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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One of the grandmothers was holding and cooing to the baby, while the grandfather played a game with pre-teen children, freeing the granddaughter to make the fire and cook the meal. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. Multigenerational households are rare.

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Gender Equality Advocates Advance Pay Equity at State Level

NonProfit Quarterly

In Illinois, for instance, a new pay transparency law took effect on January 1, 2025; the law requires employers with more than 15 employees to include salary ranges and a description of benefits and other compensation in their job postings. Yet in some US states they are making significant gains on pay equity.

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How to Move Guaranteed Income from Program to Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

But it is past time to move from programs to policy. Drawing from our evaluations and other research and best practices in the field, we offer the following recommendations to create a social safety net that works for all people. Most government policy wonks have little to no experience with families living in poverty.

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Co-op Leaders Consider Future as International Year of the Co-op Nears

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. Relocation of the bases has also remained out of reach.

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Return to Office: What’s Happening in the Nonprofit Sector and Why?

NonProfit Quarterly

Tima Miroshnichenko, Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels , public domain. The fact of the matter is that work-from-home policies helped traditionally excluded groups (some of which were almost entirely shut out of the workforce prior to the pandemic) better access job opportunities. Reversing that erases many of those gains.

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Teachers Unions Take on Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

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.