NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In contrast, guaranteed income gives cash to people living below the poverty line or with inconsistent or no income and entails a qualifying process. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King advocated for guaranteed income as the simplest and most effective solution to poverty. Though related to universal basic income (UBI), it is not the same.

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Nonprofit governance and management 103

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to a 2014 study of wage theft in California and New York , wage theft doesn’t just hurt low-wage and immigrant workers, it also contributes to poverty, increases the need for SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program, formerly known as “food stamps), and increases the cost of public assistance services.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 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. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

Food 109

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

By Nagatsugu Asato & Nobuo Shiga The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. Okinawa’s poverty rate is about 35 percent, which is twice the national average. percent of the country’s total land area.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Poverty Construction Law 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 20, 2022

FHO: How do race and poverty enter into the narrative on housing? So, we need to underscore the role of government in making housing justice real. The rules that govern the housing sector either enable discrimination and injustice or combat it. Michael McAfee: I agree, we are at an inflection point.

Values 116

Values Public and Social Policy Collaborations Culture 116

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a Puerto Rico-based nonprofit that leverages community-based abandonment inventories, community–municipal partnerships, a rehabilitation and construction team, and in-house legal expertise to convert abandoned buildings and lots into opportunities for community-led development, the lack of access to financing nearly destroyed the organization.

Finance 99

Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 99

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2023

As Japan’s economy experienced a quick recovery when the government aggressively invested in manufacturing to produce new technologies—in industries including iron, cars, and chemicals—Mattel’s factories moved to parts of Asia where labor was more inexpensive, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Manufacturing 96

Manufacturing Culture Production Technology 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

In late 2021, a small Zimbabwean community-based organization, Score Against Poverty (SCORE), with help from the Canadian government, decided to test out a different approach. How visible that resentment is depends on the power of those not benefiting or being penalized. All of this builds the capacity of the local agency.

Culture 52

Culture Agriculture Values Health 52

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. 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

Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In the midst of that, she realized that corporations and governments were using future trends in their regular planning. If you are working on ending global poverty for women, do you have wage disparities by sex in your organization? But nonprofits weren't. They were looking at the past and present. But not at the future.

Fundraising 83

Fundraising Fundraising Construction Poverty 83

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.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 137

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

Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In the midst of that, she realized that corporations and governments were using future trends in their regular planning. If you are working on ending global poverty for women, do you have wage disparities by sex in your organization? But nonprofits weren’t. They were looking at the past and present. But not at the future.

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Fundraising Construction Poverty 52

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. B2P has constructed or supported over 450 trail bridges in 21 countries, reaching over 1.5 million people.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Health 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

Hundreds of us gathered to acknowledge how the Crown—as New Zealand’s government is still known colloquially today, as the successor to British colonial rule—unlawfully confiscated the Ngāti Maru (a Māori tribe) land more than 150 years ago. . This meaning was fitting for the event. billion.

Governance 93

Governance Health Public and Social Policy Culture 93

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members. Although established in a more progressive era, when the public interest held more sway, microeconomic and market values have since come to dominate utility governance.

Energy 86

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 86

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.

Governance 114

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 114

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. Nowhere is this more evident than in the construction and decimation of the social safety net.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

This model forces communities to pay the enormous costs of unneeded transmission line construction and bear the massive burden of transmission line failures. billion in rapid funding for transmission line construction. It can be easy to miss the coercive nature of these priorities.

Energy 89

Energy Construction Environmental Governance 89

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

The FY 23-24 budget includes a 5% raise for state workers, a three-month grocery tax holiday, $250 million for the state’s Rainy Day Fund, $300 million for the state’s pension plan, $110 million in TennCare reserves for rural hospitals facing closure, and close to $1 billion construction and maintenance of technical colleges.

Nonprofit governance and management 59

Nonprofit governance and management Law Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 59

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

Some point to large-scale, government-run rental housing, while others also explicitly include housing cooperatives and community land trusts. But in the end, governments dragged their feet and promised change stayed on the drawing board. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing. In an era that we call Social Housing 1.0,

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 103

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

The FY 23-24 budget includes a 5% raise for state workers, a three-month grocery tax holiday, $250 million for the state’s Rainy Day Fund, $300 million for the state’s pension plan, $110 million in TennCare reserves for rural hospitals facing closure, and close to $1 billion construction and maintenance of technical colleges.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Law Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? The unions that emerged during this time were the major institutions that shaped the struggle for economic equality by pressuring corporations and the government for better wages and social welfare. Is substandard housing less dangerous because your landlord is Black?

Public and Social Policy 76

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 76

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2019, the US Census Bureau also reported that, after adjusting for the cost of essentials such as housing, gas, and electricity, California had the highest level of “functional poverty” of all 50 states, at 18.2 If previous efforts to make employee ownership a priority of state government funding were stymied, what could be done?

Public and Social Policy 123

Public and Social Policy Law Poverty Healthcare 123

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2023

County governments may run their WHR program themselves or authorize a nonprofit entity to do so. Dedicating resources to growing the workforce that will construct and transform homes is essential to building large-scale, lasting change. It notes that many homes are passed on between family members.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 62

Nonprofit Administration and Development Energy Governance Finance 62

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

A new social contract —that is, a structural change in the relationship of the public to the government, the 1930s New Deal being the quintessential US example—seemed to just maybe be at hand. million children out of poverty. Specifically, in part due to federal ARPA payments to the state government, Minnesota had a $17.6

Public and Social Policy 88

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 88