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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. A number of other nonprofits have been focused on reducing homelessness.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” And there are lots of bad ideas that become public policy because they’re tied to power.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy.

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Within the social sector, nonprofit organizations and philanthropists are facing demands for greater inclusion, power-sharing, and more democratic governance. March 14, 2023 at 1:05 p.m. Democracy is Dying. Philanthropy Needs to Stop Its Toxic Intellectualizing.