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

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

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. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

Civil Society 88

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Energy 88

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. But what does systemic trauma actually look like? How can we recognize it when we experience it?

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 137

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members.

Energy 89

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 89

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? Obviously, the only entity with the assets and power structure to move this needle is the national government.

Public and Social Policy 120

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

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Issues related to justice, race, inequalities, affordability, and poverty are much less likely to be funded.” million to environmental law, $75.5 million to environmental law, $75.5 million went to 163 organizations for issues related to Indigenous rights, governance, and development. million to environmental health, $72.9

Environmental 91

Environmental Foundations Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 91

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 113

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 113

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. A majority of voters supported replacing private health insurance with a universal government plan.

Governance 90

Governance Insurance Homelessness Poverty 90

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. Can we get more resources from the government? The law did not help make it happen!

Law 132

Law Governance Leadership Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

Image Credit: Effi on istock There are two very different (and antagonistic) renewable energy models: the utility-centered, centralized energy model—the existing dominant one—and the community-centered, decentralized energy model—what energy justice advocates have been pushing for.

Energy 91

Energy Construction Environmental Governance 91

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

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

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

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Governance Poverty Healthcare 105