NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Public Policy: A Hit and a Miss Are the lessons of Hurricanes Maria and Fiona being taken to heart? Officially, it is now public policy in Puerto Rico to move to 100 percent renewable power by 2050 (with intermediary goals of 40 percent renewable power by 2025—that is, a year from now—and 60 percent by 2040).

Energy 104

Energy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 104

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

But to respond effectively, it is important to understand dollar stores’ growing importance, how communities are responding, and how public policy might better support community-based businesses. On its website, ILSR maintains a set of maps showing the overlay of poverty and store location in multiple metropolitan areas.

Retail 127

Retail Food Law Governance 127

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

The process provided a structure for people from all positional levels across a complex, multi-agency, state government system to share knowledge and experiences in a way that helped them navigate state bureaucracy. Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.

Public and Social Policy 108

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 108

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The same year, an Australian court ruled its government had illegally used a faulty Automated Decision Making system as the basis for deciding citizens’ eligibility for various welfare benefits when around half a million Australians were ordered to repay years of government disability or unemployment support.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Technology 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Several recent studies reveal that, globally, people under 30 lack trust in their national governments, do not feel heard by politicians, and have lower levels of participation in national elections. For participatory bodies to be successful, their role in government must go beyond consultation alone.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Public Policy 96

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? Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 120

EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Southern Poverty Law Center. Latino Victory Project.

Public and Social Policy 76

Public and Social Policy Law Education Education 76

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The lasting impact of our country’s discriminatory housing and lending practices has led to widespread racial residential segregation and concentrated poverty, and differential access to community conditions that promote health such as high-quality schools, clean air, parks and open spaces, and job opportunities.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 96

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

22 Yet as racial justice movement leader Dedrick Asante-Muhammad has detailed, a race-neutral or “race-blind approach to addressing racial economic inequality has left the nation hobbled in public policy efforts to undo ongoing structural racism.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

Public and Social Policy 75

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 75

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

The new benefit reached some 60 million children (including 26 million children previously ineligible for the full benefit) and was widely credited with cutting child poverty in the United States by nearly half—overnight. The relatively small cash infusions, the researchers found, served to significantly reduce household hunger.

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Universities 89

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

From poverty wages to sky-high rents to environmental disasters, many of the crises we face today are linked to outsized and entrenched corporate power. To counter corporations’ outsized and unchecked power grab, we need more than public policy fights, community benefits agreements, and harm reduction.

Public Policy 135

Public Policy Governance Non-Profits Law 135

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. Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism. Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.”

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 121