NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The report acknowledges the importance of these labor considerations, especially for communities already disproportionally impacted by unemployment, and that the “materials produced from these facilities also form the bedrock of many economic activities (construction, auto manufacturing, aerospace, and more) that support our daily lives.”

Manufacturing 103

Manufacturing Environmental Health Production 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Simply stated, government’s inability to create profound change requires both funders and the organizations they support to adopt a different way of thinking about problems and their solutions. And in Health. Estimates place the number of so-called “invisible” individuals north of 15 million.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Health Governance Education 115

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2024

Volunteers are collecting waste and discarded material as part of Underground Dnipro , an environmental activism organization working to educate civilians and the local government on the environmental impacts of pollution and why it still matters in a time of war. In 2019, Alexander Grechka founded Underground Dnipro.

Environmental 85

Environmental Governance Construction Health 85

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 14, 2023

With over 20 years of experience working on global health, and now as the person who directs global learning strategies for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the largest health and health care foundation in the United States, I’ve seen directly how ideas developed in one place can improve health in another.

Health 96

Health Universities Culture Construction 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

And while we’ve seen abundant investment in tools designed to assist software developers and free up time for them to focus on the more challenging parts of their jobs, there has been far less investment in technology that could assist construction workers, the service sector, teachers, nurses, or other care workers.

Curriculum and Teaching 103

Curriculum and Teaching Healthcare Civil Society Technology 103

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.

Agriculture 94

Agriculture Construction Culture Manufacturing 94

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. They truly celebrate holistic well-being and shared progress with their members.

Food 109

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 109

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Taking on issues from housing segregation to mental health services to sustainable transportation in their contract fights, these workers are showing that labor power is key to fighting for climate justice in communities. As both public-sector and care workers, teachers are essential to society’s functioning.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We looked at spending across the social impact sector; including government , global and domestic philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management; and found that globally we are spending an extraordinary amount of money—roughly $72 trillion annually—making social spending the world’s largest financial market.

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Governance 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The people making economic decisions today—in government, on Wall Street, in corporate boardrooms, and indeed in Silicon Valley—overwhelmingly look the same as they have since their creation, with virtually no racial, gender, or economic diversity.

Technology 92

Technology Law Non-Profits Governance 92

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2022

At Grantli, I have created a state resources page where you can find useful links to state government departments and various other resources. Types of programs considered for funding include health centers, recreation programs, retirement services, Alzheimer’s initiatives, meal delivery programs, nursing facilities, etc.

Insurance 100

Insurance Nonprofit governance and management Foundations Education 100

MNA Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We ask you to join MNA in reaching out to members of the House Taxation Committee to OPPOSE the bill for five good reasons: It doesn’t make sense to increase revenues in the name of community safety by taxing the organizations that provide safety net services like affordable housing, disability and mental health services and senior services.

Taxation 52

Taxation Construction Nonprofits Associations 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings.

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 114

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

As a result, many of these communities face higher rates of premature death and worse health outcomes than the rest of the country. According to the County Health Rankings, 81 percent fall in the least healthy quartile. Given endemic market failure, the federal government must adjust to this reality.

Poverty 120

Poverty Finance Community Development Philanthropy 120

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The first phase involved funding project construction—which Working Power is financing. These principles prioritize frontline communities at the decision-making table and consider how energy generation has impacted health. Sunset Park Solar is looking at two phases of financing.

Energy 122

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Cross-sector, multi-system, and collaborative —working collectively with nonprofit, private, and public sectors and across the many systems that touch people’s lives, such as health, education, employment, criminal justice, and aligning the skills, knowledge, and resources of multiple organizations to maximize their impact.

Nonprofit governance and management 101

Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Governance Leadership 101

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 29, 2024

Expanding Parentage The [Uniform Parentage Act] prioritizes relationships over legal constructs such as marriage or genetic parentage. In essence, the act prioritizes relationships over legal constructs such as marriage or genetic parentage.

Law 52

Law Children Construction Medical 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 137

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 9, 2023

The economic benefits they provide continually miss the communities that need these benefits the most because governments have structurally excluded them in the past. These system-wide cost calculations and optimization models exclude environmental, health, social values, and damages owed due to past and ongoing racial inequities.

Public and Social Policy 83

Public and Social Policy Energy Environmental Non-Profits 83

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The grantees we convened—because they had direct community knowledge from their work on housing justice, climate justice, transportation, immigration, workers’ rights, and many other issues—were well positioned to assess the health of the overall movement ecosystem. The fact that it was constructed and not completely open-ended was helpful.”

Foundations 110

Foundations Nonprofit Administration and Development Philanthropy Leadership 110

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

And yet the federal government underfunds communities of color when it comes to water infrastructure, according to a recent report from the Community Water Center , a California advocacy group. Construction crews broke ground in May, and the well is slated for completion in May 2024.

Agriculture 77

Agriculture Nonprofit Administration and Development Construction Universities 77

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We know that housing is fundamental because housing is a prerequisite to everything: health, safety, education, well-being. The shift came about by creating a new narrative centered around the importance of our collective health and how secondhand smoke impacts all of us. Michael McAfee: I agree, we are at an inflection point.

Values 116

Values Public and Social Policy Collaborations Culture 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

They were instead pumping resources into big policy houses, think tanks, academia, nonprofits secretly fueled by government officials. How in the hell can we be sitting in the middle of a pandemic that is literally killing our loved ones and still be debating the need for affordable health care?

Philanthropy 104

Philanthropy Foundations Construction Values 104

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s completely preventable, at least according to the various experts I spoke to, including veteran coal miners, mine safety experts, and health experts. It also created the Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA), which is tasked with overseeing the welfare of these workers. It’s not an old man’s disease anymore.

Health 69

Health Governance Law Construction 69

The Agitator

JUNE 13, 2013

But frankly, we wish we were getting even more concerned and constructive response. I don’t care if you are brand new to the industry or an old hand – you need to understand the industry rules governing our business.

Ethics 83

Ethics Voluntary Action Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 83

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Image credit: onlyyouqj on istock.com Precision medicine, which relies on genomics to understand how a person’s genetic makeup affects their health, looms large over the United States’ overburdened and underperforming healthcare system.

Race and Ethnicity 95

Race and Ethnicity Health Healthcare Medical 95

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Through research over the years, the organization has shown how environmental harm impacts health, housing, jobs, education, and its persistence throughout communities of color along the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor—also known as Cancer Alley, or sometimes Death Alley — and the broader Gulf Coast Region.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Environmental Energy Health 102

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Coined in 2004, ESG emerged as a joint effort by the UN, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Swiss Government to support the financial industry’s consideration of ESG issues in mainstream investment decision-making (although its roots exist in the socially responsible movement, or SRI). ESG is a framework. ” 6.

Environmental 137

Environmental Finance Governance Law 137

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. Imagine that we joyfully nourish each other, that we all know we belong, and that we recognize and as kin. What images come to mind?

Food 136

Food Culture Agriculture Health 136

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Many participants instantly recognized the examples of systemic trauma we provided, especially among system actors in positions of power such as government institutions. Systems are not mechanical constructs or impersonal faceless institutions. Systems carry trauma because they are relational. One example of this is the W.K.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 137

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Leaders of this campaign have recognized that as demands to demilitarize the police and redirect funds gain traction across the United States, the government needs to reimagine its approach to “national security.” 20 But just as these systems were deliberately constructed, they can be deliberately deconstructed. Working Beyond Hope.

Construction 80

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 80

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

They create a suite of environmental problems: from high carbon emissions as trees and soils burn; to public health emergencies when wildfires hit towns and smoke affects distant cities; to water contamination compounding regional drought. Modern land management practices such as fire suppression and logging make forests likelier to burn.

Public and Social Policy 87

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 87

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. In addition to financing, PSEC also provides project design, construction, and management oversight.

Community Development 81

Community Development Finance Energy Nonprofit governance and management 81

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Hard-wired into systems and programs at all levels of government and the private sector, these policies bolstered white Americans’ stability, wealth, and access to opportunity while concentrating the effects of segregation, displacement, destabilization, gentrification, and poverty on BIPOC populations. Being intentional is key.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Leadership 108

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

using non-toxic building materials that were manufactured, transported, and constructed using low-carbon, non-polluting methods and materials); reducing energy consumption and pollution; and using integrative design , which incorporates sustainability up front and promotes good health and livability throughout the building’s life cycle.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

But at the EconCon conference held in Washington, DC, in June, hosted by the Omidyar Network and a dozen nonprofit think tanks, speakers offered a far broader definition of public power— namely, the power of government to act on behalf of the public. Why focus on “public power”? But the power of industrial policy extends further.

Public and Social Policy 81

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Insurance Public and Nonprofit Management 81