Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Climate change as an undesirable side-effect of the fantastic innovation of using fossil fuels for energy is an example. The problem has gotten worse.”

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139

The Agitator

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Social networks are effective at increasing participation —by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world.

Participation and motivation 63

Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Activism Energy 63

EveryAction

JULY 18, 2018

By doing so, you’ll avoid the extra time and energy required to redo this work and ensure your forward-facing messaging about your organization is consistent. You're in luck - not only do these supporters already give their energy and/or resources to your organization, they also probably have a great reason for doing so.

Fundraising 107

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits Foundations 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 19, 2023

By Elikem Tomety Archer & Jessica Harrington In 2017, as part of her participation in the youth leadership program Global Citizen Year , Dora—an 18-year-old from Huntington Beach, California—spent seven months in Thiadiaye, Senegal. But this often presumes that the participant has power that the community lacks.

Leadership 124

Leadership Participation and motivation Collaborations Health 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 20, 2023

The reasons range from inertia (“we’ve always done it this way”) to questionable motivations (perhaps that employee wellness program isn't actually designed with employee wellness as its primary goal). It would be harder to motivate people and sustain a strong culture if that were not the case.

Culture 111

Culture Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation 111

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. We’ve got almost 100% participation and it looks like it’s a tie. So what does it look like?

Participation and motivation 81

Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Values Activism 81

Fundraising Leadership

MAY 27, 2024

I’m a big fan of walking meetings, and we had a purpose for this one: to talk about partnering to make the new WeRule mentoring app available to Take The Lead participants. Because in toys as in life, there is enough for everyone when we collaborate, when we work together to achieve our mission. Plan to join us in Washington DC.

Curriculum and Teaching 52

Curriculum and Teaching Children Participation and motivation Leadership 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Can donors participate in building, feeding, clothing, digging, writing, driving, or anything else you do? There is nothing wrong with this motivation. Get creative. Touch the work.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Activism Education 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Logan and her collaborators offer a model of birth care that World Health Organization data show reduces disparities and results in safe, full-term birth and healthy birthweight, care that sets a healthy trajectory for future generations. Those working on environmental issues can trace trauma to human separation from the natural world.

Participation and motivation 134

Participation and motivation Health Culture Environmental 134

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Participation is the path to learning. And I wanted to say one more thing, which is that I am generally when I do teaching and training, I am always paying attention to the expressions on participant’s faces. Where are we not putting our energy? And lastly, energy. . How you can benefit the most? It’s great.

Nonprofit governance and management 124

Nonprofit governance and management Energy Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management 124

Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 7, 2021

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Can donors participate in building, feeding, clothing, digging, writing, driving, or anything else you do? There is nothing wrong with this motivation. Get creative. Touch the work.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Education Education 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The movement is motivated by the belief system that harm has been done that warrants repair and healing is necessary to prevent the drivers of our inequity from being repeated. “My My question for philanthropy: can you support us in healing?”

Philanthropy 145

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Culture Foundations 145

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. 7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives.

Energy 90

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 90

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

2 Democracy is not just a system of political practices; it must be applied to participation and decision-making in all aspects of our economic lives as well. 11 Second, many of our efforts also failed to center workers’ full identities, underestimating the motivations that lead them to risk their livelihoods to organize.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 94

Nonprofit Fixer

JULY 23, 2020

Remember, we started our nonprofits to solve problems, not to spend all our energy proving our worth and asking “how high” when funders tell us to jump. People are motivated by goals. Does your team now use collaboration or project management software that has made you more efficient? Most organizations are tortoises, not hares.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Nonprofit governance and management 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?

Public and Social Policy 78

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 78