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Environmental Health Nonprofit governance and management 
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 12, 2025
Leadership has been a prominent topic in the nonprofit community, so its surprising there has not been more discussion about leadership applied to volunteerism. First, many nonprofit staff members serve as volunteer board members at other nonprofits. Second, most nonprofit boards are made up of volunteers.
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.
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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?
Stop Budget Burnout: A Better Way to Grow Your Nonprofit in 2026
Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving
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.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
In contrast to systems like energy, transportation, or health care, where expertise is more well defined, food expertise tends to be irrefutable, requiring no advanced degree or professional experience. Finally, imagine the food scraps left over in these community members’ kitchens.
Blue Avocado
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Blue Avocado exists to help nonprofits succeed , and our community of nonprofit experts, leaders, and trailblazers continues to share their wisdom, strengthening us all. Make sure you check out all the real-world advice that nonprofit leaders have contributed this year. Why not ripe?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 23, 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.
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.
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? Well, those models have failed spectacularlyand routinelyin many different countries.
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
OCTOBER 30, 2024
In 2014, BWA members teamed with Latine workers from Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH)’s immigrant worker center to launch CERO. The Boston Impact Initiative , founded in 2013, has invested more than $10 million into businesses, co-ops, and nonprofits led by entrepreneurs of color. This is not new.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 5, 2025
That law dramatically expanded the National Cancer Institute, an agency within the National Institutes of Health focusing on cancer research and education. 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
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? However, the pressing need for equity as relates to both the tech industry and healthcare makes digital health a very complex challenge.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 28, 2025
Because unhoused people spend long periods of time outdoors, its harder for them to receive public health alerts about upcoming weather events. Thinking Beyond Shelters What can nonprofit organizations and other groups do to help? Local Help Finally, nonprofits can provide the basics and make it local. 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.
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. Still, the struggle is ongoing.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Image credit: Downside Up by Rene Lapris Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s fall 2024 issue, Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement. I did not know the history of youth organizing for environmental justice. You are deciding what kind of a world we are growing up in.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 17, 2025
As a former director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and university president, and current president of the nonprofit philanthropic advisory the Science Philanthropy Alliance , I’ve spent much of my career focused on that very question. The ambition is worthy. Proposed changes to the 2026 US federal budget would mean $30.5
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NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 25, 2025
At the US Environmental Protection Agency, an estimated 1,155 scientists face possible layoffs. 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. What drives this? Mema is optimistic.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
MARCH 7, 2025
This long-established company offers comprehensive pest management for Sacramento residents, including year-round Pest-Away maintenance plans and specialized termite treatments. you can verify licenses through your states Department of Agriculture or a similar governing body. In the U.S., How do they minimize harm to the environment?
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? By leveraging video conferencing, online chat, and mobile health apps, telemedicine connects patients with healthcare providers in real time.
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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
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Image credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on istock.com The ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS, is about the lack of access to clean water and the way a community’s health and wellbeing are impacted when this vital resource is unavailable, but there are other crucial factors at play.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
The shade provided to the crops reduces water evaporation and temperature stress, leading to increased crop yields and better water management. Concurrently, a local nonprofit farming group called Sprout City Farms educates young farmers in cultivating crops beneath Jack’s solar panels.
119 
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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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.
Bloomerang
OCTOBER 19, 2022
At Grantli, I have created a state resources page where you can find useful links to state government departments and various other resources. The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation supports grassroots groups throughout the United States and its territories that organize for racial equity and social and environmental justice.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “The Face of Climate Change,” and was first published on May 1, 2022. Indeed, the principles of resource stewardship long championed in many Native American communities are critical to restoring environmental balance. Cargill Philanthropies.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 31, 2024
The rapid decline of Black and Indigenous land stewardship has devastated our capacity to grow and harvest our own food, which has contributed to a lack of access to healthy, affordable, culturally significant foods, and other negative health disparities (including mental, emotional, and spiritual health).
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 20, 2024
Doing so means transforming our governing institutions, laws, regulations, and customs in a more fundamental way than tinkering around the edges with policy and programs. When everyday people, institutions, and government act in service, out of love for the particular needs of particular people, the benefits flow outward.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Navigating the Future with Advanced Environmental Monitoring Solutions The convergence of technological innovation and environmental stewardship heralds a new era of proactive decision-making and sustainable resource management.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Smith To achieve climate justice, biodiversity, and health equity goals, most societies need rapid change. Take the way that energy and health are often treated as separate issues. They are typically studied by different researchers, and policy choices on energy and health are usually made in isolation from each other.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 13, 2023
It’s the pooling and sharing of resources—knowledge, expertise, relationships, money—that create the conditions for worker-led and community-owned enterprises to move the needle on issues plaguing our neighborhoods and to advance economic, environmental, and racial justice.
137 
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
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Such weather events impact the health of individuals living in affected communities. Low-income individuals live with higher rates of chronic disease , are more likely to be exposed to environmental hazards , have substandard housing, and often lack access to nutritious foods and adequate medical care.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 7, 2023
For many community groups, especially in the environmental justice space, funding flowing from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Justice40 commitments, and other federal spending is hard to ignore. There are also opportunities to advance equity and establish more community-responsive co-governance in the process.
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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 4, 2023
In the nonprofit sector, it requires transcending the standard hierarchical funder-nonprofit dynamics and replacing them with norms of power sharing and reciprocity. Unlike many funding opportunities, qualifying projects did not need to have nonprofit tax status or be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit.
Getting Attention
MARCH 9, 2015
Please post YOUR nonprofit marketing job here: Featuring jobs with nonprofit organizations, grantmakers, B Corps, and agencies and other vendors serving nonprofits. Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Business Development Manager Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York, NY).
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