Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 23, 2025

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.

Participation and motivation

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Image Credit: photos by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash, Anzhela Bets on Unsplash , Henry Wilkins via VOA, and Steve Sandford via VOA “Civil society is being tested like never before by a series of multiple and accelerating crises” (4). Threats to US Civil Society These threats to civil society include the United States.

Civil Society

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. That contractor doing environmental restoration?

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

In January 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) suspended federal funding for foreign aid; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; and environmental programs under Trumps anti-DEI executive order. Many of these organizations depend heavily on federal funding. There is no clear guidance.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 12, 2025

But just as environmental policy can protect bees, public policy can support volunteers. Ensure volunteers don’t replace union government workers. These policies…offer a framework to protect volunteers, protect nonprofits, and…enable the creation of more nonprofit volunteer opportunities. That said, not all public policy is helpful.

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 25, 2025

In the face of a relentless effort to dismantle the federal government from within, a new movement is taking shape—led not by politicians or pundits but by federal workers themselves. The network spans dozens of federal agencies—from veterans’ services to environmental protection, from public health to infrastructure.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 22, 2025

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

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Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 15, 2025

Some people focus on political institutions , such as federal courts or opposition-led state governments, to act as bulwarks against autocracy. Yet civil society can be an unwieldy concept. So, how exactly can civil society protect Americans from authoritarianism?

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits (NCN) calls these efforts a coordinated assault on civil society and democracy. Much of this funding comes in the form of government grants or contracts for nonprofits providing vital services and programs essential to preserving the safety net in their communities.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

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Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 29, 2023

Image Credit: Josiah S on istock.com Founded in March 2009, the Oath Keepers are an anti-government far-right militia group comprising former law enforcement, first responders, and former military who pledge to defend the United States against government tyranny at all costs.

Governance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Constant downward pressure on price and inequitable distribution of value results in high social and environmental costs for farmers that consumers and investors rarely see.

Agriculture

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 11, 2023

Twenty-five percent of the entire Amazon Basin is on legally recognized Indigenous Territories, which are generally better protected than even government parks and reserves. Even less support has reached rightsholder women , despite the essential role of women in forest management and their exclusion from many governance structures.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

It’s time to work shoulder-to-shoulder with civil society and government to do the big, urgent work that no sector can accomplish alone, to adopt entirely new systems of operating that enable all people to thrive and reach their full potential and protect our natural environment.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Once the cooperative was set up with support from civil society 10 years ago, the collective progress has become visceral. Today, Amul has more than 16 million milk producers and 185,903 dairy cooperative societies making India the world’s largest milk producer.

Food

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These volunteers—numbering nationwide in the tens of thousands—represent a form of civil resistance and autonomy, seeking to protect the ancestral way of life and Indigenous territory from violence and environmental destruction. According to reports , Guard members happened at one point to come across a tortoise.

Children

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

Governments representing deeply indebted nations are often unable to invest in health care, education, and other services, which, in turn, threatens their very political survival. For instance, some governments may perceive the imposition of environmental commitments as an infringement on their sovereignty.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Access to news is key to an engaged civil society, and without it, social worlds shrink and become suffused with disinformation and bias. Mainstream media sometimes offers the kind of investigative reporting that exposes bad corporate actors and sheds light on the power structures governing politics and the economy.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

Consider just five recent awardees in sub-Saharan Africa with budgets of less than $300,000: Pathways Policy Institute , based in Nairobi, Kenya, works to create safe spaces for youth advocates and communities to both engage with and influence public health and environmental policies through research, training, and capacity strengthening.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Using market mechanisms, many social entrepreneurs have followed the example of Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank to set up enterprises with a main objective of tackling social or environmental issues. We believe these links would create alternative ways for promoting social enterprises in this layer of society.

Social Entrepreneurship

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Ecological destruction and historic inequalities stem from much more than moral failings, government inaction, lack of knowledge, or elite interests. In some locations, solidarity economy is institutionalized and recognized by the state but in others involves civil society and informal practices. Walsh, C and Mignolo, W.

Non-Profits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Under his watch, the company was fined $18 million in 2009 for environmental pollution in Rhode Island where Brown is located. and Cambodian governments to repatriate over 30 ancient Khmer sculptures in their possession after a years-long investigation into looted artifacts from the country.

Ethics

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By Tim Hanstad To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed ; “Only government has the capacity to address social and environmental problems on a national scale.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Its roots lie in the environmental justice movement in the United States, where, in the 1990s, activists called out the disproportionate impact of pollutants on Black communities in North Carolina. It has also highlighted human and environmental interconnectedness and galvanized large-scale, rapid collective action to respond and recover.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

This was a moment of reckoning within the climate movement: environmental justice advocates were rightfully mad at the ultimate outcomes done behind closed doors at the last minute, and other folks who are far more focused on carbon reduction were lauding the bill. It’s all carrots, very few sticks.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

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.

Collaborations

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A report issued by the Atlantic Economic Council in February 2024 says the company can survive the net-zero transition, but only with government aid. The moratorium was partially lifted in 2019 by what was then a new provincial government. The company that owns the refinery, Irving Oil, is facing a precarious future.

Energy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 1, 2024

In 1990, governments around the world, with the leadership of the United States, began a 13-year effort to map human DNA through the Human Genome Project (HGP). Governments agreed that all DNA sequence data be released in publicly accessible databases within 24 hours after generation.

Collaborations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

Trust in institutions is necessary to create and improve the social contracts that govern democracy and allow communities and the nation to strike sustainable civic bargains. It is earned person by person, moving through large segments of society. American civil society institutions have an important role to play.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 11, 2024

They warn that strategic philanthropy is dangerous because “it diverts attention from fundamental reforms less palatable to wealthy donors and from the fact that government and corporate behavior are responsible for the ills of society.” We know of no foundation—even the largest—that thinks it replaces government.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

4 But considered more broadly, corporate capture extends far beyond the capture of a few government agencies; indeed, over time, it has developed a stranglehold on our economy and life. 7 And it is true that a rising authoritarian tide threatens civil liberties and democratic institutions like Congress.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The administration has signaled its intention to defund diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); climate change and environmental justice; gender ideology extremism; Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies; and more. Some nonprofits have chosen self-censorship. And so, we need to be ready.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 14, 2025

In short, ordinary people continue to face government oversight; large corporations and the wealthy, in an age where tax evasion costs the national treasury $1 trillion a year , according to a recent Internal Revenue Service commissioner, not so much. In 2020, US civil society rose up and defeated the first Trump administration.

Public and Social Policy