NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 22, 2023

trillion (4)—nearly three times the value of the annual gross domestic product of the United States. By comparison, the $75 million (33) that Jahi indicates is invested in social justice is roughly one millionth as much. On the other hand, plenty of “public equity” (stock-based) funds also have “impact” in their name.

Nonprofit governance and management 112

Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With better context-specific information, these workers could become more productive in the tasks they are performing and venture into new, more complex tasks. Three big social changes would be necessary for such a path, and each one of them is a tall order. Alas, this more hopeful path is not where we are heading.

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Technology Civil Society Production 142

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Companies can also create goals for their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies that both improve the well-being of suppliers in the near term and lay a foundation for them to minimize their environmental footprints in the future. To be both a business and societal success, the company must rethink its design.

Health 119

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance 119

Fundraising Leadership

OCTOBER 31, 2024

election2024 ” The mission of civility during this time applies to private companies, non-profits (that are legally mandated to be non-partisan), as well as larger public companies with an extensive employee base and perhaps a distanced hierarchy of ownership. Decreasing political anxiety at work is the goal. Why is this so important?

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Non-Profits Culture 119

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Despite the accolades, these artists were low-income and eligible for our program, which means they’d fallen through the severed US social safety net. Could a regular public program of guaranteed income, especially for artists, make a difference? That is the critical policy question that our pilot intended to explore.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Foundations Health 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

The implication is that we need to approach social change not like we are seeking a silver bullet, but rather in search of collaborative principles that allow different people power strategies to coexist and stimulate productive change together. Building on this capacity for “ snap rallies , ” GetUp! However, GetUp!

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Medical 124

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 31, 2016

The public — and reporters — use these pages as the gateway to the tax forms. In GuideStar’s case, this means giving nonprofits the keys to telling the story about their work and impact on their public-facing pages. Governance. One of those spaces is GuideStar , the online repository of IRS tax forms for all registered U.S.

Public and Social Policy 151

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 151

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Thanks to prison privatization, corporations, many of whom, like CoreCivic , are publicly listed companies, have a perverse incentive to boost their stock prices and keep prisons full by lobbying for policies like harsher policing, longer sentencing, and incarceration for non-violent crimes.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 29, 2024

Fast Forward’s research of how APNs are using AI to fight climate change found a vast range of use cases, including decarbonizing supply chains, tracking pollution, predicting disasters, optimizing sustainable farming practices, protecting biodiversity, and equipping policy makers with better data.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law Environmental 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Jess Daggers , Alex Hannant & Jason Jay In the face of complex social and environmental challenges, our best efforts often only address a symptom, rather than root causes, even as unintended consequences create new problems. Investors who think about social change tend to be rooted in a linear, reductionist form of logic.

Finance 134

Finance Public and Social Policy Environmental Food 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

And human beings judge the value of AIs work product. Thats why, in public policy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. We need policies that support a robust system of IP rights in order to develop successful AI models. Human beings are the source of this data.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Medical Production Technology 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The product of historic policies and practices that blocked Black people from gaining wealth while simultaneously creating pathways to wealth for white Americans , the issue continues to plague our country. Racial and gender wealth inequality is a longstanding American embarrassment.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Governance Retail Finance 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 21, 2024

New futures-oriented organizations and associations, along with future-focused production studios , are emerging almost daily, and some foundations are hiring futurists in residence to inform their work. The word “future” is popping up in conference titles and think pieces. This is not surprising. Sound familiar?

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Governance Technology Activism 136

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I joined the staff back in 2014 to manage the production of the Facing Race conference. I’ve been doing social justice work for over 20 years now. When the organization first started convening people, the vehicle was a race and policy gathering that we did all over the country. What will it take? Louis and Ferguson.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 136

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 3, 2023

The Conference + Catalyst are presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners in partnership with the Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration. Our speakers Xavier Ramey is the CEO of Justice Informed, a social impact consulting firm based in Chicago, IL.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public Policy Ethics 108

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 degrees Celsius. Not all market-shaping initiatives in global health were successful, of course.

Finance 113

Finance Health Governance Manufacturing 113

Candid

JUNE 3, 2024

What public policies are needed to address the unmet needs of our constituents? What gaps exist in government data collection on LGBTQ+ aging that is leading to gaps in policy protections and services? Analyzing data to ensure program impact and effectiveness With an annual budget of $21.8

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 114

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The CLIMA Fund , a collaboration across four public foundations supporting tens of thousands of grassroots groups advancing climate justice solutions, has learned a lot about the diverse and powerful ways grassroots movements create scaled impact. Relationships. Relationships and connectivity are the lifeblood of movement building.

Agriculture 128

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Energy Governance 128

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 109

Public and Social Policy Marketing Marketing Governance 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The World Bank even dubbed this phenomenon the “MENA paradox,” highlighting a reduction in public sector jobs–mostly held by educated workers—which has not been offset by a sufficient increase in private sector jobs. Costa Rica offers another instructive example.

Manufacturing 135

Manufacturing Education Education Foundations 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It is well understood that the potential to leverage impact is huge; for example, while government procurement and supply chain purchases represent the biggest marketplaces in the world —for goods and services that SMEs could supply—SMEs are often locked out of those marketplaces. Business owners aren’t “poor enough.”

Philanthropy 99

Philanthropy Poverty Public and Social Policy Non-Profits 99

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Public entities with unique governmental powers, land banks acquire vacant, tax-delinquent properties that are causing harm , improve them, then dispose of the properties to support community goals. Local government wins because properties are back in productive use, generating taxes.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Governance Community Development Agriculture 113

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In this interview with NPQ , The Sentencing Project’s codirector of research, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, discusses the series, particularly the last installment, which examines how mass incarceration deepens inequality and harms public safety. Better investments could be made with public resources.” How can this disparity be combated?

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 124

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

In the US, the federal government is already compensating Indigenous tribes to relocate. The local government claims that clay extraction pits dug by the kumars have stripped the riverbanks of its sturdy top layer of soil, leaving them more susceptible to the erosion caused by climate change.

Agriculture 103

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 103

Selfish Giving

JUNE 21, 2020

has a corporate partner, Cool Products Co., a portion of the purchase price from sales of a particular product. Cool Products has asked us to promote their sales campaign to our members and donors through email and social media. UBIT affects traditional corporate sponsorships (e.g., $X

Law 147

Law Advertising Public and Social Policy Activism 147

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Often portrayed in Western feminist literature as the disempowered, the excluded, and needing rescue, India in fact continues to be reinvented by the heads, hands, and hearts of her women—from farmers, to craftswomen, to political leaders, to social reformers. The world’s largest cooperative dairy is also in India.

Food 121

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 121

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Without national research into the field or field-level convening or visioning, national policy focusing on these organizations became rudderless. In terms of production, CDCs were doing well. It so happens that since 2005, the lifetime housing production of these organizations has grown from 1.25

Community Development 131

Community Development Public and Social Policy Governance Production 131

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 In the early 2000s, Google gained broader traction and then took off to become what it is today as it became accessible to people beyond government and businesses. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. .

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Law 140

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

People with disabilities are leading policy change, technology development, and workplace evolution. Our interactions with technology are shaped and intermediated by the people who design them, the decisions made on how to deploy them, and the human-created rules that govern them. But space needs to be made. Hands need to reach out.

Technology 120

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Throughout my 35-year career as an optometrist turned social entrepreneur, I have practiced continual self-renewal in pursuit of a world where equitable access to eyeglasses is universal, especially for the poorest and most remote communities. Compassionate capitalism and public-private partnerships held the key to jumpstarting our impact.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Health Energy Leadership 135

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Furthermore, schedule changes and social isolation heightened uncertainty and anxiety. To create an effective program or policy, it’s crucial to actually talk to those with behavioral health challenges and understand their specific perspectives. Many people lost loved ones and went through significant grief.

Health 108

Health Public and Social Policy Governance Collaborations 108

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It’s not just digital news nonprofits that benefit from their giving; the Waltons also give to legacy newspapers, websites, magazines, radio stations, and trade journals covering such subjects as agriculture, water policy, fisheries, conservation, and climate. There’s more.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 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 103

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Health Finance 103

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

3 Built on the Sesan River, the dam was part of the Chinese government’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” which sought to expand its “foreign policy interests.” 4 The Cambodian government’s stated aim is for the dam to provide enough energy to stop power outages and further develop the country.

Environmental 107

Environmental Race and Ethnicity Construction Nonprofit governance and management 107

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 27, 2024

The nonprofit sector is dynamic, shaped by technological advancements, ever-evolving trends, and shifts in marketing and public relations strategies. Nonprofit Management 101 was written to inspire nonprofit professionals to lead the social good sector to greater success. This is where nonprofit professional development comes in.

Nonprofit governance and management 130

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Leadership 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 18, 2024

A sense of urgency to address large social problems—and frustration with the fragmentation of philanthropic giving broadly—has pushed many of these funders to explore new ways of validating and amplifying their giving strategy. In the process, they’ve recognized that problems like climate change and racial justice are too big to solve alone.

Fundraising 111

Fundraising Fundraising Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 111