NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

Without regulation, private utility companies continue to act in predatory and manipulative ways to maximize profits, often targeting non-native English speakers or low-income individuals with deceptive marketing and cost markups. In fact, New York banned such companies from marketing to low-income households in 2016.

Energy 121

Energy Non-Profits Poverty Environmental 121

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, youth activists and organizers continue to be outspoken, recognizing that the climate crisis continues to worsen, exacerbated by such concurring injustices as poverty and wealth inequality, authoritarianism, and genocide. 15 Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This is especially relevant at a time when the planet is behind on several SDGs , including those related to poverty reduction and food security. The challenge is that carbon markets weren't designed to work for people in poverty.

Philanthropy 126

Philanthropy Agriculture Finance Poverty 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

When the pandemic and government lockdown eliminated urban jobs, hundreds of thousands of people left Peru’s cities and walked home to their ancestral homelands. Scott Momaday During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global shutdown sparked an unexpected return to and reinvigoration of Indigenous culture in Peru.

Leadership 122

Leadership Poverty Culture Public and Social Policy 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By Wouter Vandersypen , Chris Claes & Steven Serneels Imagine being in charge of a profitable vegetable cooperative in Benin. You know the cooperative can increase its income and improve its resilience if most of this year’s profit is set aside for investing in new hardware. You also know that your members are very poor.

Finance 121

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 121

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

CRH’s salvation eventually came in the form of a collaborative approach, pivoting toward a combination of emergency funding provided by a small family foundation; a nonprofit, non-extractive loan fund; a third-party investment firm; and a coalition of Latinx community development financial institutions (CDFIs).

Non-Profits 123

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 123

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? And in that story, federal government policies, such as the Homestead Act , had never helped them, even though of course they did. And these should be within the ambit of the government—and in many other countries they are.

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Volunteerism Volunteerism 114

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Promotion of the global vaccination campaign is yet another reason why many non-for-profit organizations may even be feeling fine after last year’s decline in fundraising. Non-for-profit organizations, despite what their name suggests, can make money. Donations and Government Grants. Types of Nonprofit Activities.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Fundraising Fundraising 52

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 22, 2023

How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good Now is the right time for businesses, governments, and non-profits to consider ML applications that go beyond automation and improving bottom lines, and figure out how can they use these innovative technologies to contribute to society. Importantly, the app can work offline.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Medical Children 52

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“Our project started as a way to break down the division between the neutral, ‘Ivy-Plus’ educated reporter who comes from relative or extreme privilege writing about people in poverty versus people who have lived different kinds of economic insecurity reporting on their own or others’ experience.”

Public and Nonprofit Management 95

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Non-Profits 95

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

And as nonprofits moved away from their member-driven and member-funded mutual aid and organizing roots, they took on a hierarchical structure modeled after corporate culture, became dependent on grants from foundations/government, and became run by “expert” staff to provide services or lead advocacy efforts.

Leadership 110

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 110

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits. Prohibits a local government from imposing a wage or employment benefit mandate unless required by state or federal law. Prohibits a local government from imposing a wage or employment benefit mandate unless required by state or federal law.

Nonprofit governance and management 59

Nonprofit governance and management Law Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 59

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

20 million to support crisis pregnancy non-profits. Prohibits a local government from imposing a wage or employment benefit mandate unless required by state or federal law. Prohibits a local government from imposing a wage or employment benefit mandate unless required by state or federal law.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Law Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 52

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We work with communities and governments to tackle the root causes of bonobo endangerment. They are a group of scientists, farmers, indigenous communities, governments, companies, and citizens working together to defend the remaining rainforests. We provide rescue, sanctuary, and rewilding to endangered bonobos. ” . .”

Children 105

Children Environmental Nonprofits Agriculture 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Many participants instantly recognized the examples of systemic trauma we provided, especially among system actors in positions of power such as government institutions. The healing power of relationships is perhaps the single greatest leverage point to fundamentally re-wire a system’s behavior and the outcomes it produces.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Many find inspiration in the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American cancer patient whose tumor cells were taken without her consent in 1951leading to a multibillion dollar industry, while her family and descendants dealt with poverty. Companies are leveraging blockchain and AI to compensate individuals for their personal data.

Race and Ethnicity 69

Race and Ethnicity Health Ethics Public and Social Policy 69

Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

Each year they give prizes ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 to 15 people over the age of 60 creating new and innovative ways to tackle tough social problems, from reforming education to improving healthcare, curbing global warming to ending poverty.

Social Entrepreneurship 28

Social Entrepreneurship Non-Profits Entrepreneurship Advertising 28

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By Tim Hanstad To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed ; “Only government has the capacity to address social and environmental problems on a national scale.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

’s governance can be attributed to combining impatience about injustice with patience about strategy—and all the while keeping a relentless focus on securing voice and power for marginalized communities. These challenges are reflected in what’s meant by use of the terms governing power and co-governance.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Governance Non-Profits Foundations 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Later investigation found the AI system had systematically discriminated against non-white Dutch citizens. But the algorithm was flawed, failing to account for variables outside teachers’ control, such as poverty or student learning disabilities. In 2011, more than 200 teachers in Washington, D.C.,

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Technology 143