Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

She also lives in a food desert, which makes getting nutritious and affordable food difficult. The nearest fresh food grocer is three miles away, across the 101 freeway. She can afford one big shopping trip in the month and at the end of the month she visits the local food pantry to subsidize until she gets her next paycheck.

Health 98

Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 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. However, these nudges work best when integrated into comprehensive prevention policy frameworks rather than being deployed on their own.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Health Ethics 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. Deep Listening Is Necessary for Social Change. Social Justice Organizations at a Crossroads. By SSIR Editors. How to Have Better Political Conversations.

Civil Society 87

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 87

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This article concludes Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series that has been co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level.

Food 109

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 109

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

From vast riparian watersheds to fisheries to croplands, few corners of the nation’s ⎯ and the world’s ⎯ food systems have escaped the eyes of the Walton family. 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.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 113

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 97

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 97

Selfish Giving

APRIL 13, 2022

These days I'm writing a lot of case studies for partnership teams that are eager to use "social proof" to recruit more corporate partners. They are great fundraisers and the business can get lots of publicity, which is exactly what a new business/location needs. Or could you earn a donation whenever a policy is purchased?

Retail 130

Retail Insurance Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Health Associations Children 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

But it was through this kind of collective association, largely of women, in Los Angeles that we got fresh produce. It was something that I knew existed, but I didn’t know how dependent I was on it until I got to college and started to pay my own food bills. It was…borrowed from New York, which had a similar policy at that time.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 132

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. Young people in the United States are more likely to be alarmed or concerned than their older counterparts.”

Health 77

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 77

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Public trust: Monitoring shows commitment to responsible use of resources and best serving beneficiaries. Please note that Tennessee Nonprofit Network monitors all bills that impact nonprofits and the communities they serve, but we only take positions on issues impacting the entire nonprofit sector and align with our public policy agenda.

Education 52

Education Education Public and Social Policy Law 52

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2023

Promising Models for Change In Los Angeles, CA, Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA) is organizing alongside and with South Central LA’s predominantly Black and Latinx communities to undo decades of harm that toxic chemicals have inflicted on their neighborhoods. PSR-LA is going to make that a reality.

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Environmental Health Public Policy 90

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 112

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 112

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

After a decade of organizing to move debt cancellation from the margins to the center of national policy debates, the movement to cancel student debt continues to gain ground, as NPQ’s Rithika Ramamurthy documented earlier this year. The Problem of Student Loan Debt. I am 62 years old and do not know how I will retire.”

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 113

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 76

Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance Civil Society 76

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Her approach has benefited from a rigorous selection process informed and strengthened by advisors with ears to the ground—who have relationships with people on the frontlines of social change work—and by an emphasis on investments that reveal and address inequities in the philanthropic field. Some philanthropists have already done just this.

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Agriculture Culture 119

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Furthermore, schedule changes and social isolation heightened uncertainty and anxiety. To create an effective program or policy, it’s crucial to actually talk to those with behavioral health challenges and understand their specific perspectives. Many people lost loved ones and went through significant grief.

Health 83

Health Public and Social Policy Governance Collaborations 83

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While voting, lobbying, and all types of policy work are important forms of democratic participation, collective bargaining across multiple channels inserts much-needed democratic practice into our economic system. 4 This structural power exists in addition to associational power, the power in numbers noted above.

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 85

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 75

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 75

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 97

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 97

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 98

Civil Society Environmental Governance Public and Social Policy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the children most at risk of lead exposure are under six years of age and can come in contact with lead through chipping paint in older homes, imported food or cosmetics, drinking water from lead plumbing or pipes, and even the soil around older buildings or roads.

Curriculum and Teaching 61

Curriculum and Teaching Environmental Children Public and Social Policy 61

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

Getting Attention

MARCH 16, 2015

Communications Director Center on Policy Initiatives (San Diego, CA). Communications Manager RSF Social Finance (San Francisco, CA). Director Of Corporate Partnerships And Cause Marketing National Parks Conservation Association (Washington, DC). Director of Marketing and Finance Michigan Optometric Association (Lansing, MI).

Communication 71

Communication Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Finance 71

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 85

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Participation and motivation 85

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

A familiar scent wafts from the kitchen where your aunts are warming food they prepared earlier. The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. Your partner whispers reminders of your beauty , your strength , your power.

Health 112

Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy Ethics 112

Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

The social media specialist who helps you set up your social channels and content calendar then trains your staff on posting engaging content is an inkind donor, and a high-value one at that! The company that donates surplus tote bags with their logo on them for families at your food pantry to use when shopping is an inkind donor.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Values Food 116

Getting Attention

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Communications and Events Coordinator , Youth Policy Institute (Los Angeles, CA). Communications and Marketing Coordinator , Food Lifeline (Seattle, WA). Communications and Social Media Specialist , ANCOR (Alexandria, VA). Communications Associate , Pacific Forest Trust. Blog Coordinator , PETA-peta2 (Los Angeles, CA).

Public and Social Policy 64

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Marketing Marketing 64

Getting Attention

APRIL 7, 2014

Communications Associate , The Randall’s Island Park Alliance, Inc (New York, NY). Digital Manager , Public Campaign Action Fund (Washington, DC). Head of Outreach and Senior Media Relations Specialist , The International Food Policy Research Institute (Washington, DC). Communications Intern , DesigNYC (New York, NY).

Public and Social Policy 72

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Marketing Marketing 72

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Over time, my secret life began to make public appearances. When my 5 th grade teacher, who knew nothing about me, gave me a bad grade for not speaking loudly enough in what was the most terrifying act of public speaking I had ever done, I got pissed. I wanted to do social justice work but couldn’t figure out how to break in.

Energy 107

Energy Culture Leadership Public and Social Policy 107

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 24, 2017

Will the way an arts organization approaches its communications work vary significantly from a social service agency? Over the seven years that we’ve done the Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , we’ve seen few significant differences between nonprofits with different missions.

Public and Social Policy 54

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Food Philanthropy 54

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Another area of rapid growth is Black-led food cooperatives, which are forming across the country, including in Dayton , OH; Detroit, MI; and the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. As Gordon Nembhard explains, cooperative enterprises historically have grown in number and impact during periods of economic and social tumult.

Finance 83

Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Education 83

Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

As noted in “ American Muslim Philanthropy: A Data-Driven Comparative Profile ,” a report authored by Faiqa Mahmood in 2019 via The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, “The strongest motivations for American Muslims are a feeling that those with more should give to those with less and a sense of religious duty or obligation.” .

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Leadership 119

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Last month, the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading community development financial institution (CDFI) trade association, held its first in-person national conference in three years in New York City. Chuck Matthei, CDFI movement cofounder, 1985. It was a sold-out affair, attracting a record attendance of over 2,000 people.

Finance 89

Finance Community Development Public and Social Policy Poverty 89

Getting Attention

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Assistant Director of Communications and Communications Specialist , National Association of Community Health Centers (Bethesda, MD). Book Launch Intern , Public Relations Intern and Social Media and Blog Intern , Kiva (San Francisco, CA). Junior Interactive Designer , Association of Junior Leagues International.

Public and Social Policy 68

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Marketing Marketing 68

Getting Attention

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Communications and Social Media Manager , NLEOMF (Washington DC). Communications Manager , Communications Officer , Senior Communications Associate , Pew Center on the States (Washington DC). Communications Officer , Pew Center on the States—Fiscal Economic Policy (Washington DC). New Opportunities. RECENT OPPORTUNITIES.

Public and Social Policy 71

Public and Social Policy Marketing Marketing Public and Nonprofit Management 71

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Lauren Lawson-Zilai is the director of public relations and national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International , a social enterprise that provides job training to nearly ten million people a year through the sale of donated clothes and household goods. She tweets from @LaurenLLawson.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Social Enterprise 97