Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Aruta & Kelly Davis A convergence is happening between the climate and mental health movements, and social impact practitioners need to pay attention. Characterizing the relationship between these two complex problems is often challenging because the true tolls of the mental health and climate crises are inseparable.

Health 99

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 99

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Image Credit: Reneé Thompson on unsplash.com COVID-19 impacted the physical health of millions across the country, hitting marginalized communities the hardest. Less visible was the pandemic’s impact on behavioral health, an umbrella term for mental health, substance use disorders, and life stressors.

Health 85

Health Public and Social Policy Governance Collaborations 85

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

According to The World Health Organization , of the 1 billion people around the world currently experiencing a mental disorder, more than 80% are without any form of quality, affordable care. And with the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on mental health, there has never been a more important time than now to address mental health conditions. .

Health 98

Health Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Healthcare 98

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

Values 104

Values Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Public and Nonprofit Management 104

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

Health 73

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 73

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? Some refer to this as the “ data divide ”—the increasing gap between the use of data to maximize profit and the use of data to solve social problems.

Public and Social Policy 103

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

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com It’s not often that a body of work comes along that makes us ask big questions about the nonprofit sector. Claire Dunning’s new book, Nonprofit Neighborhoods , is one. In it, she not only traces the development of the nonprofit sector.

Public and Social Policy 107

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 107

Non Profitvote

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Traditionally less publicized, state and local elections often see turnout rates much lower and less representative of a given community when compared to midterm and presidential elections. As trusted members of the community, it is possible voters may look to your nonprofit for guidance when talking about upcoming elections.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Activism Education 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 5, 2023

Public institution spending dwarfs private philanthropy in most countries in the world. billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. By Kevin Tan & Nadia Ahmad Samdin. In the United States , private philanthropy totaled $176.7

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 104

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. No reparations policies have passed into law yet. We are committed.

Philanthropy 110

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 110

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

After a decade of organizing to move debt cancellation from the margins to the center of national policy debates, the movement to cancel student debt continues to gain ground, as NPQ’s Rithika Ramamurthy documented earlier this year. Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 115

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 114

Candid

MAY 8, 2024

Three key factors include a lack of strong work-family policies, occupational segregation, and gender discrimination. Challenging gender norms The United States remains the only industrialized economy without a national paid leave policy that would enable employees to take time off from work to care for loved ones without sacrificing income.

Race and Ethnicity 64

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Construction Medical 64

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. Consider the climate crisis. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.

Nonprofit governance and management 135

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 135

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

At this uncertain time, as the potential use-cases of generative AI begin to become apparent, there are at least 10 things that funders can do to help the existing field of tech-related nonprofits—and society at large—better prepare. The future is now. Due this summer, it is now several months behind.

Civil Society 97

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 97

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Following the retirement of a long-standing CEO, I assumed the top job for a sprawling organization with a rich history, commitment to enabling social change agents, and an opportunity to leave a mark on our work and city. Our nation and Baltimore were thrust into a public reckoning on racial injustice and systemic inequality.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Leadership Energy 130

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 102

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Governance 102

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Several of FHO’s members, including the authors of this article, have extensive experience in addressing the unhoused end of the housing continuum—from funding direct services for people who have lost housing, to supporting efforts to change eviction policies and practices, to investing in the development of new supportive housing.

Homelessness 104

Homelessness Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations 104

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. Fortunately, existing policy tools can address this.

Public and Social Policy 79

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Finance Nonprofit governance and management 79

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Culture Health 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Innovators, company founders, and other tech enthusiasts have long tried to sell the public on the idea that AI will create a path to a brighter future. An ecosystem of scientist- and scholar-led nonprofit organizations has emerged to fight bias in AI systems.

Public and Social Policy 93

Public and Social Policy Ethics Race and Ethnicity Law 93

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

“THE MAN ON THE HILL” BY EKOW BREW/ WWW.EKOWBREW.COM Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ’s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.” These ideas are rooted in histories of oppression, from colonialism to eugenics, and have been integrated into our present-day systems and policies.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Medical Health Leadership 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.”. Increasingly, media coverage frames Black maternal health as a “crisis.” The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population.

Health 114

Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy Ethics 114

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 2 It has been edited for publication here. 2 It has been edited for publication here. Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.”

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 106

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Dozens of states and localities passed new short- and long-term protections for tenants and explored new kinds of partnerships with nonprofit and community groups. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better. As the pandemic continues into its third year, many aspire to a return to “normal.”

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Foundations 109

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. Around 30% of nonprofits cease to exist within 10 years of their founding.

Public and Social Policy 81

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 81

Candid

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A weekly update with the latest social sector news. Study finds significant connection between poverty, poor health care. Released in collaboration with Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy and the Leona M. Harvard Graduate School of Education receives $40 million gift. February 4, 2022.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Poverty Healthcare Social Policy 52

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our research is oriented toward shifting the frontier in terms of big, visionary policy….It’s At the same time, if we’re going to inject a huge amount of funding into the economy, we should do it in a way that greens the economy, to protect our health and economic well-being long-term.” But we do, in fact, have $370 billion coming in.

Public and Social Policy 72

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Public and Nonprofit Management Energy 72

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

Collaborations 117

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 117

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Nonprofits Activism Leadership 144

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. MEGA’s efforts have expanded to include youth leadership and mentorship, community engagement, and health education.

Food 110

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 110

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.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Governance Leadership 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives.

Energy 82

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 82

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Breath and brotherhood are enormously important to the work of the collective of socially engaged artist-activists that I cofounded several years ago. If we rely solely on the world of traditional LGBTQIA+ philanthropy and the nonprofit-industrial complex, we will suffocate and die. Holding my breath. Creating space to breathe freely.

Race and Ethnicity 116

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Culture Philanthropy 116

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Israel and its policies have been widely embraced, with notable exceptions , by US elected officials and much of the US political establishment. The nonprofit and its actions are often viewed as controversial. But support for each side in the United States has taken different forms. We have over 70 chapters across the country….We

Public and Social Policy 75

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 75

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The crippling polarization of Congress; the antidemocratic rhetoric and actions of the far right to undermine voting, education, and academic freedoms, among other aspects of civil society ; and, of course, the dark chapter of the January 6, 2020, attacks on the US Capitol—all arguably represent threats to American democracy itself.

Civil Society 65

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Governance 65

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 4, 2021

3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits. Are you looking to boost your Nonprofit’s Fundraising? million nonprofit organizations registered by the Internal Revenue Service as of 2016 (data by the National Center for Charitable Statistics ) are one of the largest contributing forces of the US economy with a total 5.5%

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Fundraising Fundraising 52