NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today?

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 19, 2023

By Logan McDonnell As a nonprofit professional with over a decade of experience working in homelessness programs and currently working in homelessness prevention, I’ve often heard coworkers describe how a person in one of these programs reminded them of a close relative or friend.

Homelessness 132

Homelessness Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 132

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

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. Conceptually, the threshold for excessive wealth would be the point at which an individual can take the government hostage or otherwise damage democratic institutions.

Public and Social Policy 84

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public Policy 84

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Hard-wired into systems and programs at all levels of government and the private sector, these policies bolstered white Americans’ stability, wealth, and access to opportunity while concentrating the effects of segregation, displacement, destabilization, gentrification, and poverty on BIPOC populations.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Leadership 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

For example, New York City created the innovative concept of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the Voluntary National Reviews that nations submit to the UN, in which local and regional governments adopt and track their progress toward the SDGs.

Collaborations 105

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. After all, social justice is by nature utopian. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 122

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Having worked in the social sector for a little over a decade, I have firsthand experience with the art and science of getting social impact programs off the ground. It is meant to supplement, rather than replace, the existing social safety net and job sector and can be a critical tool for improving racial and gender equity.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Nonprofit governance and management 97

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. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? The reality is more complicated. This isn’t a criticism of anyone, but rather a healthy dose of reality.

Public and Social Policy 112

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 24, 2023

And while sustained public critique has the power to change the field, it’s hard to know what will actually stick—a brief skim of the thousands of articles that assert “philanthropy must” or “philanthropy needs to” change shows that most critiques simply fade away over time.

Philanthropy 105

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Governance Foundations 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Without national research into the field or field-level convening or visioning, national policy focusing on these organizations became rudderless. As Paul Nelson noted in NPQ , in many cities, “ federal and local governments have come to rely on nonprofits to deliver services to vulnerable communities,” many of which are CDCs.

Community Development 107

Community Development Public and Social Policy Governance Production 107

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Because, as I said before, we often think of family separations as this historical artifact rather than thinking of them as a continuum that the government has used to maintain the oppression of Black families. That created enough public outrage to lead to [a rule] that said that those unsuitability clauses could no longer be used.

Children 131

Children Poverty Law Public and Social Policy 131

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

Leadership 108

Leadership Poverty Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity 108

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status. When housing is unaffordable, it leaves little money left over to buy healthy foods and critical medicines.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

And this tyranny has now spread to the federal level, as substantial public investment is now set to go toward large-scale renewable energy projects across the country. Well, the California Public Utilities Commission approved a settlement worked out by Governor Newsom and PG&E behind closed doors.

Energy 81

Energy Construction Environmental Governance 81

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. That same year, it became an independent entity, but it was discontinued in 2016.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 81

Nonprofit Administration and Development Environmental Energy Nonprofit governance and management 81

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The vital conditions are an evolution, not a replacement, of the social determinants model that has been prevalent since the early 2000s. Urgent services include everything from urgent care clinics to food pantries and homeless shelters, or services needed following a shock like a natural disaster or pandemic. Of the area’s 1.2

Health 69

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 69

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 89

Construction Public and Social Policy Culture Healthcare 89

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

While a student at the University of Puerto Rico, Victoria became the first openly transgender member of student government and pushed the school’s administration for transgender accessible I.D. Think about how LBGTQ donors and potential clients experience your agency’s website or social media channels. Expand the Language of Love.

Communication 57

Communication Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Culture 57

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The homelessness that happens, the lack of shelter, the lack of livelihood, the lack of security. I have always been a social and political activist, and always moved around large institutional and systemic issues. IC: Tell me about the Alliance’s beginnings. When was the need for it realized? RW: There are two organizations.

Psychology 114

Psychology Health Activism Public and Social Policy 114

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

All we’ve been doing is emailing and maybe if we weren’t socially distanced, we would have met each other already. if you have a give policy in place and they have not given, does not mean that they don’t consider themselves family. Jeez, that’s, that’s pretty serious. . But you’re awesome.

Fundraising 121

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 121