NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 22, 2023

By comparison, the $75 million (33) that Jahi indicates is invested in social justice is roughly one millionth as much. One sign of this is the rapid growth of what is variably called “socially responsible investment” or “impact investment.” But the phrase, “impact investing,” implies pursuing some positive social benefit.

Nonprofit governance and management 91

Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 91

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 24, 2024

In recent years, the textile and apparel industry has shifted business practices from making quality goods in sustainable numbers to ultra-fast fashion typified by overproduction, high waste, environmental degradation, and low social standards. Industry reports suggest the cost of fiber is only 3-5 percent of the total retail price.

Environmental 112

Environmental Public and Social Policy Production Retail 112

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 115

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 115

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Innovators, company founders, and other tech enthusiasts have long tried to sell the public on the idea that AI will create a path to a brighter future. A 2019 report from a government study found “false positives to be between 2 and 5 times higher in women than men.”

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Ethics Race and Ethnicity Law 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. Staff the organization’s social media account inboxes and repeat the above. Be Informed. Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials.

Fundraising 128

Fundraising Fundraising Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 128

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 15, 2024

Despite the robust annual increases, however, the current total falls short of the 13% of GDP analysts at NITI Aayog, an Indian government public policy think tank, believe is necessary for the country to meet its commitment to achieving 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. That amount constituted 8.3%

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Retail Healthcare 52

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This is because shoppers are becoming increasingly wary about sharing personal information with retailers. In 2020, new rules requiring compliance with the CCPA raised public awareness of this issue. It’s an indication that governments worldwide are increasingly protecting citizens’ privacy online. We want to help.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Retail 52

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

All we’ve been doing is emailing and maybe if we weren’t socially distanced, we would have met each other already. if you have a give policy in place and they have not given, does not mean that they don’t consider themselves family. Jeez, that’s, that’s pretty serious. . But you’re awesome.

Fundraising 122

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 122

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

Associations 110

Associations Public and Social Policy Insurance Agriculture 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 116

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If you ask most people what “workplace surveillance” means, they’ll likely think of security cameras in large warehouses or retail stores, making sure employees don’t steal merchandise or fall asleep on the job. The reality is far more pervasive.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Law Technology Retail 140

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Census Bureau’s American Community Survey’s Public Use Microdata Sample. We must find data-informed solutions, whether through policy or practice, to meet the needs of nonprofit workers who are struggling financially. Yet, one-third (32%) of social service workers cannot make ends meet and take care of their families.

Poverty 97

Poverty Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Public and Social Policy 97

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

Nonprofits play a critical role in organizing communities and advocating for better policies to face these crises, and we must now assess what we are looking for in our colleagues and ourselves. Some key observations: People are dealing with—and attending to—multiple forms of trauma, depression, and anxiety.

Public and Social Policy 86

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Recruitment Culture 86

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Governments and funders do not prioritize investing in rural access improvements due to a lack of data to make the case as well as competition from other development projects and a preference for urban investments. Despite these challenges and the significant need for solutions, rural mobility is often overlooked in global development.

Public and Social Policy 122

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members. 7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives.

Energy 88

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 88

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC) is the backbone network for the people, businesses, government agencies, and community organizations that make up Rhode Island’s food system. Learn new structures Food Policy Councils take different forms. About 20 percent are seated within government.

Public and Social Policy 57

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 57

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

Indeed, these digital technologies would enable people to transcend the geographic boundaries that constrained their ability to pursue the lives they valued, enabling them to acquire more social, economic, and political power. However, current reality is miles apart from that vision.

Race and Ethnicity 144

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance 144

Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Read more in Take The Lead on women in philanthropy GivingTuesday was co-founded in 2012 by Asha Curran, when she was Chief Innovation Officer and director of the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at 92nd Street Y. increase from government grants from 2019 to 2020, but far below the 36.6% Use social media adroitly.

Philanthropy 78

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Collaborations Retail 78

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 86

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 86

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 128

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Energy Participation and motivation 128

iMarketSmart

JULY 24, 2023

For example, it can enhance public reputation. More precisely, it’s a pro-social code.[3] 3] Pro-social actions benefit the group. It can support a shared pro-social code.[4] Thus, supporting a pro-social code makes the group stronger. Thus, costly punishment can be a form of pro-social action.[5]

Psychology 52

Psychology Public and Social Policy Altruism and Helping Public and Nonprofit Management 52

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 retailer Publix and the food company King Arthur Baking Company are both owned by ESOPs. providing renewable energy or healthy food).

Non-Profits 138

Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 138

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Many have incorrectly suggested—including, most recently, Steve Phillips, in his book How We Win the Civil War 6 —that Black people were betrayed by their supposed northern political allies in Congress when they began to roll back Reconstruction policy and to yield power to former southern Confederates, as if they had suddenly changed sides.

Manufacturing 105

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 105