Anedot

MARCH 24, 2025

Your Impact The Director of Policy and Advocacy plays a critical role in leading and advancing Habitat for Humanity Greater San Franciscos (HGSF) affordable homeownership agenda through policy development, government relations, and community engagement across San Francisco, Marin, and the Peninsula. Noise level will be loud at times.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. 2 (MarchApril 2016): 16875; and Sandra Knispel, Native Americans, government authorities, and reproductive politics, News Service, University of Rochester, October 23, 2019, airc.ucsc.edu/resources/suggested-lawrence.pdf p.2/ Ruiz-White et al.,

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It has been very common for governments to request AI models that can identify fraud in a public benefits systemfor instance, in the applications they receive for childcare benefits or unemployment benefits. Well, those models have failed spectacularlyand routinelyin many different countries. Thats completely within our capacity.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

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. One involves the unfilled legal, moral, and economic obligations established by hundreds of treaties with the US government.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Public bankscreated by governments and chartered to serve the public interestoffer a powerful model to advance racial equity, public accountability, and community self-determination. The same holds true for credit unions, which are barred by state law from holding any public deposits, thanks to bank lobbying.

Finance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

While the current targets appear to be organizations associated with the progressive left, former IRS official Lois Lerner acknowledged the government targeted groups on the conservative right between 2010 and 2012. The government has no inherent claim to the resources used for philanthropy. But the reverse is true.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 20, 2025

The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, if the version passed in May by House Republicans becomes law, make an already inequitable economy even less equitable. Credit: Ron Cogswell on Flickr President Donald Trump has centered much of his legislative agenda on a single bill. How inequitable is the current US economy?

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

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2025

I believe that the law permits most colleges and universities to increase spending from their endowments in light of thefinancial pressuresso many of them are facing. The government has demanded broad oversight of Harvards admissions policies, along with changes in its hiring processes and campus culture.

Universities

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

That said, it remains unclear how aggressive the South African government will be in response to the recent attacks from Trump. Not to be outdone was first buddy South African-born US billionaire Elon Musk, who claimed on social media that the South African government is openly pushing for genocide of White people in South Africa.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 7, 2025

For many families—especially those employed in the construction, domestic work, or food industries, where employers rarely offer worker health insurance—Medicaid is the only path to essential care. For Latine health advocates, the implications of Medicaid cuts go beyond access—they touch on trust in the government and the healthcare system.

Healthcare

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. As social archaeologist John R.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 28, 2025

million workers employed by home care agencies could be paid below the federal minimum wage…and made ineligible for overtime pay if they aren’t covered by corresponding state laws.” The public comment process became federal law in 1946. Cathy Bussewitz at the Associated Press described the effect: “An estimated 3.7

Nonprofit Administration and Development

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

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 6, 2024

The past few years have seen a flurry of workers organizing across the country, from Starbucks and Amazon workers to new forms of cooperative ownership and governance sharing. In California alone , tens of thousands of workers in restaurants and hotels, construction, farms, warehouses, and more are not paid their full wages.

Construction

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.

Environmental

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Leading co-op and labor organizations in the coalition include A Slice of New York , a Silicon Valley-based employee-owned pizza restaurant; the California Center for Cooperative Development ; Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West ; and the Sustainable Economies Law Center , based in Oakland, California.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In order to move the debate around ESG from combative to constructive, we need a shared language through which different stakeholders can express what they want out of the movement (and thus , to be able to understand what others want out of it). ESG for Regulation: Helping governments make and monitor policies, compliance, and laws.

Social Enterprise

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

1 This citizen activism prompted government action to honor the sacrifice. Often, groups of residents would come together to cooperatively seek and share work in sectors like construction and housecleaning or to market locally produced goods. Government support was required. 2 Self-sufficiency enterprises predated the crisis.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 We are under pressure to meet agreed-upon timelines for site preparation, store design, permitting, and construction. If we fall short, the money from Louisville’s city-county government could be rescinded. We secured $3.5

Food

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

By Claire Dunning In early 1926, Cafritz Construction placed an advertisement in The Washington Post celebrating the speed with which their “Life-time Homes” were selling in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC. Perhaps potential buyers would be swayed by the “superior construction” or the “unusually big lots.”

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Wage theft is not a legal term but rather a term used by advocates, attorneys, and policymakers when describing any action by employers that deprives a worker of receiving wages they are entitled to under the law. The law also strengthened workers’ options for recourse when employers fail to comply with these provisions.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 18, 2023

Image Credit: Saurav Mahto on unsplash.com Despite maintaining the highest incarceration rates in the developed world, US jail and prison populations declined modestly over the past three decades—even as the budgets for these institutions continue to rise, and construction of new jails and prisons continues across the country.

Construction

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 21, 2023

How do we organize to put Joy’s Law, and more broadly collective intelligence, to work?” Again, governments are not businesses, and universities are not automobile manufacturers. How does our recruiting need to change if we are drawing more on others in the ecosystem? Do we know how to put together really diverse teams?

Social Entrepreneurship

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

Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Government funding and donor support. It constructs an understanding of the needs your target audience have and the competition you will face. To ensure that your nonprofit organization meets all legal compliances and regulations, you should: Research the specific laws and regulations that apply to your organization and its activities.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

My research finds otherwise and implicates current legal constructs and fundraising practices that continue to privilege the self-interests of donors over beneficiaries and society. Do lead naming gifts actually stimulate high-level philanthropy from other donors and is that what motivates HNWIs to make such charitable contributions?

Ethics

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

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

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. Senator, I meet regularly with Montana nonprofits and work to make sure that our government is partnering with them to serve local communities. As Montana’s senior U.S.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

In 2021, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 54 percent of all public school districts required updates of at least two major systems, including HVAC systems, roofing, and structural integrity. Indeed, the entire system is in dire need of an overhaul.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 9, 2023

Second, California’s energy laws and business models are rooted in injustice. The economic benefits they provide continually miss the communities that need these benefits the most because governments have structurally excluded them in the past. Basing decisions on short-term horizons is what got us in this climate mess to begin with.

Public and Social Policy

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. They may fund “safe migration,” but not to the Global North.

Public and Social Policy

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

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

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. The two developed a system of fundraising that had never been seen before: setting a time limit on their campaign for constructing a new building in Washington D.C., This gave them greater voice in the government.

Nonprofit Organizations