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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

However, if public officials are to effectively address our biggest global concerns—while also managing local challenges and the interplay between the two—they’ll need to expand their skill set to include “problem-solving capabilities.” There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.

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Blockchain Technology: What Is It and How Is It Relevant for Nonprofits?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Paul Lamb , Principal at Man On A Mission Consulting , has over 25 years of experience in business, nonprofit management, technology, and public policy. This exchange does not require a payment processor or other institutional middleman to manage the process. Blockchain Simplified.

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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite multiple warnings, fines, and legal notices directing them to leave, they had stayed because they were otherwise homeless. A Broader Crisis: Criminalizing Homelessness Homelessness is, of course, a national problem with broad scope.

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10 Marketing Realities Nonprofits Need to Accept to Succeed

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Reality 2: There is no such thing as the general public. The general public includes everyone, from children to seniors, rich and poor, incarcerated and homeless. Managing profiles on multiple social media sites is more time-consuming than updating your website once a month.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. In a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. To interrupt this pattern, public policy must, at minimum, implement policies that tax wealth to cut down on the excessive concentration of wealth over time. Take Jeff Bezos.