Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As close observers of the world of family giving, we are convinced this is an historic moment for families and the future of philanthropy as well. What makes this moment perhaps the most notable time in the history of family philanthropy is that it is a time of crucial choices—with huge potential consequences and opportunities.

Philanthropy 120

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 120

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That changed when a team from Reimagining the Civic Commons decided to reinvigorate public spaces in Akron’s systemically disinvested neighborhoods, including Summit Lake. Moving at the Speed of Trust Employing deep listening, engaging in meetings, and building one-on-one relationships with neighbors…helped inform public space design.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 14, 2024

Data from the National Center for Education Statistics tells us that as of 2021, public school students in the U.S. How Has Education Philanthropy Responded? Just as press releases and surveys can show us intent, foundations’ actions can best be measured by our checkbooks. It paints a stark picture.

Education 83

Education Education Philanthropy Foundations 83

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts. Walton…and individual family foundations have directed tens of millions of dollars to support journalists, newsrooms, and journalism organizations. There’s more.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 121

Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Candid’s Issue Lab is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing social sector knowledge. Here we highlight some of the most popular publications from 2023.  The Philanthropy Transformation Initiative Report , by WINGS  This report reminds us that the original meaning of “philanthropy” is a love of humanity.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Education Education 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 12, 2023

I was a senior program officer with the trust at that point, and was new to philanthropy and fairly new to housing. Although new to both housing and philanthropy, I knew that where and how we live is integral to our health, education, and economic mobility. The problem is bigger than any one issue. As Charles Rutheiser of the Annie E.

Philanthropy 102

Philanthropy Homelessness Public and Social Policy Foundations 102

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This number is somewhat deceptive since it includes large public companies where the only employee benefit is stock ownership. Building a Broad Coalition Colorado has harnessed and engaged a broad coalition of support from the business community, professional service providers, policymakers, banking, philanthropy, and community organizers.

Public and Social Policy 102

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 102

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 11, 2023

This is the story of the birth, evolution, and vision of Minnesota’s first Black community foundation. We remember—before the news channels reported it—the video of Brother George Floyd being murdered by police, recorded by seventeen-year-old Darnella Frazier, circulating within our social media channels.

Philanthropy 93

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Culture Foundations 93

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I've been to the conferences and workshops, read the listservs, talked to the researchers and read some of the research, played with the public tools. The Blueprint 2024 lays out my thoughts on nonprofits, philanthropy and AI for 2024. Years 3 - 5: AI nonprofits and philanthropy will be "things." Lots of press. AI for disasters!)

Public and Social Policy 59

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 59

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

In the realm of social change, community-based leaders are skilled at influencing and using momentum to advance local solutions but often lack all the financial resources they need to push those solutions to their full potential. Of course, both require long-term funding and investment since they lay the foundation for new approaches.

Nonprofit governance and management 108

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 108

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. How Can Philanthropy Help Rehabilitate US Democracy? Deep Listening Is Necessary for Social Change. Social Justice Organizations at a Crossroads. By SSIR Editors.

Civil Society 101

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Julia Coffman As an advocacy strategy consultant and evaluator for the last two decades, I’ve supported many foundations in thinking about what it takes to win a particular policy or system change. Changing the way policies and systems are structured, run, and resourced can obviously be transformational.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Foundations Children 97

Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Skeptical because Candid is a nonprofit that describes its work ethic and culture as similar to that of the tech sector, which could mean either mission-driven with an innovative mindset, or appropriating the rhetoric of social movements while engaging in extractive practices. They built a public API and released a public data set.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Ethics Collaborations Culture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? Some refer to this as the “ data divide ”—the increasing gap between the use of data to maximize profit and the use of data to solve social problems.

Public and Social Policy 103

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As a result, donors have been compelled to revisit and revise some long-standing practices that have kept philanthropy from delivering on its full promise to people and communities. There are areas of concern—none more prominent than the massive backlash against progress on social justice issues.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Foundations Activism 106

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Last year, our social impact startup hit a milestone that eludes 96 percent of female founders: we hit one million dollars in revenue. We know that for social entrepreneurs trying to solve global challenges, the system is rigged. Underneath every accomplishment lies a profoundly broken funding landscape for social innovation.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Non-Profits 108

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. Historically, for example, Black public health leaders in Pittsburgh created Freedom House Ambulance Services after being neglected by police-staffed ambulances.

Public and Social Policy 75

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 75

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To date, most funders investing in artificial intelligence—including McGovern, Schmidt Futures, and Open Philanthropy—have focused primarily on understanding AI’s potential risks, or supporting AI’s positive impacts on society, in the longer-term. The future is now. Due this summer, it is now several months behind.

Civil Society 100

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 24, 2023

By Tia Martinez In seeking to improve the health outcomes of people in underserved communities, philanthropy’s results have, in general, been disappointing: Socioeconomic and racial injustices run so deep in these communities that strong barriers to change extend well beyond the health care system.

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Health Collaborations Foundations 91

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city. Consider the climate crisis.

Nonprofit governance and management 138

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, Independent Sector just filed an amicus brief with the Council on Foundations in support of the Fearless Fund, which is facing a baseless lawsuit filed by American Alliance for Equal Rights, an organization that has filed numerous anti-diversity lawsuits. Philanthropy has a critical role to play.

Nonprofit governance and management 116

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Ethics Foundations 116

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world. Kellogg Foundation in partnership with the University of New Mexico This report examines how W.K.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Culture Health 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Other examples abound: Mastercard Foundation, which aims to address youth unemployment in Africa by creating 30 million jobs, identifies “improving the quality of education and vocational training” and “leveraging technology to connect employers and job seekers” as its first two strategies to enable job creation.

Manufacturing 125

Manufacturing Education Education Foundations 125

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Rather, philanthropies should prefer to fund meta-issues—i.e., If you invest significantly in social and behavioral science research, you might find innumerable ways to improve on the existing status quo of donations. Perhaps some of your favored policies are indeed good ideas (e.g., By Stuart Buck & Anna Harvey.

Psychology 133

Psychology Public and Social Policy Public Policy Philanthropy 133

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Casey Foundation. 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. By Funders for Housing and Opportunity.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Foundations 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 22, 2023

By comparison, the $75 million (33) that Jahi indicates is invested in social justice is roughly one millionth as much. One sign of this is the rapid growth of what is variably called “socially responsible investment” or “impact investment.” But the phrase, “impact investing,” implies pursuing some positive social benefit.

Nonprofit governance and management 93

Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 93

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. After all, social justice is by nature utopian. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level.

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 109

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

Philanthropies like ours—the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Brooklyn Community Foundation— that are funding work to address social, economic, and racial injustice must reckon with this contradiction and support the work of reparations. We believe that we are working in a liminal time and space.

Philanthropy 108

Philanthropy Foundations Culture Public and Social Policy 108

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

What little optimism remains to tackle such complex challenges is mostly placed in supranational schemes, such as the COP climate change conferences, or transformational national policy, such as the Green New Deal in the US. ” Scaling up social innovation takes time, but there are also varying ways it can be done.

Civil Society 105

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Construction Governance 105

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 103

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Governance 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

By Lior Ipp If you’ve been working in philanthropy for longer than a week, you’ve probably come across a report, analysis, or opinion piece about systems change. The most pernicious one is the narrative regarding small, locally led organizations and our low expectations of them (which is not exclusive to the social change space).

Civil Society 97

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Food 97

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

The report also highlights how public and private programs around the country are finding innovative and often low-cost ways to achieve these goals. Members of this new generation are true digital natives and will grow up in a world informed by artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and new forms of social media we can’t yet envision.

Public and Social Policy 55

Public and Social Policy Children Environmental Philanthropy 55

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This is a question animating much of our work in East Texas, where a local family foundation ( T.L.L. Temple Foundation, 2022 The graph has a clarifying quality, disabusing any suggestion that our regions (represented by the green, blue, and orange lines) are on the right track. In rural East Texas we have a pilot model to get started.

Entrepreneurship 112

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Foundations Public and Social Policy 112

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In their words : "We are now unable to perform our work or process grants, and we have fundamental questions about the legitimacy and integrity of the business operations that were funding the FTX Foundation and the Future Fund. The Sackler family philanthropy and oxycontin profits. As a result, we resigned earlier today.

Public and Social Policy 87

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Governance Leadership 87

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 103

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 103

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2023

Promising Models for Change In Los Angeles, CA, Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA) is organizing alongside and with South Central LA’s predominantly Black and Latinx communities to undo decades of harm that toxic chemicals have inflicted on their neighborhoods. PSR-LA is going to make that a reality.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Environmental Health Public Policy 94