NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 1, 2025

Nonprofits: The “Invisible Backbone” of Democracy In this contemporary world of violent protests, internecine war, cries for food and peace, in which whole desert cities are thrown up to shelter the dispossessed, abandoned, terrified populations running for their lives and the breath of their children, what are we (the so-called civilized) to do?

Civil Society

Candid

JUNE 25, 2025

Kendra Davenport, president and CEO of Easterseals, shares how businesses and nonprofits can form meaningful partnerships that are strengthened by supportive government policies to drive lasting change. She highlights the power of corporate social responsibility and public-private partnerships in helping these efforts succeed.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Children and young people are filled with wonder and reverence for the natural world and are imparted with the hope of the generation that brought them here. When we have leadership roles, we make decisions that benefit all our relations for generations to come. We always have been and always will be the stewards of the earth.

Environmental

Candid

JUNE 2, 2025

They jeopardize the opportunity to learn for more than 50 million public school students. No matter your stance on the federal governments role in education, weve neglected what we know from experience: Reform falls short when it fails to confront the reality that learning cannot happen if children are unsafe, unwell, and unsupported.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In Germany, strained local resources for the ongoing flow of migrants, overburdened social services, and historic divisions between eastern and western states, have fueled anti-migrant sentiment and strengthened far-right parties. Not so long ago, Ihnatieva worked as a lawyer and realtor in Kyiv while raising two children as a single mother.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 29, 2025

Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, Northwestern and the University of Pennsylvania have all experienced withdrawn federal grantspart of a broader strategy to condition public funding on political compliance. Federal officials had previously warned 60 institutions that their civil rights policies could jeopardize their grants.

Civil Society

Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

AVOs are among the most important and most invisible building blocks of our communities: Members of all-volunteer organizations read to children, care for the dying, get clean water legislation passed, serve as volunteer fire departments, help people overcome alcoholism, bring music into prisons, and help refugees get settled.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Current framing (even on the left) is a remnant of racialized capitalism that positions Black Americans, Indigenous people, and people of color as personally responsible for their lack of progress; positions public spending in communities of color as a handout instead of an investment; and leaves unchallenged an us versus them story.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2025

Within the first 100 days of taking office, the Donald Trump administration issued a barrage of executive orders and policy changes to infringe upon the rights of LGBTQ+ community members. This is further compounded by the reversal of school and state-level policies that were intended to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ youth.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Emerging technological innovations in healthcare have the potential to transform public health and healthcare delivery systems, making them more efficient, personalized, and accessible. 34 Such a shift would also help to alleviate the health disparities for women and children in Nigeriaas noted earlier, a key vulnerable group.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

The email informed the nonprofits, which provide critical intervention services for family, domestic, and dating violence, that the grant orientation was canceled, effective immediately with no reason given, and that the government office had been instructed to refrain from public speaking engagements, including communication with the nonprofits.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 5, 2025

Its long been an issue in the nonprofit fieldas NPQ reported in 2024, 95 percent of nonprofit leaders surveyed listed burnout as a top concern either among themselves, their staff, or bothand its common in grassroots social justice and community groups as well. Recent studies show that 5 to 25 percent of children develop long COVID.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

Khalil acted as a negotiator and spokesperson during protests at the university that advocated for Palestinian human rights and divestment from companies tied to Israeli occupation policies. Civic engagement is any action you take to participate in and improve your community, influence public decisions, or shape a more inclusive society.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

Although public outcry and lawsuits were successful in quashing this initial salvo, the administration has made it clear that it will continue to seek to reduce or eliminate federal funding for nonprofits totaling several hundred billion dollars. Its also asking the public to contribute.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2025

1 For the past 35 years, my focus has been on building up white antiracist vision, culture, strategy, leadership, and organization in white communities. How can we best support and join with women and BIPOC leadership to build progressive power? How can we bring more white men into this work?

Culture

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 15, 2025

As of this writing, at least 27 people from Camp Mystic , an all-girls religious camp on the banks of the river, have died, most of them children. How is this impacting the future of summer camps, including nonprofits which historically have offered camp opportunities to children from urban areas? Many more are still missing.

Children

Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

The short answer: Opportunistic attorneys, social and financial inflation, climate change , limited options for reinsurance, and legacy claims from the COVID-19 era. Many nonprofits continued to operate and provide essential direct services for the most vulnerable, but terminated top leadership and others since funds were short.

Insurance

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2024

If an organization budgets for a small surplus each fiscal year, they are creating enough financial cushion to be able to invest in new and innovative operations that could boost their social impact. It’s time for the sector to unite in educating the public and funders on the importance of building capacity.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That changed when a team from Reimagining the Civic Commons decided to reinvigorate public spaces in Akron’s systemically disinvested neighborhoods, including Summit Lake. Moving at the Speed of Trust Employing deep listening, engaging in meetings, and building one-on-one relationships with neighbors…helped inform public space design.

Public and Social Policy

Affnetz

MAY 21, 2024

Develop a Marketing and Promotion Strategy: Create a marketing plan to promote your STEAM camp and attract participants, using channels like social media, email campaigns, and community outreach, to reach your target audience effectively. You can also promote at school fairs, newsletters and other social events.

Management

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Leadership is a renewable resource—but only if approached with a spirit of self-renewal. Throughout my 35-year career as an optometrist turned social entrepreneur, I have practiced continual self-renewal in pursuit of a world where equitable access to eyeglasses is universal, especially for the poorest and most remote communities.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Black liberation movements have advanced social progress for those who have not traditionally had political power or access to capital: the working class (white and BIPOC), women, queer and trans people, and immigrants and refugees. Later, we received free higher education at California’s public universities.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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?”. Guided by the alliance, the teams gathered data that would inform policy changes for water utilities. For García, this was troubling.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 24, 2023

Most importantly, the initiative was focused on the policy-related goal of health equity, not greater community power. During its decade-long journey through Building Healthy Communities, TCE learned many lessons that continue to inform its approach to grantmaking and social change advocacy. Community grantees knew better.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

The conversations remain small and overdue, but recent momentum is notable with new organizations , publications, resources, and frameworks exploring how philanthropy can—and, in the eyes of many, should—engage the movement for reparations in the United States. That remains true even if that wealth was donated to promote a public good.

Philanthropy

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 Annie E. A Collaborative Approach to Housing Justice.

Public and Social Policy

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

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

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Dismantling barriers to food access requires clear strategies and methodologies that inform funding, drive policy, and guide community-based initiatives. As in other cities, in Camden, dedicated community-based organizations are working to close these gaps through nutrition education, food assistance programs, and social services.

Food

Getting Attention

JANUARY 11, 2013

Director of Communications , Christian Foundation for Children and Aging. Director of Communications and Public Relations , American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, MA). Intern , International Visitor Leadership Program (Washington DC). Social Media Manager , First Book (Washington DC). Kansas City, KS).

Curriculum and Teaching

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Gender Inequity in Latin America Gender inequalities have deep and complex roots in economic, social, and political structures around the world. These entrenched social norms deeply impact women’s lives and opportunities. Here’s a look at four of them. This challenge brought us to Grupo Regional , a bank in northern Mexico.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s about shrinking the state—or its social programs, at least rhetorically. These policies have real-world effects. They argue that the country faces a crisis in capitalism, one that politics rooted in more generous social programs and greater market regulation could correct. But what is meant by neoliberalism?

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Julia Coffman As an advocacy strategy consultant and evaluator for the last two decades, I’ve supported many foundations in thinking about what it takes to win a particular policy or system change. Changing the way policies and systems are structured, run, and resourced can obviously be transformational.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If families reflect deeply in this moment on their philanthropic purpose, pace, power, and practices, and carefully choose their future path in this rapidly changing world, they will not only expand their impact but can fundamentally change the norms of our entire sector and help catalyze broader social transformation. Many already are.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The children and grandchildren of Walmart co-founder Sam Walton have long embedded their interests, and, more importantly, their money, among industry groups, policymakers, academics, activists, and NGOs active in the future of food. Now, “it’s hard to even extract their influence from fisheries policy,” Sennott said. There’s more.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, of course, there are always contingencies with public money. In response to the protests and adverse national publicity, Louisville put into place a civilian review board. The current Louisville co-op organizing effort is committed to BIPOC leadership, a departure from earlier food activism practices. We secured $3.5

Food