NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Cooperatives, however, UN officials hope, might be able to help nations better achieve these targets because they combine economic and social goals. The economy of the future must be a social economy —that is, an economy rooted in social values and community ownership. That’s “phenomenal longevity,” he noted.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Education Education Associations 97

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. The authors also emphasize that sustainable agriculture practices work with rather than at the expense ofthe land (39). Credit: Zoe Urness (Tlingit Alaskan Native and Cherokee). Image courtesy of First Nations. Our voices are invisible. The report notes that more than 8.36

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 113

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Limited access to education is also a social vulnerability: the systemic barriers further exacerbate the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities. The climate crisis is an urgent and pervasive threat, and it disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

Race and Ethnicity 111

Race and Ethnicity Environmental Education Education 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Escaping the Deficiency Focus When the WHO and UNICEF co-organized the landmark health conference in Alma-Ata, USSR, in 1978, 134 countries and 67 international organizations endorsed the WHOs pioneering perspective on health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Health 118

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Governance 118

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 2, 2025

By Amanda Williams , Lucrezia Nava & Gail Whiteman In President Trumps second term, a variety of executive actions have reversed social progress. The head of the EPA has asked the White House to repeal the endangerment finding, which says that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare, contradicting climate science.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Energy Poverty Governance 97

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Emerging technological innovations in healthcare have the potential to transform public health and healthcare delivery systems, making them more efficient, personalized, and accessible. This limited access intensifies social and economic inequalities between regions, preventing equitable progress across areas.

Health 98

Health Technology Healthcare Medical 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 18, 2025

State researchers warned that mismanaged agricultural lands had become dangerously flammable. In community meetings and across social media, there were calls for residents to resist outside investors looking to capitalize on the disaster. These policies could also reduce condo prices by 20 to 40 percent, increasing affordability.

Agriculture 95

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Culture Environmental 95

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Yet while the hazards of industrial agriculture (and the opportunities offered by agroecological food systems) are equally well known , most money still bets on the status quo: increasing the use of imported fertilizers and pesticides and motorized irrigation, despite high costs and questionable returns.

Agriculture 117

Agriculture Food Finance Governance 117

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 26, 2025

Poverty, social exclusion, and a lack of worker rights have long been drivers of trafficking and bonded labor, but the ecological damage wreaked by climate change not only supercharges those forms of vulnerability but, in turn, leads desperate workers to carry out further destruction.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Children Public Policy 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even where there is overall economic growth, continued concentration of ownership prevents ordinary working people, and marginalized communities in particular, from reaping the benefits of their contributions, reinforcing power imbalances and social inequalities. million dairy farmers who own the business.

Governance 72

Governance Public and Social Policy Production Finance 72

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Facing this crisis, new social economy movements emerged in Korea, not only as an immediate response to the neoliberal economic crisis, but also as a visionary long-term alternative for building a different kind of economy. Social Enterprises The Social Enterprise Promotion Act, passed in 2007, was more far reaching.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Governance 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 25, 2024

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) (in this case, the “ India Stack ”) is at the heart of a revolution that is transforming the Indian economy. However, in developing economies, a lack of secure modes of identification can restrict people’s access to government and public sector services.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Governance Agriculture Activism 145

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 29, 2024

Fast Forward’s research of how APNs are using AI to fight climate change found a vast range of use cases, including decarbonizing supply chains, tracking pollution, predicting disasters, optimizing sustainable farming practices, protecting biodiversity, and equipping policy makers with better data.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law Environmental 137

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

One strategy for achieving that vision is to support urban agriculture and community agency, giving people the chance to produce their own food. Advancing urban agriculture in Camden. Dismantling barriers to food access requires clear strategies and methodologies that inform funding, drive policy, and guide community-based initiatives.

Food 145

Food Agriculture Poverty Public and Social Policy 145

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 136

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 136

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

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The delta is a largely rural, agricultural area with a troubled history of racial and economic disparities. They can also serve as de facto reparations for Black families in Mississippi, who are descendants of the enslaved individuals whose agricultural labor created enormous wealth for white families.

Food 127

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 127

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

MARCH 19, 2024

Given that many Japanese fail to recognize the structural discrimination against Okinawa, undoing it involves understanding the historical context of Okinawa’s oppression and why it has endured, and how policy makers and citizens can work to restore equity to the region.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Poverty Construction Law 140

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 22, 2019

Ash Bruxvoort coordinates communications for the Women, Food and Agriculture Network. I try to keep up on what’s happening with ag policy in Iowa and federally. I open up stories that I think would be good to share through social media. I’ll check our social media accounts and my email again before bed.

Communication 142

Communication Agriculture Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 142

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

The island is vulnerable to changing climatic conditions, including unusually heavy rainfall; flood-induced erosion by the Brahmaputra River has destroyed half of the island, harming local agriculture and ways of life. However, locals and nonprofits are working to sustain their traditional livelihoods.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Via the efforts of private and public actors, programs, and policies, including discriminatory loan programs, market forces, intimidation, and terrorism. In the face of so much loss and opposition, asset reallocation can be a powerful tool for achieving self-determination for Black farmers and Black agricultural communities.

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Agriculture Food Public and Social Policy 131

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. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Often portrayed in Western feminist literature as the disempowered, the excluded, and needing rescue, India in fact continues to be reinvented by the heads, hands, and hearts of her women—from farmers, to craftswomen, to political leaders, to social reformers. In India, many large-scale cooperatives have been thriving over time.

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts. Now, “it’s hard to even extract their influence from fisheries policy,” Sennott said. There’s more.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Without access, these communities become isolated and, as a result, experience reduced economic, educational, and social opportunities. World Bicycle Relief (WBR), a nonprofit social enterprise (where the other two authors of this article work) helps to solve that challenge by distributing bicycles to individuals like the three women above.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 130

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Public entities with unique governmental powers, land banks acquire vacant, tax-delinquent properties that are causing harm , improve them, then dispose of the properties to support community goals. Over decades, racist policies and practices, including intentional disinvestment, have shaped our neighborhoods. CLTs serve many purposes.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Community Development Governance Agriculture 116

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. Another piece of this painting would look like a landscape of advocacy and policy change institutions that prioritize racial and economic justice to level the playing field. The reality is more complicated.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. Foster public/private partnerships where possible. What do you see as the value of nonprofits in Montana?

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

With all this in mind, academics and policy makers have called for the international community to prioritize debt-for-climate swaps, an initiative through which a nation’s debt is forgiven in exchange for investment in climate change adaptation and mitigation, thereby addressing both crises at once.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance Civil Society 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

The most pernicious one is the narrative regarding small, locally led organizations and our low expectations of them (which is not exclusive to the social change space). Together, they address food security challenges related to climate change, land tenure, and agriculture productivity that smallholder farmers face.

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Food 98

The Charity CFO

JULY 10, 2023

NPOs are more strictly required to operate in the public interest, like charity work or furthering a cause or issue. There’s no such restriction for NFPOs, which can also include: Sports or social clubs Professional organizations Homeowners associations Etc. Here’s what you need to know.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Agriculture Public Policy 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2024

Termed שמיטה ( shmita , literally “release”) in the Torah, Jewish law mandated that every seven years, all agricultural activity cease: “The land must be given a rest period, a sabbath to God” (Leviticus 25: 1–7). Proliferation, however, has not meant standardization, and policies vary widely. Today, sabbaticals have spread broadly.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Activism Agriculture 119

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

the IRS defines nonprofits as “Organizations that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational or other specified purposes.” Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 110

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, of course, there are always contingencies with public money. In response to the protests and adverse national publicity, Louisville put into place a civilian review board. They reached out to organizations beyond the usual social justice map—including library and business groups—to build long-term partnerships.

Food 111

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Current rural civic infrastructure often operates under a default scarcity mentality because it was designed for a different demographic, social, economic, and technological context, and is no longer fit for purpose. All of that said: people in East Texas know that this will be a long lift, and we must be persistent.

Entrepreneurship 127

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations 127

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. It applies to various regions, populations, and fields, ranging from public health and education to urban mobility. What Is a Social License?

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Ethics Governance 52