Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. ” during check-in meetings.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 111

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 6, 2022

That’s why, for a funder collaborative like Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO), racial equity is central to our mission of housing equity. Housing Justice Through Policy, Narrative, and Local Change. Racism is so deeply embedded in this system, in fact, that housing justice and racial justice are inseparable.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Leadership 108

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

MAY 16, 2023

People with disabilities are leading policy change, technology development, and workplace evolution. People of color, immigrants, women, LGBTQIA people, and people with disabilities all experience social inequities that extend to technology and are less likely to be in the room when technology is developed. But space needs to be made.

Technology 110

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meanwhile, the Poor People’s Campaign’s efforts to secure a cut to US military spending calls for an end to systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism and the war economy. Abolishing the War on Terror, Building Communities of Care Grassroots Policy Agenda,” [link]. This history is important.

Construction 77

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 77

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

These structures go beyond the physical infrastructure of poles, wires, and pipes to encompass the culture, laws, institutions, and power structures that shape who gets to live today and who gets to live—and even thrive—in the coming decades. The result is that public funding will largely benefit wealthier households.

Energy 82

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 82

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As those who work with philanthropists committed to improving child and family wellbeing, we add our voices to call for federal action knowing that no amount of private investment to create innovative strategies can replace a stronger federal commitment to public support that makes access to quality child care more equitable.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Children Governance Philanthropy 133

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In reality, more than 70 percent of children in foster care today are in foster care because of what the system calls neglect, which is largely related to poverty issues. That created enough public outrage to lead to [a rule] that said that those unsuitability clauses could no longer be used.

Children 134

Children Poverty Law Public and Social Policy 134

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. Another piece of this painting would look like a landscape of advocacy and policy change institutions that prioritize racial and economic justice to level the playing field.

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 114

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

2 It has been edited for publication here. The growth of these efforts required more access to nonextractive investment capital, creating a demand for public banks and democratic loan funds across the country.” With more local resources, child care became free, along with public school–provided breakfasts and lunches.” “How

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 106

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

But I always had a sense of those organizations when I worked there, an internal critique of what kind of social change were we really bringing about. And we knew that poverty and racism were deeply entrenched, and that takes more than three years. And why did we rely on private ones to solve what felt like public problems?

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 91

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Advocacy and organizing for racially equitable housing policies is a cornerstone of building a just housing system in the United States. COVID-19 has exacerbated this crisis, and the country’s recent racial reckoning has heightened awareness of the need for racially equitable housing policies to support healthier communities.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 100

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

Public and Social Policy 72

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 72

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: Ron Lach on pexels.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today?

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 131