Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This is good news for our youth, many of whom experience mental health challenges rooted in intergenerational trauma, poverty, and social alienation. For these wisdom-keepers, creating environments that nurture health and healing calls for what they term “rampant relationality.”

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

Values

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. 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.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the 1960s, the construction of interstate highway I-76 and state Route 59 disconnected Summit Lake from the rest of Akron. Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. The city’s Black business district was devastated.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 31, 2023

Instead of concern for Kahlila’s health, a school police officer suspected her of drug use and interrogated her. By embedding young people in relationships and activities that help them constructively respond to hardships and trauma, youth organizing can channel their energy toward building a multiracial democracy.

Public and Social Policy

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

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

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 21, 2023

As foundations increasingly acknowledge the centuries of systematic and institutional racism that have led to intergenerational trauma, cycles of poverty, and reduced life expectancies in communities of color, they are working to re-examine philanthropy’s history and reimagine its role.

Foundations

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

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. There is a danger both to society and to one’s mental health to have a rigid notion of who they are.

Technology

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. There is a danger both to society and to one’s mental health to have a rigid notion of who they are.

Technology

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

This article introduces a new series, titled Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In 2014, six CDFIs located in regions of rural America beset by persistent poverty formed a coalition to remedy longstanding underinvestment. This article introduces our series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation.

Poverty

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Consider, for example, that most government health systems leave billions behind : half of health facilities in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, for example, lack reliable electricity, while 12-15 percent have no electricity at all. All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Image credit: Max Winkler on Unsplash “When people die of heat, they are actually dying of poverty,” the New York Times wrote in 2023 about a devastating heat wave during which 10 people died in Texas. But around the world, the climate emergency underscores the ongoing emergency of poverty. But all those measures still cost money.

Poverty

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For example, the Australian Medical Association’s recent health vision is a departure from a tradition of what they call “sickcare” to a genuine health care. is a break from the past when trillions were spent on developing treatments for numerous health issues. Imagine using homelessness as a health indicator of society!

Philanthropy

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the increase of new industries in the area has come a flood of new construction; thousands of workers at a new car manufacturing plant, for example, need a place to live. But Casa Grande is a city in a desert, and not having enough water to supply these new housing developments may stop construction before it’s even started.

Construction

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Systems are not mechanical constructs or impersonal faceless institutions. Kellogg Foundation's Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) program designed by Gail Christopher, a pioneer in health equity and holistic strategies for social change. Systems carry trauma because they are relational. One example of this is the W.K.

Public and Social Policy

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

King was having a hard time convincing his friends, supporters, and funders about the merits of having a multiracial movement around poverty. You said: “I don’t need to know historic preservation; I need to know how to hire architects and construction teams. He was like: “In Memphis, they are doing this work. That is still scarcity.

Governance

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Who benefits financially from the clean energy transition is a choice, and could be an opportunity to create constructive reparations Ownership also matters because it can set the contours of who benefits financially. In cooperative models, financial benefits are shared. See also Deborah A. Sunter, Sergio Castellanos, and Daniel M.

Energy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 20, 2022

FHO: How do race and poverty enter into the narrative on housing? We know that housing is fundamental because housing is a prerequisite to everything: health, safety, education, well-being. In the dominant narrative, you’re on your own and any failings are your own fault.

Values

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? 41 Mutualism harnesses the human tendency to collaborate, share, and construct institutions that last. 28 Yet an approach that prioritizes “Black faces in high places,” Pérez insists, is insufficient. Is substandard housing less dangerous because your landlord is Black?

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A Changing Reputation Modular home construction has existed in some form for over a century. Over the years, the mobile home has acquired a less desirable reputation, a stigma that the homes are cheaply made or associated with poverty. And the average construction cost of a manufactured home is just $90,000.

Manufacturing

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

iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In one, a poverty relief charity was described as either, “Meeting the immediate needs of people,” or “Creating lasting improvements that would benefit people in the future.” She can construct legacy “products” or giving opportunities that deliver this lasting impact. Health Communications, Inc. [13] Otherwise, it doesn’t.

Psychology

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. The state sent a strong message that it supported the interests of PG&E shareholders over public health, public safety, and skyrocketing utility bills.

Energy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

For Ngāti Maru, this loss has left a legacy of dislocation and dispossession,” Andrew Little, New Zealand’s minister of health and minister of the Treaty of Waitangi negotiations, told the audience. “They thought we were a dying race,” Māori activist and artist Tame Iti, told me.

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

million children out of poverty. By early 2023, however, Governor Tim Walz was declaring , “Now is the time to go bold” and pledged to “lead the nation in ending child poverty.” The regulatory changes for construction, warehouse, and meat packing workers are also significant. But many pieces of major legislation failed.

Public and Social Policy

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

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 12, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. So, I think the Affordable Care Act has expanded and stretched in meaningful ways.

Public and Social Policy