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 debtors, there may be political resistance, a lack of public support, or concerns about unintended consequences or trade-offs.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance Civil Society 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Rajat Panwar , Theresa Lieb , Sarah Federman & Matthew Betts The landscape of corporate environmental responsibility is evolving beyond a focus on climate issues to more holistically account for nature-related risks, such as biodiversity loss.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. There are communities like hers all over America. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

Health 111

Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

By Stephan Manning & Yeşim Uygur Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the socioeconomic structures around them. Indeed, they can play a vital role in community change.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

Collaborations 117

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 117

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 107

Civil Society Environmental Governance Public and Social Policy 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

This is not a theory but a fact, affirmed by leading experts like the Edelman Trust Barometer , Gallup , and General Social Survey by NORC at the University of Chicago. It erodes a high-functioning pluralistic democracy , compromises public health, and makes it impossible to solve collective problems like climate change.

Civil Society 131

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Health Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Image credit: Michael on Unsplash A popular area of applied behavioral science, nudges are frequently deployed within public health and healthcare systems to influence people’s choices. These environmental cues are a relatively simple and cost-effective approach to nudging. But can people be nudged into better health?

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Health Ethics 52

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2024

Research Is Advancing Maternal Mental Healthcare In April of 2024, a seminal public health journal, Health Affairs, issued a special edition on perinatal mental health and wellbeing and conducted a related briefing. At its extreme, the mental strife some mothers encounter can lead to substance use disorder, suicide, and infanticide.

Health 85

Health Healthcare Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy 85

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If environmental outcomes can become assets, why can’t social outcomes? Social impact, totaling $72.05 trillion in terms of government social spend, philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management could be considered the world’s largest financial market today.

Marketing 79

Marketing Marketing Public and Social Policy Governance 79

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Public entities with unique governmental powers, land banks acquire vacant, tax-delinquent properties that are causing harm , improve them, then dispose of the properties to support community goals. Local government wins because properties are back in productive use, generating taxes. Image Credit: Savvas Stavrinos on pexels.com.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Governance Community Development Agriculture 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Often portrayed in Western feminist literature as the disempowered, the excluded, and needing rescue, India in fact continues to be reinvented by the heads, hands, and hearts of her women—from farmers, to craftswomen, to political leaders, to social reformers. The world’s largest cooperative dairy is also in India.

Food 107

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 107

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

And the battle with the state over Tribal sovereignty and our rights has always been recognized by the federal government; it’s only the state government that’s not recognizing our sovereignty. So our land, our languages, our kinship systems, our governances were forced out of us.” CS: Thank you.

Nonprofit governance and management 90

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 90

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

The most pernicious one is the narrative regarding small, locally led organizations and our low expectations of them (which is not exclusive to the social change space). As a collaborative effort with multiple funding partners , we have regular conversations with foundations from across the globe.

Civil Society 97

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Food 97

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 27, 2022

These huge organizations, apart from making big profits by advertising and selling their product, these companies also work on social and environmental issues that are occurring in the world. Nowadays, marketing is considered to be the court of social, environmental, public, and global concerns.

Marketing 52

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit governance and management Manufacturing 52

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

Leadership 100

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If families reflect deeply in this moment on their philanthropic purpose, pace, power, and practices, and carefully choose their future path in this rapidly changing world, they will not only expand their impact but can fundamentally change the norms of our entire sector and help catalyze broader social transformation. Many already are.

Philanthropy 119

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 119

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. Staff the organization’s social media account inboxes and repeat the above. Be Informed. Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials.

Fundraising 137

Fundraising Fundraising Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 137

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

In today’s tumultuous climate—global political turmoil; emboldened White supremacists; mass gun violence; environmental degradation; pandemics; lack of access to quality, affordable healthcare; and counting—we need leadership that can grapple with the challenges. Movement work is not simply intersectional—it’s chockablock.

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Recruitment Culture 88

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 16, 2023

And it´s not happenstance who lives in these communities; it’s often the result of structural racism and economic forces like gentrification and displacement that drives those with fewer resources into places with less social and physical infrastructure to support better health. The same is true when it comes to climate action.

Health 79

Health Public and Social Policy Energy Collaborations 79

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The CLIMA Fund , a collaboration across four public foundations supporting tens of thousands of grassroots groups advancing climate justice solutions, has learned a lot about the diverse and powerful ways grassroots movements create scaled impact. Relationships. Relationships and connectivity are the lifeblood of movement building.

Agriculture 116

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Energy Governance 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Jess Daggers , Alex Hannant & Jason Jay In the face of complex social and environmental challenges, our best efforts often only address a symptom, rather than root causes, even as unintended consequences create new problems. Investors who think about social change tend to be rooted in a linear, reductionist form of logic.

Finance 121

Finance Public and Social Policy Environmental Food 121

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2023

They’ve supported the critical climate justice work of various BIPOC-led organizations, including the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and Partnership for Southern Equity. Wright, DSCEJ is trying to create a future where everyone has the right to be free from environmental harm. Founded in 1992 by Dr. Beverly L.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Environmental Energy Health 102

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The trauma we carry affects the way we look at the world and ourselves, and therefore plays a role in determining the future course of social systems. Seeing trauma through a systems lens can inform strategies for social change in a multitude of ways.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 137

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A new report from In Our Own Voice , the 2023 National Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda , seeks to answer that question. the authors offer up an “innovative, proactive policy agenda” in collaboration with over 50 Black women’s organizations and advocates to support Black reproductive justice.

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Health Healthcare Governance 99

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

Civil Society 83

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Energy 83

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This includes building transnational activism that links anti-war, anti-militarism, and anti-nuclear work with the efforts of those campaigning for economic justice, environmental protection, open borders and migrant rights, anti-racism and anti-fascism, equality, and police and prison abolition. Decolonizing and Decarcerating Our Minds. …[I]deas

Construction 79

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 79

EveryAction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration.

Nonprofit governance and management 102

Nonprofit governance and management Finance Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 102

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Right now, we are living through escalating crises, both within living ecologies and socially constructed systems. In the process, we empower ourselves to transform the systems that govern our world. This work has the potential to shift our global trajectory away from escalating social and climate chaos.

Food 137

Food Culture Agriculture Health 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure access to safe and affordable housing, to be unhoused— and to live in places that are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 96

Nonprofit Megaphone

APRIL 7, 2023

Nonprofit organizations play an essential role in our society by addressing various social and environmental issues. For instance, if your target audience is young and tech-savvy, you might focus on social media marketing to reach them. That’s where a well-crafted nonprofit marketing plan comes in.

Marketing 52

Marketing Marketing Public and Social Policy Advertising 52

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 95

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 95

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

This has led me to the conclusion that if we want to close the racial wealth gap, we need to get serious about public banking. Public banking could help change these dynamics. Public banking could help change these dynamics. Public banks are not a new concept. How did I come to adopt this position?

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Disaster Relief 128

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. Those are the human services organizations, environmental organizations, organizations focused on justice, hospitals, health organizations.

Nonprofit governance and management 122

Nonprofit governance and management Energy Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members. 7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives.

Energy 85

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 85

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. Advocates are utilizing care ethics to shape policies around gifts designed for public impact.

Ethics 111

Ethics Public and Social Policy Universities Philanthropy 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Governments and funders do not prioritize investing in rural access improvements due to a lack of data to make the case as well as competition from other development projects and a preference for urban investments. But the new infrastructure brought environmental benefits, too.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 115