Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

If, instead, we see leadership as a matter of finding and following new paths in collaboration with others, then it is more about understanding interactions among people and their environments and navigating a variety of unpredictable situations along the way. Crucially, the CEO and board empowered the committee to recommend bold changes.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 124

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. Collaboration with academia: Partner with educational institutions to create programs that benefit both students and local journalism.

Advertising 119

Advertising Education Education Public Policy 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Or consider if the retirement money of our prestigious public universities and their medical centers, where cleaners, cafeteria staff, and medical assistants care for students and patients, was invested in one of the largest corporate landlords in the country, and this landlord doubled their rent or evicted their families.

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Universities Finance 143

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

losing primary intact forest results in biodiversity declines —it is unlikely we will have universally agreed-upon targets for all biodiversity measures anytime soon. Sodexo , a company primarily catering food in corporate and university cafeterias, is transitioning a third of its dishes to be plant-based by 2025.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Develop partnerships and alliances with other organizations that serve BIPOC communities, and collaborate on initiatives that promote diversity and inclusion. Participate in public policy debates and advocacy efforts that affect underserved communities, and represent the interests and concerns of those communities.

Leadership 122

Leadership Poverty Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

Libraries, universities, cultural centers, public parks and outdoor spaces, and other institutions that helped shape the nation and powered the rise of a thriving white middle class in the mid-20th century were not created by the market or a single sector.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Public Policy 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As a result, the best that policy makers can do is to rely on lists of previously evaluated model programs that are considered “evidence-based.” ” This approach constrains the universe of choice for policy makers and doesn’t advance our understanding of why some programs work and others do not.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 111

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Work in Collaboration, Not Competition When done well, maintaining one (or more!)

Race and Ethnicity 105

Race and Ethnicity Recruitment Production Collaborations 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

The program will develop hubs of businesses, communities, colleges and universities, and workers focused on accelerating innovation and technology deployment—and the worker co-op movement has a seat at the table to create those hubs. The spirit of collaboration, education, and support is a keystone of the co-op movement.

Manufacturing 119

Manufacturing Education Education Governance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Nonprofits would be trusted to hire the right consultants and form partnerships that are collaborative and generative toward their racial and economic justice goals. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy.

Public and Social Policy 132

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

And over the past decade, public policy—by way of the Lei de Cotas (the “Quotas Law”), which establishes university quotas for Black and Indigenous students and people who studied in public schools—has made higher education more accessible to racialized and poor people.

Public and Social Policy 78

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Poverty Law 78

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 1, 2024

Instead of hoarding access to AI and focusing solely on risk mitigation, universities, national laboratories, and industries from around the world need to work together to advance the technology’s benefits. There has been movement on US leadership in AI, and that trend should continue alongside establishing a lever for global collaboration.

Collaborations 108

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Ethics Public Policy 108

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy! I love the enthusiasm that each team member exudes.

Public Policy 64

Public Policy Governance Political Science Law 64

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Many have incorrectly suggested—including, most recently, Steve Phillips, in his book How We Win the Civil War 6 —that Black people were betrayed by their supposed northern political allies in Congress when they began to roll back Reconstruction policy and to yield power to former southern Confederates, as if they had suddenly changed sides.

Manufacturing 122

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 122

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy! I love the enthusiasm that each team member exudes.

Public Policy 52

Public Policy Governance Political Science Law 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Manuel Pastor: I graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with two degrees—one in creative writing and one in economics. So, how do we create in this economic space co-ops, community land trusts, collaborations of co-ops? And there are lots of bad ideas that become public policy because they’re tied to power.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Governance Universities 136

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This required a sustained emergency posture and high degrees of creativity, agility, and collaboration. Tara McGuinness and Anne-Marie Slaughter position this as a new approach at problems that is distinct from traditional policy making and is people-centered, experiential, data-enabled, and designed to scale.

Nonprofit governance and management 144

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 144

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

According to research from the University of Colorado Boulder , since the systems were trained on faces that reinforce the gender binary, they are also deficient in recognizing genderqueer, nonbinary, and transgender people.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Ethics Race and Ethnicity Law 124

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These narratives not only evoke emotions that affect our behavior—they also help directly shape our public policy priorities. Doing this would allow for the durable progressive policy change for which we so desperately fight.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Culture Construction Psychology 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

22 Yet as racial justice movement leader Dedrick Asante-Muhammad has detailed, a race-neutral or “race-blind approach to addressing racial economic inequality has left the nation hobbled in public policy efforts to undo ongoing structural racism.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

And then after the Penobscot project, it helped us in Maine to say, “Let this be the beginning, not the end, of our collaboration.” I’ll just speak for TNC once again, because TNC is a global organization: we’re guided by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 11 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. 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

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2025

Image Credit: Maven Collaborative illustration This article is the first in a three-part series, Quiet Violence: How the Tax System Works Against Black Americans , co-produced by The Maven Collaborative and NPQ. At The Maven Collaborative , we define narratives as cultural understandings, frames of reference, or mental models.

Public and Social Policy 84

Public and Social Policy Taxation Non-Profits Collaborations 84

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2025

It aims to advance grassroots anti-racist solutions for systemic change by impacting public policy and creating a new narrative of inclusion and racial equity for Afro-Latino communities. REBIA emerged out of this institutional commitment to racial equity. A panel moderated by Tanya Kater Hernndez , Archibald R.

Public and Social Policy 65

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Law Public and Nonprofit Management 65

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In collaboration with the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Policy at Texas Southern University (TSU), the project recognizes “that communities along the Gulf Coast Region are collectively exposed to but uniquely challenged by climate change.”

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Environmental Energy Health 130

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. Of course, theres no universal solution. Some helpful questions to consider: How vulnerable are your funding streams to changes in public policy or political oversight?

Nonprofit Administration and Development 208

Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy 208

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. Of course, theres no universal solution. Some helpful questions to consider: How vulnerable are your funding streams to changes in public policy or political oversight?

Nonprofit Administration and Development 130

Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 13, 2025

As Hadley Renkin, associate professor at Central European University (CEU), explained to NPQ , Viktor Orbn and the Fidesz party began, as part of their renewed politics of nationalism, to target queer people, feminists, and others as anti-family and anti-national traditions of gender roles and relations.

Law 126

Law Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 126

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

Digital advocacy shouldnt just informit mustinvite collaboration and inspire action. Recommendation 5: Safeguard services through strategic patience, collaborations, and innovations Nonprofits face significant threats to their ability to maintain access to critical resources and services during times of political and financial instability.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 24, 2025

For instance, I help run one of the leading university-based arts administration departments in the country. For more than 50 years, our program at Drexel University in Philadelphia has helped train thousands of students for careers in arts management, fundraising, community engagement, and cultural planning.

Foundations 105

Foundations Culture Universities Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

As public policy has done less and less to mitigate the suffering of millions, faith in the government has declined. In his virtual concession speech, Sanders explained to millions of viewers that the most important victory was that “we changed public consciousness.”

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Energy 116