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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Image credit: “Sister Secrets ” by Renée Laprise Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.” When communities and movements talk about climate and environmental justice, solidarity is often at the center of the conversation.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 12, 2025
In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takeson the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. First, many nonprofit staff members serve as volunteer board members at other nonprofits.
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Stop Budget Burnout: A Better Way to Grow Your Nonprofit in 2026
Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
It encompasses co-op, community land trust (CLT), mutual , and public housing, and can include a host of new and existing publicly supported models. As such, it involves dealing with the tensions between homeowners and tenants , the influence of money in politics and housing, and the public resistance to higher taxes and fees.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 15, 2025
generate social or environmental returnor doing wellthat is: make a financial return. billion) in assets under management and a 30-year track record, isnt wrong per se. There are indeed many investments where social or environmental goals dont harm earnings (and, arguably, even improve earnings). Each fund is unique.
Bloomerang
JANUARY 30, 2025
Nonprofits are no strangers to uncertaintywhether from economic downturns, environmental disasters, shifting donor priorities, or changes in government policy. Despite the challenges these moments of uncertainty present, they also show just how adaptable and strong the nonprofit sector is.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
First and foremost, food systems leadership offers opportunities for new relationships, connecting groups as diverse as farmers, emergency food providers, food waste management companies, and environmental justice advocates. About 20 percent are seated within government.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 7, 2025
If they can engage in institutional philanthropy as deeply as they have impacted high tech, finance, hotel management, medicine, and academia, they could radically increase the resources and talent available for philanthropic ventures in India and the United States while also serving as a model for other diaspora groups around the world.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 6, 2025
Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. Public schools, which serve about 40 percent of Lebanons 1.1 million students, have been particularly affected.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 23, 2025
Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE 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? Or take public benefits. Well, those models have failed spectacularlyand routinelyin many different countries. But instead, we do the reverse.
Anedot
APRIL 24, 2025
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (KIB) is an environmental and community nonprofit with a mission to help people and nature thrive. We partner with neighborhoods, local government, universities, community groups, and businesses to achieve our vision of an Indianapolis that is loved, cared for, and ecologically rich.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 29, 2025
To date, management recalcitrance has stymied workers efforts to win a first contract, so the REI Union is trying a new tactic: Running candidates for the board of the 24-million-member outdoor equipment retailer, the nations largest cooperative. REI has nine elected board members , who serve staggered three-year terms.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 28, 2025
This order is a potential 5-alarm fire for nonprofits and the people and communities they serve. Federal grants make up about a third of nonprofit funding through direct grants, state pass-throughs, and other mechanisms for everything from scientific research to education to arts and culture to critical services for children and families.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 4, 2025
Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. One involves the unfilled legal, moral, and economic obligations established by hundreds of treaties with the US government. And a third are limits on Native representation in the US government itself. Credit: Zoe Urness (Tlingit Alaskan Native and Cherokee).
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 5, 2025
Since the 1971 National Cancer Act , this sustained public investment has helped drive dramatic declines in cancer mortality, with death rates falling by 34 percent since 1991. This federal support has driven advances leading to higher survival rates and the transformation of some cancers into a manageable chronic or curable condition.
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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 30, 2024
The Boston Impact Initiative , founded in 2013, has invested more than $10 million into businesses, co-ops, and nonprofits led by entrepreneurs of color. The Boston Ujima Project , formed in 2017, manages a $4.5 Another front is building governing power and creating more co-governance tools. This is not new.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Image: “ In Communion with Dorian” by Renée Laprise/ [link] Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.” 1 These populations often face heightened exposure to environmental hazards such as rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and air pollution.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 10, 2025
Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI 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? are exploring ways to help individuals manage and monetize personal data. 18 Platforms like Nebula Genomics and Hu-manity.co
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 10, 2025
Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash Since Donald Trumps inauguration, his administration has escalated efforts against marginalized communities and the nonprofits that serve them. While a federal judge blocked the order and the OMB later withdrew its memo, the disruption has already destabilized nonprofit operations nationwide.
Bloomerang
APRIL 7, 2025
There are only three places where dollars can go loved ones, government, or charity. The best time for nonprofits to stop preparing for this historic wealth transfer is yesterday; the second-best time is now. Consider lapel pins, recognizing them at special gatherings and publicizing their personal stories.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 28, 2025
Image credit: Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash In Minneapolis, MN, licensed clinical social workers, like Andrea Hansen-Miller, work in one of the citys public libraries. Because unhoused people spend long periods of time outdoors, its harder for them to receive public health alerts about upcoming weather events. They didnt get the house.
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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. Nonprofits fight their battles. Nonprofits fight their battles.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JULY 22, 2025
Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 20, 2025
Nonetheless, recent executive orders could affect nonprofits that receive federal funding. The first talks about ending all radical and wasteful government DEI programs ( EO 14151 ). Thats where private sector and nonprofit organizations may be impacted. That applies specifically to federal agencies.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 11, 2025
The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this. The bizarre incident was one of hundreds of similar scenes of confusion, fear, and uncertainty across the nonprofit world after the attempted federal funding freeze. The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this, as more are sure to come.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 18, 2025
A year later, the County of Maui’s Emergency Management Agency dutifully produced a 66-page report with a set of recommendations for future emergency preparedness and response. Without active management, they argued, much of Hawaiʻi’s open land was a fire risk. Short-term vacation rentals (STRs) became a flashpoint. What’s Next?
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 17, 2025
By France Córdova In March 2025, US President Donald Trump penned a public letter to Michael Kratsios, his incoming director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, outlining a vision to “usher in the Golden Age of American Innovation.” The ambition is worthy. Proposed changes to the 2026 US federal budget would mean $30.5
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 15, 2025
The Issues with Flood Insurance FEMAs National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) provides flood insurance to qualified residents (those who have a government-backed mortgage) who live in participating communities by way of a network of insurance companies. But in 2023 FEMA recalculated its prices after updating the flood maps it uses.
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NonProfit PRO
JUNE 25, 2025
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NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 17, 2025
Theyre all nonprofits. To say that many nonprofits would cease to exist without [federal] funding is putting it mildly. Recent executive orders by the Trump administration are touching off fear and uncertainty among nonprofits in Providence and other cities across the country. And theyre under attack.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 25, 2025
At the US Environmental Protection Agency, an estimated 1,155 scientists face possible layoffs. To gain a better understanding , NPQ interviewed government workers who have either lost their jobs or are afraid of being axed during Trumps ongoing firings. What drives this?
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 25, 2025
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
“Braver New World” by DALL-E/OpenAI 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? This continuity of care is critical in managing chronic diseases and improving long-term health outcomes.10
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Anedot
MARCH 6, 2025
Marin Conservation League is looking for an exceptional leader who will carry on a 90-year mission of environmental preservation and protection and guide the organization into the next quarter-century in a changing environment. MCL is governed by a working board of volunteers who live in Marin County.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 25, 2025
Just six years earlier, rural Warren County, NC, put itself on the map when community members rose up through multiyear protests against the discriminatory disposal of cancerous polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which led to the start of the environmental justice movement in the United States.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
JUNE 6, 2025
Managing Corporate Reputation in the Age of AI Reputation management is perhaps one of the most critical aspects of every company’s functioning due to the advancement of artificial intelligence technology. With the advancement of AI, strategic management becomes both a risk and a benefit for a business to deal with.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” Public investments like ARPA have reawakened a commitment by politicians to use our dollars to improve access to quality housing, schools, and jobs.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The water crisis in Jackson is also part of a larger set of interconnected injustices that reveal the complexity of environmental racism. In that same year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found the city had at least 2,300 unauthorized sanitary sewer overflows in the previous five years.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 25, 2023
Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Civil rights, queer rights, Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, and organized labor movements have all long demanded secure, permanently affordable, and decommodified housing.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Thirteen years ago, fewer than a dozen digital news nonprofits led the charge to shift news to a nonprofit model. Now, there are more than 400 digital news nonprofits nationwide , supported by an ever-growing coalition of philanthropies that include the Walton charities.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 4, 2023
Community-based organizations and local governments are starting to recognize where such individuals may fall through the cracks and are creating policies and networks for more inclusive disaster response and recovery. This includes aid provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as unemployment insurance.
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