NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, of course, there are always contingencies with public money. In response to the protests and adverse national publicity, Louisville put into place a civilian review board. And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. We secured $3.5

Food 101

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In vibrant and thriving communities, people have the power and resources to realize their vision of health and well-being. Residents, regardless of zip code or how much money they have, can breathe clean air, eat healthy and culturally appropriate food, and have a safe, affordable place to call home.

Health 100

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 100

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

Private equity—that is, investor groups that operate outside of the stock market, thus being largely shielded from public investor scrutiny—plays a leading role. percent of the entire US economy and growing), a per capita level of expenditure that is far higher than any other developed nation, yet health outcomes are poorer.

Health 114

Health Healthcare Medical Insurance 114

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series examines the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

A new social contract —that is, a structural change in the relationship of the public to the government, the 1930s New Deal being the quintessential US example—seemed to just maybe be at hand. The struggle for a more progressive social contract continues. None made it into law. Free community college?

Public and Social Policy 84

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Construction 84

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 126

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 126

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

Health 73

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 73

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

To change peoples’ material reality, however, means rehauling the entire operating system of our democracy, not just tinkering with its policies. We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. We need to be much more aspirational and long-term in our thinking. It won’t be easy.

Public and Social Policy 93

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 93

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

2 It has been edited for publication here. In cities like Richmond, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, which had experienced ‘food apartheid,’ the need for locally grown, healthy food supported the rise of urban farms that employed returning citizens. The year is 2053. The buzzing of delivery drones fills the air.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 106

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. Deep Listening Is Necessary for Social Change. Social Justice Organizations at a Crossroads. In-Person Workshop: Cultivating Compassion, Belongingness, and Health in Teams.

Civil Society 99

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 99

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Public trust: Monitoring shows commitment to responsible use of resources and best serving beneficiaries.

Education 52

Education Education Public and Social Policy Law 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Health Associations Children 124

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Image Credit: Adam Wilson on unsplash.com This is the f ifth 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 and Social Policy 84

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 84

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. 4 So, EJ organizers charted a new path for climate justice policy that fundamentally altered the California political landscape.

Environmental 82

Environmental Public and Social Policy Energy Law 82

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

These are children whose mother has to make a decision between leaving her child home alone and going to work because she can’t afford childcare or staying at home with her child and then being fired from her job and not being able to afford rent or food for her child. Over 90 percent of those children were Black.

Children 134

Children Poverty Law Public and Social Policy 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. For companies in land-based sectors (i.e., Some companies are already acting on these insights.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. This is particularly important in social impact, where we need evidence to make decisions related to policy, funding, and programs, so we can solve intractable problems. million studies.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Governance 102

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Getting our housing system to work better for all—especially for families of color who have long experienced discrimination and bias—will require a long-term concerted endeavor with coordinated efforts from a broad host of public, private, and community actors. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better.

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Foundations 109

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Another piece of this painting would look like a landscape of advocacy and policy change institutions that prioritize racial and economic justice to level the playing field. The reality is more complicated.

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 114

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

Collaborations 117

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 117

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

After a decade of organizing to move debt cancellation from the margins to the center of national policy debates, the movement to cancel student debt continues to gain ground, as NPQ’s Rithika Ramamurthy documented earlier this year. The Problem of Student Loan Debt. I am 62 years old and do not know how I will retire.”

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 115

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

This article profiles three organizations from which we hail—the Center for Biological Diversity, Marbleseed (formerly the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service), and Wellspring Cooperative—that have grown to focus on addressing the many social, political, economic, and environmental ills that are a direct outcome of capitalism.

Agriculture 77

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 77

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

Leadership 99

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 99

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

Public and Social Policy 72

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 72

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While voting, lobbying, and all types of policy work are important forms of democratic participation, collective bargaining across multiple channels inserts much-needed democratic practice into our economic system. Both aim to socialize the risks of operating a business while limiting the profitable rewards among a select few.

Public and Social Policy 87

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 87

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. In 2023, these discussions feel like premonitions.

Public and Social Policy 81

Public and Social Policy Activism Leadership Philanthropy 81

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. The results reach far beyond Curitiba.

Health 79

Health Public and Social Policy Energy Collaborations 79

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mali Obomsawin: I would like to acknowledge that I’m a citizen of a nation that is not one of the nations in so-called Maine, so in terms of federal Indian law sovereignty, it does not apply to me in that context. These are things that were purposely taken from us through colonial policies and forced assimilation—that sort of thing.

Nonprofit governance and management 88

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 88

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

12 Its demands include freedom for all imprisoned and detained people; resistance to surveillance, policing, and militarized responses to COVID-19; access to quality healthcare now and in the future; access to housing, food, and economic security; and international efforts to end US imperialism and militarism. This history is important.

Construction 77

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 77

iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Now, suppose we’re managing a group of social media “influencers.” The social media manager then shares the best metrics for managing “writers” and their “output.” This social/sharing world has different rules. 26] In fundraising, this enhanced identity can be private meaning, public reputation, or both. 12] Megli, C.

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Fundraising Public and Nonprofit Management Management 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s in handheld scanners used by everyone from warehouse workers to retail clerks to hospital nurses checking into a patient’s room as well as the phone-based apps home health aides must log into and out of with every client they visit. And that makes sense, historically.

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Law Technology Civil Society 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

.” Against the will of many Ngāti Maru members, countless acres were opened for British settlement, which rendered the tribe nearly landless, led to generations of economic, cultural, social, and spiritual hardship. ” By mid-2018, the New Zealand government had signed 73 settlements into law, valuing $2.24

Governance 91

Governance Health Public and Social Policy Culture 91

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In essence, the “ Evidence Act ” codified the goal of using solid, consistent evidence as the basis for funding decisions on trillions of dollars of public money. Look at what Google did for website indexing, look at what Westlaw did for indexing case law, look at what the Human Genome Project did for indexing genetic research.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Governance Finance Law 100