Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 5, 2023

From displacement and poverty to illness and environmental degradation, the urgent challenges facing the world today call for innovative approaches that combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear understanding of the problems and a firm footing in communities. ”—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2019.

Collaborations 124

Collaborations Culture Governance Technology 124

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism. In this community, poverty remains a challenge: 16.4 percent of families live below the poverty line, a poverty rate more than six percentage points higher than Seattle.

Community Development 109

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It directly limits future growth and also makes it harder for the cooperative to borrow sufficiently to finance its day-to-day activities or operating expenses. Active involvement in the governance of the investee. The vicious cycle of redistributing profits among the members of the cooperative has consequences. Affordable?

Finance 88

Finance Agriculture Governance Non-Profits 88

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

How can we develop an intentional strategy to realize such outcomes—strategies that empower communities to actively improve their quality of life?”. Other lead organizations include a domestic-violence survivor support nonprofit, a city government, an affordable housing developer, and a school district.

Health 112

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

Public and Social Policy 66

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Poverty 66

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. The Food Justice Collaborative’s efforts and the other aforementioned programs are helping to turn the tide in cooperative food system development as well.

Food 110

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 110

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2024

DB: A big premise of my work at JPB Foundation is that no matter what issue you care about—whether that be housing, healthcare, poverty, or climate justice, and they are all important—the fundamental issue at the root of all of them is who has power in society and who doesn’t.

Philanthropy 105

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Ethics 105

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

And we knew that poverty and racism were deeply entrenched, and that takes more than three years. We know it’s a story of extraction, [of] government reliance on the nonprofit world, but that felt like a whole lot bigger than TBF. We would hope and expect that nonprofits are reducing poverty and reducing inequality.

Public and Social Policy 91

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

CRH’s salvation eventually came in the form of a collaborative approach, pivoting toward a combination of emergency funding provided by a small family foundation; a nonprofit, non-extractive loan fund; a third-party investment firm; and a coalition of Latinx community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Winning the Lottery?

Finance 95

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 95

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. In several of these cooperatives, either governments or civil society or development institutions have played roles as catalysts to sow the initial seeds. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

Food 107

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 107

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 4, 2021

On the other hand, global processes like collaboration against climate change, protests against social inequality and racism (#BlackLivesMatter), or social movement against sexual harassment and abuse (#metoo) have brought nonprofits even more prominence. Types of Nonprofit Activities. Donations and Government Grants.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Fundraising Fundraising 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to a 2014 study of wage theft in California and New York , wage theft doesn’t just hurt low-wage and immigrant workers, it also contributes to poverty, increases the need for SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program, formerly known as “food stamps), and increases the cost of public assistance services. The way ¡Reclamo!

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 91

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

Indeed, the creative process can be particularly useful in contexts of poverty and hardship, where it can be difficult for people to think beyond their immediate opportunities and constraints, and imagine alternative futures. Contacts and collaborative opportunities. The 2010 documentary Waste Land offers a good example.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the early days of the pandemic, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation , whose mission is to help people and places move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice, recognized the devastation COVID-19 would bring to their grantee communities. The question now is, will this momentum continue ?

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 119

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This includes building transnational activism that links anti-war, anti-militarism, and anti-nuclear work with the efforts of those campaigning for economic justice, environmental protection, open borders and migrant rights, anti-racism and anti-fascism, equality, and police and prison abolition. Decolonizing and Decarcerating Our Minds. …[I]deas

Construction 77

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 77

Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 25, 2024

That may lead them to limit or regulate how they organize their lives, recreational activities, dating patterns, social media posts, or many other things because they believe role models have to live a particular way. The Cost of Nonprofits’ Scarcity Mindset All of this happens in a sector plagued with scarcity and poverty mindset.

Nonprofit Leadership 52

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Nonprofits Poverty 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

Agriculture 99

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 99

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

In late 2021, a small Zimbabwean community-based organization, Score Against Poverty (SCORE), with help from the Canadian government, decided to test out a different approach. How visible that resentment is depends on the power of those not benefiting or being penalized. All of this builds the capacity of the local agency.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

19 While the need to employ an intersectional lens in movement work is widely acknowledged at a theoretical level, 20 actual movement activity often falls into narrower silos. Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? 28 Yet an approach that prioritizes “Black faces in high places,” Pérez insists, is insufficient.

Public and Social Policy 72

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 72

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2023

Innovative finance is based on the premise that there is not enough money from governments and philanthropic organizations alone to address pressing global issues like poverty, climate change, and access to electricity and clean water. Using existing grantmaking to establish tiered-evidence grant programs is one way to do this.

Finance 99

Finance Production Governance Poverty 99

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As they wait for their forever homes, adoptable pets at Best Friends enjoy playtime, training, and activities that enrich their lives. We work with communities and governments to tackle the root causes of bonobo endangerment. We’re proud of this collaboration between the Field Museum and Two Brothers Coffee Roasters.

Children 105

Children Environmental Agriculture Nonprofits 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

From equitable policies and low-carbon infrastructure to values like collaboration and fairness, we need deep shifts, and we need them soon. Our minds and our collective governance systems would bog down if we had to always consider all the connections of everything to everything else. This is useful, even necessary.

Health 136

Health Energy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 136

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Trauma is an invisible unhealed wound caused by an overwhelming event, series of events, or enduring conditions that remains active in our bodies, our psyches, and our ways of relating to others. It’s everywhere. During a traumatic incident, part of the brain called the amygdala takes over, producing involuntary, reactive responses.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 137

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 95

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 95

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

All sectors have a role to play in achieving climate justice, but it’s fair to say that compared to government and civil society, business is late in addressing the challenge and is in fact frequently called out as part of the problem. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

Civil Society 83

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Energy 83

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

When the pandemic and government lockdown eliminated urban jobs, hundreds of thousands of people left Peru’s cities and walked home to their ancestral homelands. Scott Momaday During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global shutdown sparked an unexpected return to and reinvigoration of Indigenous culture in Peru.

Leadership 102

Leadership Culture Poverty Public and Social Policy 102

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

­­ A 1983 US government study documenting the placement of hazardous waste landfills in low-income and Black communities was one of the first studies to highlight the intersection of environmental issues and racial inequity. She is now collaborating with an Unreasonable Group mentor on a business plan for a new solar product.

Energy 97

Energy Finance Environmental Food 97

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a collaborative of 13 philanthropies, including The JPB Foundation where I serve as senior vice president of environment and strategic initiatives. In this article, I talk about collective actions that funders can take to holistically address climate-related impacts on housing justice.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Several recent studies reveal that, globally, people under 30 lack trust in their national governments, do not feel heard by politicians, and have lower levels of participation in national elections. The answer is not simple, but we need spaces for dialogue and collaboration.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Public Policy 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Korea presents a unique setting in which governments play an important role in realizing social impact. Coupled with a matured social sector and active private sector, we may see more cases of successful collective impact from Korea soon. ARTICLE | Ending Period Shame and Poverty in Asia by Noriko Akiyama, Fan Li & Wenquian Xu.

Poverty 101

Poverty Universities Health Technology 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 10, 2023

A three-year plan might suffice for more modest objectives, but what is needed to achieve the transformational goals we have for addressing poverty, racism, and inequity? ” However, over the past few years, a few organizations have explored a promising concept that can help fill these gaps: governing power.

Governance 100

Governance Collaborations Philanthropy Law 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Since 2017, Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO), a funder collaborative that believes a stable, affordable home is the foundation for health, opportunity, and justice, has directed about a third of its $17 million in grants to policy advocacy and organizing.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 100