Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

One major strategy to counter this fear lies in massive collaboration, a coming together of individuals, groups, and organizations at unprecedented scale to exert major influence on political and social events. Forms of Combined Power Mass mobilization to combat authoritarianism and demand social responsibility dates back millennia.

Nonprofit governance and management 94

Nonprofit governance and management Civil Society Collaborations Public and Social Policy 94

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Image Credit: lilartsy on unsplash.com This is the third article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Public school teachers are not just educators.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 145

Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

Candids Issue Lab is an open-access library dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing reports, case studies, surveys, and toolkits published by social sector organizations. This report serves as a practical guide for two critical disciplines in one publication: futures and foresight. The state of diversity in the U.S.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Children Philanthropy Energy 52

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 135

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 135

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 3, 2024

And in 2021, food insecurity among adult women rose to 31.9 Children, particularly girls, face similar challenges. Climate-induced displacement also strains social and health services, including access to menstrual hygiene and sexual and reproductive health. percent from 27.5 percent in 2019.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Poverty Health Environmental 136

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 Public and Social Policy Insurance Public and Nonprofit Management 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

The new studies bolster the case, long made by many liberal economists and policymakers, that poor families tend to spend cash welfare payments on their most pressing needs, to the benefit of the entire household and especially children. Among the top priorities for families that received the expanded credit, the March study found, was food.

Poverty 98

Poverty Public and Social Policy Children Universities 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But in other ways, it was old news for a country in which 92 percent of total employment is in the informal economy—a category that long predates gig work, and which is defined as any employment where workers lack access to government social and labor protections through their jobs. Some of this story is positive, but much of it is not.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Governance Law Technology 145

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. These are women like Royce, a community health-care volunteer in Zambia who cares for sick adults and children in her village and surrounding areas.

Public and Social Policy 130

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

To change peoples’ material reality, however, means rehauling the entire operating system of our democracy, not just tinkering with its policies. Historically, for example, Black public health leaders in Pittsburgh created Freedom House Ambulance Services after being neglected by police-staffed ambulances.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 126

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. As the parents to four young children, it’s been important to us to improve pediatric health care and neonatal intensive care so every newborn baby in our state has the best chance at a healthy life.

Public and Social Policy 98

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Getting our housing system to work better for all—especially for families of color who have long experienced discrimination and bias—will require a long-term concerted endeavor with coordinated efforts from a broad host of public, private, and community actors. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Poverty 126

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 136

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 136

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

But Generation Alpha, comprising children born after 2010 and following Generation Z, is on track to be the generation least connected with nature. The report also highlights how public and private programs around the country are finding innovative and often low-cost ways to achieve these goals.

Public and Social Policy 73

Public and Social Policy Children Environmental Philanthropy 73

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 14, 2024

Data from the National Center for Education Statistics tells us that as of 2021, public school students in the U.S. For the past four years, the Schott Foundation for Public Education has worked with Candid to measure the grantmaking priorities of those in K-12 education philanthropy. It’s possible. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education 119

Education Education Philanthropy Foundations 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Mothers Out Front was founded by a mom who became distressed about the prospect of her children growing up in a time of climate catastrophe and wanted to join with other concerned moms to create a better future. It can also look like making sure our PTO policy supports working parents.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Energy Culture Leadership 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

Even small amounts of lead can lead to severe adverse health effects in children , including issues with learning, brain and nervous system development, hearing and speech, and arrested growth. Exposure to lead during pregnancy can lead to developmental or behavioral problems in children later on.

Curriculum and Teaching 75

Curriculum and Teaching Children Environmental Public and Social Policy 75

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 results reach far beyond Curitiba.

Health 98

Health Public and Social Policy Energy Collaborations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2023

Many of us who work tirelessly to address social problems and improve the quality of life for communities do so without much consideration of the toll our work takes on our ability to rest. Creating and sustaining social justice movements and/or work in the field of care requires intense dedication and commitment that can cause burnout.

Race and Ethnicity 129

Race and Ethnicity Health Public and Social Policy Culture 129

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

Over the course of our lecture series, we’ve talked a lot about the crucial role that community plays in building alternatives to capitalistic models of access, resource distribution and social equity. And we’ll also hear from Amaha Selassie of Gem City , a food cooperative in Dayton, Ohio. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I have.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Nonprofit governance and management 105

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. Every nonprofit was formed for the benefit of the public good and to serve a certain purpose, right? So let’s see oops, yeah.

Nonprofit governance and management 128

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofits Energy Public and Nonprofit Management 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. Of the 3,300 non-Native people surveyed, 72 percent indicated that more financial support should go to language and culture programs, so Native American children become more familiar with their cultural heritage (33). Image courtesy of First Nations.

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 109

Blue Avocado

MAY 13, 2025

Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Partner with Local Businesses and Offer Valuable Information As a historical society, we obviously link with other history-focused nonprofits, but we have developed many other relationships in both the public and private sectors. Our community has an active Main Street program.

Public and Social Policy 70

Public and Social Policy Collaborations Universities Law 70

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: Drazen Zigic 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? So, what keeps them alive today?

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Poverty Insurance Governance 125

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series examines the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Law 121

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

And while technology can provide tools that can be very helpful to achieving our evolving healthcare and related social needs, human connection remains the pivotal key to healthcare as well as our overall health and wellbeing. 1 We live in a world of increasing social fragmentation, trauma, and stress.

Health 89

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Public and Nonprofit Management 89

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

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Economic upheaval aside, West Germans also made over two million claims for the restitution of real estate that had been nationalized under socialist policies. While many EU countries closed their doors, Germany had an open-door policy for asylum seekers. Initially, there was public support for Merkel’s immigration policy.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Governance Healthcare Culture 122

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 111

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 111

Non Profit AF

JUNE 17, 2025

Thank you for all your support when I announced the publication date of my new book last week. Many of these people have been in the US since they were children or have never even set foot in Southeast Asia. It’s a joke all over social media, the squeaking of these rusty tanks a symbol of his regime. And exhausting.

Race and Ethnicity 73

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Advertising Energy 73

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

According to the United Nations Development Programme, women and children are 14 times more likely to die during a disaster compared to men. 7 Although women and girls experience the greatest impacts of climate change, national climate policies rarely consider their unique needs. It empowers women and girls to become leaders.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 132

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation was developed as a repository of funds from individuals who wished to contribute to the betterment of children in the United States. Their “Healthier Kids For Our Future” grants focus on food insecurity and mental health. Areas served: US. Cigna Foundation. Areas served: US. Autism Speaks.

Health 122

Health Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Healthcare 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). Those impacted the most by involuntary moves globally are children. Why are children most in jeopardy?

Health 113

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 113

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health justice advocacy groups adapted their strategies to the digital realm, leveraging social media platforms, virtual events, and other online resources to raise awareness and organize their efforts.1 Telemedicine, for example, powered by digital platforms, is a transformative force in improving access.

Health 108

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Public and Nonprofit Management 108

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 121

Energy Culture Public and Social Policy Food 121

Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

Its network of philanthropic actors in over 30 countries collectively represent more than 10,000 public-benefit foundations. Considering the impact conflict has on migration, the global food supply chain, and beyond, what is the role of philanthropy and where can the sector have the most impact?

Philanthropy 116

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Leadership 116

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

They can’t afford the basics: housing, childcare, food, transportation, healthcare, technology and taxes. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey’s Public Use Microdata Sample. We must find data-informed solutions, whether through policy or practice, to meet the needs of nonprofit workers who are struggling financially.

Poverty 97

Poverty Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Public and Social Policy 97