Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 20, 2024

Doing so means transforming our governing institutions, laws, regulations, and customs in a more fundamental way than tinkering around the edges with policy and programs. Health care systems and insurance companies would stop allowing people to go into significant medical debt simply for receiving needed health services.

Nonprofit governance and management 141

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Law Philanthropy 141

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A majority of voters supported replacing private health insurance with a universal government plan. Can we create laws to give people money? They are making plans that are keeping homeless communities from having housing. To get around that tribalism ingrained in American politics, we need to put actions behind our thoughts.

Governance 123

Governance Homelessness Insurance Poverty 123

iMarketSmart

JUNE 19, 2023

Both players could agree to a “mutual insurance” pact. The simple game has an unbreakable law: Giving must be seen by partners who are able and willing to reciprocate. In the extreme game, the law still applies. It leads to natural rules for picking mutual insurance partners. Player 2 will die. So, one of them will die.

Altruism and Helping 52

Altruism and Helping Insurance Psychology Law 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

National Coalition for the Homeless. Southern Poverty Law Center. Because all children – insured or not – deserve the right to fight dying from cancer. National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. Because 3 in 10 girls in the United States get pregnant at least once by age 20. National Geographic Society.

Children 111

Children Poverty Nonprofits Food 111

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

National Coalition for the Homeless. Southern Poverty Law Center. Because all children – insured or not – deserve the right to fight dying from cancer. National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. Because 3 in 10 girls in the United States get pregnant at least once by age 20. National Geographic Society.

Children 106

Children Poverty Homelessness Food 106

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

That’s the crazy moment we’re in now, when in their zeal to find ways to cut pennies here and pennies there, they’ll push people to the wall who can’t afford their health insurance, trying to find ways to eliminate jobs just short of people’s retirement. They are homeless. They are defined by the problem that they have.

Health 112

Health Insurance Production Homelessness 112

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Unlike big commercial banks, most public banks (and all California public banks under state law) will be nonprofits and use their earnings from loan interest and fees to reinvest in local economies and large-scale community-wide projects. While not yet prevalent in the United States, public banking is common globally.

Nonprofit governance and management 128

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 128