Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Image Credit: Jacob Culp on Unsplash Headlines about which cities have the most or least affordable housing markets often oversimplify the issue; the reality is that cities have a range of residential types with a range of social and economic implications for the people who live there. CDFIs can help finance these efforts.

Construction

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 23, 2025

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Simply asking “why?”

Participation and motivation

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

44 While explanations for this variance are highly debated, research suggests racialized associations were made between African Americans exhibiting psychosis symptoms and so-termed disruptive or socially deviant behavior patterns, and as a result, Black Americans are more likely to be aggressively diagnosed. 10 Only 35.1 2 (2008): 393403.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. 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. And a third are limits on Native representation in the US government itself.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Escaping the Deficiency Focus When the WHO and UNICEF co-organized the landmark health conference in Alma-Ata, USSR, in 1978, 134 countries and 67 international organizations endorsed the WHOs pioneering perspective on health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

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.” The opposition raises public anxiety about it, and [passage] looks doubtful.” Quite the contrary.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

Both communities are designed to pool philanthropic funding, aligning resources and expertise among diverse partners, with an aim to support targeted programs and policy efforts that can create long-term, region-wide impact. Adopting Flexible and Community-Driven Approaches Philanthropy’s role is not to simply replace government funding.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 16, 2025

My social media feeds were full of images of empty streets and abandoned street vendor carts. Together, we’ve passed two statewide policies and more local ordinances that create a formal pathway for street vendors to get permits so they can build their businesses in peace.

Public and Social Policy

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

That means that questions surrounding the legitimacy of philanthropy—what value it provides to the public, how responsive it is to the public’s needs, and how it aligns with democratic norms and institutions—must sit at the center of its response to the moment. Beware of the limits of philanthropic deliverism.

Civil Society

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. The application of that in the public domain into everyones lives is a particularly concerning version of what the current people in power are attacking. What drives this?

Public and Social Policy

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

JUNE 26, 2025

Poverty, social exclusion, and a lack of worker rights have long been drivers of trafficking and bonded labor, but the ecological damage wreaked by climate change not only supercharges those forms of vulnerability but, in turn, leads desperate workers to carry out further destruction.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 27, 2025

Launched by a retired teacher who joined forces with the public school system and a regional firm, it aimed to improve the STEM knowledge and skills of underserved students. To explore the question, we examined nine CSCs across three cities and three policy areas (education, public safety, and economic development). De Jong, J.,

Collaborations

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Facing this crisis, new social economy movements emerged in Korea, not only as an immediate response to the neoliberal economic crisis, but also as a visionary long-term alternative for building a different kind of economy. 1 This citizen activism prompted government action to honor the sacrifice. Government support was required.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Faced with a broken system, more Americans—across urban, suburban, exurban, and rural communities—are rallying around a positive vision for the future, one rooted in social housing systems that ensure housing for all.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My In the 1960s, the construction of interstate highway I-76 and state Route 59 disconnected Summit Lake from the rest of Akron.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

Image Credit: RDNE Stock project on pexels.com What is social housing? But to make it more than just a slogan, you need policies and institutions to make that right into a reality. Not so long ago, social housing was rarely discussed in the United States. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing.

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

What little optimism remains to tackle such complex challenges is mostly placed in supranational schemes, such as the COP climate change conferences, or transformational national policy, such as the Green New Deal in the US. ” Scaling up social innovation takes time, but there are also varying ways it can be done.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

In the realm of social change, community-based leaders are skilled at influencing and using momentum to advance local solutions but often lack all the financial resources they need to push those solutions to their full potential. In its wake, momentum for change seemed to build.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Image Credit: lilartsy on unsplash.com This is the third article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Public school teachers are not just educators.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Governments and funders do not prioritize investing in rural access improvements due to a lack of data to make the case as well as competition from other development projects and a preference for urban investments. B2P has constructed or supported over 450 trail bridges in 21 countries, reaching over 1.5 million people.

Public and Social Policy

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For as long as most of us can remember, social enterprises and social movements have sought to disrupt systems from the outside or to make fundamental policy changes from the top down. By Jim Bildner & Stephanie Khurana.

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.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Having worked in the social sector for a little over a decade, I have firsthand experience with the art and science of getting social impact programs off the ground. It is meant to supplement, rather than replace, the existing social safety net and job sector and can be a critical tool for improving racial and gender equity.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. This is particularly important in social impact, where we need evidence to make decisions related to policy, funding, and programs, so we can solve intractable problems. million studies.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

Indeed, these digital technologies would enable people to transcend the geographic boundaries that constrained their ability to pursue the lives they valued, enabling them to acquire more social, economic, and political power. However, current reality is miles apart from that vision.

Race and Ethnicity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Funders for Housing and Opportunity is a collaborative of 13 philanthropies, including JPMorgan Chase, where we collectively pool $4 million in grant funds annually and work across three focus areas: elevating what works, influencing policy, and changing the narrative about housing. These strategies have had an impact locally and nationally.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

In the US, the federal government is already compensating Indigenous tribes to relocate. The local government claims that clay extraction pits dug by the kumars have stripped the riverbanks of its sturdy top layer of soil, leaving them more susceptible to the erosion caused by climate change.

Agriculture

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. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

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. Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. As you may have noticed, it is campaign season here in Montana, with the general election less than 1 month away.

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 And, of course, there are always contingencies with public money. We are under pressure to meet agreed-upon timelines for site preparation, store design, permitting, and construction. There are still many steps to take.

Food

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Naming gifts provide donors with reputational and market value , what legal scholar William Drennan refers to as “ publicity rights ,” and beneficiary organizations and their constituents with financial and mission-driven value. Advocates are utilizing care ethics to shape policies around gifts designed for public impact.

Ethics

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 9, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Mingook Kim on unsplash.com Two major problems confront California’s energy policy. The economic benefits they provide continually miss the communities that need these benefits the most because governments have structurally excluded them in the past. This decision marks the third time the policy has been adjusted.

Public and Social Policy