Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 12, 2023

I was a senior program officer with the trust at that point, and was new to philanthropy and fairly new to housing. Although new to both housing and philanthropy, I knew that where and how we live is integral to our health, education, and economic mobility. The problem is bigger than any one issue.

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. The social sector has figured out how to do the first one well. They also draw from public reference datasets, such as the Human Genome Diversity Project , HapMap , and the 1000 Genomes Project.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Naming gifts provide donors with reputational and market value , what legal scholar William Drennan refers to as “ publicity rights ,” and beneficiary organizations and their constituents with financial and mission-driven value. Ethical egoism posits that fulfilling one’s duty to act out of self-interest is the highest moral calling.

Ethics

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, which points to dozens of breakthroughs where open Form 990 data enabled new insights and practices.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

People with disabilities are leading policy change, technology development, and workplace evolution. As funders at the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy, we seek to leverage our positions to advocate for greater support and funding for disabled leaders. But space needs to be made. Hands need to reach out.

Technology

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. The reality is more complicated. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Boston Children’s Hospital Anchor Strategy What is the responsibility of nonprofits to the broader public—and do large nonprofit institutions such as hospitals and universities have an outsized level of responsibility? Here, too, anchor programs such as housing investment can qualify as addressing social determinants of health.

Universities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 29, 2024

It also includes unlimited paid time off, paying 100% of staff medical insurance benefits, and matching 401(k) contributions as wealth-building opportunities for our employees. We look at whether we are supporting enabling conditions—like public opinion—to advance a flourishing multiracial democracy.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, of course, there are always contingencies with public money. In response to the protests and adverse national publicity, Louisville put into place a civilian review board. They reached out to organizations beyond the usual social justice map—including library and business groups—to build long-term partnerships.

Food

Candid

MAY 8, 2024

Three key factors include a lack of strong work-family policies, occupational segregation, and gender discrimination. Challenging gender norms The United States remains the only industrialized economy without a national paid leave policy that would enable employees to take time off from work to care for loved ones without sacrificing income.

Race and Ethnicity

Philanthropy 2173

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I've written a five-part series for the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Parts 1 -3 are posted as of today and can be found here: Part One: Confronting Uncomfortable Truths Part Two: Current Economic Crisis Part Three: Dismantle toxic tax policies Four and Five are coming in next few weeks. Get In and Stay In.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Image credit: Brandon on Unsplash The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police three and a half years ago ignited a months-long period of mass social mobilization and intense public engagement. Philanthropy and impact investors can make a difference.

Finance

iMarketSmart

JUNE 20, 2022

This can happen with natural disasters or social and political events.[14] The study found that “an extra 30-day delay between the provision of medical care and a donation solicitation decreases the likelihood of a donation by 30%.”. Public Administration Review, 80 (2), 294-304. [11] Public Choice, 169(3-4), 171-194; Katz, R.

Participation and motivation

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 30, 2023

Image Credit: Conor O’Nolan on unsplash.com Together, we have worked in philanthropy for more than 35 years. Throughout its history, social justice philanthropy has generally remained organized around siloed identities, such as gender, race, and sexual orientation. But recognition and action are two different things.

Philanthropy

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

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

Leadership

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I've been to the conferences and workshops, read the listservs, talked to the researchers and read some of the research, played with the public tools. The Blueprint 2024 lays out my thoughts on nonprofits, philanthropy and AI for 2024. Years 3 - 5: AI nonprofits and philanthropy will be "things." Lots of press. AI for disasters!)

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2024

Image credit: Isabella Angélica on unsplash.com The dismal statistics on maternal health outcomes in the United States are well-known in health justice, health equity, and health philanthropy circles. Medical encounters often left the study participants feeling unsupported and put down due to negative stereotyping.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Identity politics is everywhere—and so are its political critics, from white nationalists and their right-wing apologists to leftists who want to talk about class but not race, gender, or other social identities and differences. When this is the case, what, if anything, is worth salvaging from identity politics?

Construction

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 3, 2024

As such, they often miss out on benefits such as tailored medical care, sustainable resource use and culture and language preservation. What is your plan for public disclosure of data collected? Marginalized and underserved communities have not traditionally had access to data resources that could benefit them.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 1, 2023

Julian’s own organization worried about surveillance, and comrades warned their collective about philanthropy being a short-term Band-Aid, and how the government uses nonprofit grants to defang social movements by ways of compliance. It should come as no surprise that big philanthropy is among those potential co-opting forces.

Public and Social Policy

iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

The idea is this: Suppose we ask a person to do some pro-social act. People are less likely to act pro-socially than to predict they will act pro-socially. Asking for the prediction first increases pro-social behavior. The question begins with a “social norm” statement. 33] This uses social-emotional language.

Psychology

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Disability justice emerged as a framework in the early 2000s, as disabled queer folks and BIPOC activists reflected on and critiqued the Disability Rights Movement of the 1960s and ’70s—which focused on advocacy for legislation and policy protecting the rights of disabled people.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. Fortunately, existing policy tools can address this.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 11, 2024

By Jodi Nelson & Fay Twersky The cover story in SSIR ’s most recent issue, “ Where Strategic Philanthropy Went Wrong ,” reminded us of Mark Twain’s response to a rumor about his death published in the New York Journal in 1897. This is not our experience with strategic philanthropy. We take these points in turn.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2024

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. How many seasonal celebrations were deferred, and social connections interrupted or never even made?

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. There are communities like hers all over America. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

And, over time, the for-profit corporation has occupied more and more social space; its tentacles reach into politics , our economy , our daily life , and—perhaps most insidiously—our culture and ideas. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 15, 2025

By Doug Hattaway In a special supplement to Stanford Social Innovation Review, the policy research and advocacy organization PolicyLink issues a call to action for people interested in realizing the unfulfilled promise of our democracy as one where all can thrive. Were going to be forgotten.

Public and Social Policy