NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

Theoharis is the executive director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice , which found that roughly 140 million or 43.3 An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. Homelessness is being criminalized, observes Theoharis.

Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Prompt medical care reduces complications and aids recovery, especially for those at higher risk. Containing Mpox In Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, local and international health agencies have been working to contain the outbreak, with vaccination campaigns and public awareness efforts targeting high-risk groups.

Healthcare

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

Thats why, in public policy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. We need policies that support a robust system of IP rights in order to develop successful AI models. Throughout this processimproving, applying, and using AIthe human element is essential.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Data controls involve technical measures like encryption and organizational policies to protect data integrity and security. What follows is a regrettable event in medical research related to this topic. Medical data are particularly valuable, presenting challenges and opportunities for minoritized communities.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

the time of publication, 394 organizations have signed the statement since the initial call. She pointed specifically to the call to not obey in advance, through altering missions and programs or downplaying commitments to causes like social justice, out of fear. By the end of the week, about 20 groups had answered the call.

Foundations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Escaping the Deficiency Focus When the WHO and UNICEF co-organized the landmark health conference in Alma-Ata, USSR, in 1978, 134 countries and 67 international organizations endorsed the WHOs pioneering perspective on health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 20, 2025

Millions will lose Medicaid coverage and thereby skip costly healthcare appointments with doctors, postpone care, [and] stop taking costly medications,” Wolff told NPQ , risking “worsening healthcare conditions spreading across the economy and society to everyone’s detriment.” The Trump bill…will add fuel to the economic inequality fire.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 14, 2025

By enabling state-level abortion restrictions, the courts decision raised alarming parallels for disability rights advocates, particularly regarding individual autonomy in medical decision-making , access to essential healthcare, and the protection of established legal rights. As Martin Luther King Jr.

Healthcare

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

My peers and I in the CHIC networkalong with many other social innovators and supporters like the Skoll Foundationhave been driving toward systemic change on this issue, from different angles, for decades. Skoll has observed that successful social movements often share a special sauce that elevates their effectiveness: a system orchestrator.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Emerging technological innovations in healthcare have the potential to transform public health and healthcare delivery systems, making them more efficient, personalized, and accessible. 8 Such technical hindrances have slowed down response times, particularly in rural areas, where resources are sparse.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The coalition is raising alarms over the potentialand already realimpact the proposed funding freeze could have on hundreds of billions of dollars that flow to work undertaken, often on behalf of government, by nonprofits across the US. They provide transportation for people to medical appointments so that their family members can go to work.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

The email informed the nonprofits, which provide critical intervention services for family, domestic, and dating violence, that the grant orientation was canceled, effective immediately with no reason given, and that the government office had been instructed to refrain from public speaking engagements, including communication with the nonprofits.

Public and Social Policy

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

JUNE 16, 2025

Image credit: Alexandria City Public Schools via Wikimedia Commons In March, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14242 seeking to eliminate the US Department of Education. The federal government currently covers about 10 percent of the total cost of special education. “We Nationwide, an estimated 7.5

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health justice advocacy groups adapted their strategies to the digital realm, leveraging social media platforms, virtual events, and other online resources to raise awareness and organize their efforts.1 Telemedicine, for example, powered by digital platforms, is a transformative force in improving access.

Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 26, 2025

Poverty, social exclusion, and a lack of worker rights have long been drivers of trafficking and bonded labor, but the ecological damage wreaked by climate change not only supercharges those forms of vulnerability but, in turn, leads desperate workers to carry out further destruction.

Public and Social Policy

Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

The short answer: Opportunistic attorneys, social and financial inflation, climate change , limited options for reinsurance, and legacy claims from the COVID-19 era. Social Inflation Social inflation is occurring nationwide but varies in intensity by state. That is remarkably stable. How did we get here? No concerns were raised.

Insurance

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

But it is past time to move from programs to policy. Drawing from our evaluations and other research and best practices in the field, we offer the following recommendations to create a social safety net that works for all people. Most government policy wonks have little to no experience with families living in poverty.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This in turn improves healthcare access and helps address social determinants of health by opening the door to referring patients to specialists, enrolling patients in assistance programs, and connecting those in need to other available resources within the community.

Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

It’s time to work shoulder-to-shoulder with civil society and government to do the big, urgent work that no sector can accomplish alone, to adopt entirely new systems of operating that enable all people to thrive and reach their full potential and protect our natural environment. Moreover, the public wants meaningful and lasting change.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. The social sector has figured out how to do the first one well. They also draw from public reference datasets, such as the Human Genome Diversity Project , HapMap , and the 1000 Genomes Project.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Yet despite these breakthroughs, the social sector has only begun to scratch the surface of open 990 data’s capabilities.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

used social media to amplify their message, and in response to the increasingly alarming Syrian refugee crisis in September 2015 mobilized 10,000 people in Sydney and 15,000 people in Melbourne in support of increasing Australia’s refugee quota. Building on this capacity for “ snap rallies , ” GetUp! However, GetUp!

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 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. Of course, the drug war is not the only reason why reparations are required.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

Conway of Caltech, titled The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , examines the role of corporate propaganda. It’s about shrinking the state—or its social programs, at least rhetorically. These policies have real-world effects. Another, by Naomi Oreskes of Harvard and Erik M.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? The reality is more complicated. This isn’t a criticism of anyone, but rather a healthy dose of reality.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 18, 2024

Why Economics is your friend as a nonprofit advocate By Kevin Dean, President & CEO Tennessee Nonprofit Network Last year, at a conference out of town, I shared coffee with an old friend as she recounted her incredible public policy journey. Nonprofits excel at highlighting the human cost of social issues.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Naming gifts provide donors with reputational and market value , what legal scholar William Drennan refers to as “ publicity rights ,” and beneficiary organizations and their constituents with financial and mission-driven value. Advocates are utilizing care ethics to shape policies around gifts designed for public impact.

Ethics

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

People with disabilities are leading policy change, technology development, and workplace evolution. Our interactions with technology are shaped and intermediated by the people who design them, the decisions made on how to deploy them, and the human-created rules that govern them. But space needs to be made. Hands need to reach out.

Technology

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 29, 2024

In this series thus far, our colleagues have explored what this future requires of each of us , and what it could begin to look like for governments. Such a foundational change will require a concurrent shift in nonprofit institutions, which have evolved alongside the government and market-based economy in the United States.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. ” during check-in meetings.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Boston Children’s Hospital Anchor Strategy What is the responsibility of nonprofits to the broader public—and do large nonprofit institutions such as hospitals and universities have an outsized level of responsibility? One reason anchor institution strategies are so prevalent among nonprofit hospitals concerns the federal government.

Universities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 31, 2023

By Gulsanna Mamediieva Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, technology was already a growing part of the Ukrainian economy and was central to the government’s vision to reimagine the way citizens and businesses interact with the state in the digital era: paperless, cashless, and without bureaucracy.

Governance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

Almeida defines structural racism as a broadening of the notion of institutional racism, and argues that institutions are only the materialization of a social structure or a means of socialization whose components include racism. Yet Brazil has seen growing racial awareness in recent years.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 And, of course, there are always contingencies with public money. If we fall short, the money from Louisville’s city-county government could be rescinded. million to help make a co-op grocery a reality. We secured $3.5

Food

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Gender Inequity in Latin America Gender inequalities have deep and complex roots in economic, social, and political structures around the world. These entrenched social norms deeply impact women’s lives and opportunities.

Nonprofit governance and management

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The result of any of the proposed bills would be conflicting orders from government, litigation, and liabilities. On the agenda : Businesses, nonprofits and governments would be prohibited from requiring workers or customers to be vaccinated or to wear a mask. This Session gives very little opportunity for public input.

Public and Social Policy