Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It is well understood that the potential to leverage impact is huge; for example, while government procurement and supply chain purchases represent the biggest marketplaces in the world —for goods and services that SMEs could supply—SMEs are often locked out of those marketplaces. Business owners aren’t “poor enough.”

Philanthropy 113

Philanthropy Poverty Public and Social Policy Non-Profits 113

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I joined the staff back in 2014 to manage the production of the Facing Race conference. And what is our role in generating the solutions for what it will mean for us to govern ourselves for the long haul? Rebekah Barber: Can you tell me about your background and how you got involved with Race Forward? What will it take?

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

The left has often undercut a notion of a mutualist future by insisting that every problem needs a large centralized government solution. billion; and co-ops and mutuals around Quebec, Canada, contribute $50 billion to Canadas gross domestic product. The right only promotes competitive market solutions to solve for human needs.

Nonprofit governance and management 125

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Insurance Social Enterprise 125

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 12, 2025

You wouldnt want to have board members of a theater never attend a theater production. In response to community activism, many government contracts require constituents to serve on the board. Having people on the board who are engaged in the work of the nonprofit is critical. Farmers are strong voices for environmental rehabilitation.

Nonprofit governance and management 112

Nonprofit governance and management Volunteerism Volunteerism Public and Nonprofit Management 112

Fundraising Leadership

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Read more in Take The Lead on women in politics That stress and political anxiety can lead to reduced productivity at work, extended absences from work, breakdown of collaboration across teams, and a failure to produce required outcomes and meet deadlines. 5 as government officials prepare to fend off a wave of lies about the outcome.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Non-Profits Culture 121

Blue Avocado

JULY 8, 2025

Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Acknowledging Nonprofits’ Vital Community Role Having a respected position by local governance, rather than being treated like beggars on the street corner. Nonprofits exist to fill the gaps that government can’t or won’t fill.

Nonprofit governance and management 88

Nonprofit governance and management Recruitment Ethics Nonprofits 88

Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this age of digital overload and short attention spans, nonprofits that want to raise more money will instead create and sustain authentic, productive, long-term relationships with a network of individuals, corporate executives, government representatives, and/or impact investors.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Governance Nonprofits 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

They also had access to forests where they could collect timber and non-timber forest products such as mushrooms. Despite the community’s disapproval, government officials had apparently already approved and funded the plan. The villagers were moved to a resettlement miles away that lacked clean water and fertile soil for crops.

Environmental 115

Environmental Race and Ethnicity Construction Nonprofit governance and management 115

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. The hub will educate and guide tenants to manage or own their own housing and support various resident and community governance structures.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

However, the term CDFI is far more recent, the product of the passage of federal law in 1994 that created the CDFI Fund in the US Department of the Treasury, which provides grant support that has played a major role in the sectors growth. They saw government as bureaucracy, not helpful, he recalled. Advocates won big here.

Community Development 116

Community Development Finance Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 116

Affnetz

JUNE 9, 2025

Government and foundation funding remove the room for risk, whereas business success almost requires innovation and change. At best, customers will buy a product or service once on the strength of the standing Nonprofit’s reputation. This is a false and even dangerous assumption. Nonprofits are set up to minimize risk.

Social Entrepreneurship 100

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 100

Candid

JUNE 18, 2025

It received grantee requests for guidance and support as they navigate government funding and policy changes. Photo credit: SDI productions via Getty Images The post Adaptive funder strategies for supporting nonprofits in 2025 amid funding uncertainty appeared first on Candid insights.

Foundations 97

Foundations Nonprofits Leadership Activism 97

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Artists knew that the funding infrastructure for the arts mirrored our larger broken financial system, where the ability to live is based on a narrow definition of productivity and paid labor. It’s no surprise that more than half of artists in New York earning below $25,000 annually.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Foundations Health 133

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Effective governance requires a commitment to all aspects of their role, not just the parts that might seem most appealing or convenient. Collaboration: Working collaboratively with board members, staff, and external partners is essential for achieving organizational objectives and fostering a positive and productive work environment.

Ethics 116

Ethics Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Children 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 17, 2025

Certainly, because many nonprofits are being hamstrung by frozen or withdrawn government grants and must respond to many other policy challenges, philanthropy can play an exceedingly valuable role by investing counter-cyclically to ameliorate these headwinds.

Environmental 104

Environmental Civil Society Philanthropy Participation and motivation 104

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 21, 2025

The governments therefederal and statehave the will, the dough, and the capacity to scale up good ideas. Countries in East Asia and Latin America are in relatively good shape, with tax bases that can power government action. In Africa, governments have little to spend, andin the short run, at leastthese cuts are really going to hurt.

Governance 115

Governance Altruism and Helping Energy Health 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One path leads to a conventional wholesale buyer who pays below the cost of production, since prices are forced down by cheap, subsidized imports. About 20 percent are seated within government. Next, imagine where these crops go after harvesting. It’s not necessarily hard to understand, or to appreciate the difference.

Public and Social Policy 93

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 93

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2025

While government health care providers are present in most of these areas, service gaps such as stockouts of essential medicines and the absence of health care personnel force people to seek out alternatives. The government of India's telemedicine guidelines legally enabled this during the COVID-19 pandemic.)

Medical 52

Medical Health Production Governance 52

NonProfit PRO

JULY 18, 2025

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Retail 130

Retail Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation 130

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 23, 2025

For the bank, federally insured deposits are the cheapest capital around, cheaper than the rates the US government itself borrows at. Six months later, boomthe product is out with a working capital line of credit. As for governance, there are a couple of different versions. The local bank has insured FDIC deposits.

Insurance 91

Insurance Non-Profits Governance Finance 91

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understand the requirements for each application and the unique aspects of each foundation and government funder. ” Tracey Wilson from the Nonprofit Network Note: The opinions and product/service recommendations expressed above are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily represent those of Blue Avocado.

Sociology 111

Sociology Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Children 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future.

Nonprofit governance and management 93

Nonprofit governance and management Civil Society Collaborations Public and Social Policy 93

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 16, 2025

Integrated with Windows 365 and Bing, Copilot can draft written content, function as a research assistant, and improve productivity in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. 6) Rallybot AI writes advocacy campaigns for online petitions and email campaigns that can contact corporate and government decision-makers. 14) Version.ai

Marketing 80

Marketing Marketing Fundraising Fundraising 80

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 23, 2025

Within these feminist spaces, trauma-informed facilitators and artists introduce girls to self-expression and self-reflection as a way to challenge social norms governing womens relationships with their bodies, politics, and identity. Here, art is not the end product; its a deeply reflective process of building voice, confidence, and agency.

Leadership 52

Leadership Foundations Governance Culture 52

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A Cautionary Tale: Overcoming Governance Nightmares in Nonprofit Organizations No one enjoys it when a nonprofits board doesnt work well together. Developing and sustaining a motivated, productive, and highly engaged workforce means your employees must be measured on how they demonstrate the organizations values. Updates by topic!

Nonprofit governance and management 95

Nonprofit governance and management Finance Collaborations Leadership 95

NonProfit PRO

JULY 15, 2025

"Nonprofits need smart, sustained engagement—from first touch to long-term commitment—to inspire giving through deepened relationships," said Tammy Hammond, chief product officer at Bloomerang. Bloomerangs Journey Automation will transform how teams fundraise and connect with supporters. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail 130

Retail Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 130

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Take steps to ensure that AI-generated content is not, for instance, registered with the Copyright Office as your organizations own unless it has been sufficiently modified to become a product of human creation and an original work of authorship of the association.

Race and Ethnicity 98

Race and Ethnicity Insurance Nonprofit governance and management Associations 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. The students devised and implemented a plan to market and sell their honey production.

Education 76

Education Education Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 76

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

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Retail 130

Retail Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 24, 2025

Using a responsible data governance framework, such as the Better Deal for Data , would be well advised. Open really means open, and that means that the released materials are available for other nonprofits, governments, and even businesses. Open availability makes it possible to continue the work in exile, or in multiple countries.

Nonprofit governance and management 112

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Agriculture Governance 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Research reveals how inter-organizational collaborations for social impact often run into structural or governance issues like power asymmetries or a focus on the wrong metric of success. Such cultural savvy can support a productive and balanced decision-making environment, smoothing some of the other challenges identified with collaboration.

Culture 120

Culture Environmental Collaborations Social Enterprise 120

Candid

JUNE 26, 2025

The potential for AI to transform grantmaking While AI has enhanced personal productivity and streamlined workflows , few AI solutions reflect the real-world challenges of grantmaking, where success depends on relationships, equity, and trust.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 59

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy Collaborations 59

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

The end product would be a cleaner and more straightforward tax policy, with billions of dollars activated to make the world a better place. From a “good government” standpoint, the US public has plenty of reasons to want someone to ensure that tax-exempt funds are efficiently deployed. So, why isn’t first option feasible?

Public and Nonprofit Management 69

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy Foundations 69

NonProfit PRO

JULY 2, 2025

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Retail 130

Retail Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 130

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It has been very common for governments to request AI models that can identify fraud in a public benefits systemfor instance, in the applications they receive for childcare benefits or unemployment benefits. Its just about efficiency and productivity without thinking about what the broader goal of it all is.

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Technology Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 105

Candid

JULY 7, 2025

Federal funding for nonprofits is in a state of flux, and the future of many government grantmaking programs is uncertain. Though many private foundation funders and individual donors have said they plan to step up their giving and address the current challenge , they won’t be able to fill the gap left by the loss of government grants.

Manufacturing 71

Manufacturing Governance Foundations Food 71

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards , a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, A New Framework for Boards, Ananda Valenzuela challenges traditional governance models and offers a new vision for boards that empower rather than constrain. This [collective governance] framing inherently challenges the top-down board knows best assumption.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Culture Poverty 52