Governance and Social Policy - Nonprofit Leadership Zone

The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children

Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

While the title of the book might belie the scope of inquiry, Dunning makes the case that using nonprofits as a “tool for addressing urban problems” has led to a form of “urban governance” that uses private organizations to fulfill public, democratic rights. And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance

Ending Child Poverty: Lessons from a One-Year Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States engaged in an innovative policy experiment: for one year, the federal government expanded the existing child tax credit—making it available to families with little or no earnings, increasing the credit amount, and providing monthly payments instead of an annual payment at tax time.

Poverty

Poverty Children Social Policy Food

Work Requirements Are Rooted in the History of Slavery

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children

Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements. They are administratively efficient.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance

How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

2012) and demonstrate the failure of government regulations to rein in abuses (Coskun 2022; Silver-Greenberg and Gebeloff 2021). ESOPs also provide workers with important governance rights. Using a tax credit policy also avoids the need to establish a new government agency to administer the policy (Howard 2002).

Public and Social Policy

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

Instead of Disruption, Leverage What Already Exists

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What became abundantly clear was that change from the top down—new policies, new programs, new funding—was simply unattainable in the toxic and polarized political environment that has become the new norm, inhibiting new social policies from being enacted (let alone the funding mechanisms needed to pay for them).

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Health Governance Education

America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. Interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Volunteerism Volunteerism

Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life.

Health

Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food

Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

As noted in “ American Muslim Philanthropy: A Data-Driven Comparative Profile ,” a report authored by Faiqa Mahmood in 2019 via The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, “The strongest motivations for American Muslims are a feeling that those with more should give to those with less and a sense of religious duty or obligation.” .

Philanthropy

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Leadership

How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

Recent research by Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy supports such assertions, finding that a permanent expanded child tax credit “would deliver a value to society eight times the annual costs.”

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Universities

The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

5 As they did, many became politicized; so, they began pushing for economic and social policies that would end discrimination and redistribute resources to the masses at home and abroad. Faced with unprecedented pressure to prove its loyalty to the government or perish, it chose collective preservation.

Leadership

Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management

Leading Together for Systems Change

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

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management

Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

For example, New York City created the innovative concept of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the Voluntary National Reviews that nations submit to the UN, in which local and regional governments adopt and track their progress toward the SDGs.

Collaborations

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance

Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

However, state, county, and city governments are inconsistently skilled at developing local solutions. Taxpayers should expect governments to steward resources responsibly and in a way that maximizes benefit to all citizens. To be sure, the use of research evidence in policymaking is also valuable.

Health

Health Public and Social Policy Governance Collaborations

Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

’s governance can be attributed to combining impatience about injustice with patience about strategy—and all the while keeping a relentless focus on securing voice and power for marginalized communities. These challenges are reflected in what’s meant by use of the terms governing power and co-governance.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Governance Foundations Non-Profits

Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. By Jason Saul. Each of these initiatives has made positive steps in the right direction, collecting and centralizing data, consistently coding information, and creating applied use cases for research.

Public and Social Policy

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Health Nonprofit governance and management

Nonprofit Leadership Zone

The Economic Case against Work Requirements

Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

Trending Sources

Ending Child Poverty: Lessons from a One-Year Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

Work Requirements Are Rooted in the History of Slavery

Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

Instead of Disruption, Leverage What Already Exists

America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents

The Challenge to Power

Leading Together for Systems Change

Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stay Connected