Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By Paul Cann Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early death; these are also linked to anxiety, depression, suicide, dementia, and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.

Health 118

Health Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 118

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

Values 122

Values Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Public and Nonprofit Management 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

From climate catastrophe and forced migration to economic inequality to the erosion of democracy and the rise of political violence—these deep problems are also opportunities for major advances in progressive narratives and policies. Where does social justice philanthropy fit in? Some foundations are stepping up to this reality.

Philanthropy 138

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 138

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 28, 2024

The book was published by the de Beaumont Foundation in partnership with the Maternal Health Learning & Innovation Center and Oxford University Press. Among its seven editors is Dorothy Cilenti, a clinical professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dorothy Cilenti: I started out in governmental public health.

Public and Social Policy 95

Public and Social Policy Health Medical Race and Ethnicity 95

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Walton…and individual family foundations have directed tens of millions of dollars to support journalists, newsrooms, and journalism organizations. The foundation board is legally independent of Walmart. Journalism is welcoming the new infusion of philanthropy. There’s more. And grants are promised with no strings attached.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 132

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 98

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine 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. The reparations landscape in the United States—and around the world—is evolving rapidly.

Philanthropy 128

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

By 1948 Cafritz had amassed such wealth from real estate development that he incorporated a foundation bearing his and his wife’s name. It is also one of several DC-area foundations profiled in a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) on “ Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People.”

Philanthropy 122

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Advertising Universities 122

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. Lots of executive orders and unfunded government mandates and policy proposals pushed by tech companies. Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash Ah, AI. Can't avoid it. Lots of press.

Public and Social Policy 59

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

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.  foundation funding to HBCUs and exploring these schools’ relationship with institutional philanthropy. This report looks to fill that gap by examining U.S.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Education Education 119

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. A ‘Balancing Test’ for Foundation Spending by Dimple Abichandani.

Civil Society 87

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 87

Candid

JUNE 29, 2021

Every year, Candid conducts the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, asking large U.S. foundations to share information about their philanthropic giving over the last two years as well as their plans for the year ahead. This year, we were especially interested in learning how foundation giving and payout might have shifted in 2020. .

Foundations 111

Foundations Public and Social Policy Activism Values 111

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 99

Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Non-Profits 99

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 96

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 96

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

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In this interview with NPQ , The Sentencing Project’s codirector of research, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, discusses the series, particularly the last installment, which examines how mass incarceration deepens inequality and harms public safety. Better investments could be made with public resources.” How can this disparity be combated?

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 119

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 106

Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 106

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 121

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 121

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2023

What policies are further perpetuating inequities? We recognize that [institutions] shy away from centering racism [in discussions], and when we do that, we will not succeed in truly achieving a Culture of Health,” explained Rich Besser, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We are highly regulated,” she shared.

Health 110

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Race and Ethnicity 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Others, like the Ford, MacArthur, and Hewlett Foundations, and Omidyar Network, have focused on building the capacity to address the risks and opportunities posed by a wide range of technologies, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence. The future is now. Due this summer, it is now several months behind.

Civil Society 86

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 86

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: Rod Long on unsplash.com A recent report on climate justice funding finds that many foundation leaders are of two minds when it comes to the climate crisis—the crisis is “urgent” yet easily put off for another day. How many of those 29 leaders expect their foundations to begin acting on the “extremely urgent” crisis?

Philanthropy 125

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Universities 125

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 97

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 97

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 122

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 122

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 84

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Foundations Children 84

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. We’ve also seen related lawsuits following the Court’s decision in June.

Nonprofit governance and management 102

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Ethics Foundations 102

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 24, 2023

It has become clear that only with deep, long-term investment from government and foundations can these communities hope to make meaningful progress in improving their residents’ health and well-being. Most importantly, the initiative was focused on the policy-related goal of health equity, not greater community power.

Public and Social Policy 75

Public and Social Policy Health Collaborations Foundations 75

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

Image Credit: Yassine Khalfalli on unsplash.com This is the sixth 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 109

Public and Social Policy Environmental Health Economic Issues 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 22, 2024

Indeed, the lack of public leadership and financial incentives has positioned investors as not only economic but also political actors whose investment priorities speak to quality questions of the entire ed-tech ecosystem. The financial viability of such a partnership industry can be secured through various co-funding initiatives.

Public and Social Policy 62

Public and Social Policy Finance Education Education 62

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Intermediate (3-5 years) For participants with existing foundational knowledge and a few years of hands-on experience. For participants interested in growing their existing advocacy and/or lobbying strategies For participants seeking to dive deeper and strengthen foundational knowledge and skills regarding advocacy and/or lobbying efforts.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Governance Leadership 97

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 91

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Construction Governance 91

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 98

Public and Social Policy Environmental Health Public Policy 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There are areas of concern—none more prominent than the massive backlash against progress on social justice issues. These trends threaten trust in philanthropy at a time when public trust in institutions of all kinds is declining. We need to be public in two senses of the word: open and in the interests of the common good.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Foundations Activism 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

This is not a theory but a fact, affirmed by leading experts like the Edelman Trust Barometer , Gallup , and General Social Survey by NORC at the University of Chicago. It erodes a high-functioning pluralistic democracy , compromises public health, and makes it impossible to solve collective problems like climate change.

Civil Society 117

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Health Governance 117

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

By Stephan Manning & Yeşim Uygur Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the socioeconomic structures around them. However, artists and artistic projects have the power to do much more.

Leadership 95

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 95

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 95

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Universities Governance 95

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 96

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Foundations 96

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Having worked in the social sector for a little over a decade, I have firsthand experience with the art and science of getting social impact programs off the ground. It is meant to supplement, rather than replace, the existing social safety net and job sector and can be a critical tool for improving racial and gender equity.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Nonprofit governance and management 111