NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? Attaining equity in health isnt always about bringing the resources of the rich to the poor. The United States is in a societal mental health crisis. Image Credit: Dall-E by OpenAI.

Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

Thats why, in public policy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. We need policies that support a robust system of IP rights in order to develop successful AI models. In health care, AI wont just assist in taking notes and suggesting diagnoses. Strong IP protections are key to this process.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Limited access to education is also a social vulnerability: the systemic barriers further exacerbate the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities. The climate crisis is an urgent and pervasive threat, and it disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

Race and Ethnicity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 2, 2025

By Amanda Williams , Lucrezia Nava & Gail Whiteman In President Trumps second term, a variety of executive actions have reversed social progress. The head of the EPA has asked the White House to repeal the endangerment finding, which says that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare, contradicting climate science.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

About a decade ago, those of us working toward social, racial, and economic justice in Boston and across Massachusetts were in fight mode. In 2014, BWA members teamed with Latine workers from Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH)’s immigrant worker center to launch CERO.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

These cuts have collectively disrupted access to essential services such as education, health care, and livelihoods support for vulnerable communities across the region. With the reduction of aid support, Asian philanthropists now face a pressing question: How do we stay the course toward our impact goals?

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

The orders provisions, if implemented, would deny bargaining rights for government workers across a wide range of departments, including at State, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Health and Human Services, Treasury, Justice, and Homeland Security. Federal workers themselves face villainization.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 22, 2025

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Dwidar Jul.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2025

Within the first 100 days of taking office, the Donald Trump administration issued a barrage of executive orders and policy changes to infringe upon the rights of LGBTQ+ community members. Other services under threat are mental health programs that serve as lifelines for queer youth. The federal government is keeping pace.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

The incoming Trump administration also aims to limit federal agency power regarding social welfare. The Threat Human rights encompass the political rights of speech, voting, and liberty, as well as the economic human rights to adequate food, housing, education, health, income security, and work.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2025

Then there are the cuts of grant programs, such as those through the National Institutes of Health, which could endanger the funding of up to 300,000 researchers nationwide. The application of that in the public domain into everyones lives is a particularly concerning version of what the current people in power are attacking.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 7, 2025

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 28, 2025

More Mining, More Harm A 2021 study of 5,336 US mining properties found that a vast majority of the metals needed for clean energy—79 percent of lithium, 68 percent of cobalt, 89 percent of copper, and 97 percent of nickel—lay within 35 miles of Native American reservations. miles (10 kilometers) of metals mining as of 2017.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2025

It was fueled by dedicated canvassers, robust social media collaboration and outreach, high-profile endorsements, and Mamdani’s ability to connect with the everyday New Yorker. Mamdani’s community safety plan and bringing mental health professionals into public spaces was key for Osinbajo. Can I take a picture with you?’”

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That changed when a team from Reimagining the Civic Commons decided to reinvigorate public spaces in Akron’s systemically disinvested neighborhoods, including Summit Lake. Moving at the Speed of Trust Employing deep listening, engaging in meetings, and building one-on-one relationships with neighbors…helped inform public space design.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Image Credit: lilartsy on unsplash.com This is the third article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Public school teachers are not just educators.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Aruta & Kelly Davis A convergence is happening between the climate and mental health movements, and social impact practitioners need to pay attention. Characterizing the relationship between these two complex problems is often challenging because the true tolls of the mental health and climate crises are inseparable.

Health

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. This July, Rio de Janeiro signed a public-private partnership with Consortium Rio Solar to implement the Carioca Solarium project.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2023

The piece struck a chord with many NPQ readers, as it did for the Health Justice desk. Looking back on that time offline, I recognize how important it was to my work as a health justice practitioner to create space for play, creativity, and dreaming. million fund to enable sabbaticals for BIPOC leaders.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 9, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Mingook Kim on unsplash.com Two major problems confront California’s energy policy. Second, California’s energy laws and business models are rooted in injustice. These two major problems are perfectly illustrated in the passage of Net Energy Metering 3.0, This policy decision was complicated.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right. Why is that?

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Throughout my 35-year career as an optometrist turned social entrepreneur, I have practiced continual self-renewal in pursuit of a world where equitable access to eyeglasses is universal, especially for the poorest and most remote communities. Compassionate capitalism and public-private partnerships held the key to jumpstarting our impact.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy. For instance, the Crux Alliance—a network of six policy expert NGOs—was founded on the premise that getting the details of climate policy right is essential to real-world carbon reductions.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The CLIMA Fund , a collaboration across four public foundations supporting tens of thousands of grassroots groups advancing climate justice solutions, has learned a lot about the diverse and powerful ways grassroots movements create scaled impact. Relationships. Relationships and connectivity are the lifeblood of movement building.

Agriculture

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

By Dai Ellis & Oliver Sabot Snatched from the jaws of defeat, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will hasten the transition of key markets—for energy, vehicles, cement, and more—toward “greener” technologies. To understand what is possible, we can look to the field of global health.

Finance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Much of the workforce today, from blue-collar workers in factories to electricians, plumbers, educators, and health care providers, depends on problem-solving and real-time decision-making. Three big social changes would be necessary for such a path, and each one of them is a tall order. The tech sector can change, too.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Following the retirement of a long-standing CEO, I assumed the top job for a sprawling organization with a rich history, commitment to enabling social change agents, and an opportunity to leave a mark on our work and city. Our nation and Baltimore were thrust into a public reckoning on racial injustice and systemic inequality.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Water Alliance is changing that question to, “How can utilities, communities, and policy makers work together to create an environment in which shutoffs for low-income families are not necessary?”. Guided by the alliance, the teams gathered data that would inform policy changes for water utilities. For García, this was troubling.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Imagine your outrage if you were a public school teacher and your pension fund invested in a company that supported and lobbied for vouchers and charter schools. Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Pension Funds: Whose Capital? Our Capital!

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

However, decarbonizing puts a significant portion of LA’s already vulnerable renter community at risk as it can impact housing affordability and increase energy burdens. With nearly two million renters, half of which are rent burdened, meaning they spend most of their income on housing and energy costs and cannot afford to pay higher rents.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 31, 2023

It inspired them as they marched and protested as part of the Black Lives Matter movement; it inspired them as they engaged in nonpartisan campaigns to change state and local policies; and it inspired them as they worked to get out the vote. As a sophomore, Kahlila collapsed from dehydration at a school event.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 18, 2024

Why Economics is your friend as a nonprofit advocate By Kevin Dean, President & CEO Tennessee Nonprofit Network Last year, at a conference out of town, I shared coffee with an old friend as she recounted her incredible public policy journey. Nonprofits excel at highlighting the human cost of social issues.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. There’s also the kind of “emotional labor” involved in courting individual donors.

Public and Social Policy

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. As the parents to four young children, it’s been important to us to improve pediatric health care and neonatal intensive care so every newborn baby in our state has the best chance at a healthy life.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Via the efforts of private and public actors, programs, and policies, including discriminatory loan programs, market forces, intimidation, and terrorism. With control over food systems, Black communities would be able to better prevent and mitigate long-term health problems that impact our communities at disproportionate rates.

Philanthropy