pressure in Quebec and Prince Edward Island has led to legislated bans on future extraction projects. For a time, it seemed protestors had won the fight against shale gas.

Energy 80

Energy Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society 80

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

There are multiple reasons for this silence—including fear of being labeled anti-Semitic for expressing public support for the people of Gaza—but there is another less acknowledged reason. Fifty-four museums, cultural organizations, and universities currently host arms industry executives on their boards or in other prominent roles.

Education 127

Education Education Manufacturing Public and Social Policy 127

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 23, 2023

That share ownership comes with two core bundles of rights for shareholders: economic rights, which provide monetary value, and governance rights, which grant control over the enterprise. The clothing manufacturer and retailer Patagonia is now controlled by a PPT, while Newman’s Own is foundation-owned.

Non-Profits 139

Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 139

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Much of this struggle takes place outside government, but the role of the state is important. For one, the public sector is a large part of the economy. Government also sets the terms for what might be called a social contract —that is, the unofficial economic bargain between the state and its citizens.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Governance Poverty Healthcare 104

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Israel and its policies have been widely embraced, with notable exceptions , by US elected officials and much of the US political establishment. Our Judaism is not tied up with the interests of the Israeli government. But support for each side in the United States has taken different forms. We have over 70 chapters across the country….We

Public and Social Policy 75

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 75

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Johanna Bozuwa, the executive director of the Climate and Community Project, details how the corporate capture of climate policy has impeded the public’s ability to respond effectively to the climate crisis. 5 Tenants are confronting [corporate] capture by organizing toward a world in which housing is guaranteed as a public good.

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 125