Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

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. What questions should you ask before starting a nonprofit?

Public and Social Policy 82

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

When the pandemic and government lockdown eliminated urban jobs, hundreds of thousands of people left Peru’s cities and walked home to their ancestral homelands. Community-Driven, Collective Leadership Community-driven, collective leadership is tough to measure or understand using surveys or quantitative research methodologies.

Leadership 105

Leadership Culture Poverty Public and Social Policy 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Over the following years, GSF leadership shifted their spending policy from a purely formulaic model to one informed not only by their perpetuity and investment goals but by their foundation’s mission and the current circumstances. What support do they need?

Philanthropy 120

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 120

Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

When nonprofits value the worth of their employees by creating competitive financial packages, recognizing that staff are choosing service work as a career, and prioritizing time to develop their skills and nurture their leadership, we can change how we have historically undervalued nonprofit employees, and everyone will benefit.

Poverty 52

Poverty Values Health Nonprofit governance and management 52

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

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

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? Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem. If not, why not?

Public and Social Policy 117

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

Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

Each year they give prizes ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 to 15 people over the age of 60 creating new and innovative ways to tackle tough social problems, from reforming education to improving healthcare, curbing global warming to ending poverty.

Social Entrepreneurship 28

Social Entrepreneurship Non-Profits Entrepreneurship Advertising 28

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Several recent studies reveal that, globally, people under 30 lack trust in their national governments, do not feel heard by politicians, and have lower levels of participation in national elections. Without their voice and leadership, any efforts at peace, reparation, and reconciliation will be incomplete.

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Public Policy 103

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

The BPRA would create a public energy option in New York by expanding the ability of the New York Power Authority, the state’s public utility, to finance, build, and operate affordable, reliable renewable energy. Last week, the Build Public Renewables Act passed in the New York State Senate.

Energy 101

Energy Non-Profits Poverty Environmental 101

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That philosophy has percolated in their own critiques of establishment philanthropy, which has historically relied on well-credentialed policy, government, and academic experts to solve social problems rather than relying on the immense reserve of local wisdom and practical experience.

Philanthropy 117

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Governance 117

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. The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

Public and Social Policy 110

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

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? But there are other avenues, too.

Law 130

Law Governance Leadership Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Center’s Population and Sustainability program works to decrease consumption of climate-intensive energy, food, and goods in the Global North. This includes toxic chemicals found in everyday products, used in pesticides, and released as pollution into the environment from energy extraction and industrial processes.

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

FEBRUARY 2, 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. “Some of the things we need now are actually dreams of the past.”

Technology 124

Technology Health Governance Manufacturing 124

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 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. If the question is not of desire, energy, or will, then perhaps the question is about tactics.

Governance 107

Governance Civil Society Homelessness Energy 107