Remove Children Remove Governance Remove Homelessness Remove Public and Social Policy
article thumbnail

The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

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?

article thumbnail

What Is a Community Development Corporation?

NonProfit Quarterly

Without national research into the field or field-level convening or visioning, national policy focusing on these organizations became rudderless. As Paul Nelson noted in NPQ , in many cities, “ federal and local governments have come to rely on nonprofits to deliver services to vulnerable communities,” many of which are CDCs.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What is Climate Psychology? An Interview with Climate Psychology Alliance’s Rebecca Weston

NonProfit Quarterly

The homelessness that happens, the lack of shelter, the lack of livelihood, the lack of security. They are young people wondering about whether or not to have children. I have another person who quit her job being a midwife because she felt like she did not want to bring children into this world. RW: It’s an honor, actually.

article thumbnail

Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, New York City created the innovative concept of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the Voluntary National Reviews that nations submit to the UN, in which local and regional governments adopt and track their progress toward the SDGs.

article thumbnail

[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

All we’ve been doing is emailing and maybe if we weren’t socially distanced, we would have met each other already. They have children, they’re doing all of this. if you have a give policy in place and they have not given, does not mean that they don’t consider themselves family. But you’re awesome.

article thumbnail

Abolish the US Child Welfare System: A Conversation with Alan Dettlaff

NonProfit Quarterly

NPQ : In your book, you make a point of connecting the idea of “family separation,” as it occurs all the time in the present-day child welfare system when children are put under the custody of the state, to the widely criticized family separation immigration policy of the Trump administration. But I don’t think that’s widely known.

Children 133
article thumbnail

Linking Our Fights to Win: On Combatting Elite Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

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?