NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Ubuntu as Art Nearly two years later, on Earth Day 2024, our Cultural Arts Circle excitedly announced 40 winners for the Ubuntu Climate Initiatives inaugural Climate Arts and Storytelling Showcase. We are living in a patriarchal system that prioritizes power, profit, and a hypercompetitive culture that overvalues individualism.

Culture

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

There was never an inherited belief that I could be a scientist or a person who could have an environmental impact. We are fighting against grind culture, heteronormativity, transphobia, and racial injustice in nearly every corner of our existence. Maybe this alone was the inherited belief. Activism is healing for many of us.

Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 29, 2025

These environmental challenges make it clear that addressing sustainability in fashion is essential. This educational framework perpetuates the unsustainable practices of fast fashion , where speed and cost take precedence over environmental and social responsibility. Why have fashion education programs been slow to adapt?

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Why Biomedical Models Are Insufficient Biomedical models typically treat mental illness as a pathology localized in the brain, without considering how social factors—such as racial discrimination, economic insecurity, and environmental degradation—may have impacted the individual.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2025

Relying on ancestral forms of knowledge and governance, a pro- autonomous-governance structure fosters decision-making processes that reflect shared values, including pro- Earth values, ensuring control over their own Indigenous economic futures while preserving cultural traditions. But building a people-centered approach takes time.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Another path leads to it being purchased by a “farm incubator” who will make it available to refugee farmers growing culturally meaningful crops and contributing to their economic mobility. One path leads to this arable land being sold to a developer and turned into a small strip mall. Next, imagine where these crops go after harvesting.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 11, 2025

We see signals of such a redefinition in the One Health paradigm in management of zoonotic disease, which recognizes that the interconnections between human, animal, and environmental health, viewing each as part of a larger whole.

Agriculture

Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A fractional HR professional can provide support beyond the basics including performance management, culture development and creating healthy teams. million budget raising about $400,000/year. Similarly, an organization with 15 employees can’t afford a full-time HR person, but needs HR support beyond payroll.

Leadership

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Community & Culture Working together lifts everyone up! Learn how culturally responsive leadership can help bring out the best in your nonprofits team. This is a terrific example of nonprofits doing what they do best. Updates by topic! Strategic planning for your nonprofit doesnt have to be a painful process.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 16, 2025

Nelson leads a network of some 130 financial activists, who seek to “shift the flow of capital and power to solve social and environmental problems.” Recalibrating how people in power assess risk and share control takes more than new term sheets; it demands emotional intelligence, cultural context, and care integrated into governance norms.

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

While there is tremendous latitude within the solidarity economy to encompass a wide range of approachesgrounded in the local realities of culture, language, history, political-social-economic contexts, and the environmenthere are some core elements of the definition that apply across these specificities: The solidarity economy is a f ramework.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Or take Climate Change AI : This environmental nonprofit leverages machine learning to tackle pressing climate challenges, fostering collaboration among climate scientists, technologists, and local community organizations, to build collective knowledge and solutions that advance conservation efforts.

Collaborations

Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

But there are also multiple underlying economic, social, and cultural influences driving that trend, including poor financial well-being, less available free time, and the cyclical nature of volunteerism. Financial well-being and natural cycles impact volunteerism The COVID-19 pandemic no doubt contributed to the decline in volunteerism.

Volunteerism

Anedot

MAY 21, 2025

Their work spans critical areas such as food security, mental health, education, environmental stewardship, and community empowerment. Her culturally responsive team, 90% of whom identify as people of color, reflects the communities they serve. She also led initiatives supporting veterans and women’s education in Kenya.

Nonprofit Leadership

Anedot

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

goes to waste, contributing significantly to environmental damage, with global food waste ranking as the third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions behind the U.S. Foster and maintain a culture of excellence, including systems to manage, monitor, and improve staff performance, volunteer engagement, and service delivery.

Management

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In order to do so We Must Build Parameters to Protect Our Most Vulnerable Populations and Precious Resources The relationship between AI and its environmental impact is both intricate and far-reaching. Artificial intelligence based e-waste management for environmental planning, Environmental Impact Assessment Review 87 (March 2021): 106498.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 21, 2025

unequal access to benefits or community conflict or fatigue), environmental (overexploitation of natural resources), or financial (redundancy and inefficiency, market distortion overlapping financial support), and how can they be proactively identified and mitigated? Vision-level.

Collaborations

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Public institutions such as housing development and/or finance agencies, housing trust funds, planning departments, zoning boards, and environmental agencies play dominant roles in policy implementation. But the roots of housing profit-making are intertwined with complex social, cultural, and political dynamics.

Public and Social Policy

Selfish Giving

JANUARY 8, 2025

Party City sells reusable bags in all stores, with a portion of proceeds going to Wounded Nature-Working Veterans , which assembles volunteers to remove debris from coastal areas, aiding environmental cleanup efforts. Customers can donate at checkout, with 100% of the funds going toward providing free mental health educational resources. "But

Retail

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Case of the Disappearing Bees In Rashayya, located in the southeast corner of the country, an urgent environmental and social challenge emerged as the region grappled with a multitude of issues, including wildfires and excessive pesticide use, that posed a threat to its natural resources.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Core questions your board should be asking to support loving accountability: Is your organization achieving the deeper social, racial, and environmental justice impact that you hope to achieve? Is the organizations leadership building a healthy and effective work culture that supports diverse staff and is responsive to community needs?

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

22 YBCL, our flagship program, supports a growing, vibrant ecosystem of young Black leaders between the ages of 18 and 28 who are successfully advocating for and transforming their communities toward racial and environmental justice. My YBCL] award has helped take my work to the next level. Bikomeye et al., 16 (August 2021): 8420.

Environmental

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

Federal grants make up about a third of nonprofit funding through direct grants, state pass-throughs, and other mechanisms for everything from scientific research to education to arts and culture to critical services for children and families. That contractor doing environmental restoration? That State funding?

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 29, 2025

But he also contends that the retailer needs a culture change from the top down. I get, like, two, three, four phone calls a day from just random people from the environmental movement and some from the workers movement who are members of the co-op, Gebre says.

Retail

Anedot

APRIL 9, 2025

This position may continue beyond the summer as part-time or full-time as a field specialist for our on-going environmental education youth programs.

Curriculum and Teaching

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 23, 2025

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. share comment print order reprints related stories By Daniela Papi-Thornton Jun.

Participation and motivation

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. Native communitieshave developed a strong sense of Native justice centered on sovereignty, land stewardship, culture, and language. Culture and language, and their preservation, are also critical to Native conceptions of justice and political strategy.

Public and Social Policy

Candid

MAY 6, 2025

as separate from faith-based organizations that may provide broader nonprofit services) than to any other cause, including social services, the environment, and arts and culture. Giving to environmental groups, Gen Zs third-most supported cause in 2021, dropped to eighth.

Participation and motivation

Fundraising Leadership

JULY 18, 2025

The Disruptor Award for Power Tool #4, Embrace Controversy, is awarded to Joy Donnell, cultural strategist, writer, co-founder of CIME and author of "Beyond Brand" and "Show Us Your Fire." powerup ” This Power Tool offers important lessons for not just personal change, but possible cultural transformation.

Leadership

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 1, 2025

Without being able to show the predicted environmental destruction from the proposed pipeline, the outcries of local environmental groups were too theoretical and difficult to explain. For decades, information about oil and gas operations has been buried in regulatory filings, environmental assessments, and technical reports.

Environmental

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 27, 2025

In our individualist culture, parents undergoing this developmental shift often do so in isolation, with little to no assistance and, at times, with considerable resistance. This sets them on the path to parenthood with a fractured foundationone that underpins all other environmental conditions affecting their wellbeing.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

Informal networks of social supports do existas they have for millenniaand help people manage the challenges they face; however, under the atomizing pressure of our economy and culture, these supports are often too underresourced to fill in the gaps. The United States is in a societal mental health crisis. And so much less human.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These documents include the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025 , ASEAN Community Vision 2025 , and the 2021 ASEAN Declaration on the Gender-Responsive Implementation of the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2017.

Universities

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

1 These populations often face heightened exposure to environmental hazards such as rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and air pollution. 9 Integrating these technologies into K–12 education would enhance students’ understanding of climate change and prepare them to address environmental challenges effectively.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

48 Additionally, US and Chinese multinational corporations are establishing an imperial-like control over digital ecosystems, leading to increased surveillance and disproportionate influence over economics, politics, and culture. article/cambridge-analytica-chris-wylie-brexit-trump-britain-data-protection-privacy -facebook/.

Race and Ethnicity

Anedot

APRIL 24, 2025

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (KIB) is an environmental and community nonprofit with a mission to help people and nature thrive. PLEASE NOTE: Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 27, 2025

It has become common wisdom in the social sector that too much philanthropic capital is sitting on the sidelines, even as the world faces extraordinary social, political, and environmental challenges. Nor have the cultures of these firms been designed with an inclusion and belonging lens for BIPOC or female leaders.

Philanthropy