Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 29, 2025

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc.

Homelessness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Though these violations continue, over the last 10 to 15 years, we have increasingly seen momentum among rightsholders, their allies, and civil society in advocating for rights-based and community-led conservation. Additionally, social innovators are working to build companies understanding of and support for land tenure.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 5, 2025

Their wraparound services help low-income residents pursue higher education degrees or workforce development certifications, setting them on the path to high-demand careers. As Villareal notes, career advisors in higher education often have hundreds of students on their caseload. Villareal said.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 1, 2025

Mentored teenagers building educational dreams denied to their parents. This is our month-long narrative celebration of the unquenchable nonprofit and civil society voices fighting for our democracy—and our future. That is how civilizations heal. We don’t just report on civil society—we help shape it.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

First, I would suggest that we desperately need a campaign to help educate Americans about the value of the nonprofit sector. Whats a Donor (or Concerned Citizen) to Do? What, then, should major donors and foundations do?I I dont have the answers, but I have ideas.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 6, 2025

These permitted activities include lobbying, voter registration, voter education, candidate forums, issue forums, leadership training, and even training people to run for office and to manage political and issue campaigns. Undermining itfor any reason, by any leaderis a threat we cannot and will not ignore.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

I can see how good social and emotional learning could really promote philanthropy long term, said Tish Jennings, a professor of education at the University of Virginia. Ascertaining the breadth and quality of philanthropy education is difficult, partly due to terminology. Education provision also varies between states and districts.

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

Through Elandrias work at Highlander, we did a lot of collaboration with many folks on the education team at Highlander in particular. As Elandria and I moved to Peoples Hub, the kind of commitment to popular education that is also deeply held at Highlander had a new life. Another is tandas or savings circles .Its

Governance

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. Her email is skeating@techsoup.org. Chloe Mankin is program management specialist at TechSoup.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

Their work often starts within civil society—with locally rooted organizations, many led by women and other historically excluded groups who are developing practical, grounded solutions to complex problems. Take Gender Mobile Initiative in Nigeria, which is combating pervasive sexual harassment in higher education.

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

As public discretionary funds used for education, research, arts, and national parks have been cut, private wealth has only increased. To build a strong coalition to defend civil society we need to bridge across differences and find where we have alignment. But we can counter division with unity.

Collaborations

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 14, 2025

First, organizations should put all their existing material under Creative Commons or similar licenses, including reports, educational material, and research. Embracing the Public Domain Nonprofits can take a few simple steps to embrace the public domain.

Culture

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

The unprecedented move, whose legality has already been challenged, could affect trillions of dollars in federal aid to thousands of programs, and threatens to have a catastrophic impact on the US nonprofit sectorand civil society at largeif the funds are successfully halted. Call your elected officials, Ellison added.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

Nonprofits promote economic opportunity, invest in education, foster healthy communities, support scientific research, and protect the rights of vulnerable people. Enlist messengers from business leaders to educators who will amplify the message that supporting charitable work is not a partisan concern. Strength flows from solidarity.

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 23, 2025

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Participation and motivation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 24, 2025

For example, the IRC estimates that for every additional 1,000 children it reaches with education services like remote preschool or accelerated learning programs, costs drop $0.50 But economies of scale matter, and bigger and longer grants can deliver more impact per dollar spent. million) livelihoods program funded by the IKEA Foundation.

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 1, 2025

The nonprofit I direct, the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development is a group of more than two dozen colleges and universities in the greater Philadelphia area that support community-based service-learning partnerships. Now much of this work is at risk. What Can We Do? Honestly, its hard to know what can be done.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Were in a period of polycrisis, yet the business world, government, and civil society persist in their siloed approaches to solving it. Accelerating global challengesfrom political instability and division to climate-related natural disasters and inequalityare roiling nations around the world. So, whats the next step?

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 18, 2025

The Nonprofit Trends and Impacts report further finds, perhaps not surprisingly, that the segments of the nonprofit sector that receive the greatest share of government funding are education (48 percent) and health (43 percent).

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 29, 2025

Image Credit: Kbra Arslaner on Unsplash Across the United States, universities are raising the alarm about what they see as a campaign by the Donald Trump administration to assert political control over higher education. The suppression of academic freedom isnt just campus politicsits a warning signal for civil society and for our democracy.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

It remains unclear whether the institute will pay its pending grants or contracts for fellowships, research, and education on peacebuilding projects. It is another indication of the troubling erosion of the norms and laws that have historically governed the relationship between civil society and the federal government.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2025

As was noted in NPQ back in 2018, FCPRs approach on power, community organization, civil society, and racial equity sets it apart from the more established philanthropic approach focusing on strengthening large, established institutions. REBIA emerged out of this institutional commitment to racial equity.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2025

That belief shapes strategy: Donors invest resources into engagement, inclusion, and turnout rather than centering on political education and ideological development. The Schott Foundation for Public Education accurately describes the familiar pattern as boom-and-bust cycles of funding whenever a big election is looming.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 12, 2025

Workers Compensation Ensure people volunteering for government agencies (disaster relief, hospitals, and so on) are covered by workers’ compensation policies—and allow nonprofits in all states to obtain workers’ compensation coverage for their volunteers.

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 20, 2025

Nonprofits should help educate health systems, local officials, and businesses on the long-term costs of cutting Medicaid—social, economic, and moral.” Shapiro noted that the Republican-backed legislation currently includes cuts not only to healthcare but “cuts in funds for education” and the administration of the Social Security program.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2025

New Funding Sources, Same Mission Today, nonprofits focusing on education, history, and culture are facing increased censorship as their funding comes under attack. Rogers noted that public discourse at that moment included a lot of resistance and opposition to Trumps rhetoric.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 25, 2025

That approach has led us to collaborate with a wide range of civil society networks and unions, and cosponsor rallies that include everything from housing justice to climate groups. Creating one front with the full breadth of the labor movement and civil society, because federal workers can’t win this fight alone.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 22, 2025

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. 2009a; Schlozman and Tierney 1986).

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 15, 2025

This work involves educating members on their rights, so people can proactively advocate for themselves. The other leading categories were immigration and asylum cases, education discrimination, and hate crimes. Often, the best defense is to avoid repression in the first place. This is a very disturbing trend.

Law

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

These cuts have collectively disrupted access to essential services such as education, health care, and livelihoods support for vulnerable communities across the region. Throughout the region, civil society and philanthropy efforts have long operated within various forms of constraint, whether legal, political, or cultural.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

And the maneuver did little to hide the ideology behind it.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

A strong engagement plan should include moments for education, reflection, and feedback. For example, you might delve into issue-based advocacy or provide civic education. Nonprofits can build deeper, longer-lasting relationships with their communities by developing engagement strategies that are active throughout the calendar year.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2025

Congress even fast-tracked HR 9495 last falla law that would have given the US Treasury Department sweeping powers to revoke the tax-exempt status of any organization it arbitrarily chooses to label as terror supporting.Funders can avoid perpetuating harm by proactively educating their boards and donors about the important work these organizations (..)

Philanthropy

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

This response was met with widespread support from a range of civil society. Part of why their response was effective was because it aligned with a value already associated with the university — what could be called one of its “zones of genius”: academic freedom and integrity. setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

For some, a reckoning with these limits called for the need to better educate voters on what was actually being delivered, and as the above discussion suggests, that certainly applies to what might be called “philanthropic deliverism” as well. Make the case for civil society, and for philanthropy’s place within it.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

What do Johnson & Wales University, Head Start, WaterFire, Amos House, and organizations that provide thousands of Providence residents with food, shelter, workforce training, education, and other services have in common? Theyre all nonprofits. And theyre under attack. A RI Food Bank pantry being restocked.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

Defending civil society requires cutting the military budget. Defending civil society requires cutting the military budget. Kaine’s resolution was defeated, which the Trump administration may read as permission to attack again. Moreover, despite rhetoric against “forever wars,” each strike rolls the dice anew.

Civil Society