Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With 65 percent of the population living in rural areas, agriculture is increasingly feminized where women perform 80 percent of farm work. In several of these cooperatives, either governments or civil society or development institutions have played roles as catalysts to sow the initial seeds.

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Jarrod Vassallo , Sourindra Banerjee & Jaideep Prabhu Spanning 12,500 hectares, the East Kolkata Wetlands in India serves multiple purposes, from fish farming, agriculture, and rice cultivation to functioning as the world’s largest wastewater-fed aquaculture system. Consider these examples.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Construction Culture Manufacturing 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. pollinator gardens) into areas under commercial, residential, agricultural, or other uses can offer meaningful benefits. For companies in land-based sectors (i.e.,

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

The cultural sector is seeking alternatives to business-as-usual. This article introduces a new series, titled “Remember the Future: Culture and Systems Change,” co-produced by Art.coop and NPQ. Efforts to remedy historic race-based harms by prioritizing care for land, resources, people, and cultural expressions are flourishing.

Philanthropy 87

Philanthropy Culture Agriculture Community Development 87

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. For many Americans, the term rural elicits simplified imagery of people and places—primarily White, living in small towns, focused on agriculture, and impoverished.

Poverty 98

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They exist as part of the traditional Native Hawaiian infrastructure for biocultural (integrated natural and cultural) resource abundance, or ‘āina momona (which literally translates as “fat lands”). Āina momona stretch across and uplift the ecological and cultural functioning of the entire watershed, from mountaintop to nearshore.

Agriculture 101

Agriculture Environmental Food Culture 101

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

And the battle with the state over Tribal sovereignty and our rights has always been recognized by the federal government; it’s only the state government that’s not recognizing our sovereignty. So our land, our languages, our kinship systems, our governances were forced out of us.”

Nonprofit governance and management 89

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 89

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

Meanwhile, the corporations and governments that bear the lion’s share of responsibility for the climate crisis have not been held accountable. Organic farmers on small, diverse operations already knew that the agricultural system was rigged. billion and grew even faster after federal regulations were promulgated in 2002.

Agriculture 78

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 78

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In this way, philanthropy would return stolen labor, resources, land, culture, and ideas—in deed, and not just word. We must recognize the connections between culture, politics, and economics and support community leaders who are modeling new ways forward with real and sustainable resources. A Window of Opportunity.

Philanthropy 123

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Agriculture Culture 123

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 delta is a largely rural, agricultural area with a troubled history of racial and economic disparities.

Food 112

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

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. 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.

Leadership 122

Leadership Culture Poverty Public and Social Policy 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The lucky grantees included clusters on clean energy, next-gen agriculture, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, and robotics, among others. A year into implementation, both regions have learned important lessons about leadership, governance, DEI, and more. Establish a strong leadership and governance model from the start.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Manufacturing Governance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. Roughly one-third of rural counties reported the presence of an economic professional who could identify and write grants for local government. This helped preserve more than 17,000 jobs.

Values 115

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 115

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The myth of American meritocracy is not merely an occasional story; it is upheld daily by social systems, structures, and cultural narratives. The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 97

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Companies can also create goals for their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies that both improve the well-being of suppliers in the near term and lay a foundation for them to minimize their environmental footprints in the future. Influencing Policy.

Health 122

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The organization was formed a little over 20 years ago, in February 2002, when resident leaders came together to support their unique and culturally diverse neighborhood: White Center , WA. Our philosophy is one of comprehensive community development—a diverse set of holistic strategies designed to embrace a community’s culture and assets.

Community Development 112

Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 112

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 22, 2023

How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good Now is the right time for businesses, governments, and non-profits to consider ML applications that go beyond automation and improving bottom lines, and figure out how can they use these innovative technologies to contribute to society.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Medical Children 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Carbon emissions from the fires exceeded reductions in emissions from the first year of COVID restrictions and economic slowdown. Wildfires contribute significantly to the 24 percent of US emissions coming from forestry, agriculture, and land use.

Public and Social Policy 86

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 86

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? It prioritizes building personal, social, emotional, and cultural capacities of human beings—instead of irrational consumption. Obviously, the only entity with the assets and power structure to move this needle is the national government.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 117

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 27, 2023

Consumer trust in brands and products at a time when trust in media and government is also challenged is what businesses need to address and adjust, she says. “ “ Consumer trust in brands and products at a time when #trust in media and government is also challenged is what businesses need to address and adjust.

Production 52

Production Entrepreneurship Political Science Children 52

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The high presence of banks in the industry, which often includes bankers serving on CDFI loan committees, can alter the culture of CDFIs, reinforcing systemic barriers to capital. Building an Alternative Financing Model for Equitable Development The good news is that not all CDFIs are alike—some support the EFOD approach.

Food 104

Food Finance Community Development Culture 104

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Agriculture. The American Farmland Trust protects agricultural land, promotes environmentally sound farming practices, and helps farmers continue to grow food for us all. Kiss the Ground is committed to educating the public about the environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture. Art & Culture. Kiss the Ground.

Children 105

Children Environmental Agriculture Nonprofits 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. Ashley, go straighten the labels” was his way of keeping me busy as I watched him work.

Food 88

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 88

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. With the WORK Act, tens of millions of dollars in government resources will be disbursed to employee-ownership centers around the country, fundamentally changing the playing field for worker-owners, freelancers, and cooperative innovators. Until it was.

Public Policy 72

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 72

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

My mom was part of what we’d now call a CSA (community-supported agriculture). In Atlanta, working with the US Human Rights Network, I got deeply ingrained in the economic cultural social rights framework and what that would add to both the vision and practicality and also how to frame policy in and around economic justice.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 135

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Large-scale public investment from all levels of government is needed to further implement and evaluate these strategies. Council on State Governments, Confined and Costly. The mass-scale correctional systems of the current era are wholly unsustainable without gendered labor exploitation. 1 (2018): 235–59, [link].

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Health Associations Children 126

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

But that was a group of African American families who came together to own, co-govern, control land resources and have an agricultural cooperative and really come together to self-determine. So there’s the like asset ownership and then there’s governance and that goes quite deep. So the nonprofit owns the land.

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 88

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. a lot of organizations are working on this now, how do you bring equity and justice to planning and to board governance as well. Okay, great.

Nonprofit governance and management 123

Nonprofit governance and management Energy Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management 123