NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 13, 2025

These measures mirror authoritarian tactics employed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn, whose anti-LGBTQ+ policies have reshaped Hungarys legal system and public life over the past decade. Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, has openly praised Orbns governance as the model for conservative statecraft.

Civil Society

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. What does it take for communities like these to exercise power against slavery and deforestation?

Public and Social Policy

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 17, 2024

Medical debt relief programs might not be the panacea that proponents hope, despite the good intentions behind such programs. 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.

Medical

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

If we truly want to build systems that can move the needle on poverty, we have to start by providing space in media, in government, and in our own organizations for families—and particularly Black mothers—to tell their own stories on their own terms. Most government policy wonks have little to no experience with families living in poverty.

Public and Social Policy

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.

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. Musgrave offers a more satisfying answer, writing, “I understand neoliberalism as a governing rationality that directs state action in favor of the market” (177).

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Our objective was to obtain information about the social and cultural norms surrounding unpaid care work in this economically vulnerable area to inform the development of the Cuidemos, Banco de Tiempo, a government program that provides respite for people who care for infants, people with disabilities, or the elderly.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. Medical data registries have set the standard. That means using standardized language for the key concepts, even if those concepts are more complex in nature—like DNA, carbon emissions, or medical intervention.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? Another piece of this painting would look like a landscape of advocacy and policy change institutions that prioritize racial and economic justice to level the playing field. If not, why not?

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. But when advocating for policy changes, appealing solely to emotions might not be enough.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

This network works to collectively influence change across Minnesota, including through a nascent effort at the University of Minnesota Medical School that convenes community leaders and academic advisory boards across the university to address how the institution as a whole engages with community leaders.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity.

Public and Social 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! What’s one thing people might not know about you?

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! What’s one thing people might not know about you?

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

No humane government would have turned to forcible and violent arrest to punish a family like the Robertses for trying to survive and stay together.” Bad Public Policy “[Criminalization] is bad public policy.” It’s bad for the homeless people it impacts.

Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

When Johns was injured, she recalls, “Our partners we met through Intersectional Fridays were the ones who got the medic pack and pressed it on Jacob’s body while we waited for paramedics to come. This bill, if enacted, would empower the government to silence dissent. Castro, a cofounder of the collective.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Entering HLTH (pronounced “health”), an annual conference focused on the business of health—from healthcare startups to government agencies and insurance companies—feels as overwhelming as healthcare itself. Image Credit: Andrea De Santis on unsplash.com.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2024

And according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, poor perinatal mental health claims the lives of one in five women in the United States. Medical encounters often left the study participants feeling unsupported and put down due to negative stereotyping.

Health

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Please note that Tennessee Nonprofit Network monitors all bills that impact nonprofits and the communities they serve, but we only take positions on issues impacting the entire nonprofit sector and align with our public policy agenda. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here. Did we miss any important bills?

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

And as nonprofits moved away from their member-driven and member-funded mutual aid and organizing roots, they took on a hierarchical structure modeled after corporate culture, became dependent on grants from foundations/government, and became run by “expert” staff to provide services or lead advocacy efforts. Rudd, Christina F.

Leadership

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By vastly accelerating the antibiotic discovery process, generative AI—together with sound public policy—could play a part in solving the life-and-death struggle against AMR. The PASTEUR Act would create a subscription-style system whereby the government would contract with biotech companies for a novel antibiotic.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

4 But considered more broadly, corporate capture extends far beyond the capture of a few government agencies; indeed, over time, it has developed a stranglehold on our economy and life. But even absent open dictatorship, US government today is less a democracy than a plutocracy, ruled by the wealthy few.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

As public policy has done less and less to mitigate the suffering of millions, faith in the government has declined. If it’s okay to be angry, it’s also okay to expect better from the government. He insists that we cannot create a just world without a movement that fights for a government that represents everyone.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For decades, student loans have been a huge moneymaker for the federal government, which holds over 90 percent of all student debt in the US. Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.” This prevents communities of color from saving and transferring wealth across generations.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Evidence from Hospital Mergers , was authored by Zarek Brot-Goldberg , a public policy professor at the University of Chicago, along with five economists from the US Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and top US universities. A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has some answers.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 29, 2025

Doing so would further exacerbate the medical debt crisis. As researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation found in the 2021 Survey of Income and Program Participation , medical debt already burdens 20 million adults. Overall, people in the in the United States owe at least $220 billion in medical debt. million and 14.4

Medical