NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 26, 2025

Alvarado elaborated: “Because the Job Center had been so active during the pandemic, providing COVID testing and education, food, other support, people knew who we were. What Philanthropy and Public Policy Can Do Sadly, given the climate crisis, natural disasters are only likely to become more frequent.

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 7, 2025

For many families—especially those employed in the construction, domestic work, or food industries, where employers rarely offer worker health insurance—Medicaid is the only path to essential care. Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to people with low incomes.

Healthcare

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 26, 2025

Likewise, health issues are exacerbated by poor water quality, food shortages, heat exhaustion, cold waves, and air pollution, with the need for money for medical support a leading factor in trapping them in bonded labor.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 25, 2019

Elizabeth Leslie is the Communications Manager for the League of Women Voters of California, a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It's about shifting power dynamics, dismantling harmful policies, and creating a new blueprint for a more equitable future. And yes, the crux of systems change is built on advocacy and public policy. If your organization is not involved in advocacy and public policy, you can’t truly say you are a systems change organization.

Public Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 24, 2017

Over 70% of nonprofits working in Other Public Benefit Research or Advocacy; Environment and Animals; and Human Services, Housing, Food, and Jobs said community engagement was a high or essential priority for 2017 (left side of the graph). Interested in the results for fundraising or branding goals?

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 12, 2015

Here is a typical day: Before 8:00 am: Shower, dress, pack my one-year old daughter’s bag for the day, make her food and dress her. I work with our public policy team to discuss any PR initiatives they should be aware of. She tweets from @LaurenLLawson. She attends a Montessori daycare, which is 15 minutes from our home.

Communication

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

One MMT mother describes the perception of individuals receiving benefits like this: “People feel like everybody that’s on [food] stamps and stuff like that, that they don’t want work.…But There have been gains at the state level , but getting enough support to move federal policy across the finish line remains a challenge.

Public and Social Policy

Candid

JUNE 3, 2024

What public policies are needed to address the unmet needs of our constituents? What gaps exist in government data collection on LGBTQ+ aging that is leading to gaps in policy protections and services? Who aren’t we adequately serving?

Public and Social Policy

MNA Association

JUNE 12, 2023

These nonprofits” are the very organizations government and communities count on for quality of life: kid’s summer food programs, houses of worship, 4-H, shelters and sanctuary, and more. Specific issues addressed by MNA Following is a recap of specific issues MNA addressed in the context of our Public Policy Agenda.

Public Policy

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. While signing on is an important first step, following through with concrete and impactful action will be what truly matters.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Public policy, however, can make a tremendous difference. The tax credit also reduced food insecurity among families and helped parents afford basic necessities. Other indicators of material hardship also increased, including food insecurity among families with kids.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

Food, Bills, and Rent The 2021 expanded child tax credit—passed by Congress in March 2021 as part of the American Rescue Plan Act —was as monumental as it was brief. Among the top priorities for families that received the expanded credit, the March study found, was food.

Poverty

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 17, 2024

Medical debt relief has become a growing public policy priority for philanthropists and lawmakers worried about the toll on Americans’ financial, mental, and physical health. An estimated 40% of Americans have medical debt with nearly half of those owing at least $2,500.

Medical

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This means that those employees “lived in households that could not afford the basics of housing, child care, food, transportation, health care, a smart phone plan, or taxes” (6).

Health

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. In towns like Big Sandy, nonprofits like our health centers, food pantries, and Rotary clubs are a big part of the fabric of our communities. What are three specific ways in which, if elected, you would partner with and strengthen the nonprofit sector?

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 20, 2023

Clients will still need food, shelter, and education. Deleterious public policy will continue to threaten our communities’ well-being. Ultimately, leadership must not lose sight of how a change—leadership transition or otherwise—can harm the clients you serve. Animals will still need to be spayed and be adopted.

Organizational Change

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

This farm supports 20 immigrant and refugee farmers and emerging food entrepreneurs. Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.” The land trust also owns a small urban farm, which it leases to a refugee services nonprofit.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was marketing laundry detergent, cat food, dog food, kids’ cereals, whatever,” he recalls. Then they gave me another account, which was public broadcasting. This was the first time public broadcasting had hired an advertising agency to build audience.

Public and Social Policy

Anedot

JUNE 15, 2022

Sonoma Family Meal envisions an equitable, sustainable, and resilient food ecosystem. At their community kitchen, they convert locally sourced ingredients and rescued perishables into meals for families and seniors experiencing food insecurity.

Nonprofit Leadership

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Our taxonomies cover a wide range of areas such as public health, education, workforce development, financial health, social capital, housing, and food security. This standardization allows for apples-to-apples comparisons across programs and studies. Next Steps for Impact Science. So how do we make it happen?

Public and Social Policy

iMarketSmart

JULY 12, 2022

Instead of handing you a menu, the waiter says, “We cook good food. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 25 (1), 24-38. [4] Behavioural Public Policy , 1-22. [9] Fortunately, there is another answer. You’ll find it at any restaurant. Menus can be clear and simple. Suppose you visit a new restaurant.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 20, 2023

Clients will still need food, shelter, and education. Deleterious public policy will continue to threaten our communities’ well-being. Ultimately, leadership must not lose sight of how a change—leadership transition or otherwise—can harm the clients you serve. Animals will still need to be spayed and adopted.

Organizational Change

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

Public Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy! It is said, "To whom much is given, much is expected."

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

An example of this was profiled at NPQ in 2019, when we published a detailed study about the closure of a food co-op that had opened three years before in a Black community in Greensboro, NC. To the extent dollar stores drive out grocery stores, residents’ access to healthy food is reduced. What can be done about this pattern?

Retail

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy! It is said, "To whom much is given, much is expected."

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A local nonprofit, CATCH of Boise, began assisting them by providing them with food and water.” By February 2023, the family had been charged with multiple misdemeanors related to staying on federal land longer than allowed. Bad Public Policy “[Criminalization] is bad public policy.”

Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

While subtle, and perhaps used interchangeably by many, a sector is more general and can represent various fields of work in the economy: the service sector; the healthcare sector; the fast-food sector; the entertainment Industry , on the other hand, typically references manufacturing, or the production sector. And not just in the South.

Manufacturing

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the following conversation, two expert leaders—Nick Hart, president of the Data Foundation, and Jason Saul, founder and executive director of the Center for Impact Sciences at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy—share thoughts about the next phase of the evidence movement. Evidence 1.0

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Adimika Arthur, Founding Executive Director of HealthTech4Medicaid, then led a discussion of the ways that public policy and convening intersect with these issues.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2023

Going beyond traditional restoration practices, they’re advocating for policy changes that will ensure equitable park planning and soil restoration processes, as well as community stewardship of the land. We should be able to grow edible food in our yards and community gardens without worrying about the toxicity of the soil.

Public and Social Policy

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Their “Healthier Kids For Our Future” grants focus on food insecurity and mental health. They continue to proactively invest in leadership and advocacy, and public policy change within our children’s behavioral health systems. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system.

Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

Public mistrust of governments’ ability to act with their interests in mind existed long before COVID-19, but the pandemic accelerated and hardened this skepticism. As global majority countries struggled with operational challenges, the dynamics around COVID-19 changed.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more.

Leadership