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. million students, have been particularly affected.

Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 20, 2025

Some of you are cautious of making public statements, worried political backlash could freeze assets, as has already happened to others. Yet for civil society, this restraint feels indistinguishable from abandonment. We Are in This Together The abrupt foreign aid freeze revealed a riftnot one of values, but of vantage.

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

One major strategy to counter this fear lies in massive collaboration, a coming together of individuals, groups, and organizations at unprecedented scale to exert major influence on political and social events. Forms of Combined Power Mass mobilization to combat authoritarianism and demand social responsibility dates back millennia.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2025

Democracy needs us to maintain relationships with people who think differently—not to abandon our values, but to keep our thinking grounded in a complex reality that none of us can fully see alone. In a more modern sense, social capital consists of the benefits an individual or group can gain through their connections.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 23, 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. share comment print order reprints related stories By Daniela Papi-Thornton Jun.

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

JUNE 10, 2025

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Others may support public institutions like local PTAs and Friends of the Library chapters.

Civil Society

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

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

The Schott Foundation for Public Education accurately describes the familiar pattern as boom-and-bust cycles of funding whenever a big election is looming. Focusing on turnout is limiting; you are not building deep bonds of connection based on shared values. confirms the value of this approach. There are precedents to build on.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

the time of publication, 394 organizations have signed the statement since the initial call. The order tasks departments to identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large non-profit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of 500 million dollars or more.

Foundations

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 16, 2025

My social media feeds were full of images of empty streets and abandoned street vendor carts. A City Rises: The Value of Street Vendors in Los Angeles If you’re not from Los Angeles, you may think of us as atomized drivers negotiating a forest of highways. But what’s taking place in Los Angeles has broader implications as well.

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. Nonprofits are reeling, with many reporting fear of government reprisal and/or public or private backlash for addressing politically sensitive issues.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

These shifts have introduced uncertainty for organizations committed to equity, as they put funding, legal standing and public perception in flux. Nonprofits frequently want to know how to navigate these complex and challenging scenarios while maintaining their core values. What are their social identity markers?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

That means that questions surrounding the legitimacy of philanthropy—what value it provides to the public, how responsive it is to the public’s needs, and how it aligns with democratic norms and institutions—must sit at the center of its response to the moment. But what that absence would mean needs to be communicated.

Civil Society

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

These shifts have introduced uncertainty for organizations committed to equity, as they put funding, legal standing and public perception in flux. Nonprofits frequently want to know how to navigate these complex and challenging scenarios while maintaining their core values. What are their social identity markers?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 4, 2025

Credit: Madison Oren on Unsplash “Civil society”—a term that, while common in much of the world, is less commonly used in the United States—has been cropping up everywhere lately. But what is “civil society” exactly? One way to wrap one’s head around what civil society is is to examine what it does.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even where there is overall economic growth, continued concentration of ownership prevents ordinary working people, and marginalized communities in particular, from reaping the benefits of their contributions, reinforcing power imbalances and social inequalities. million dairy farmers who own the business.

Governance

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. At Vital Strategies, we consider our global diversity to be our strength, and a powerful asset in our mission to reimagine public health for everyone.

Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

What little optimism remains to tackle such complex challenges is mostly placed in supranational schemes, such as the COP climate change conferences, or transformational national policy, such as the Green New Deal in the US. ” Scaling up social innovation takes time, but there are also varying ways it can be done.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

If this disregard for people and our planet is fraying the fabric of our society and our democracy, it’s more than a moral issue: it is a historic opportunity for corporations to re-envision their purpose, their guardrails, and the value they deliver to all stakeholders—workers, customers, communities, shareholders, and our planet alike.

Public and Social Policy

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. And where is the African value system of this constitution and the rule of law?…If

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They aspire to be the vanguard—titans behind the policies, reforms, and decisions that will build our collective tomorrow. Young people must be seen not only as beneficiaries, but as key partners in the design of policies and programs. Young people are not satisfied by simply being heard.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Donors should have the freedom to support causes they believe in without fear of retribution, harassment, or social pressure. A Shield Against Harassment and Discrimination: Public disclosure of donor lists can expose individuals to unwelcome attention, threats, and even discrimination.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Naming gifts provide donors with reputational and market value , what legal scholar William Drennan refers to as “ publicity rights ,” and beneficiary organizations and their constituents with financial and mission-driven value. Yet over time, perpetual naming gifts for facilities may prove detrimental to future generations.

Ethics

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy. For instance, the Crux Alliance—a network of six policy expert NGOs—was founded on the premise that getting the details of climate policy right is essential to real-world carbon reductions.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Book cover by Oxford University Press In his new book People, Power, Change, author-activist Marshall Ganz writes about the art and science of organizing and social change. Effective public voice arising from commitment to common purpose—a political process—has become rare indeed. Public voice grows quite faint.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Three big social changes would be necessary for such a path, and each one of them is a tall order. These three social changes are possible, even if very unlikely to happen without a coordinated effort. Alas, this more hopeful path is not where we are heading. The tech sector can change, too.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

“We do think that anybody that dedicates their life in civil society should be able to take care of their monthly financial needs… Twenty-two percent of 13.9 What’s more, says Watkins, the findings suggest that the nonprofit sector is, in many cases, operating in contradiction to widely held values of labor justice and equity.

Poverty

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

Indeed, these digital technologies would enable people to transcend the geographic boundaries that constrained their ability to pursue the lives they valued, enabling them to acquire more social, economic, and political power. However, current reality is miles apart from that vision.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Independent Sector is a broad cross-sectoral national membership organization that includes nonprofits, private foundations, and corporate giving programs with a mission to strengthen civil society. The nonprofit sector is hugely important both economically and socially to this country. We are really excited about this.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. JH: And I just want to say quickly, I don’t want to make a value judgment about that.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 25, 2025

Advancements are being driven by profit motives rather than a vision for public good.” Le also pointed to recent survey findings showing public support for more governance in AI, stating, “Constituents are deeply concerned about AI, including privacy, data, workforce, and society cohesion concerns.”

Governance

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.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

With all this in mind, academics and policy makers have called for the international community to prioritize debt-for-climate swaps, an initiative through which a nation’s debt is forgiven in exchange for investment in climate change adaptation and mitigation, thereby addressing both crises at once.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

As policy makers struggle to respond to the unfolding human catastrophe, they have increasingly turned to the possibilities offered by technology, and data in particular. It applies to various regions, populations, and fields, ranging from public health and education to urban mobility. What Is a Social License?

Public and Social Policy