NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Then, we’ve been trying to compare the information given by the federal government and the one been given by the Puerto Rico government, which was usually different in terms of the amount of money. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. The wording, the categories of the information.

Governance 134

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 134

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

Earlier in 2023, NPQ reported about a landmark case where multiple small island nations argued before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea that bigger countries should be held responsible for polluting beyond their borders. have serious health and safety hazards, such as gas leaks, damaged plumbing, and poor heating.

Construction 63

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 63

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

But at the EconCon conference held in Washington, DC, in June, hosted by the Omidyar Network and a dozen nonprofit think tanks, speakers offered a far broader definition of public power— namely, the power of government to act on behalf of the public. Why focus on “public power”? But the power of industrial policy extends further.

Public and Social Policy 83

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Insurance Public and Nonprofit Management 83

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Taking on issues from housing segregation to mental health services to sustainable transportation in their contract fights, these workers are showing that labor power is key to fighting for climate justice in communities. As both public-sector and care workers, teachers are essential to society’s functioning.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 132

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream.

Public Policy 77

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 77

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 30, 2023

In particular, we are racing to substitute one energy-generating technology (combustion) and the natural resources on which it depends for others while ignoring ecological and social consequences. Take nickel, a key component of EV batteries as it increases energy storage and mileage per charge. history,” awarding more than $13.8

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Environmental Energy Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Much of this struggle takes place outside government, but the role of the state is important. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Democracy (OECD)—a group of 41 relatively wealthy nations, including the United States—in 2019, US government spending (federal, state, and local) equaled 38.1 This gets complicated.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Governance Poverty Healthcare 105

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

They create a suite of environmental problems: from high carbon emissions as trees and soils burn; to public health emergencies when wildfires hit towns and smoke affects distant cities; to water contamination compounding regional drought. Modern land management practices such as fire suppression and logging make forests likelier to burn.

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 91

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 24, 2024

While communities in Merced and Long Beach both used “uniform complaint procedures” to hold their districts accountable for violations of laws or regulation, their capacities were different. The Garfield Foundation offers a different example of how networks with capacity achieve systems change that evades individual groups.

Civil Society 104

Civil Society Energy Collaborations Leadership 104

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Taylor and Molly Blondell surveyed over 30,000 environmental and public health grants distributed by 220 foundations, which awarded approximately $4.9 Tier II grant categories go beyond the traditional environment and health topic areas. million to environmental law, $75.5 million to environmental health, $72.9

Environmental 91

Environmental Foundations Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 91

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Food changes into blood, blood into cells, cells change into energy which changes up into life. In the process, we empower ourselves to transform the systems that govern our world. Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “The Face of Climate Change.” food is life.

Food 137

Food Culture Agriculture Health 137

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

Image Credit: Ibrahim Hafeez on pexels.com To solve our most pressing challenges, we need the total sum of human intelligence and emancipatory energy in our society. Inclusion and equity across every level of tech design, deployment, and governance is crucial. This includes the expertise and leadership of people with disabilities.

Technology 112

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 112

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The key argument in your book is about capitalism being a toxic partner that we all need to break up with, that’s jealous or draining our energy or negging or gaslighting us. A majority of voters supported replacing private health insurance with a universal government plan. Can we create laws to give people money?

Governance 90

Governance Insurance Homelessness Poverty 90

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? It remains encapsulated in a rigid legal straitjacket that limits its ability to react with agility to meet pressing social and economic needs and opportunities, such as the upcoming wave of solar energy development. If not, why not?

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Even the transition to renewable energy is threatened by a shortage of some 7 million workers needed to do things like install solar panels on roofs. They may fund “justice” but rarely target laws that force willing employers to deny someone a job because of their nationality.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 16, 2023

It also has an adverse impact on workforce productivity and inflicts economic losses on workers whose health and working conditions are affected by extreme heat. Mayors and city governments are increasingly seen as “doers” rather than “delayers” because they find themselves on the front line of the climate crisis.

Health 79

Health Public and Social Policy Energy Collaborations 79

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

In June, Rhode Island’s attorney general announced a civil lawsuit against Pioneer Investments, accusing the landlord of failing to comply with a slew of state health and safety laws—a virtually unprecedented move, organizers say, and a major victory for the group.

Psychology 83

Psychology Health Law Energy 83

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 110

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 1, 2023

Julian’s own organization worried about surveillance, and comrades warned their collective about philanthropy being a short-term Band-Aid, and how the government uses nonprofit grants to defang social movements by ways of compliance. First, consider the government. In 2023, these discussions feel like premonitions.

Public and Social Policy 86

Public and Social Policy Activism Leadership Philanthropy 86

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?

Public and Social Policy 77

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 77

Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wade that for 50 years had assured women they, not the government, could control their bodies and childbearing decisions, has turned what Roe’ s architect Justice Harry Blackmun called “a chill wind” into a blizzard worthy of The Handmaid’s Tale. Former President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010.

Leadership 52

Leadership Health Children Insurance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Center works with a combination of science, law, activism, and creative media to protect the lands, waters, and climate that people, wildlife, and all types of communities and ecosystems need to survive. The US has 5% of the world’s population but consumes 30% of the world’s resources and creates 30% of the world’s waste.”

Agriculture 83

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 83

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Starting a nonprofit requires a decent amount of time and energy. Consider whether your community has a wide range of potential giving sources willing to help out, including individual donors , corporate sponsors, foundations, and government agencies. Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community.

Public and Social Policy 81

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

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

7 This means that in 2020, the year of the so-called racial reckoning, “one of the largest financial [government] bailouts since the Great Depression” actually served to further the racial wealth gap. 6 Specifically, Black-owned businesses were less likely to obtain PPP loans from banks due to the racial biases of lenders.

Non-Profits 96

Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management Finance Nonprofit governance and management 96

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Through my study and experiences, I’ve come to think and speak of cooperatives themselves as ancestral technology, the ancient sankofa energy of looking to our past to innovate for our futures. At the beginning of 2020, we completed our bylaws with the support of the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Then the pandemic hit.

Technology 110

Technology Culture Manufacturing Insurance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As Sarita Gupta and I note in our book The Future We Need , a healthy democracy is a system in which all people have various pathways to consult, confer with, and collectively govern themselves. 37 We’ve seen Toys “R” Us workers push back against financiers to force their way into corporate governance in 2019.

Public and Social Policy 93

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 93

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

And as nonprofits moved away from their member-driven and member-funded mutual aid and organizing roots, they took on a hierarchical structure modeled after corporate culture, became dependent on grants from foundations/government, and became run by “expert” staff to provide services or lead advocacy efforts.

Leadership 103

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 103

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In the corporate and nonprofit spheres alike, mental and emotional energy, fresh ideas, and time are just a few of the many resources routinely (though often unintentionally) relegated to the dust bin. Lesson 2: Understand the laws. And wasted materials extend beyond excess food. 3 3 Lesson 3: Create partnerships.

Food 93

Food Law Nonprofits Governance 93

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

According to the 2022 United Nations climate change report, 40 percent of the world’s population is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, meaning their physical and mental health is already affected by climate-related diseases and extreme natural events. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

Civil Society 83

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Energy 83

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When we don't have the means to process the impact of the experience, our autonomic nervous system fragments off the related energy and information from our awareness, but we hold it unconsciously in our body and mind until we heal from it. Yet the impact of trauma remains all but absent from mainstream discourse about systems change.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, philanthropy’s role in reparations is not to replace the federal government in providing the scale of redress and racial healing the nation needs. The research was commissioned by If foundation (formerly known as Consumer Health Foundation), whose own wealth origin story is included. “If

Philanthropy 143

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Culture Foundations 143

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And I would argue that engagement is probably where 75% or 80% of your communication’s energy should be investment. I often think of engagement as crossing over all of these areas, from fundraising to your programs to, you know, community-based advocacy, government relations. Who could you engage with?

Public and Nonprofit Management 121

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Communication Public and Social Policy 121