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 109

Public and Social Policy Marketing Marketing Governance 109

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. Currently, this program benefits more than 700 caregivers and their families in the municipality.

Nonprofit governance and management 126

Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Participation and motivation Public and Social Policy 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 31, 2023

As a result, Ukraine has emerged as a leading example of digital innovation and resilience in the face of challenges, particularly through its gov-tech solutions, using digital governance capacities to maintain basic governance functions in crisis situations and showing a strong case for digital public innovation to support its people.

Governance 80

Governance Medical Technology Participation and motivation 80

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. They reached out to organizations beyond the usual social justice map—including library and business groups—to build long-term partnerships.

Food 109

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 22, 2024

Moreover, ed-tech’s customers are often vulnerable users, particularly in the case of children with special educational needs or those from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Nordic Research Council introduced impact metrics to its grantees such as policy influence practitioner training, and contribution to a national consultation.

Public and Social Policy 72

Public and Social Policy Finance Education Education 72

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 128

Race and Ethnicity Health Public and Social Policy Culture 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The hope that our children would enjoy a better life than ours seems shattered. Yet even today, almost 50 years later, our global approach to health operates primarily through a medical model that emphasizes treating diseases rather than fostering comprehensive health and well-being.

Health 118

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Governance 118

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 88

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Public and Nonprofit Management 88

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By Paul Cann Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early death; these are also linked to anxiety, depression, suicide, dementia, and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.

Health 138

Health Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 138

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 124

Public and Social Policy Poverty Insurance Governance 124

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

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 107

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Public and Nonprofit Management 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The trauma we carry affects the way we look at the world and ourselves, and therefore plays a role in determining the future course of social systems. Wainwright is the CEO of Family Life , one of Australia’s largest family services providers working with vulnerable children and their families. “If

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 2, 2023

We are all doctors, medical students, and telemedicine professionals involved in the Ukrainian relief efforts, working alongside nurses, volunteers, and engaged citizens. Across the United States, 80 percent of rural areas qualify as federally designated “medical deserts.” What have we learned so far?

Medical 116

Medical Insurance Health Public and Social Policy 116

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. Social Inflation Social inflation is occurring nationwide but varies in intensity by state. That is remarkably stable. How did we get here?

Insurance 61

Insurance Public and Social Policy Nonprofits Nonprofit governance and management 61

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

You, your partner, and your children are greeted by name, maybe even with warm hugs. 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. —Audre Lorde (“Poetry Is Not a Luxury”) 1. 8 This was not always the case.

Health 130

Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy Ethics 130

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. Yet, one-third (32%) of social service workers cannot make ends meet and take care of their families.

Poverty 97

Poverty Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Public and Social Policy 97

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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?

Construction 109

Construction Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management 109

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2024

And according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, poor perinatal mental health claims the lives of one in five women in the United States. Medical encounters often left the study participants feeling unsupported and put down due to negative stereotyping. Most of the women affected never receive treatment.

Health 119

Health Healthcare Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy 119

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Please make sure you stay connected with me at Kishshana Palmer across all social media. First of all, these children have taught themselves. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. And then there are other children.

Management 115

Management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Children 115

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

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Law 140

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 25, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com When your nonprofit’s mission is to ensure that the internet remains a public resource open and accessible to all, and most of your work takes place online, you might think the recent rise of remote work would make management and operations less complicated. We canceled all work travel.

Management 98

Management Race and Ethnicity Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Prompt medical care reduces complications and aids recovery, especially for those at higher risk. Containing Mpox In Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, local and international health agencies have been working to contain the outbreak, with vaccination campaigns and public awareness efforts targeting high-risk groups.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Public and Social Policy Health Nonprofit Administration and Development 98

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 97

Health Technology Healthcare Medical 97

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

Karabi Acharya, senior director of the Global Ideas for US Solutions strategic portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, sat down over Zoom with Dr. Mofokeng to discuss how anti-racist policies and practices in communities and countries around the world can inform efforts in other places as we work to build a more equitable, healthy world.

Health 140

Health Race and Ethnicity Medical Public and Social Policy 140

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

A new social contract —that is, a structural change in the relationship of the public to the government, the 1930s New Deal being the quintessential US example—seemed to just maybe be at hand. The struggle for a more progressive social contract continues. million children out of poverty. Paid family leave?

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. EHRP is part of the dystopian social safety net.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Volunteerism Volunteerism 113

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

3 As a result of this shift toward the financialization of the social safety net, household debt has become a key vector of economic, gender, and racial inequality in today’s asset economy. Together, debtors can wield leverage over the economic and political systems not only to abolish debts but also to demand reparative public goods.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Medical Public and Nonprofit Management 130

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2024

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. How many seasonal celebrations were deferred, and social connections interrupted or never even made?

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Sociology Health Medical 134

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

Image credit: Garry Knight “What policy initiatives would I create if I could?” Of course, I hardly expect my preferred policies to be adopted wholesale. As we approach the Fourth of July, I want to propose a policy agenda that will strengthen democracy and give a fair shake to all. But being future-oriented is important.

Public and Social Policy 67

Public and Social Policy Law Children Nonprofit Administration and Development 67

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

And, over time, the for-profit corporation has occupied more and more social space; its tentacles reach into politics , our economy , our daily life , and—perhaps most insidiously—our culture and ideas. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 133

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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 142

Children Poverty Law Public and Social Policy 142

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Data controls involve technical measures like encryption and organizational policies to protect data integrity and security. What follows is a regrettable event in medical research related to this topic. Medical data are particularly valuable, presenting challenges and opportunities for minoritized communities.

Race and Ethnicity 69

Race and Ethnicity Health Ethics Public and Social Policy 69

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 16, 2025

Image credit: Alexandria City Public Schools via Wikimedia Commons In March, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14242 seeking to eliminate the US Department of Education. Some families have been forced to send their children to school far from their home communities.” “We Nationwide, an estimated 7.5

Children 102

Children Public and Social Policy Education Education 102

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: Ron Lach on pexels.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 141

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 141

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Cori Bush (D-MO) have signed on to a resolution calling for a ceasefire , while others, including the president himself, have suggested a “pause” to the bombing, either to deliver food, water, and medical supplies or to remove hostages.

Governance 143

Governance Public and Social Policy Food Medical 143