NonProfit Leadership Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. At Vital Strategies, we consider our global diversity to be our strength, and a powerful asset in our mission to reimagine public health for everyone. Did you enjoy this story?

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MARCH 11, 2024

A philanthropic movement to redefine reparations aims to advance policy changes in public health, education, criminal justice, and business development. Haygood, president and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, speaks at the launch event of the New Jersey Reparations Council in June 2023.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Image credit: Curated Lifestyle on Unsplash This article introduces a three-part series— Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds —a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City. This series will explore that central question.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The world is changing, and the social sector must lead the charge. This track will help you: Influence public policy and make your voice heard. Financial Stability and Growth: Maximize Your Resources Financial health is critical for every nonprofit. Build coalitions that strengthen your mission.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 18, 2025

While many organizations focus on public relations and fundraising strategies, smaller, often overlooked factors can significantly shape how your nonprofit is perceived. Regular updates through newsletters, social media, and community meetings create a culture of transparency, ensuring supporters feel included and engaged.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

By Sarah Cusworth Walker Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. And it is well known that communities of color experience less access to mental health services than white communities despite similar levels of need.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 17, 2015

For nonprofit public relations pros, Dylan’s statement carries a lot of meaning. To refine your approach, spend some time understanding your nonprofit’s larger goals — whether it’s to reach more wealthy donors, motivate people to take action on an important policy, or to drive more young people to raise money on your behalf.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Despite the accolades, these artists were low-income and eligible for our program, which means they’d fallen through the severed US social safety net. Could a regular public program of guaranteed income, especially for artists, make a difference? That is the critical policy question that our pilot intended to explore.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 16, 2025

A new report by the Massachusetts Guardianship Policy Institute indicates that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 “unbefriended” or “unrepresented, at-risk” individuals in my home state “face significant risks to their health, safety, and well-being due to decisional incapacity and a lack of financial or social resources.”

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Candid

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology. For many nonprofit workers—especially those who work in social assistance, the arts, or the religious sector—wages just can’t keep up with rising costs.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Review your communications and communications policies to ensure that they do not create unnecessary risks of copyright or trademark infringement, defamation, fraudulent misrepresentations, or political campaign intervention. Dissatisfied employees heighten legal risks. The factsheet What Is Lobbying Under the 501(h) Election?

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Image credit: Missvain on Wikimedia Commons Equitable access to healthcare is a key element to lessening the racial health disparities that have existed throughout the history of the United States. Mobile health clinic programs have also been effective in reducing emergency department visits.

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Candid

JUNE 11, 2025

As government support dwindles—for free school lunches, community health clinics, housing initiatives, etc.—needs For too long, many nonprofits have been treated—and seen themselves—as stopgaps, filling holes left by broken systems, offering services where public institutions have failed. needs have only grown.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 18, 2025

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Candid

MAY 28, 2025

According to The National Coalition on Mental Health and Aging, the number of people aged 65 and older in the U.S. Policy shifts, including cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and services such as Meals On Wheels, impact older adults’ access to care, especially among those relying on public insurance or fixed incomes.

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Fundraising Leadership

OCTOBER 31, 2024

election2024 ” The mission of civility during this time applies to private companies, non-profits (that are legally mandated to be non-partisan), as well as larger public companies with an extensive employee base and perhaps a distanced hierarchy of ownership. A recent LifeStance Health survey of 1,052 U.S. That’s #citizenship.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In contrast to systems like energy, transportation, or health care, where expertise is more well defined, food expertise tends to be irrefutable, requiring no advanced degree or professional experience. Finally, imagine the food scraps left over in these community members’ kitchens.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I’ve been doing social justice work for over 20 years now. It’s broad in the sense that it brings racial justice practitioners, artists, movement makers, educators from all over the movement who are working at the intersections of race, class, education, the environment, reproductive health, and rights, et cetera. Louis and Ferguson.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2023

Image Credit: SHREY DEEPRANJAN Today, healthcare institutions acknowledge forces like structural racism as drivers of negative health outcomes—but effectively addressing racism inside of those institutions still has a long way to go. What policies are further perpetuating inequities?

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It reaches into healthcare, finance, justice, education, and public policy, promising to streamline and elevate. Nonprofit leaders dedicated to social justice know that AIs power to shape lives will further entrench the biases weve fought for generations to dismantle if left unchallenged.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2025

Nonprofits are no strangers to uncertaintywhether from economic downturns, environmental disasters, shifting donor priorities, or changes in government policy. Long-term financial health depends not just on securing funding but on making sure it lasts. What you can do: Identify grantmakers aligned with your mission.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 13, 2025

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

The growing popularity among consumers who use them as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. The growing popularity [of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)]as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. Yet, for many, CGMs remain out of reach.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Manifesting Love by **DALL-E 3/ **openai.com/dalle Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? For those impacted by AIcommunities, workers, everyday peoplesuch policies serve as essential protective barriers.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 20, 2025

Not for the accolade, but for what it meant: Health care for allincluding those who provide itis not only possible, its happening. It also endangered long-term progress in our work: Disruptions in health services are now nearly as severe as during the COVID-19 pandemic. Todays crisis is different in origin but identical in urgency.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

Image Credit: PeopleImages on iStock What does impact investingthat is, investing with social benefit in minddemand of investors? Many in the field have long held it demands virtually nothing, that an investor can have a social impact without sacrificing a penny of their own.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The American Red Cross has spent and distributed all funds designated for Haiti relief on shelter, emergency relief, health, cholera prevention, water and sanitation, livelihoods, and disaster preparedness,” the statement continued. The organization’s social media feeds do not appear to have been updated since early 2022.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 25, 2024

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) (in this case, the “ India Stack ”) is at the heart of a revolution that is transforming the Indian economy. However, in developing economies, a lack of secure modes of identification can restrict people’s access to government and public sector services.

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Candid

APRIL 17, 2025

The challenges facing our communities, whether in workforce development, health care, or social services, are too big for any one sector to solve alone. Government has the scale and policy tools to make change sustainable. They provide direct services and develop innovative solutions to social challenges.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Image credit: Getty Images For Unsplash+ This article is the second in a three-part series Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Image Credit: Reneé Thompson on unsplash.com COVID-19 impacted the physical health of millions across the country, hitting marginalized communities the hardest. Less visible was the pandemic’s impact on behavioral health, an umbrella term for mental health, substance use disorders, and life stressors.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

And if collective action is the fundamental fuel that powers social innovation, the accelerants below enable it to spread and drive impact at exponential speed. This funding has supported advocacy, legal aid, strategic analysis, policy development, community and forest conservation activities, and more.

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Fundraising Leadership

JUNE 28, 2024

It’s about far more than public displays on social media, recruiting initiatives, one and done anti-bias and anti-harassment trainings.” It also bans policies or programs with ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ in their names,” reports the global law firm, Skadden. A study conducted shortly after the U.S.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 11, 2025

In their forthcoming book Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st Century Social Movements , coeditors Shanelle Matthews and Marzena Zukowska share a compilation of stories by communications workers from some of the most impactful social movements in the United States. All rights reserved.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That changed when a team from Reimagining the Civic Commons decided to reinvigorate public spaces in Akron’s systemically disinvested neighborhoods, including Summit Lake. Moving at the Speed of Trust Employing deep listening, engaging in meetings, and building one-on-one relationships with neighbors…helped inform public space design.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair The field of social entrepreneurship often takes its normative foundations for granted. Social enterprises seek to address social problems using business strategies. Understanding how social innovation directly affects people’s lives is essential.

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