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. Island nations are extremely vulnerable. It’s a consumer protection,” Casa Grande mayor McFarland told NPR.

Construction 62

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 62

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

Reparations are a concept rooted in international law that involves specific forms of repair to specific individuals, groups of people, or nations for specific harms they have experienced in violation of their human rights. Leadership,” Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, accessed February 12, 2023, trustbasedphilanthropy.org /leadership.

Philanthropy 105

Philanthropy Foundations Culture Public and Social Policy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

In 2021, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 54 percent of all public school districts required updates of at least two major systems, including HVAC systems, roofing, and structural integrity. Indeed, the workforce driving a green transition will include not only energy and industry workers but also care and social workers.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 130

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 82

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 82

The Kindful Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

All businesses need four things to survive: a brilliant idea, a great business plan, top-notch leadership and money. Do you have the time and energy to run it? Bylaws are the main governing document of your nonprofit and will act as a guide and decision-making tool for the board of directors. If not, how will you get the funds?

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Law Governance 105

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. This includes the expertise and leadership of people with disabilities. Yet institutions and funders continue to underinvest in their leadership and expertise.

Technology 111

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 111

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. 13 Nor has the movement adequately acknowledged the Black, Indigenous, and diasporic communities of color whose work and leadership it drew from.

Food 136

Food Culture Agriculture Health 136

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. Others have embarked on a collective healing process. But what does systemic trauma actually look like?

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

All sectors have a role to play in achieving climate justice, but it’s fair to say that compared to government and civil society, business is late in addressing the challenge and is in fact frequently called out as part of the problem. The tech company Meta, for example, powers its US data centers with 100 percent renewable energy.

Civil Society 86

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Energy 86

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As a National Leadership Team member and volunteer for Mothers Out Front, I am modeling that by organizing parents here in Virginia and around the country to advocate for a just transition to electric school buses. United States , was filed in 2015 against the US government. This is especially true for cash-strapped school districts.

Children 102

Children Health Law Energy 102

Nonprofit Fixer

MARCH 29, 2022

In the world of electoral politics, government, and democracy term limits are an innovation. The thinking goes that if an elected government is in office for a long time, they can become corrupt, lazy, or consolidate too much power. Making laws makes you powerful. It takes years to govern well. Even for nonprofit boards.

Governance 52

Governance Energy Recruitment Law 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Good governance includes decision-making plus oversight, right? So good governance is not just the job of the board, the nonprofit needs to have good governance, the board’s job should be to provide the oversight, which means they’re not going to make any decisions except that one of hiring and firing the executive director. .

Nonprofit governance and management 93

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Food Activism 93

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 85

Public and Social Policy Activism Leadership Philanthropy 85

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

But after World War II and continuing through the 1970s, there was a concerted effort to make labor law harsher, to rule certain workers out of the labor movement, and to perfect the art of union busting. Can we get more resources from the government? In some ways, laws don’t matter when it comes to organized worker power.

Law 130

Law Governance Leadership Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 8, 2023

Image Credit: Jorm Sangsorn on istock.com Worldwide, civil society—from NGOs to grassroots activist groups to social movements to unions—is being undermined by global conflict, suppressive governments, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the spread of disinformation.

Civil Society 87

Civil Society Governance Law Taxation 87

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 110

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

The Black Leader’s Burden In the past three years, many of us who have been advancing justice initiatives have either questioned or outright criticized traditional top-down leadership as one root cause of the perpetuation of structural racism. The Aspen Institute’s definition of the term is instructive here. They seek to unionize.

Leadership 96

Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 96

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For example, corporate and philanthropic dollars don’t always flow toward economic justice movements for a variety of reasons, which include everything from a lack of understanding of new leadership and organizational structures to grappling with supporting leaders of color dismantling systems of economic and social oppression.

Public and Social Policy 117

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

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They’ve organized and led protests, testified in front of government officials and international bodies, and—more recently— taken their battles to the courts , seeking to slow the impacts of climate change through legal channels. School buildings across America are old, in disrepair, and energy inefficient.

Energy 107

Energy Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental Nonprofit governance and management 107

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2023

2 Through 15 years of developing more sophisticated climate justice policies and advocacy strategies, the California EJ movement’s climate leadership is shining. BIPOC organizers envisioned how EJ could live and thrive in government planning to meet climate goals. I’ve seen colonizers decimate our people, from Asia to the Americas.

Environmental 85

Environmental Public and Social Policy Energy Law 85

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 91

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 91

Nonprofit Fixer

JULY 23, 2020

Remember, we started our nonprofits to solve problems, not to spend all our energy proving our worth and asking “how high” when funders tell us to jump. Is your organization complying with laws like Sarbanes-Oxley, IRS lobbying and election rules, and other best practices? Most organizations are tortoises, not hares. REVERSE SCENARIO.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Nonprofit governance and management 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. Wellspring’s leadership began to think more broadly about livelihoods—how people, families, and communities provide for themselves.

Agriculture 81

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 81

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 76

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 76

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As noted by Native Americans in Philanthropy, Tribal Nations, through their nation-to-nation relationships with the federal government and their deep knowledge of the ecosystems they steward, bring unique tools and resources to the 30×30 movement. Department of Energy Tribal programs. percent of total US generation potential.

Philanthropy 87

Philanthropy Nonprofit Administration and Development Energy Nonprofit governance and management 87

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 95

Manufacturing Environmental Energy Governance 95

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 75

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

Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Her words and her demeanor were a summation of her style of leadership. Presence Like so many women of her generation, especially those who were first to hold powerful leadership roles, Speaker Pelosi displays a measured affect even under the most challenging situations. But it’s only powerful if it’s used. And when not to.

Leadership 52

Leadership Health Children Insurance 52