Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? Some refer to this as the “ data divide ”—the increasing gap between the use of data to maximize profit and the use of data to solve social problems.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2023

And if approached correctly, increasing equitable green spaces is a form of racial justice and environmental justice. Residents are working to assess the environmental and health burdens associated with former oil drilling sites and other contaminated lands. PSR-LA is going to make that a reality.

Public and Social Policy 92

Public and Social Policy Environmental Health Public Policy 92

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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A 2020 report from Stanford Law School and NYU School of Law researchers documented that nearly half of the 142 federal agencies surveyed had already experimented with AI applications, including to adjudicate disability benefits and communicate with the public. The future is now. Due this summer, it is now several months behind.

Civil Society 128

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

These days, activists from all corners come to Barcelona to learn how community-run associations have put a solidarity economy into action—promoting local democracy, community education, and wellbeing. Public health problems spiked. Many of those inspired by Barcelona’s example have adopted similar strategies in their own communities.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Culture Children Education 104

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

This was a moment of reckoning within the climate movement: environmental justice advocates were rightfully mad at the ultimate outcomes done behind closed doors at the last minute, and other folks who are far more focused on carbon reduction were lauding the bill. We’re in this very complicated moment for climate policy.

Public and Social Policy 73

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Public and Nonprofit Management Energy 73

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2024

Image credit: DOERS on istockphoto.com Studies of climate change impacts “have largely focused on physical health,” according to a policy brief issued in summer 2022 by the World Health Organization (WHO). They may lose their homes. The Most Vulnerable The report found the “unequal burdens” of children are also deepened by climate change.

Health 81

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 81

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Thanks to prison privatization, corporations, many of whom, like CoreCivic , are publicly listed companies, have a perverse incentive to boost their stock prices and keep prisons full by lobbying for policies like harsher policing, longer sentencing, and incarceration for non-violent crimes.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 102

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Billions of dollars in energy infrastructure and its associated profits are no longer hoarded by a handful of wealthy investors, utility executives, and shareholders; instead, they are deployed for shared prosperity to eliminate the racial wealth divide and to create meaningful, joyous, living-wage work for those formerly excluded from the economy.

Energy 85

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 85

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

By Stephan Manning & Yeşim Uygur Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the socioeconomic structures around them. Indeed, they can play a vital role in community change.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Image credit: Michael on Unsplash A popular area of applied behavioral science, nudges are frequently deployed within public health and healthcare systems to influence people’s choices. These environmental cues are a relatively simple and cost-effective approach to nudging. But can people be nudged into better health?

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Health Ethics 52

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

6 Yet social transformation on this scale has not historically happened without concerted struggle by ordinary people demanding what they need to survive. The event was convened by Contra el diluvio, an organization dedicated to revealing the consequences of climate change to the public.

Public and Social Policy 92

Public and Social Policy Environmental Energy Governance 92

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Aruta & Kelly Davis A convergence is happening between the climate and mental health movements, and social impact practitioners need to pay attention. Many others are feeling distress as they process the realities of widespread environmental and biodiversity loss. By Lian Zeitz , John Jamir Benzon R.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 11, 2023

Public funding agencies, such as the Global Environment Facility and USAID, are also expressing their own intentions to get more climate and biodiversity funding to local, community-level, and Indigenous organizations. These changes are possible for both public and private funders.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Environmental Governance Public and Social Policy 119

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2024

And according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, poor perinatal mental health claims the lives of one in five women in the United States. The Maternal Mental Health Crisis According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US maternal mental health crisis is the leading cause of maternal deaths.

Health 85

Health Healthcare Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy 85

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 16, 2023

And it´s not happenstance who lives in these communities; it’s often the result of structural racism and economic forces like gentrification and displacement that drives those with fewer resources into places with less social and physical infrastructure to support better health. The same is true when it comes to climate action.

Health 98

Health Public and Social Policy Energy Collaborations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

Image Credit: Jon Tyson on unpsplash.com In 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final strategy to reduce lead exposure. One of the stated goals of that report was to “identify communities with high lead exposures and improve their health outcomes.” No amount of lead is safe in the blood.

Curriculum and Teaching 63

Curriculum and Teaching Environmental Children Public and Social Policy 63

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

billion, a National Governors Association memo cites. The Water Alliance is changing that question to, “How can utilities, communities, and policy makers work together to create an environment in which shutoffs for low-income families are not necessary?”. Water utilities suffered revenue losses totaling $13.9

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 122

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 117

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

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 106

Public and Social Policy Governance Community Development Agriculture 106

EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

Often, the central issue is a specific policy or a cultural phenomenon that the organization seeks to promote or eliminate. For example, a local nonprofit working on educational issues may raise awareness about specific school board policies with the aim of making them more inclusive.

Public and Social Policy 79

Public and Social Policy Education Education Nonprofit governance and management 79

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

This article profiles three organizations from which we hail—the Center for Biological Diversity, Marbleseed (formerly the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service), and Wellspring Cooperative—that have grown to focus on addressing the many social, political, economic, and environmental ills that are a direct outcome of capitalism.

Agriculture 78

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 78

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

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In a moment where housing affordability and justice have become staple concerns in public discourse, understanding the overwhelming toll of housing insecurity on Black women’s health is vital. Paying for illnesses caused by environmental hazards further jeopardizes their economic stability.

Health 92

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Insurance 92

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that time, ESG integration has been enshrined in thousands of pension fund and asset manager ESG policies, while regulations such as the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) now require the practice of financial market participants. Revisit ESG and responsible investment policies and beliefs. Work with governments.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Participation and motivation 119

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

Leadership 100

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 100

Getting Attention

JANUARY 20, 2015

Associate Director of Media Relations American Rivers (Washington, D.C.). Communications Director Western Environmental Law Center (Eugene, OR or Taos, NM). Communications And Engagement Associate Early Learning Indiana (Indianapolis, IN). Communications and Social Media Manager Yosemite Conservancy (San Francisco, CA).

Public and Social Policy 70

Public and Social Policy Marketing Marketing Public and Nonprofit Management 70

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2023

During his remarks, Powell referred to economics as “the science of public policy.” We coordinated through the nonprofit Positive Money , an international network that advocates for changes in the monetary policy of central banks to prioritize climate justice and facilitate a transition away from fossil fuels.

Education 73

Education Education Curriculum and Teaching Public and Social Policy 73

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

First, blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of new content use in your e-newsletter and share on social media which increases traffic to your website and awareness of your nonprofit’s brand. The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Nonprofits Food Environmental 141

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

Structural racism “identifies dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with ‘whiteness’ and disadvantages associated with ‘color’ to endure and adapt over time.” By the middle of the 1950s, Black radicals had been driven out of public view. To put it bluntly: We fight. We disagree.

Leadership 94

Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 94

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Identity politics is everywhere—and so are its political critics, from white nationalists and their right-wing apologists to leftists who want to talk about class but not race, gender, or other social identities and differences. When this is the case, what, if anything, is worth salvaging from identity politics?

Construction 94

Construction Public and Social Policy Culture Healthcare 94

Getting Attention

JANUARY 27, 2012

1) Associate Director of Communications. 2) Brand Marketing Senior Associate and. 3) Communications & Social Media Intern Position. 4) Communications and Publications Manager. 4) Communications and Publications Manager. 5) Communications Director , Environmental Health Coalition (San Diego, CA).

Public and Social Policy 56

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Marketing Marketing 56

iMarketSmart

JULY 24, 2023

For example, it can enhance public reputation. More precisely, it’s a pro-social code.[3] 3] Pro-social actions benefit the group. It can support a shared pro-social code.[4] Thus, supporting a pro-social code makes the group stronger. Thus, costly punishment can be a form of pro-social action.[5]

Psychology 52

Psychology Public and Social Policy Altruism and Helping Values 52

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Social media. Social media strategies. Social Good Tech Week. Social Good Tech Week ’s official date is yet to be determined, but it will be held in the spring of next year in San Francisco. Last year’s Social Good Tech Week covered topics ranging from big data and health technology to entrepreneurship and social media.

Public and Social Policy 70

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Entrepreneurship Public Policy 70

iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

Let’s look at some examples for an environmental charity. Response options (column headings)] __ Highly important __ Somewhat important __ Slightly important __ Not important Values identity questions: Comments Environmental causes improve the future of the planet. They increased donation likelihood for an environmental charity.

Psychology 52

Psychology Public and Social Policy Environmental Participation and motivation 52

EveryAction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Convene with thought leaders in social change from around the world.

Nonprofit governance and management 102

Nonprofit governance and management Finance Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 102