NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

The goal of the program is to increase the educational performance of students of color. And they are being outperformed consistently,” Monique Parsons, vice president of ETHS’s board of education told the Wall Street Journal this November. Integration is a positive social good,” Eden told the WSJ.

Education 62

Education Education Public and Social Policy Law 62

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 14, 2024

Like an earthquake is the sudden culmination of years of building tension, the dramatic shifts in America’s racial and education justice landscape over the last decade emerged from trends long preceding it. Data from the National Center for Education Statistics tells us that as of 2021, public school students in the U.S.

Education 73

Education Education Philanthropy Foundations 73

The Charity CFO

JUNE 1, 2022

Houda Elyazgi joins A Modern Nonprofit to talk about building integrated and strategic communication campaigns to help build momentum and get public support for your most important initiatives. Houda is committed to making the world better through her work in diversity, equality, education and public policy. Or here ??.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Communication Public Policy Education 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This number is somewhat deceptive since it includes large public companies where the only employee benefit is stock ownership. Given this recent investment in outreach and education efforts, coupled with heightened interest from local governments, we expect to see many more employee-owned businesses statewide in the next five years.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 102

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today?

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By Paul Cann Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early death; these are also linked to anxiety, depression, suicide, dementia, and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.

Health 117

Health Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 117

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 132

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 132

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? So, what keeps them alive today?

Public and Social Policy 95

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 95

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 111

Values Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Public and Nonprofit Management 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

Almeida defines structural racism as a broadening of the notion of institutional racism, and argues that institutions are only the materialization of a social structure or a means of socialization whose components include racism. And while unemployment plagues 11.3 Wages reflect the same disparity.

Public and Social Policy 66

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Poverty 66

Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Candid’s Issue Lab is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing social sector knowledge. Here we highlight some of the most popular publications from 2023.  HBCUs have been critical in educating Black people, developing Black leaders, and addressing inequality throughout U.S. communities face.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Education Education 119

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 95

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 95

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 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. Of course, the drug war is not the only reason why reparations are required.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. After all, social justice is by nature utopian. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 96

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In this interview with NPQ , The Sentencing Project’s codirector of research, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, discusses the series, particularly the last installment, which examines how mass incarceration deepens inequality and harms public safety. Better investments could be made with public resources.” How can this disparity be combated?

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 108

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 22, 2024

By Natalia Kucirkova Educational technology, or ed-tech, shares some crucial similarities with fintech. Moreover, ed-tech’s customers are often vulnerable users, particularly in the case of children with special educational needs or those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Here are four ways to unite the ed-tech impact ecosystem: 1.

Public and Social Policy 61

Public and Social Policy Finance Education Education 61

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 28, 2024

Among its seven editors is Dorothy Cilenti, a clinical professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dorothy Cilenti: I started out in governmental public health. How do we build programs and policies that are equity-centered and recognize the inequities in maternal and child health outcomes?

Public and Social Policy 84

Public and Social Policy Health Medical Race and Ethnicity 84

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“But on the issue of racial justice, it does not match its presentation to the rest of the nation.” Brutus is also senior counsel for the Economic Justice Program of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice , which is serving as an organizational and logistical backbone of the New Jersey Reparations Council.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Health Leadership Environmental 139

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I've been to the conferences and workshops, read the listservs, talked to the researchers and read some of the research, played with the public tools. Lots of executive orders and unfunded government mandates and policy proposals pushed by tech companies. Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash Ah, AI. Can't avoid it. Lots of press.

Public and Social Policy 59

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 59

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. Unfortunately, the success of this transfer process is hit-and-miss and thus slows social innovation.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 89

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 12, 2024

Driven by the belief that strong communities are built on effective, evidence-based policies, she brings a specific data-informed lens to her role and is passionate about identifying ways for nonprofits to measure and share their impact with others. What has your work in public policy taught you?

Public and Social Policy 76

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public Policy Universities 76

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 120

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 120

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As Barber noted, a 2020 report by Robert Paul Hartley, an assistant professor of social work at Columbia University, found that 34 million eligible poor or low-income voters did not vote in 2016. “We Housing security is public health. Her death is the result of policy choices,” Lawrence said.

Poverty 99

Poverty Public and Social Policy Healthcare Homelessness 99

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2020

Once supporters choose a charity to fundraise for, they can share their fundraiser with friends and family on social media to rally around their cause. Share upcoming events that your nonprofit is organizing with your audience through social media and email marketing campaigns so that they can schedule the upcoming month accordingly.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Altruism and Helping Public Policy Participation and motivation 128

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2023

What policies are further perpetuating inequities? 2016–2020: Crucial recognition of the impact of social determinants on health outcomes—such as housing or food insecurity—increased. Two decades later, attendees asked: Are we making progress toward addressing those inequities? We are highly regulated,” she shared.

Health 100

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Race and Ethnicity 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern. The future is now.

Civil Society 85

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 85

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. AJL combines “art and research to illuminate the social implications and harms of AI.”

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Ethics Race and Ethnicity Law 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While the legal impact of the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action was limited to higher education, it has already had ripple effects across the charitable sector. Meanwhile, the structural, societal changes we seek do not happen on their own; they require policy advocacy.

Nonprofit governance and management 101

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Ethics Foundations 101

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. Because of this, you may discuss the pros and cons of a ballot measure unless it is your organization’s policy not to.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Activism Education 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

By Stephan Manning & Yeşim Uygur Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the socioeconomic structures around them. However, artists and artistic projects have the power to do much more.

Leadership 94

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

By Kartik Akileswaran , Jonathan Mazumdar & Angela Perez Albertos “When I was preparing to come to Delhi for a job, everyone in the village laughed and asked how it was possible that my village education would find me a job in a big city," recalled a 22-year-old Tabassum Naaz in 2010. Education is not the silver bullet.

Manufacturing 108

Manufacturing Education Education Foundations 108

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. There are communities like hers all over America. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

Health 96

Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 96

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 121

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 121

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Image credit: Ridofranz on istock.com A new US Department of Labor rule restores protections for misclassified workers and could help reduce the precarious status of freelance journalists, according to Samantha Sanders of the Economic Policy Institute. These protections are sorely needed in an industry buffeted by layoffs.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Law Insurance Non-Profits 94

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 117

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 117

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

The conversations remain small and overdue, but recent momentum is notable with new organizations , publications, resources, and frameworks exploring how philanthropy can—and, in the eyes of many, should—engage the movement for reparations in the United States. That remains true even if that wealth was donated to promote a public good.

Philanthropy 121

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Advertising Universities 121

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. In Education. We see the same thing in organizations focused on educational attainment. By Jim Bildner & Stephanie Khurana.

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Public and Social Policy Health Governance Education 101