Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For most US-based foundations, the answer has traditionally been to focus on confined problem areas, projects like reducing malaria incidence, improving school attendance, or increasing access to safe drinking water. There are many reasons why foundations structure their giving in this way. And how can philanthropies fund it?

Production 132

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Health 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Current philanthropic work—as a leader of a prominent US-based foundation remarked at a recent Stanford PACS conference—leaves people exhausted. 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. Medicine 2.0 Medicine 2.0

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Given how US policing disproportionately harms Black, Brown, and poor communities, eliminating fare enforcement is not just an economic issue but a racial justice demand. Highway to Hell The existing US transportation system causes and perpetuates several social, economic, and environmental harms.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Environmental Health Economic Issues 106

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

And they’re not looking for a nonprofit grantmaking vehicle; they’re looking for ways to invest in, say, businesses that will sustain not only their immediate family but an entire community, because of threats that their families are facing—whether political threats or climate or economic issues. And foundations have budgets, too.

Philanthropy 95

Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Recruitment Foundations 95

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.” The intervention someone like Elon Musk needs is an entirely different economic arrangement. He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing.

Manufacturing 144

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 144