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

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 232

Nonprofit Management Management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 232

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. Yet over time, perpetual naming gifts for facilities may prove detrimental to future generations.

Ethics 122

Ethics Public and Social Policy Universities Philanthropy 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Last year, our social impact startup hit a milestone that eludes 96 percent of female founders: we hit one million dollars in revenue. We know that for social entrepreneurs trying to solve global challenges, the system is rigged. Underneath every accomplishment lies a profoundly broken funding landscape for social innovation.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Non-Profits 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Google solved the problem with networks : By engineering connections among hundreds of thousands of computers, Google radically expanded what their search technology could do. But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Energy Nonprofit Administration and Development Collaborations 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 5, 2023

Public institution spending dwarfs private philanthropy in most countries in the world. billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. Unfortunately, the success of this transfer process is hit-and-miss and thus slows social innovation.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 124

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

Fundraising Leadership

MARCH 22, 2024

Using social media to promote your work can be positive, but you need to be careful. due to its Chinese ownership and use of data from its 170 million users, it is prime time to take a look at your own social media use. Contentious political and cultural issues are off limits from public sharing. Some posts can get you fired.

Public and Social Policy 74

Public and Social Policy Ethics Culture Leadership 74

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

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. By Jason Saul.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Health Nonprofit governance and management 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

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

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

2 Today’s Utility System Disparities Deploying new climate technologies with century-plus-old unjust laws, regulations, and practices… poses a high risk that existing disparities will be locked in for another century while the root power, race, and capital imbalances fueling the climate crisis go unaddressed.

Energy 81

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 81

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

Indeed, these digital technologies would enable people to transcend the geographic boundaries that constrained their ability to pursue the lives they valued, enabling them to acquire more social, economic, and political power. However, current reality is miles apart from that vision.

Race and Ethnicity 145

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance 145

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. Consider the climate crisis. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.

Nonprofit governance and management 144

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 144

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

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 87

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Values Education 87

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

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 81

Public and Social Policy Energy Environmental Non-Profits 81

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 29, 2023

Granberry Russell not only elucidates the potential harm these measures can inflict on higher education but also calls out what she characterizes as a dangerous stifling and resulting silence among leaders in higher education whose responsibilities, she argues, include speaking out against anti-DEI efforts and making public the harm they carry.

Race and Ethnicity 98

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Education Education 98

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 120

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Non-Profits Manufacturing 120

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Right to Be Free from Environmental Harm The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) works toward equity and justice in environmental, energy, and climate policies. Smith sees the importance of having policies and programs where Black people are seen, heard, and respected when discussing real solutions.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Environmental Energy Health 96

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Since its inception in 2018, HLTH has focused on elements of the healthcare industry and served as a connective tissue for health payers, providers, employers, and investors seeking solutions to improve health outcomes, and the technology companies, vendors, and experts offering them. There were major fractures that we saw.

Health 80

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Finance 80

Pam Moore

JUNE 2, 2017

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Manufacturing 167

Manufacturing Advertising Public and Social Policy Marketing 167

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

As policy makers struggle to respond to the unfolding human catastrophe, they have increasingly turned to the possibilities offered by technology, and data in particular. Yet as is so often the case with technology, the potential for good is accompanied by certain risks. What Is a Social License?

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Ethics 52

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

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 76

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Finance Nonprofit governance and management 76

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

Civil Society 110

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Energy 110

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure access to safe and affordable housing, to be unhoused— and to live in places that are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 111

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 5, 2023

Image Credit: dimitrisvetsikas1969 on pixabay.com The world changes too much for anyone who is invested in social change work to imagine that this work is linear and predictable. This much most social movement leaders and activists intuitively understand. They often struggled to get public attention on Congressional corruption.

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Technology Governance Healthcare 85

Fundraising Leadership

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The words and phrasing all leaders and managers use in every discussion at work and in public statements are of crucial importance. “ The words and phrasing all #leaders and managers use in every discussion at #work and in public statements are of crucial importance. ” ” Care and fairness is critical.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Leadership Culture Children 110

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 2, 2023

The biggest lesson is that with technology, less is more. Health organizations have put significant effort into building digital health infrastructure, however they are still learning how to leverage those technologies to address the problem of low access and adoption in underserved communities. What have we learned so far?

Medical 116

Medical Insurance Health Public and Social Policy 116