Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. This can include parts of the Midwest and rural areas in various states.

Advertising 89

Advertising Education Education Public Policy 89

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My In the 1960s, the construction of interstate highway I-76 and state Route 59 disconnected Summit Lake from the rest of Akron.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Construction Community Development Governance 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The NGOs are united in this common approach but each brings unique expertise in a specific energy sector: appliances, buildings, electricity, industry, urban transport systems, and vehicles. But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Energy Nonprofit Administration and Development Collaborations 104

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern. This might include: 1.

Civil Society 86

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 86

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 6, 2023

They can improve engagement, performance, governance, and fundraising skills — all of which can propel the organization to the next level of impact. Here are 6 compelling reasons why you should look beyond your region or state when searching for your next nonprofit board retreat facilitator 1. Quality experience Watch out!

Nonprofit governance and management 90

Nonprofit governance and management Leadership Healthcare Nonprofits 90

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 3, 2023

Nonprofits are Tennessee’s 6th largest industry, and the sector pays more than $13.5 billion in wages each year to 181,300 Tennesseans (or 8% of the state’s workforce). billion, accounting for 10% of the Gross State Product. Tennessee is one of the only states in the United States without a statewide nonprofit association.

Associations 112

Associations Public Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In January 2024, over 300 organizations globally, from across industries and the financial sector, committed to nature-related disclosures based on TNFD’s recommendations, published just months prior. Our planet, and our profits, hinge on it.” Enter the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the increase of new industries in the area has come a flood of new construction; thousands of workers at a new car manufacturing plant, for example, need a place to live. In the United States, coastal states like Florida and South Carolina face the most climate change risks. As reported by the U.S.

Construction 62

Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 62

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That’s true of the past, but also today, as we face new technological advances that are transforming numerous industries, and the labor market with them. But some industries, and some people, are always affected more than others. These are all the result of policy decisions we make as a society.

Technology 92

Technology Law Non-Profits Governance 92

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Usually, new solutions are imagined, developed, and piloted at the local level by local leaders. From historic, regional supportive housing efforts in Portland, Oregon, to first-of-its-kind tenant voting blocs in Kansas City, Missouri, the local level is often where new challenges and creative solutions are first seen.

Nonprofit governance and management 85

Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Governance Leadership 85

NonProfit Leadership Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

After studying finance in college and then receiving her law degree from Florida State University, Erin practiced law for 13 years — first as in-house counsel for a multi-family housing company, then in private practice at a law firm, and finally as a prosecutor at the state attorney’s office.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Law Universities Leadership 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 29, 2023

In the realm of social change, community-based leaders are skilled at influencing and using momentum to advance local solutions but often lack all the financial resources they need to push those solutions to their full potential. In its wake, momentum for change seemed to build. And you can’t build a movement around one approach.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Community Development 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 22, 2024

But there is at least one fundamental difference between ed-tech and fintech: for a technology to count as educational , the market needs to be run as a partnership industry , where developers, educators, researchers, and students actively work together to develop, implement, and scale what works.

Public and Social Policy 62

Public and Social Policy Finance Education Education 62

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The cost of that energy will always be lower than energy produced by Con Edison’s grid because it is localized and renewable. “We It is the result of years of organizing to ensure the sustainability and resiliency of Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood and is the start of growing community wealth. How will Sunset Park Solar work?

Energy 120

Energy Environmental Finance Governance 120

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 12, 2023

Memphis-based nonprofit organization plans to become Tennessee’s state nonprofit association Momentum Nonprofit Partners has announced plans to expand throughout Tennessee to serve as the first statewide nonprofit association. Tennessee is currently one of the only large states in the United States without a statewide nonprofit association.

Public Policy 52

Public Policy Associations Governance Nonprofits 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 22, 2023

Key to this effort is over $1 billion of federal support and close partnership with the Mexican government. But with insufficient funds from the Italian state, and the slow modernization of infrastructure, the people of traditional Po Delta fishing area have been fending for themselves.

Agriculture 80

Agriculture Governance Environmental Associations 80

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While the Harvard Business School is just starting to consider new economic paradigms beyond capitalism and its incessant exploitation of workers , Colorado state officials and residents are taking bold action to create the world that we want to inhabit—one marked by thriving worker-owned businesses and a far more equitable distribution of wealth.

Public and Social Policy 93

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 93

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Last week, United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing 35,000 members in the Los Angeles Unified School, went on a three-day strike in solidarity with SEIU Local 99, a union representing 30,000 striking bus drivers, teachers’ aides, custodial workers, and special staff. Public school teachers are not just educators.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Her studies—at a little-known college in Bihar, one of the lowest-income states in India—were sufficient, because, to put it simply, there were employers seeking workers with her skills. They probably assumed her credentials would be too humble to be of use. percent in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), 20.5

Manufacturing 109

Manufacturing Education Education Foundations 109

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? Each plan gets turned into HUD. Once its plan is reviewed and approved, each jurisdiction commits to doing the work outlined in its plan.

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Environmental Finance Governance 85

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Leaders in many places facing economic decline—be they post-industrial cities in the Rust Belt or depleted communities in former coal mining towns—are increasingly looking to entrepreneurship as a means of revitalization. Yet, these attempts have not significantly reverted economic decline. A Misplaced Focus on Scaling Up.

Entrepreneurship 111

Entrepreneurship Collaborations Finance Food 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

And it means that to be serious about closing the racial wealth gap and building an economy that loves Black people, we need to focus our attention on the US South, where roughly 56 percent of Black people in the United States call home. They also continue to face discrimination, and exclusion from government programs, loans, and subsidies.

Agriculture 142

Agriculture Finance Culture Collaborations 142

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. The new DOL office offers a first-of-its-kind program that bolsters state initiatives for worker-owned businesses. The worker cooperative model is one of our best tools for achieving that goal.

Manufacturing 95

Manufacturing Education Education Governance 95

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The industry itself has been facing a financial crisis, and corporate owners like Gannett, GateHouse Media, and Alden Global Capital have drastically shrunk departments and heavily cut staffing. In June, Axios reported that 2023 was so far a record year for cuts in the industry; at that time, media had lost 17,436 jobs.

Public and Nonprofit Management 93

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Non-Profits 93

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The fervor of the British Raj, and now of transnational corporations and local elites, to shift lands from community ownership to private control of a few (usually) affluent men continues to denigrate women’s status from being equal and prolific members of an agrarian society to dependent wives with limited access to productive resources.

Food 96

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 96

The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

An organization is comparable to another within the same industry, and therefore they use each other to gauge success when it comes to meeting KPI goals and industry benchmarks. For example, the government is different from state to state, county to county. They also happen to be the company values as well.

Management 52

Management Nonprofit governance and management Culture Healthcare 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Image Credit: Nuthawut Somsuk on istock.com The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts , better known as BECMA, represents Black-owned businesses across the state. The challenge BECMA faced was further illustrated by a 2017 Boston Globe series on local racism, authored by the paper’s famed Spotlight investigative reporting team.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 79

Nonprofit Administration and Development Culture Nonprofit governance and management Foundations 79

Candid

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Unions are both local and national. Unions are usually structured around large national/international organizations that contain smaller local organizations (also known as “locals”). Unions are usually structured around large national/international organizations that contain smaller local organizations (also known as “locals”).

Law 105

Law Agriculture Education Education 105

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 12, 2024

AI Ethics in Marketing: Addressing Bias, Privacy, and Transparency Challenges in AI-Powered Campaigns In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of marketing strategies, revolutionizing how businesses engage with consumers.

Ethics 52

Ethics Marketing Marketing Culture 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level. I’m on my way to visit Soul Fire Farm in Petersburg, New York (a small town about 30 miles east of the state capitol of Albany). These communities still live under food apartheid.

Food 112

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 112

Fundraising Leadership

MARCH 15, 2024

Women in government STEM jobs, including those in the Air Force, Army, Navy, the energy and transportation departments, departments of Veterans Affairs, State, Interior, Homeland Security, Defense and Commerce, in 13 years increased from 25.33% to 25.63%. And yet, there is stagnation of hiring and promotion for women in these roles.

Environmental 70

Environmental Technology Manufacturing Culture 70

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The children and grandchildren of Walmart co-founder Sam Walton have long embedded their interests, and, more importantly, their money, among industry groups, policymakers, academics, activists, and NGOs active in the future of food. Image credit: Fabio Bracht on Unsplash This article was co-produced and co-published with Civil Eats.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 113

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 If we fall short, the money from Louisville’s city-county government could be rescinded. In another incident, the Kentucky State Police, who were assisting LMPD, killed a beloved business owner in the Black community.

Food 101

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 101

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 9, 2023

The first is that California is not on track to meet its climate goals because policymaking is still heavily shaped by the fossil fuel industry. The economic benefits they provide continually miss the communities that need these benefits the most because governments have structurally excluded them in the past.

Public and Social Policy 80

Public and Social Policy Energy Environmental Non-Profits 80

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

However, white people were able to build wealth through homeownership because our housing industry was built to benefit them—and only them. Racial and gender wealth inequality is a longstanding American embarrassment. In fact, data shows that wealth inequality may actually be worsening today.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Governance Retail Finance 113

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For the longest time, I was on the movement side of that question and was highly critical of how philanthropy operates. Now, as board chair of the Boston-based Hyams Foundation , I find myself on the funder side, which means it’s my job to help the foundation move from critique to action. Our journey has been long and gradual.

Foundations 105

Foundations Nonprofit Administration and Development Philanthropy Leadership 105

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Image credit: Ted Timmons on wikimedia commons In 2020, almost 100 Confederate monuments were removed in the United States. Lee are now scattered in a storage facility in an undisclosed industrial area. One year later, 73 additional monuments to the Confederacy were removed or renamed across the country.

Culture 126

Culture Construction Foundations Technology 126