Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Annual point-in-time data by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development indicates that about one-quarter of families who have experienced homelessness once will succumb to it again.

Homelessness 132

Homelessness Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 15, 2023

By Tiffany Manuel & Dana Bourland What if government, the philanthropic sector, and community advocates could pull a policy lever and advance housing, climate, and racial justice all at once?

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Environmental Finance Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 20, 2023

As Health Affairs reported, using data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, “37 million homes in the United States have lead-based paint that will become a hazard if not closely monitored and maintained, and, of those, more 23 million homes have one or more significant lead-based paint hazard.”

Curriculum and Teaching 75

Curriculum and Teaching Children Environmental Public and Social Policy 75

Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) provided $22 billion in official development assistance. Non-DAC government donors and multilateral organizations contributed an additional $2.8 billion. . The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed $3.2

Philanthropy 59

Philanthropy Urban development Foundations Collaborations 59

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Since the reinvigoration of the #StopCopCity movement in January 2023, 1 following the murder of a forest defender affectionately known as Tortuguita, 2 Atlanta police and the local government have been adamant about depicting Defend the Atlanta Forest protesters and activists as “outside agitators.” 3 There’s a history in that phrase.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 133

Nonprofit Administration and Development Non-Profits Environmental Urban development 133

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2025

This could mean a slumlord of one building, or a private equity firm that owns multiple buildings in one city, or even Project-Based Section 8 buildings, under the control of HUD (the US Department of Housing and Urban Development). A tenant union can be neighborhood- or citywide, across multiple landlords.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

Nonprofit Administration and Development Philanthropy Urban development Non-Profits 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

A recent US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report identified 771,000 homeless people in January 2024, a record number that was 18 percent higher than the previous year, which in turn marked a 12 percent increase over 2022. Johnson , which gave local governments license to fine, ticket, or arrest unhoused people.

Homelessness 106

Homelessness Poverty Public and Social Policy Urban development 106

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. They are administratively efficient.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Poverty Insurance Governance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

After decades of urban disinvestment, many urbanites celebrate these schools as “anchor institutions” to help drive their area’s big comeback or renewal. Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urban development. 39 And interest in these nonprofit land struggles has gone global.

Education 98

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In Hawai‘i, these forces, population loss from introduced diseases, and rapid sociopolitical change, including the overthrow of the Hawaiian government by American plantation owners in 1893, drove dramatic changes to every aspect of Hawaiian life, including loko i‘ a.

Agriculture 106

Agriculture Environmental Food Culture 106

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For example: Community organizers in San Juan, Puerto Rico , persuaded legislators to establish a community land trust to prevent resort developers from grabbing land from low-income residents who must evacuate so the government can dredge a polluted waterway that floods when it rains.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 22, 2025

Their ongoing journeys have surfaced four lessons that can help other cities move beyond conventional planning pitfalls, and adopt a more responsive, inclusive, and sustainable approach to urban development. Through initiatives like mentorship programs, including the Hardware Startup Incubator 2.0,

Urban development 117

Urban development Entrepreneurship Collaborations Energy 117

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Image credit: Chelsea Bland In the wake of a January 28 government memo titled Fork in the Road encouraging federal workers to resign their positions, and mounting warnings of mass layoffs (including the threat to lay off over 10,000 US Agency for International Development workers ), unions and their members are increasingly going public.

Nonprofit governance and management 106

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Urban development 106

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 19, 2025

Seven of the tours 10 stops are in states that are disproportionately impacted by regressive policies, such as voter suppression laws and the refusal of state governments to expand Medicaid , even though more than half of Black and Latine children rely on Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for their healthcare coverage.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 119

Nonprofit Administration and Development Urban development Governance Health 119

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Image credit: Seattle City Council on Wikimedia Commons Across the country, renters and unhoused people are organizing to demand that all levels of government address the nation’s housing crisis. Public housing—directly funded by the government and hence affordable to the lowest income people—is a fundamental cornerstone of social housing.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 25, 2025

In the face of a relentless effort to dismantle the federal government from within, a new movement is taking shape—led not by politicians or pundits but by federal workers themselves. And we will work together to create the conditions necessary to build a government that serves the public good. That message has reverberated.

Civil Society 106

Civil Society Governance Urban development Environmental 106

Fundraising Leadership

MARCH 21, 2025

Miranda Spivack, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards , How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back. Miranda Spivack is an award-winning journalist and editor who reports on government accountability and secrecy and urban development.

Medical 69

Medical Governance Urban development Universities 69

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2025

Kristie Ebi, a researcher who studies the health risks of climate change at the University of Washington, told Yale Climate Connections in 2024 that the top thing she would like to see all local governments do is develop a heat-wave early warning and response plan.

Homelessness 96

Homelessness Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Insurance 96

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

By leveraging these compacts, states that share a vision of government as a protector and facilitator of human rights can collectively build robust structures to safeguard political and economic rights, even when federal institutions fail. In other words, a progressive response begins with using existing openings at the state level.

Public and Social Policy 112

Public and Social Policy Governance Participation and motivation Nonprofit Administration and Development 112

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For instance, in the chapter on education (Chapter 11), Lindsey Burke, who directs Heritage’s Center for Education Policy, writes that the “The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which prioritizes government and public sector work over private sector employment, should be terminated” (354).

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 116