Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Jess Daggers , Alex Hannant & Jason Jay In the face of complex social and environmental challenges, our best efforts often only address a symptom, rather than root causes, even as unintended consequences create new problems. Investors who think about social change tend to be rooted in a linear, reductionist form of logic.

Finance 135

Finance Public and Social Policy Environmental Food 135

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

Nonprofit Management 233

Nonprofit Management Management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 233

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

AI technology is relatively new, but the impacts of previous high-impact innovations like the power loom, steam engines, electricity, and digital computers shed ample light on what could happen next. The consequences of any technology depend on who gets to make pivotal decisions about how the technology develops.

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Technology Civil Society Production 142

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 21, 2024

In 1967, Alvin Toffler published his famous book Future Shock in which he issued a warning: In the face of vast technological and social changes, humanity is likely to collectively experience a condition not unlike the culture shock suffered by travelers to foreign countries, where they are surrounded by strange languages and customs.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Governance Technology Activism 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Businesses—in their myriad roles as employers, suppliers, and investors—need to lean into end-to-end sustainability by taking actions that improve not only the environment but also livelihoods, particularly among vulnerable communities in their value chains. Companies can also look beyond their own walls for innovative ideas.

Health 122

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance 122

Anedot

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The program’s execution should result in measurable value for all BI program clientele and staff, aligning with their needs, expectations, and requirements. Strategic business development and support of the organization’s current Social Enterprise initiatives, as well as input into and development of potential future opportunities.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Insurance Volunteerism Volunteerism 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 9, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Mingook Kim on unsplash.com Two major problems confront California’s energy policy. Net energy metering is a policy that compensates households with solar panels for the extra energy they give back to the grid and, in turn, helps lower their utility bills. This policy decision was complicated.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Energy Environmental Non-Profits 98

Anedot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Key Responsibilities: Leadership and Management Provide strategic direction and leadership to the organization, ensuring alignment with its mission and values. Oversee all aspects of administration and day-to-day operations, ensuring effective use of resources and adherence to policies, and legal/regulatory requirements.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

What little optimism remains to tackle such complex challenges is mostly placed in supranational schemes, such as the COP climate change conferences, or transformational national policy, such as the Green New Deal in the US. ” Scaling up social innovation takes time, but there are also varying ways it can be done.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Construction Governance 119

Pam Moore

JUNE 2, 2017

Do you have social media, digital marketing and branding problems? We have been working the past year on a game changing online social media training academy and member community to help solve your biggest problems and challenges related to social media marketing, digital marketing, and branding. Still need more information?

Manufacturing 167

Manufacturing Advertising Marketing Marketing 167

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. As we will see, this optimism proved misguided when brands failed to live up to their hype.

Environmental 126

Environmental Public and Social Policy Production Retail 126

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 6, 2024

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. In the housing context, the consequences include eviction and homelessness.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Values Education 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Business publications once celebrated how the internet helps artisans thrive. Many crafts, such as sewing and quilting, were considered “women’s work,” allocated as much value as doing the laundry. There were complaints that Etsy was inconsistently applying policies requiring items to be handmade.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Non-Profits Manufacturing 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 22, 2024

By Natalia Kucirkova Educational technology, or ed-tech, shares some crucial similarities with fintech. Indeed, the lack of public leadership and financial incentives has positioned investors as not only economic but also political actors whose investment priorities speak to quality questions of the entire ed-tech ecosystem.

Public and Social Policy 72

Public and Social Policy Finance Education Education 72

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The CLIMA Fund , a collaboration across four public foundations supporting tens of thousands of grassroots groups advancing climate justice solutions, has learned a lot about the diverse and powerful ways grassroots movements create scaled impact. Relationships. Relationships and connectivity are the lifeblood of movement building.

Agriculture 128

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Energy Governance 128

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Anheuser Busch seemed to take on immigration policy, however indirectly, in another Super Bowl spot. Mainstream marketers are gradually losing their reluctance to advocate for politically and socially charged issues in their paid content and corporate social responsibility positions. Get ready for more of the same in 2018.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Technology Leadership Advertising 113

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 23, 2023

The doors to my signature training program, Social Media for Social Good Academy , are open – but for a limited time only! For Nonprofits Who Want to Turn Social Media Followers Into Donors, Supporters, and Advocates. Who’s it for? What do you get at the end? What does it really take?

Public and Nonprofit Management 62

Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Management Participation and motivation 62

The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

Take your own journey further through private reflection and public sharing, acknowledgement of failures without shame, and discussing openly how you are solving for challenges. When you embrace nimble innovative thinking and elevate it as a value and a prized quality, you are positioning your organization and your workforce for the future.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Culture 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It has moved past stage one, “innovation trigger,” wherein the technology shows up everywhere all at once, and is now at its “peak of inflated expectations.” ” We have seen this cycle many times before with technologies like personal computers, mobile phones, and social media. It won’t.)

Ethics 139

Ethics Public and Social Policy Technology Public and Nonprofit Management 139

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Technology Goes Mainstream. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 During the decades of the 1980s and 1990s that technology began to integrate into people’s lives. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . billion users, was only founded in 2004.

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Law 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 18, 2024

A sense of urgency to address large social problems—and frustration with the fragmentation of philanthropic giving broadly—has pushed many of these funders to explore new ways of validating and amplifying their giving strategy. One funder’s enthusiasm for a project can inspire others to put capital they would otherwise not move into use.

Fundraising 115

Fundraising Fundraising Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Other examples abound: Mastercard Foundation, which aims to address youth unemployment in Africa by creating 30 million jobs, identifies “improving the quality of education and vocational training” and “leveraging technology to connect employers and job seekers” as its first two strategies to enable job creation.

Manufacturing 136

Manufacturing Education Education Foundations 136

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

Moreover, developing countries typically lack key technologies and financial resources that could help them become more resilient to climate change and its impacts. For debtors, there may be political resistance, a lack of public support, or concerns about unintended consequences or trade-offs.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance Civil Society 98

Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Your mission statement should provide a clear and concise description of your organization’s purpose and its unique value proposition. Get social. Research how social media and effective storytelling is used the world over to create engagement and drive donations. . Lack of public awareness.

Nonprofit governance and management 91

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Collaborations 91

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Is it social media shares? Adopting guerilla marketing tactics has become an effective way to reach different audience demographics, generate social media buzz, and raise your nonprofit brand profile. Importantly, they’ll often share their progress on social media. Is it people buying tickets?

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Fundraising Fundraising 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Furthermore, schedule changes and social isolation heightened uncertainty and anxiety. To create an effective program or policy, it’s crucial to actually talk to those with behavioral health challenges and understand their specific perspectives. Many people lost loved ones and went through significant grief.

Health 104

Health Public and Social Policy Governance Collaborations 104

EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

In 2022, we shared that EveryAction joined other leading social good technology companies CyberGrants, Network for Good, Social Solutions, and their respective entities to become Bonterra. Animals and the earth are protected and respected.

Production 76

Production Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Technology 76

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Dismantling barriers to food access requires clear strategies and methodologies that inform funding, drive policy, and guide community-based initiatives. As in other cities, in Camden, dedicated community-based organizations are working to close these gaps through nutrition education, food assistance programs, and social services.

Food 142

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 142

Pam Moore

JANUARY 17, 2018

Mark is changing the goal for his product team from “finding meaningful content to having meaningful social interactions.” ” He also adds “you'll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands, and media.” Social media including Facebook is NOT a solution to your marketing woes.

Public and Social Policy 164

Public and Social Policy Advertising Marketing Marketing 164

Pam Moore

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Smart and savvy marketers know the days of throwing social spaghetti at the wall and hoping it sticks are over and done. The social web is getting noisier by the minute. Here is what this blog post and episode #242 of the Social Zoom Factor Podcast will provide to you: . 2018 content marketing trends, statistics and predictions.

Marketing 167

Marketing Marketing Public and Social Policy Values 167

Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

The best gift a nonprofit organization can receive is unrestricted cash, but an inkind donation of something your organization needs and would have otherwise purchased is also a high-value gift. The value of the gift was more than $175,000, far exceeding the Board’s annual budget at that time of $99,000. Five bedrooms! Four bathrooms!

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Values Food 116

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. Strangely, nonprofits have been slow to embrace LinkedIn.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Nonprofits Activism Leadership 144

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 2, 2024

Utilize resources such as social media , company websites, and industry reports to gather information about their business or personal needs, recent activities, and pain points. Utilize Social Media Explore platforms such as LinkedIn , Twitter, and Facebook to gain insights into prospects’ professional backgrounds and interests.

Insurance 52

Insurance Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Activism 52

NonProfit Hub

JULY 3, 2020

When you reinforce your mission and publicly support the policies that impact your cause, it provides an additional platform to discuss your organization with potential supporters. You may ask them to stop something in their policies that is actively harming your mission or to incorporate a new policy that would help.

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Fundraising Fundraising Public and Nonprofit Management 90

EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Across America, Hispanic and Latino organizations are leading the way in every realm, including advocacy, education, healthcare, and social services. Latino Victory engages Latino voters and donors—in addition to developing Latino leaders—in order to elevate and advance values that are important to our communities.

Non-Profits 86

Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Health 86

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Boston’s Green New Deal is a series of interrelated policies addressing climate, environmental, racial, and economic injustice. Boston’s Green New Deal is a series of interrelated policies addressing climate, environmental, racial, and economic injustice. 33 Part of the building automation program is smart building technology.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 104

Nonprofit Administration and Development Environmental Energy Nonprofit governance and management 104

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. For events, ongoing series, or recurring celebrations online, consider the following options for publicity: 1.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Activism Education 133