NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At this year’s sector conference, organized by the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a sellout crowd of over 2,200 people participated and considered where CDFIs needed to go and what they needed to do. Grzywinski conceded this was wrong: “We underestimated the passion and motivation of the people running not-for-profit organizations.”

Nonprofit Administration and Development 92

Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 92

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As a way of appreciating a donor and making them feel connected…seek their input, or participation in any process you have giving away scholarships, even if the donor is just there to observe the process. Can donors participate in building, feeding, clothing, digging, writing, driving, or anything else you do? Touch the work.

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Activism Education 134

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. Participation is the path to learning. Where are we not putting our energy? And lastly, energy. . Okay, great. So let’s see oops, yeah.

Nonprofit governance and management 123

Nonprofit governance and management Energy Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management 123

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. We are motivated to run the campaigns that we do because we want to live in a world where Black people and people of color can thrive.

Non-Profits 90

Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management Finance Nonprofit governance and management 90

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As discussed above, this understanding motivates us as funders to leave behind familiar but limited, single-point perspectives and work from a more whole and systemic picture. Overfocusing on what can be easily monitored from a distance often wastes money, time, and energy, and leads service providers to contort their strategies to fit.

Participation and motivation 112

Participation and motivation Health Culture Environmental 112

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 movement is motivated by the belief system that harm has been done that warrants repair and healing is necessary to prevent the drivers of our inequity from being repeated. “My

Philanthropy 142

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Culture Foundations 142

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 80

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 80

Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 7, 2021

As a way of appreciating a donor and making them feel connected…seek their input, or participation in any process you have giving away scholarships, even if the donor is just there to observe the process. Can donors participate in building, feeding, clothing, digging, writing, driving, or anything else you do? Touch the work.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Education Education 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As we move toward a just energy transition, public participation in energy regulatory processes must shift. Such participation, which requires clear pathways to engagement, accessible information, and dialogue, is critical to a just transition. Public Participation. Image Credit: Luca Nardone on pexels.

Energy 88

Energy Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Environmental 88

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. Where politically motivated captivity for civil rights activists loomed, bail funds responded.

Public and Social Policy 77

Public and Social Policy Activism Leadership Philanthropy 77

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. And they may be more motivated by threats to these other aspects of self than their identity as a worker.

Public and Social Policy 84

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 84

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. People are motivated by goals. Do you have functioning committees with charters and ample participation from your community? Most organizations are tortoises, not hares.

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’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 74

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 74

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? percent.

Public and Social Policy 69

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 69

Fundraising Leadership

MAY 26, 2023

Alter Women in Government Lecture. “ Alter Women in Government Lecture. ” Hopeful about the goal of bipartisanship, Clinton says after the 2016 election, she was inspired by the momentum of those identifying as women participating in elections as candidates, supporters and civic leaders as well as citizen participants.

Participation and motivation 98

Participation and motivation Citizen Participation Recruitment Governance 98