Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

This network works to collectively influence change across Minnesota, including through a nascent effort at the University of Minnesota Medical School that convenes community leaders and academic advisory boards across the university to address how the institution as a whole engages with community leaders.

Public and Social Policy 123

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 123

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

losing primary intact forest results in biodiversity declines —it is unlikely we will have universally agreed-upon targets for all biodiversity measures anytime soon. Sodexo , a company primarily catering food in corporate and university cafeterias, is transitioning a third of its dishes to be plant-based by 2025.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 124

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Public banks are owned by a local government or coalition of local governments and focus on stable, accountable, and supportive lending. While not yet prevalent in the United States, public banking is common globally. Are you ready?

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As a result, the best that policy makers can do is to rely on lists of previously evaluated model programs that are considered “evidence-based.” ” This approach constrains the universe of choice for policy makers and doesn’t advance our understanding of why some programs work and others do not.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Governance 110

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 20, 2023

The Nonprofit Talent Summit, co-presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners , Christian Brothers University Institute for Leadership Development , and Mid-South Philanthropy Network , is perfect for nonprofit executive directors, board members, HR professionals, COOs, directors, and managers. Learn more Our Keynote Speaker David L.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Organizational Change Law 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

Slavery ensued for the next three centuries and was only abolished on May 13, 1888, through a law titled Lei Áurea (the “Golden Law”) —66 years after Brazil became independent. According to the latest IBGE data, self-declared Brown people currently comprise 45.3

Public and Social Policy 77

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Poverty 77

The Agitator

MARCH 15, 2018

Or, under this new tax law, doesn’t get cheaper for many. I had the pleasure of working with a great MADD public policy volunteer named Nadine Milford. If it’s a drunk driving law in New Mexico, she probably helped pass it. The idea I like best for charitable deductibility is universal, above-the-line deductibility.

Law 53

Law Public Policy Governance Universities 53

Fundraising Leadership

JULY 14, 2023

Retired Major General Margaret (Peggy) Wilmoth, PhD, MSS, RN, FAAN, and professor in the School of Nursing at University of North Carolina, is a moderator at the 2023 Power Up Conference and Concert. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions at Georgia State University. It is quite another to serve your own mission.

Medical 52

Medical Universities Leadership Values 52

Ken Goldstein

JUNE 4, 2020

Communities need to control the laws, institutions, and policies that are meant to serve them, but all too often fail (and fail by design). That includes local schools, public budgets (budgets are political documents), and the police. Each day has a demand, and a list of suggested actions you can take in support of it.

Leadership 61

Leadership Law Activism Nonprofit Leadership 61

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. Rather, policy prevents it.

Associations 110

Associations Public and Social Policy Insurance Agriculture 110

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy!

Public Policy 64

Public Policy Governance Political Science Law 64

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy!

Public Policy 52

Public Policy Governance Political Science Law 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mali Obomsawin: I would like to acknowledge that I’m a citizen of a nation that is not one of the nations in so-called Maine, so in terms of federal Indian law sovereignty, it does not apply to me in that context. They don’t just happen automatically without some of that Land Back politics, law, policy kind of thing.

Nonprofit governance and management 88

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 88

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Narvaéz Ojeda emphasized the “fundamental” role of public policy in supporting cooperatives and remarked on the importance of institutionalization and participatory decision-making. For instance, in Paraguay, Riquelme said that co-ops, by law, must set aside 10 percent of profits for a co-op education development fund.

Public and Social Policy 76

Public and Social Policy Education Education Associations 76

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here.

Education 52

Education Education Public and Social Policy Law 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When federal or nonprofit assistance is available to victims of natural disasters, Black families often find that they do not qualify for relief because of informal land ownership arrangements that are the legacy of Jim Crow laws, which often denied Black people formal means of passing property from one generation to another.

Public Policy 97

Public Policy Poverty Health Associations 97

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. (TLC is committed to a place-based strategy—building deeply and over time in one state ecosystem and at multiple levels of leadership within organizations.)

Leadership 102

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 102

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many reasons, including public policies—both on the expenditure side (that is, government support for education, childcare, healthcare, and so on) and on the revenue side (that is, how progressive or regressive taxes are). This rule was based on a 1682 British common law case.

Law 128

Law Taxation Governance Public Policy 128

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In many ways, I imagine a nonprofit sector committed to economic justice looking like a sector where the suggestions we made as we braced for the brunt of COVID are universal norms. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Learn new structures Food Policy Councils take different forms. According to the Food Policy Network —a project of the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future—of the more than 300 food policy councils in the United States, a third are grassroots coalitions, while another 40 percent are nonprofits (or housed in nonprofits).

Public and Social Policy 58

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 58

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 20, 2020

our current built system of tax policies for nonprofits and philanthropy is - the legal and tax incentives that define the "nonprofit sector" in the U.S. It's good to see long-called for changes like a universal charitable tax deduction finally getting attention, although no one wants a crisis to be the reason. Broadband access.

Civil Society 40

Civil Society Philanthropy Public Policy Law 40

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the following conversation, two expert leaders—Nick Hart, president of the Data Foundation, and Jason Saul, founder and executive director of the Center for Impact Sciences at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy—share thoughts about the next phase of the evidence movement. Is the government doing that?

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Governance Finance Law 116

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs. Here, nonprofit unions can also play a catalytic role.

Public and Social Policy 69

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 69

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These narratives not only evoke emotions that affect our behavior—they also help directly shape our public policy priorities. This strategy has led to over 35 states either passing or introducing “anti-CRT” laws.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Culture Construction Psychology 108

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Until it was.

Public Policy 69

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 69

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 106

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 106

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 13, 2025

Orbns track record underscores how constitutional amendments and censorship laws can be used to marginalize LGBTQ+ people and silence dissentand Project 2025 is a roadmap for US politics that aims to curtail civil liberties further. Hungarian police have also targeted safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community.

Civil Society 91

Civil Society Law Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 91

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Image: “ The Universe Delivers” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Corporate capture is visible too in the names adorning the walls of nonprofit university and hospital buildings.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 118

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As the executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center, Zoe Polk, wrote recently for NPQ about the PSLF program , “Legal aid attorneys like me work to ensure that millions of low-income people of color stay in their homes, are paid fair compensation, expunge faulty criminal records, and access immigration relief.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 120