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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

University of Mississippi professors Meagen Rosenthal and Anne Cafer explain that Black Americans are more likely to lack health insurance, a regular source of healthcare, or both. For the last few years, there have been major clashes between Mississippi’s state government and its majority-Black capital city.

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Pollution Has a Class Problem in Thailand and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

Such workers are also less likely to have access to healthcare coverage—or labor protections that allow them to take paid time away from work. Those living in poverty, near highways or dump sites, or without access to clean cooking options are also at higher risk.

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Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership. ” Paul was fond of this phrase—“hermeneutic of generosity”—which has deep roots in theology but that we rarely hear in management literature or political discourse.

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How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good Now is the right time for businesses, governments, and non-profits to consider ML applications that go beyond automation and improving bottom lines, and figure out how can they use these innovative technologies to contribute to society.

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Barbie and the Problem of Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

As Japan’s economy experienced a quick recovery when the government aggressively invested in manufacturing to produce new technologies—in industries including iron, cars, and chemicals—Mattel’s factories moved to parts of Asia where labor was more inexpensive, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan. company that is managing franchises.”

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. ESOPs also provide workers with important governance rights.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For a social sector organization or any other system to do this, it must ask: Are we prepared to make room for people to practice leadership in ways that differ from conventional management styles? Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.