NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

1 Philanthropy’s Conflicting Commitments Over the course of the last two and a half years, Marguerite Casey Foundation has supported efforts across the country to reimagine safety, increase access to public dollars, and seed in everyday people’s imagination the belief that our government dollars should be used to improve their lives.

Public and Social Policy 123

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 123

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2024

Yet it is precisely at this moment, when democracy is being challenged from all sides, and when the limitations of our nearly 250 years of governing are coming to a breaking point, that we must rise up and fulfill this mandate. Trust in government is at near-record lows because none have yet delivered for all. This work is urgent.

Public and Social Policy 95

Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development Poverty 95

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 5, 2023

Public institution spending dwarfs private philanthropy in most countries in the world. In the United States , private philanthropy totaled $176.7 billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Governance Philanthropy Poverty 105

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 24, 2024

The other categories were high net worth individuals (-15%) nonprofits (-2%) and corporate philanthropy (-2%). in its report “Trust in Nonprofits and Philanthropy: Strengths and Challenges in a Time of Division.” in its report “Trust in Nonprofits and Philanthropy: Strengths and Challenges in a Time of Division.”

Healthcare 59

Healthcare Governance Philanthropy Homelessness 59

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

Because the social sector field is collectively capable of achieving bigger social change goals when more resources step up to the plate, we have, of course, welcomed the explosion in “big bet” philanthropy in the past decade. First, big bet philanthropists should work harder to build bridges to these alternative funding sources.

Finance 90

Finance Philanthropy Governance Health 90

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Then, we’ve been trying to compare the information given by the federal government and the one been given by the Puerto Rico government, which was usually different in terms of the amount of money. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. The wording, the categories of the information.

Governance 133

Governance Disaster Relief Foundations Philanthropy 133

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. However, in America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. This disproportionality demands systemic solutions.

Poverty 102

Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 102

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP) is an example of a systems designer that helps coordinate across employers, aspiring workers, recruiters, government agencies, and trainers to prioritize and direct the investments needed to establish “good labor mobility” in key corridors around the world.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 131

Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

Data to pinpoint needs in specific communities Unfortunately, government survey data does not accurately represent “hard-to-count” at-risk populations who are less likely to speak English or to trust the government—which includes many of the people nonprofits like CASL serve.

Governance 59

Governance Food Health Collaborations 59

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Educational challenges faced by inner-city communities in the U.S.

Leadership 110

Leadership Public and Social Policy Poverty Race and Ethnicity 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The best way for philanthropy to show up going forward is to make trust-based, long-term investments into the systems of care that have long excluded marginalized communities and to ensure that those most impacted by reproductive oppression are the ones making the decisions. Philanthropy can’t shy away from the defining issues of our time.

Health 95

Health Philanthropy Governance Insurance 95

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Cargill Philanthropies. It is jointly governed by members of the Nakoda and Aaniiih nations, and includes a 22,000- acre (over 34,000 square miles) bison reserve, home to a herd of over 500 buffalo. A Montana State study from 2019 estimated that the poverty rate statewide for Native communities exceeded 30 percent.

Nonprofit governance and management 137

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

And how can philanthropies fund it? In this sense, many international development philanthropies are neglecting the most powerful route to prosperity: productive employment in a thriving economy. Funding to Support Production Philanthropy can be catalytic in bringing the production-based lens to the fore.

Production 102

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Education 102

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. My first thought was, ‘Here we go.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 141

Candid

JULY 2, 2021

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership.

Civil Society 61

Civil Society Health Governance Leadership 61

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Every community is unique.

Nonprofit governance and management 97

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 97

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). As Rudy Espinoza of Inclusive Action tells Duranti-Martinez, “If the community needs five years to figure out governance, we’ll get them five years, but first, we’ve got to get the buildings” (30). Purchasing land was, in a sense, the easiest step.

Public and Nonprofit Management 96

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But it has had such an outsize impact on partner organizations and the people they serve that we feel compelled to share what we learned in the hope that other philanthropies might consider similar programs. We requested this knowing that operating reserve initiatives worked best when they were championed and governed by the board.

Nonprofit governance and management 120

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofits Health Leadership 120

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Spade, it is fair to say, is skeptical that philanthropy will fund movements at scale to build a solidarity economy. Spade questions whether this method can achieve liberatory ends, arguing against the idea that change will occur if a “nonprofit report shows that poverty is bad, or cops are racist.”

Medical 115

Medical Universities Nonprofits Law 115

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 30, 2023

Image Credit: Conor O’Nolan on unsplash.com Together, we have worked in philanthropy for more than 35 years. Throughout its history, social justice philanthropy has generally remained organized around siloed identities, such as gender, race, and sexual orientation. But recognition and action are two different things.

Philanthropy 128

Philanthropy Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Collaborations 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. Then, because of the hyper-local nature of the work, local philanthropies and other place-based funders were engaged.

Curriculum and Teaching 87

Curriculum and Teaching Finance Children Recruitment 87

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 20, 2022

FHO: How do race and poverty enter into the narrative on housing? So, we need to underscore the role of government in making housing justice real. The rules that govern the housing sector either enable discrimination and injustice or combat it. Michael McAfee: I agree, we are at an inflection point.

Values 115

Values Public and Social Policy Collaborations Culture 115

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Alexandra Hertell, executive director of Fundación Segarra Boerman (FSB), a small local family foundation practicing trust-based philanthropy, got wind of this and got to work. This is trust-based philanthropy at its best. The recoverable grant bought another month, but time was running short for CRH.

Non-Profits 102

Non-Profits Finance Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 102

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Leaders moving work through nonprofit organizations are also contending with the “great resignation” and major shifts in the workforce; 3 unprocessed grief from the pandemic and years of escalating racial violence; and short-lived performative responses by philanthropy to the events of 2020.

Leadership 103

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 103

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

As funders at the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy, we seek to leverage our positions to advocate for greater support and funding for disabled leaders. 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.

Technology 117

Technology Public and Social Policy Governance Leadership 117

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 109

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Governance Nonprofits 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 8, 2023

When the pandemic and government lockdown eliminated urban jobs, hundreds of thousands of people left Peru’s cities and walked home to their ancestral homelands. Scott Momaday During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global shutdown sparked an unexpected return to and reinvigoration of Indigenous culture in Peru.

Leadership 103

Leadership Culture Poverty Public and Social Policy 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Our minds and our collective governance systems would bog down if we had to always consider all the connections of everything to everything else. We often hear the sentiment, “I already work on poverty (or climate or health disparities, etc.) System boundaries divide the big, messy, interconnected world into smaller subsystems.

Energy 133

Energy Health Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 133

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 11, 2024

By Jodi Nelson & Fay Twersky The cover story in SSIR ’s most recent issue, “ Where Strategic Philanthropy Went Wrong ,” reminded us of Mark Twain’s response to a rumor about his death published in the New York Journal in 1897. This is not our experience with strategic philanthropy. We take these points in turn.

Philanthropy 103

Philanthropy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Social Policy 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Hard-wired into systems and programs at all levels of government and the private sector, these policies bolstered white Americans’ stability, wealth, and access to opportunity while concentrating the effects of segregation, displacement, destabilization, gentrification, and poverty on BIPOC populations.

Public and Social Policy 112

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Leadership 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

All sectors have a role to play in achieving climate justice, but it’s fair to say that compared to government and civil society, business is late in addressing the challenge and is in fact frequently called out as part of the problem. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business. The framework consists of a three-by-seven axis.

Public and Social Policy 82

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Race and Ethnicity Energy 82

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

2012) and demonstrate the failure of government regulations to rein in abuses (Coskun 2022; Silver-Greenberg and Gebeloff 2021). Second, Social Impact Bonds help organizations raise funds for socially oriented projects from the backing of private, public, and/or investors interested in philanthropy (Joy and Shields 2013).

Public and Social Policy 83

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Finance Nonprofit governance and management 83

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By Tim Hanstad To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed ; “Only government has the capacity to address social and environmental problems on a national scale.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a collaborative of 13 philanthropies, including The JPB Foundation where I serve as senior vice president of environment and strategic initiatives. What Philanthropy Can Do. These developments all point to a political and funding context conducive to climate and housing justice.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 94

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that grantmaking should rely on professional staff to make expert decisions, reflecting philanthropy’s move from a values-based tradition to a more technocratic bent. But even a decade ago, the limitations of what came to be called “ strategic philanthropy ” were evident. Just Trust Whom?

Philanthropy 122

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Governance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2024

Could you outline what some of those strategies and forms of power are, and talk about how philanthropy can support movement strategies and help build movement power? From my perspective, philanthropy has a pivotal role in supporting efforts to build the power of people who have been denied it. We can support efforts to engage.

Philanthropy 112

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Ethics 112

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

To support South African democracy, philanthropy faces two challenges. The other is that global philanthropy itself is under threat as South African “populist” opposition advocates for so-called “ foreign agent laws.” A Government of National Unity As a response to the dwindling support, the ANC agreed to form a coalition government.

Philanthropy 70

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Poverty Civil Society 70