Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

By John Palfrey Nonprofits are facing a crisis, and many in the charitable sector are fearful. As government funding for social good is slashed, even if temporarily, it will have waterfall effects for years to come. Many nonprofits have already gone underwater and more will. billion for science in 2022.”

Collaborations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. The integration of these values has led to transformative changes in many nafda schools.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

So, Beautiful Solutions was, right from the beginning, designed to be learning from anywhere in the world where people were growing democratic economies and governance. RP: A big one for this moment is how to relate to government and state power. We are trying to shift the values at the heart of how we do economy and governance.

Governance

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

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. Chloe Mankin is program management specialist at TechSoup.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

This order is a potential 5-alarm fire for nonprofits and the people and communities they serve. Federal grants make up about a third of nonprofit funding through direct grants, state pass-throughs, and other mechanisms for everything from scientific research to education to arts and culture to critical services for children and families.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 10, 2025

A widely circulated statistic is that there are more than a million nonprofits in the United States—a statistic that sparks both appreciation and dismay. But did you know that 69 percent of nonprofits—nearly seven in 10—have budgets of less than $50,000? That means that most of these nonprofits are all-volunteer organizations (AVOs).

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 1, 2025

Image Credit: Photo by Elissa Garcia on Unsplash AmeriCorps , an independent federal agency with a $1 billion budget that places over 200,000 people in intensive service roles each year, typically with host nonprofits, was formally established in 1993. For 30 years, it was a firmly bipartisan program. Now much of this work is at risk.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Trump has also declared , It will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. Many trans people are even learning how to manage HRT independently. Major nonprofits are going to have to come to terms with the fact that Democrats are now also fair game for criticism.

Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash Since Donald Trumps inauguration, his administration has escalated efforts against marginalized communities and the nonprofits that serve them. While a federal judge blocked the order and the OMB later withdrew its memo, the disruption has already destabilized nonprofit operations nationwide.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 12, 2025

These policies…offer a framework to protect volunteers, protect nonprofits, and…enable the creation of more nonprofit volunteer opportunities. Ensure volunteers don’t replace union government workers. Over time, phase in requirements for nonprofits. That said, not all public policy is helpful.

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 24, 2025

Image Credit: Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash On April 8, the Supreme Court issued a 7-2 decision in Office of Personnel Management v. American Federation of Government Employees to pause a lower courts order to rehire fired federal workers.

Nonprofit governance and management

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 Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Credit: Photo by Jay Soundo on Unsplash Nonprofits are reeling, with many reporting fear of government reprisal and/or public or private backlash for addressing politically sensitive issues. Fear of government retaliation a widespread concern. Theres been what I call this chilling effect.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Image Credit: The White House from Washington, DC A coalition of nonprofits suing the White House over an attempted freeze of federal grants and loans says that the administrations subsequent rescinding of the freeze was in fact a bait and switch maneuvermeant to circumvent the court while still enforcing the funding freeze.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 25, 2025

Not only is this where the largest share of undocumented immigrants in the United States come from, but its where millions of migrants from Latin Americaand beyondcould end up stuck, if Trump manages to further seal the border. Sheinbaum also announced that she would increase the budgets of government immigration agencies by 500 percent.

Civil Society

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

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Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

Theyre all nonprofits. To say that many nonprofits would cease to exist without [federal] funding is putting it mildly. Recent executive orders by the Trump administration are touching off fear and uncertainty among nonprofits in Providence and other cities across the country. And theyre under attack.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 24, 2025

For more than 50 years, our program at Drexel University in Philadelphia has helped train thousands of students for careers in arts management, fundraising, community engagement, and cultural planning. Artists should be embedded in government agencies to make them function better. And yet, I have a confession to make.

Foundations

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

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Nonprofit Administration and Development

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Maybe you relied on your database manager, digital fundraising specialist, or volunteer coordinator. 88% of nonprofits have budgets under $500,000. .” 88% of nonprofits have budgets under $500,000. Yet all of these strategies are fundamentally important if you want to be a successful fundraiser. Why is this important?

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 7, 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 Quarterly

AUGUST 5, 2025

To learn more, NPQ spoke with representatives of a number of migrant justice nonprofit groups. government tried to avoid irregular crossings by using this pre-screening process and make anyone who didn’t, automatically ineligible for asylum. Still, community efforts cannot replace government obligations. “I What Was CBP One?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 4, 2025

The Oversight Project, once an initiative of the Heritage Foundation and now its own 501c4 entity, is best known for using public records requests and legal action to target what it unilaterally deems to be government overreach or misconduct. Thus, professors are not required to share them in response to public records requests.

Universities

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to The Generosity Commission, they instead are complex actions that go straight to the core of civil society and democracy, which includes declining trust of institutions and neighbors and social isolation. Hodder told The NonProfit Times. “At Even our presidential race this year, nobody talks about it.”

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 25, 2025

So say various legal experts, executives, and nonprofit leaders who spoke with NPQ about the future of “AI governance” and the critical role nonprofits and advocacy groups can and must play to ensure AI reflects equity, and not exclusion. Advancements are being driven by profit motives rather than a vision for public good.”

Governance

Philanthropy 2173

OCTOBER 9, 2020

I am delighted to be speaking in a master class for Columbia University's Nonprofit Management Masters Program. In so doing, we have enclosed civil society within the bounds of the marketplace and public sector, obliterating any meaningful sense of an independent sector. You can sign up directly here -

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These laws, purportedly designed as a check on foreign interference, limit civil society organizations and restrict democratic practice by cutting off funding from foundations to movement organizations. A Government of National Unity As a response to the dwindling support, the ANC agreed to form a coalition government.

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Making more robust use of open 990 data requires that nonprofits, foundations, researchers, and the IRS and federal government alike commit to sustained action.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The same goes for skills related to group decision-making, managing internal conflict, or holding one another accountable—the most basic democratic practices. This in turn has enabled a “philanthropic” colonization of the civil society within which people-based politics and social movements had been rooted.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Consider Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (and leader of Bangladesh’s interim government ), who brought the idea for lending to the poor to mainstream banks in the early 1980s.The banks challenged Yunus to prove it could work, and he did —first in one town, then five. Why Employee Ownership So, what is employee ownership?

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Did you know that a handful of billionaires and asset managers have been buying up local newspapers, magazines, and TV stations? Access to news is key to an engaged civil society, and without it, social worlds shrink and become suffused with disinformation and bias.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Thirty people attended, including managers and members of an academic gender committee we were on. The majority of these students are women and the first in their families to access higher education.

Nonprofit governance and management

Philanthropy 2173

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Alt Headline: Thoughts on Non-public digital infrastructure for civil society. A lot of giving happens on software from Facebook or GoFundMe, nonprofits use a variety of corporate systems for managing their donations, and people use Venmo/Paypal etc. Got a Nonprofit Status Revocation Notice? Thoughts?

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 13, 2023

They might take the shape of a declared commitment to building capabilities of funded partners, a statement of the intent to partner and support locally led organizations, or simply a set of beliefs that govern ways of collaborating. Ultimately partnerships are human relationships, and entities need to expect missteps.

Collaborations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

At this uncertain time, as the potential use-cases of generative AI begin to become apparent, there are at least 10 things that funders can do to help the existing field of tech-related nonprofits—and society at large—better prepare. Understanding, and developing guidelines and guardrails for, government use of AI.

Civil Society