NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Fortunately, community land trust (CLT) homeownership appears more successful than most government programs for first-time, low-income homebuyers—both due to demonstrated increased housing stability for residents and a participatory board model that includes both resident and nonresident community representation.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. If governments can work with a publicly owned bank that makes modest profits and reinvests those profits in the communities that own it, they can participate in a restorative local economy. It turns out, quite a lot.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 18, 2025

The pandemic has catalyzed digital adaptations and climate philanthropy, backed by increased government support for private sector involvement. Recommendations for Enhancing Philanthropy: Legal and Administrative Reforms: Streamlining laws and processes can enhance the operating environment for philanthropy. setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 9, 2025

In September 2024, two months before the American public voted Republicans into control of every branch of the US national government, that question was definitively answered at a private, non-political gathering of philanthropic foundation executives and their communications officers. million times. The 20 percent of builders (7.8

Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Image Credit: Jacob Culp on Unsplash Headlines about which cities have the most or least affordable housing markets often oversimplify the issue; the reality is that cities have a range of residential types with a range of social and economic implications for the people who live there. This point seems obvious but is worth stating explicitly.

Construction

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC) is the backbone network for the people, businesses, government agencies, and community organizations that make up Rhode Island’s food system. About 20 percent are seated within government. Here are three keys to meal sharing: 1. Manifest your values.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Its more of a marketing term than a scientific term, at present. People call it AI when its an algorithm that does something that they think is clever enough, or new enough, to be able to market as AI. They are mirror reflections of our collected minds and intelligence… Yet these tools are being marketed as replacements for us.

Nonprofit governance and management

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 13, 2025

Promotional Marketing: Sending offers and promotions in special manner directly to the consumer’s mobile phone. Fax machines were employed by companies, law firms, and medical professionals to transmit confidential information securely, and it was the standard in professional communication.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. and Eugene Klishevich, How AI Is Expanding The Mental Health Market, Forbes , June 25, 2024, www.forbes.com /councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/06/25/how-ai-is-expanding-the-mental-health-market/. Treatment, Healthcare (Basel) 10, no. 12 (December 2022): 2493. Sarah Darley et al.,

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2025

An executive order (14238)calls for reducing the CDFI Fundto the minimum presence and function required by law. Customer Base CDFIs deliberately target underserved markets. In short, it would be difficult for the federal government to enact deep cuts to the sector without adversely affecting small businesses.

Finance

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2025

But relying on the market to solve the affordability crisis ignores the structural problems and power dynamics baked into our housing system. By some estimates , private equity firms will control 40 percent of the single-family rental market by 2030. And its only getting worse.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

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

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. In comparison, the federal government has typically contributed roughly five to eight times more than philanthropy to cancer research each year.

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Public bankscreated by governments and chartered to serve the public interestoffer a powerful model to advance racial equity, public accountability, and community self-determination. The same holds true for credit unions, which are barred by state law from holding any public deposits, thanks to bank lobbying.

Finance

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 10, 2025

For board members, after years of acting in both management and governance roles, it can be difficult to learn to switch roles and be both supportive of management staff and provide adequate oversight or governance. Companies and marketers see opportunities to make money through online groups that they would never approach in person.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 9, 2025

Federal law requires them to spend a minimum of 5 percent of their assets annually through their charitable arm, but that 5 percent can include operating expenses like office rent, staff salaries, and board retreats. When you strip away the mission-oriented language, private foundations are investment businesses with a charitable arm.

Non-Profits

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 4, 2025

Bolstering worker voice and choice, and empowering workers to help shape an effective workforce development system and a healthy labor market, are necessary elements of a strong and equitable public system. In 2021, ReWork the Bay launched a pilot project to improve job quality by empowering workers to advocate for better pay and protections.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Selling data may create privacy inequalities, potentially turning privacy into a luxury and fostering a black market. 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.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 29, 2025

While the historians stopped short of naming specific countries, AAUP (in response to Trumps demands on Columbia), drew a clear parallel to Hungary, where Viktor Orbns government forced Central European University (CEU) out of the country in 2019, through legislation that dismantled academic freedom. Organize and network, she urged.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

Yet, crucially, these feats are only possible because AI has been created by humans for particular human purposes and trained on diverse, high-quality datasets, including medical journals, market reports, and musical compositions, all of them products of human creativity and expertise. Consider the realm of scientific research.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2025

By Tynesia Boyea-Robinson & Mahlet Getachew In only a few short weeks, the landscape for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in American government and business has turned upside down. The United States civil rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, have not changed.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2025

The idea of the Green New Deal was transforming what people thought was possible or practical for the government to do. Millennials and Gen Z have never known the kind of job market stability of previous generations. That starts with the basics: What are the institutions of government and how do they work, really ? The result?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Bloomerang

JULY 4, 2025

Terms (the length of service prescribed for the position of member or officer) are a start, and if you don’t have those, you may want to update your bylaws (usually a job for the Governance Committee). Requires the governance committee to dedicate more time to the identification, recruitment, and orientation of new board members.

Recruitment

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

In Peru, weak governance, inadequate enforcement of environmental laws, and corruption have created an environment where these illegal activities can thrive. This includes implementing and enforcing laws such as the EUDR and creating mechanisms for monitoring and verification.

Ethics

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 20, 2025

The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, if the version passed in May by House Republicans becomes law, make an already inequitable economy even less equitable. Credit: Ron Cogswell on Flickr President Donald Trump has centered much of his legislative agenda on a single bill. How inequitable is the current US economy?

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 2, 2025

Meanwhile, Trumps executive order dismantling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the federal government eliminates DEI considerations in federal hiring, promotions, and performance reviews, aiming to prioritize merit-based decisions. Other companies are focusing their growth on international markets.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 14, 2025

Hard-Won Gains at Risk Two laws have been foundational to US disability rights. One is well known: the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), initially passed in 1990 and signed into law by former President George H.W. Both laws come out of decades of civil rights activism of people with disabilities.

Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Despite significant organizing victories led by these communities, such as a law enacted in 2010 to ban employers from asking about criminal records on job applications, structural barriers persisted, with many workers still stuck in low-wage, exploitative jobs. Another front is building governing power and creating more co-governance tools.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 20, 2025

Credit: Sebastian Beck on Pexels In the months since the administration of President Donald Trump issued executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), many organizations have made drastic changesnot because the law demands it, but because of fear, misinformation, and the implied threat of legal action.

Law

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2025

I believe that the law permits most colleges and universities to increase spending from their endowments in light of thefinancial pressuresso many of them are facing. The government has demanded broad oversight of Harvards admissions policies, along with changes in its hiring processes and campus culture.

Universities

iMarketSmart

JUNE 25, 2025

It’s the law of reciprocity. In marketing funnel language, this is a mid-funnel tool. It’s filled with acronyms like RMD and QCD, age-related requirements, and things the government assumes everyone knows about that most people don’t actually know about. Engage your supporters by offering something of value. Interact with them.

Values

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

That said, it remains unclear how aggressive the South African government will be in response to the recent attacks from Trump. Not to be outdone was first buddy South African-born US billionaire Elon Musk, who claimed on social media that the South African government is openly pushing for genocide of White people in South Africa.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 29, 2025

A quick review of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill that was signed into law on July 4 , should make it obvious to anyone paying attention that the social justice missions of many nonprofits are at odds with the US government in power. As it is often said in community organizing, you’re either at the table or on the menu.

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2025

Much of the resources that are sitting in endowments are subsidized by the public: through our tax law, people get a tax break for putting money into their DAFs [Donor Advised Funds], or putting it into their endowments. Theres no way philanthropy can meet this moment without reimagining governance. Thats a huge governance problem. [G]iven

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 30, 2025

That has changed, thanks to an obscure government accounting rule adopted a decade ago: the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. This amendment to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) requires most local governments—including school districts—to report annually how much revenue they lose to tax abatements.

Retail

Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Understanding the rapid changes today in employment trends, tariffs, labor, opportunities, consumer needs, inflation, behavioral economics, as well as the laws of supply and demand in the U.S. You cannot escape the impact economics has on every aspect of your life. and globally, will make you a better leader and wiser entrepreneur.

Universities

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 5, 2025

But changes to Medicaid requirements recently passed under President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful” tax and spending law that will go into effect in late 2026 and early 2027 may start requiring her to work if she wants to keep her health insurance. Because of her conditions, Habein works very little. Habien’s kids are 17 and 21.

Insurance