Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As discussed above, this understanding motivates us as funders to leave behind familiar but limited, single-point perspectives and work from a more whole and systemic picture. The first shift is therefore to actively engage a wider perspective. Indeed, the ways the sector gathers and deploys data can generate harm.

Participation and motivation 122

Participation and motivation Health Culture Environmental 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, philanthropy’s role in reparations is not to replace the federal government in providing the scale of redress and racial healing the nation needs. The movement is motivated by the belief system that harm has been done that warrants repair and healing is necessary to prevent the drivers of our inequity from being repeated. “My

Philanthropy 144

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Culture Foundations 144

Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 7, 2021

Program-Related Perks Sometimes an organization can look to its own programs and mission-related activities for perks. As a way of appreciating a donor and making them feel connected…seek their input, or participation in any process you have giving away scholarships, even if the donor is just there to observe the process.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Education Education 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members.

Energy 87

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 87

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the words of Kamau Franklin, an organizer with the Atlanta-based collective Community Movement Builders : “This is an arrest which is meant to, again, criminalize the movement, chill dissent, stop organizing, and stop activism from happening to stop ‘cop city’.” In so much as the work is radical, it will be under attack.

Public and Social Policy 83

Public and Social Policy Activism Leadership Philanthropy 83

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As Sarita Gupta and I note in our book The Future We Need , a healthy democracy is a system in which all people have various pathways to consult, confer with, and collectively govern themselves. And they may be more motivated by threats to these other aspects of self than their identity as a worker.

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 90

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As we move toward a just energy transition, public participation in energy regulatory processes must shift. Such participation, which requires clear pathways to engagement, accessible information, and dialogue, is critical to a just transition. Public Participation. Image Credit: Luca Nardone on pexels.

Energy 96

Energy Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Environmental 96

Nonprofit Fixer

JULY 23, 2020

Remember, we started our nonprofits to solve problems, not to spend all our energy proving our worth and asking “how high” when funders tell us to jump. Then look at your mixture of programs and other activities. People are motivated by goals. It’s time to stop jumping and instead set our sights on the finish line together.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Nonprofit governance and management 52

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Center works with a combination of science, law, activism, and creative media to protect the lands, waters, and climate that people, wildlife, and all types of communities and ecosystems need to survive. This means actively working toward food and agricultural systemic change.

Agriculture 79

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 79

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?

Public and Social Policy 74

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 74