NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It’s the pooling and sharing of resources—knowledge, expertise, relationships, money—that create the conditions for worker-led and community-owned enterprises to move the needle on issues plaguing our neighborhoods and to advance economic, environmental, and racial justice. It became both our business home and our social home,” he recalls. “It

Non-Profits 137

Non-Profits Food Environmental Associations 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 5, 2023

From displacement and poverty to illness and environmental degradation, the urgent challenges facing the world today call for innovative approaches that combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear understanding of the problems and a firm footing in communities. ”—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2019.

Collaborations 144

Collaborations Technology Culture Governance 144

Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But community and labor leaders, housing and other advocacy groups, and environmental justice organizations are fighting back. The Bay Area Power Building Funder Table has brought foundations together to share best practices and take on collaborative projects. A trust-based dynamic between power-building organizations and funders.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Foundations Poverty Environmental 105

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2023

During the pandemic, economic inequity and social and environmental injustice became hypervisible. The world became interested in what marginalized people knew about their own survival and paused to consider the cost of racism and environmental destruction as those two forces intersect and conspire with extractive economic systems.

Culture 128

Culture Retail Community Development Environmental 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. The expanded (but now expired) child tax credits alone cut childhood poverty by 30 percent in only six months. This work is urgent.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Harmful assumptions about payment behavior effectively criminalizes poverty and understates the harm that water shutoffs cause to low-income communities. More importantly, it sparked conversations and collaboration. Contamination often drives up treatment and therefore service costs and is a pervasive environmental justice issue.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Universities 140

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. Supported by five national foundations— JPB , Knight , Kresge , Rockefeller , and William Penn —each city received $4 million from the funder collaborative. The city’s Black business district was devastated.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

While 501(c)(3) nonprofits serve as cornerstones of positive change, addressing critical issues ranging from poverty and hunger to healthcare and environmental protection, their impact can be significantly amplified by stepping beyond direct service delivery. Is your mission to promote environmental sustainability?

Public Policy 72

Public Policy Environmental Education Education 72

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

Disability, poverty, and discrimination are part of a cycle where each reinforces the others. The global surge in recognizing and embracing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance practices has become a driving force for businesses to invest in people with disabilities worldwide.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Technology 119

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 23, 2020

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Oxfam : To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

Poverty 94

Poverty Public and Nonprofit Management Health Children 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

From equitable policies and low-carbon infrastructure to values like collaboration and fairness, we need deep shifts, and we need them soon. The project multisolves for goals in patient care, community care, and environmental care. We often hear the sentiment, “I already work on poverty (or climate or health disparities, etc.)

Energy 143

Energy Health Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 143

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. But the new infrastructure brought environmental benefits, too.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 130

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. Geography and co-location are essential when it comes to developing collaboration, partnerships, and support in an entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Social Entrepreneurship 128

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the early days of the pandemic, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation , whose mission is to help people and places move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice, recognized the devastation COVID-19 would bring to their grantee communities. Their approach to grantmaking and strategy is very community-based.

Philanthropy 131

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 131

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The poverty rate is 52.4 The intentional integration of cultural narrative, strategic reinvestment, and community ownership is the most viable and maybe the only path forward to create both social and environmental impact. But today,100 years later, the same neighborhood looks very different.

Culture 122

Culture Poverty Governance Finance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nonprofits would be trusted to hire the right consultants and form partnerships that are collaborative and generative toward their racial and economic justice goals.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

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. This history is important.

Construction 111

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Additionally, Duranti-Martinez points out, “Community ownership also means that the people most impacted by racial, economic, and environmental injustice have meaningful decision-making power over development” (7). percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Purchasing land was, in a sense, the easiest step.

Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 3, 2024

Lesley-Ann Noel is using her design skills to tackle real-world problems like homelessness and environmental sustainability. Accordingly, Noel uses critical epistemologies, anti-hegemonic lenses, and collaborative research methods that honor the perspectives of those traditionally excluded or marginalized within design practices.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Children Education Education 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.” Once the cooperative was set up with support from civil society 10 years ago, the collective progress has become visceral.

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The American Farmland Trust protects agricultural land, promotes environmentally sound farming practices, and helps farmers continue to grow food for us all. Kiss the Ground is committed to educating the public about the environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture. Environmental. Agriculture. American Farmland Trust.

Children 105

Children Nonprofits Environmental Agriculture 105

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Corporate Social Responsibility⁠—also known as CSR⁠—is a business practice in which companies take accountability for the social, environmental, and economic impacts of their operations. What is corporate social responsibility? Learn more about the corporate partnership here. Learn more about the corporate partnership here.

Volunteerism 52

Volunteerism Volunteerism Disaster Relief Food 52

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If your nonprofit has an environmental focus, nature photos can also be captivating. For example, check out this video for Village Enterprise , a nonprofit devoted to ending extreme poverty in rural Africa: The video shows the story of Margaret, a small business owner, told through the perspective of Margaret’s grandchild.

Poverty 52

Poverty Environmental Nonprofits Education 52

Nonprofit Megaphone

APRIL 7, 2023

Whether it’s through social services, environmental conservation, or advocacy for marginalized communities, nonprofits are at the forefront of creating a better future for all. Measuring impact can also help nonprofits to identify areas where they can collaborate with other organizations to achieve their goals.

Collaborations 52

Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Foundations 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

And we knew that poverty and racism were deeply entrenched, and that takes more than three years. We would hope and expect that nonprofits are reducing poverty and reducing inequality. It’s a collaborative facilitation and consulting firm. I think it was around environmental change. We wouldn’t expect that, right?

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

Their experiences show how the interdependencies of the SDGs come to life at the local level: Ending homelessness requires addressing issues of poverty, mental and physical health, quality employment, environmental justice, and climate change—in addition to safe and affordable housing.

Collaborations 105

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 105

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. All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

14 In regions of Africa and South Asia, climate disasters such as floods and droughts increase poverty and food insecurity, prompting families to marry off their daughters at a young age as a survival strategy. That’s why I’m working with UNICEF Morocco to push for environmental education that speaks to our realities,” she said.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Environmental Education Education 132

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Every day, after educating them about the dangers of lead poisoning, I sent families back to homes full of lead paint, because at the time, our public health response did not include necessary environmental changes, like home repairs. Connecticut and Delaware have also created similar community-rooted collaboratives.

Health 124

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 124

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 110

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Race and Ethnicity Energy 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Movement collaboratives such as the EDP are highlighting the contradictions of private ownership, 29 while organizations such as Our Power, in Maine, Public Power NY, and Reclaim Our Power!, 27 Building on this research, Amitav Ghosh, in his book The Nutmeg’s Curse , notes that renewables are more inherently democratic. See also Deborah A.

Energy 121

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 121

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. Contacts and collaborative opportunities.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

. ­­ A 1983 US government study documenting the placement of hazardous waste landfills in low-income and Black communities was one of the first studies to highlight the intersection of environmental issues and racial inequity. In this period, surface temperatures across the United States have increased by a relative average of 1.2

Energy 111

Energy Finance Environmental Food 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment. 7 It provided environmental protections and ecological restoration pathways to address the human-caused damage, destruction, and degradation of ecosystems by extractive industries.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 133

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 15, 2023

Together with the communities we serve, those of us who work in social change witness the daily realities of poverty, injustice, violence, marginalization, and climate destruction. Meanwhile, the field of social change and innovation is engaged with the greatest challenges of our time—our collective pain.

Health 122

Health Culture Collaborations Poverty 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

For example, foregrounds the experiences of communities of color in the environmental justice movement. The climate cafes help to build a sense of community by enabling participants to share struggles and partake in environmental joy, translating into a community directly engaging in climate action.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Health Environmental Psychology 98

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. TLC’s theory of change requires transformation on four levels: individual , organizational , collaborative , and ecosystemic.

Leadership 111

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 111