NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Today, our communities face multiple challengesranging from accelerating climate change to growing income inequality, from refugee crises to housing crises, and from basic food access to self-serving financial systems. Public funds amounting to billions of dollars are turned into private profits for services using your assets.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

Another strategy used by the trust has been to purchase single-family homes and convert them into multiple units, as city zoning laws allow. As Goodmon elaborated, “We’ve seen laws that allow us to get from one to three or four homes on one property.” in Boston, one of the nation’s earliest CLTs, and who now lives in Crenshaw.

Culture

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

From pausing research on cures for childhood cancer to closing homeless shelters, halting food assistance, reducing safety from domestic violence, and shutting down suicide hotlines, the impact of even a short pause in funding could be devastating and cost lives, she added, noting that thousands of organizations could be affected.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2025

An executive order (14238)calls for reducing the CDFI Fundto the minimum presence and function required by law. Between 2014 and 2024, CDFIs grew sevenfold , reaching $436 billion in assets by the end of 2024. What impact this order will have remains unclear.

Finance

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

During the Gilded Age, in the late 1800s, homelessness was widespread in urban communities, and vagrancy laws made loitering, being poor, looking suspicious, wandering around, or being drunk a crime. A New Gilded Age This is not the first time in history that homeless people have been criminalized in the United States.

Homelessness

Blue Avocado

MAY 13, 2025

Karen Sailer from Eagle River Historical Society Meet Your Community Where They Are Learning Rights Law Center achieves its mission of education equity by working closely with community groups, organizations, and service providers to conduct Know Your Rights trainings and start legal intakes. Our community partners are vital to our success.

Public and Social Policy

Anedot

APRIL 14, 2025

Manager of Meal Program Operations, and working closely with the Kitchen Manager, Chefs and Culinary Program Assistant (PA), this position ensures that meals are accurately portioned, packed, stored and prepared for delivery according to Ceres and food safety standards. Active food handlers certification (or willingness to obtain upon hire).

Food

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 5, 2025

In the past five years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved over 100 new cancer drugs , and the United States has brought more cancer drugs to the global market than any other nation. The second Trump administration has cut or canceled many NIH grants.

Governance

Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Public charities primarily deliver programs to advance social well-being and by law may not engage in partisan political activities. public charities all have two key things in common: They are, by law, nonpartisan, and they exist to work toward the public good. Public charities represent 1.5 million of the 1.9 million U.S. nonprofits.

Non-Profits

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

More broadly, the report authors note, Disconnection from land, Native food systems, birthing practices, and cultural practices contribute to physical health harm as well. Key demands outlined include changing unjust laws, returning stolen lands, and restoring the rights that have long been denied to advance Indigenous sovereignty (109).

Public and Social Policy

Anedot

APRIL 8, 2025

Organization Overview With over 40 years of service, West Marin Community Services (WMCS) provides essential assistance such as food distribution, emergency financial aid, referrals to social services, and equity-driven community engagement to residents in West Marin. Thrift Store: Generating funds for community programs.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

They immediately gave us clothes, food, hot drinks. We had enough food, water, and a safe place. The incident, involving a 26-year-old Syrian asylum seeker slated for deportation, reignited debate about Germanys deportation laws. Polandit was unbelievable, Ihnatieva recalled. We were in shock. How could this be?

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

The onslaught of executive orders; revenue and funding freezes; and investigations against universities,law firms, and businesses demonstrate a pattern of attacks foundations may see next: attacking individual institutions to silence a sector and forcing concessions that seek to limit our freedoms. Intimidation dressed up as transparency.

Philanthropy

Anedot

MAY 7, 2025

Provide mentoring and support to interns on gardening techniques, food production, and sustainable practices; help manage the work that interns are involved with. Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive – We commit to championing policies and practices of social equity that build a diverse, inclusive, and healthy workplace and food system.

Agriculture

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In 2022, Singapore repealed a law that criminalized sex between men. In Muslim-majority countries, such as Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia, Islamic sharia laws criminalize same-sex relationships. Lacking Protection in an Openly Hostile Environment Southeast Asia has witnessed some optimistic changes in recent years.

Universities

Anedot

MAY 7, 2025

Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive – We commit to championing policies and practices of social equity that build a diverse, inclusive, and healthy workplace and food system. In addition to operating three program sites in Marin and Sonoma counties, Ceres has trained 13 communities nationally to replicate our model.

Curriculum and Teaching

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

21 Integrating Data Ethics and Diversity into the Narrative In the United Kingdom, organizations can use personal data without consent under a rule known as lawful basis. 45 In regions lacking data privacy laws, researchers from high-income countries may perform studies they would avoid in their home countries.

Race and Ethnicity

Non Profitvote

DECEMBER 6, 2024

One Law, Two Motives Introduced to the House by Rep. This bill is currently being held in the Senate and could be signed into law if the House were to pass an identical bill. Could a food pantry be designated as supporting terrorism if a single patron, unknown to the nonprofit, had loose familial ties to an international drug cartel?

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Transgender activist and journalist Erin Reed reported that the domestic violence support organization Futures Without Violence, The Victim Rights Law Center, and The Boys & Girls Club of America have also eliminated references to gender identity and trans issues from online materials.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

Credit: Photo by Diva Plavalaguna on Pexels The list of institutions negotiating with or capitulating to the Donald Trump administration seems to grow longer every day, including universities , law firms , and companies that have quietly scrapped diversity programs. We fund a lot of basic needs around food, medical care, and early learning.

Foundations

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 26, 2025

Haddock explained that while explicitly anti-transgender policies—such as restrictive ID and name change laws —have a real impact on the community, many people, especially Black trans women, need their basic needs met first.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

Multinational corporations, such as those involved in the food and beverage industry, have been scrutinized for their roles in contributing to these environmental issues. In Peru, weak governance, inadequate enforcement of environmental laws, and corruption have created an environment where these illegal activities can thrive.

Ethics

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 31, 2025

In 2016, during the middle of her third year of law school, Lauren Blodgett received a diagnosis of a rare and severe autoimmune condition. They play a significant role in everyday conscious and unconscious decisionsfrom choosing a love interest or a new home to how we respond to the presentation, temperature, taste, and smell of food.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2025

According to current federal law, minors who enter the United States unaccompanied by an adult are taken into the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Thats the grassroots advocacy strategy, Santana says. These concerns are not new.

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

On a rainy day, Echol Cole and Robert Walker sought refuge inside the truck because segregation laws forbid them from sheltering inside a building. King was killed, he was in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers who were spurred to action after two fellow workers were crushed to death inside a garbage truck.

Poverty

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 2, 2025

With companies facing lawsuits over DEI practicesas evidenced by Missouris case against Starbucks for breaching anti-discrimination laws businesses that stand by their (hidden) DEI practices increase their vulnerability to changing laws and conservative scrutiny.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

You would have thought of finding ways to get drugs and food more efficiently to parts of the world where were not able to equitably meet peoples basic needs. You would have named things like finding quicker paths to clean energy, finding ways to make crops more resilient to climate stress. Thats completely within our capacity.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Originating in Eastern Europe centuries ago, these programs helped Jewish communities overcome financial hardship without the burden of interest, which is prohibited by Orthodox Jewish law within Jewish communities. MCC offers food, tutoring, health, and legal services.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

5 We know that our Indigenous culture is key to our health, which foods are nutritious for our families, and how to sustain our Mother Earth to thrive. 2 The facilities available to my relatives in eastern Oklahoma have been noted as offenders.

Technology

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 16, 2025

His cart had been found at his regular street corner filled with spoiled food—a sign that he’d been missing for days. One of my favorite benefits of street vending, beyond consuming the tasty food and drink that these vendors sell, is the impact they have in the evening. echo throughout the streets of so many city neighborhoods.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

The Anniston community united around the reality that changing workers experiences was vital to overcoming food and housing insecurity and other barriers they faced. A 2022 Bloomberg Law study found that the average time it takes a union to achieve a first contract is 465 days , a delay that almost entirely benefits employers.

Energy

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. Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc.

Public and Social Policy

Anedot

MARCH 6, 2025

Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive – We commit to championing policies and practices of social equity that build a diverse, inclusive, and healthy workplace and food system. In addition to operating three program sites in Marin and Sonoma counties, Ceres has trained 13 communities nationally to replicate our model.

Management

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 3, 2025

In February, Earthjustice, an environmental law firm, and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

Agriculture

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 12, 2025

Families that rely on church food pantries, veterans that depend on nonprofits for mental health services, moms and babies that receive low-cost health care, and domestic violence survivors living in shelters are all harmed when Congress denigrates nonprofits and makes their work more difficult to do.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In the Midwest, the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition , whose members include hundreds of environmental advocacy organizations, businesses, community leaders, consumer advocates, environmental justice groups, and faith-based and student organizations, shepherded the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, which became state law in 2021.

Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2025

Poppers call for limits on intolerance helps explain why many countries todayincluding Germanyhave provisions in law that ban Holocaust denial and various Nazi propaganda. If state and local law enforcement dont step up, then private civil lawsuits offer a second path. federal law that is itself constitutional), Morrison said.

Law