Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Households are a function of housing as much as culture. For example, 570 Washington Street, currently in construction in New York City’s West Village, will be one of the first affordable senior communities designed for grandfamilies, grandparents raising grandchildren. What is the driver of this historically unusual way of living?

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

14 A dearth of mental health providers with the cultural understanding needed to work with NHPI youth can also lead to their misdiagnosis and underdiagnosis. Cultural and psychosocial elements, however, do have distinct influences on BIPOC communities when it comes to mental health. 10 Only 35.1 Cost is also a hindrance.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

They heavily overrepresent cultural artifacts produced in the Global North. They heavily overrepresent cultural artifacts produced by the wealthy and people who had access early on to digital technologies and the bandwidth to digitize their activities online. The data heavily overrepresent men.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 23, 2025

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.

Participation and motivation

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Native communitieshave developed a strong sense of Native justice centered on sovereignty, land stewardship, culture, and language. Tara Evonne Trudell (Santee Sioux/Rarmuri/Xicana), a visual artist interviewed for the report, notes that Western justice feels like a colonial construct imposed upon Indigenous people.

Public and Social Policy

Fundraising Leadership

MARCH 14, 2025

The current economic climate is complicating the career paths of millions due to the factors of unpredictable layoffs, hiring freezes, pay reductions, and a general fear of culture changes and imposed, sudden and unforseeable actions. Most all these moves are completely unexpected.

Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This focus on living with dignity creates a broad scope for innovations in the dimensions of health and well-being, education and skills, economic activities, and governance. The Right Livelihood Foundation recognized Sekem as a blueprint for a healthy corporation in the 21 st century. That reply created a desirable and feasible entry point.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 20, 2025

As interest costs of carrying that rising debt increase, politicians will increasingly sacrifice government spending on social programs in order to pay off interest to corporations and the rich.” Relationship-based organizing, coalition building across issue areas, and mobilizing culturally responsive messaging are key.”

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 16, 2025

The reckless pursuit of “mass deportation”—loudly touted by the administration of Donald Trump and his supporters—has descended on Los Angeles in the form of masked men in unmarked cars, who are picking up anybody who looks like a working-class Latino or Latina—especially “open air workers” like construction and car wash workers, and street vendors.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

Throughout the region, civil society and philanthropy efforts have long operated within various forms of constraint, whether legal, political, or cultural. Finally, in Indonesia, the Tanoto Foundation has worked alongside government ministries and multilateral agencies to combat childhood stunting.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2025

In Harvard Universitys case, the government has accused the Ivy League schoolso far without providing any specific evidence of violating some students civil rights by allowing other students to engage in what the authorities characterize as anti-Semitic speech. Harvard stands to lose out on more than US$2.2 The John F.

Universities

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2025

To gain a better understanding , NPQ interviewed government workers who have either lost their jobs or are afraid of being axed during Trumps ongoing firings. She characterizes it as a manifestation of societys larger culture wars. Its wrapped up in identity politics and cultural grievances. What drives this? Mema is optimistic.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 30, 2025

That has changed, thanks to an obscure government accounting rule adopted a decade ago: the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. This amendment to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) requires most local governments—including school districts—to report annually how much revenue they lose to tax abatements.

Retail

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 28, 2025

There’s no doubt—and the government agrees —that mining the copper will completely destroy an irreplaceable sacred site of Apache peoples named Chi’chil Bildagoteel, known in English as Oak Flat. Yet currently, 72 lithium mining projects are proposed, with some already under construction.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

Although this concentration has had profound local economic and cultural implications, various government agencies have justified it by saying that it is necessary for security reasons or that it brings in national economic support in exchange for hosting the military facilities. percent of the country’s total land area.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

And the US Green Building Council (USGBC), an intermediary promoting energy-efficient construction, developed guidelines and rating systems for sustainable cities and neighborhoods. From Experimentation to Diffusion of Urban Innovations The innovative role of dynamic cities has been referred to as government by experiment.

Civil Society

NonProfit Hub

MAY 20, 2015

Through his experience, Grundner developed a pyramid of four nonprofit board of governance levels. Passion sets up the basis for solid governance. Board meetings may go quickly with like-minded people, but the successful boards are the ones that “create a culture of constructive conflict.” Bottom Rung — Passion.

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How does the country move forward and create new monuments that better reflect the history, struggles, and culture of all people? These traditional statues, some produced from a cast, are heavy, constructed of stone or metal, and often weigh several tons. These statues stand as symbols of racism in the US dating back to the Civil War.”

Culture

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

Construction began in 2017, was stalled due to now-resolved legal challenges, recommenced in 2022, and is slated to be completed in 2026. First, there is the disruption of the construction project itself. Because construction will continue for three more years (at least), the struggles are ongoing. Construction began in 2017.

Construction

Bloomerang

APRIL 8, 2021

It is having a 360-degree perspective with peer board members who are diverse and not afraid of new ideas, constructive conflict, and purposeful disruption. The same rules apply to each member and accountability is part of the culture. It’s about checks and balances and evaluation. Passion after all, is the icing on the cake!

Construction

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

The cultural sector is seeking alternatives to business-as-usual. This article introduces a new series, titled “Remember the Future: Culture and Systems Change,” co-produced by Art.coop and NPQ. Efforts to remedy historic race-based harms by prioritizing care for land, resources, people, and cultural expressions are flourishing.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

As such, businesses can play a major role in responding constructively to the US’ increasing mental health challenges. However, doing so requires most organizations to undergo major shifts in culture and practice. As recent trends highlight, businesses can also benefit from workplace cultures that support mental health.

Health

Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Our tour guide was discussing preservation efforts at the Colosseum and how the Italian government had turned to the business community for support. That's more than half of the $55 million cultural officials said was needed to keep the former arena for gladiators in fighting shape. "At It turned out to be a tough sell. Old meets new.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the Andes mountains, the traditional floating homes of the Uros people are inspiring low-cost, eco-friendly construction techniques worldwide that can improve water quality and biodiversity. Biocultural innovations, by contrast, emphasize the integral role that Indigenous peoples play as stewards of the biosphere.

Agriculture

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

These forces, often abetted by public transit investment or publicly subsidized construction projects, disrupt neighborhood stability and have a name. When people are forced to leave, these neighborhoods often lose their cultural vibrancy and sense of community that made them appealing to new residents in the first place.

Culture

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

Tech culture and its attendant discourse has prioritized narratives of disruption, novelty, and efficiency while paying lip service to inclusivity, equity, and justice. Governments around the world must set guardrails and work towards building alternative economic futures, where worker rights and sustainable local economies are centered.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. Roughly one-third of rural counties reported the presence of an economic professional who could identify and write grants for local government. This helped preserve more than 17,000 jobs.

Values

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. Solugen is currently constructing a commercial biomanufacturing facility to scale production—and it is just one of many innovators in this market.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

In the US, the federal government is already compensating Indigenous tribes to relocate. The village’s centuries-old pottery culture may soon vanish, along with the island itself, as the Brahmaputra River is eroding the clay that the potters, known as kumars , use.

Agriculture

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. Montana’s nonprofit sector is diverse, ranging from health care facilities to animal shelters to arts and culture centers. As Montana’s senior U.S.

Public and Social Policy

Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Here’s a detailed breakdown of critical steps to prepare: Understand organizational goals and governance needs: Begin by peering into the core of your organization. This isn’t about filling seats; it’s about enriching your organization’s culture and capabilities with new perspectives to support your mission and drive growth.

Recruitment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

Drawing from the lessons we’ve learned at One Are Fund navigating the absorption and implementation of big bet philanthropy, we offer two constructive actions each for donors and doers to ensure big bet philanthropy leads to even bigger social change down the road: 1.

Finance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is instead an exercise in liberating the constructs of creativity from being the prerogative of the Western, masculine, or the allegedly educated, while reclaiming what rural women of India have championed for thousands of years. And lest we forget, hunger knows no borders, and nor do rights, or the lack thereof.

Food

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The initiative provides frontline, culturally fluent eviction defense, legal assistance, and community education to help renters stay where they are or, when necessary, find a better alternative. In some states, such as Florida, local government and voters must re-approve the rent stabilization policy every year to keep it in place.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Again, governments are not businesses, and universities are not automobile manufacturers. The power of movements is based in the ideas that fuel them, that inspire people to come together and work toward the realization of a shared goal or values.”

Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The implicit assumption behind these calls is that the board of directors, as a table of overseers, is the best way to govern and manage organization leadership. It is like pulling up a seat at the table but not changing the design and construction of the table or its functionality. Not every problem can be solved by or at the table.

Culture

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For example, some states such as New Jersey have passed laws that keep employers with a history of wage theft violations from obtaining government contracts or certain licenses. Advocates are working to raise visibility, put pressure on policymakers and government agencies, and influence change at the local and state level.

Public and Social Policy