NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 11, 2023

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry could not exist without the Civil Rights Movement and owes a debt to the labor and thought leadership of Black activists and freedom fighters. These laws—these milestones of progress—are the scaffolding for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry that we know today.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Law Values 144

Nonprofit Fixer

MAY 6, 2024

. ” — Sean Kosofsky, The Nonprofit Fixer The difference between decision-making in our personal lives and in nonprofit leadership is that we must be called to higher standards when leading an organization. Obviously, you don’t want to make this a habit, but stop wasting energy fretting. They happen.

Psychology 69

Psychology Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Leadership 69

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 112

Philanthropy Foundations Culture Public and Social Policy 112

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.

Construction 65

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 65

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 21, 2016

BRIGHT SPOT: Eleven years ago, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth made a pivotal decision to shift energies to increasing membership and building a much stronger individual program. Between 2013 and 2015, Transgender Law Center grew its support from individuals by a remarkable 228 percent to $646,063.

Law 102

Law Fundraising Fundraising Energy 102

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 31, 2023

Leadership for Digital Transformation Change begins with leadership. For example, Ukrainian data protection laws were amended to allow the government to process data in the cloud abroad, and the Government has worked closely with technology companies like Microsoft and Amazon to transfer sensitive government data outside the country.

Governance 80

Governance Medical Technology Participation and motivation 80

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Indeed, the workforce driving a green transition will include not only energy and industry workers but also care and social workers. Union leadership pushed for the divested funds to be used for mental-health support and counselors, leading to the creation of 800 new positions dedicated to promoting student wellbeing.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 136

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, which “ was signed into law in 1988 to create an orderly system to get federal assistance to state and local governments in the wake of natural disasters.”. Understanding emerging critical forms of information and community leadership is key. And it’s been a big problem.

Governance 137

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 137

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Starting a nonprofit requires a decent amount of time and energy. Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community. Look into pro-bono services offered by local bar associations or law firms. What questions should you ask before starting a nonprofit? State and federal regulations for starting a nonprofit.

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 85

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As Socrates says, “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”. People Change- this involves succession, leadership transitions , promotions, new hires, etc. You do not let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash.

Management 110

Management Nonprofits Energy Production 110

Fundraising Leadership

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Paul started the National Women’s Party after the 19th Amendment was adopted, believing that without a political organization’s leadership that could use the newfound legal clout, women’s concerns would never be taken seriously by politicians. It was a failing of the prevailing leadership to think they had won. How right she was!

Leadership 98

Leadership Participation and motivation Law Healthcare 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Likewise, the Centre for Inclusive Capitalism is mobilizing business leadership around achieving a Just Energy Transition. Beyond failing to address the worst impacts of climate change, even energy transition investments can have negative impacts on vulnerable people and create risks for businesses.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Race and Ethnicity Energy 110

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? A strong conflict of interest policy will help ensure your organization is well governed and protect your leadership. How can I tell if my nonprofit will succeed?

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Law Governance 105

Fundraising Leadership

DECEMBER 2, 2022

What many women in the workplace need is a reliable set of accessible tools, insights and proven leadership lessons to enhance and transform their careers and their work lives. Here is the 2022 roundup of the best 12 leadership tips and priceless advice from Take The Lead’s featured experts; one for each month of the year.

Leadership 52

Leadership Values Production Law 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Food changes into blood, blood into cells, cells change into energy which changes up into life. With a background in law and education, Jackson founded JUSTUS Kitchen to create healing food experiences that inspire folks to reconnect with themselves, the earth, and one another, inviting us to grow together toward collective liberation.

Food 138

Food Culture Agriculture Health 138

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 140

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 20, 2023

At the same time, we work to ensure the process is reasonable and efficient for candidates, in order to be respectful of the time and energy of those we interview. Most people, by the time they are an adult, have been burned more than once by those in leadership positions—whether in school, at other employers, or both.

Culture 111

Culture Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation 111

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 115

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 115

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 15, 2024

The Civil Rights Movement also made me aware of the gendered discrepancies in leadership and set me forth on my career goal of gender parity, because I saw the women doing most of the necessary slogging hard behind the scenes work while men almost inevitably assumed the high profile leadership roles. Sound familiar? So very true.

Sociology 52

Sociology Leadership Participation and motivation Law 52

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. I’ve always told my daughters that if you’re taking action, there is hope.

Children 109

Children Health Law Energy 109

Nonprofit Fixer

MARCH 29, 2022

Making laws makes you powerful. We spend a lot of energy telling nonprofits how to develop their board. You may decide to use term limits because you are in the small minority of organizations that have created value around new energy and ideas. Elected officials aren’t royalty. You must earn public service.

Governance 52

Governance Energy Recruitment Law 52

iMarketSmart

DECEMBER 5, 2022

So much energy goes into the “seeing,” but the “best prospects” portion of the question continues to be our main missed opportunity pain point.”[35]. They aren’t leadership, strategy, or skills. Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal, 12 , 235-285. UC Davis Law Review, 53 , 2397-2431. [17] 10] Steuerle, C.

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Fundraising Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

The leadership changed. And if that’s blowing your mind right now, it blew mine as well because I find texting to be something that’s a big problem for us in society, where we’re not able to emote and there are energies lost in translation, messages are lost in translation. . The goals changed. I love that even more.

Participation and motivation 81

Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Values Activism 81

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

And the leadership team, the staff, and having a process for making decisions is as part of the team, the staff team. That means things to start, take on their own energy, they go faster, it’s like not only did you let go of that rock, but you’re now riding that rock as it rolls up the hill. That’s all you have to do.

Nonprofit governance and management 95

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Food Activism 95

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 1, 2023

After Greenpeace mounted a campaign targeting Energy Transfer Partners (the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline), the company filed RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) charges in 2016. While Greenpeace won the case in 2019, corporate exploitation of the RICO Act has been endemic since it was passed in 1970.

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Activism Leadership Philanthropy 91

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. On the most basic level—except unions that have suffered from corrupt leadership—unions are democratic institutions.

Law 136

Law Governance Leadership Poverty 136

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 102

Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 102

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It was clear that Congress was not going to take up real efforts to reform broken immigration laws. While we knew we couldn’t fix the entire system, we believed we could use the courts to create better laws under which we brought our clients’ cases. Some we litigate ourselves, and some we co-counsel with other nonprofits and law firms.

Law 77

Law Nonprofit Administration and Development Medical Nonprofits 77

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 8, 2023

” To respond to these threats, civil society must take a greater leadership role in the world—filling a vacuum left by failed international governance—and build a transnational movement that can stand up for civil rights and democratic institutions across the globe.

Civil Society 97

Civil Society Governance Law Taxation 97

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

School buildings across America are old, in disrepair, and energy inefficient. School buildings across America are old, in disrepair, and energy inefficient. As Sarah Zaleski, schools and nonprofit program manager at the Department of Energy, told Scientific American , “Some have relied on more passive systems like opening windows.

Energy 118

Energy Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental Nonprofit governance and management 118

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities. “As The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

Public and Social Policy 120

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

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. See the EJ sections and notes on the committee (EJAC) that became formalized in California’s first major climate law: 2006, Núñez, the AB 32 Global Warming Solutions Act.

Environmental 95

Environmental Public and Social Policy Energy Law 95

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 125

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 125

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

10 They correctly realized that their direct employers, the suppliers, did not have the power to give them what they needed, and that their energy was better spent organizing power to get the ultimate profiteers to the table—which required a cross-border strategy. This, right here, is our Black Lives Matter movement.”

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 97

Fundraising Leadership

MAY 6, 2024

Issue 258 — May 6, 2024 Leadership lessons come from all kinds of places. There is a difference between leadership decisions that are internal to the business and require crisis management and those that respond to external social issues such as racism, sexism, and antisemitism. the metaphor of the crossroads has been in my head. “A

Leadership 52

Leadership Ethics Law Values 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 22, 2024

Back in the San Francisco Bay Area where I’m usually based, I work with the Sustainable Economies Law Center to support projects that redistribute wealth, democratize governance, and steward communal resources. I believe we’re entering a new era of Indigenous leadership and cultural revitalization in the United States. I give to you.”)

Culture 117

Culture Governance Public and Social Policy Values 117

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