NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Anyone who says there is no money for needed social services should look again. Across the United States, at least a dozen sports teams—often owned by White billionaire families—are aggressively pushing for more than $14 billion in public subsidies to build private stadiums. The money is there—it’s just going to the wrong places.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Cooperatives, however, UN officials hope, might be able to help nations better achieve these targets because they combine economic and social goals. The economy of the future must be a social economy —that is, an economy rooted in social values and community ownership. That’s “phenomenal longevity,” he noted.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. Yale Universitys latest estimates also propose that the countrys failing mental health systems cost the United States $282 billion every year. 5 This brings forth other pressing questions, such as: How are AI datasets acquired in the first place? 10 Only 35.1

Race and Ethnicity

Blue Avocado

MAY 13, 2025

Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Partner with Local Businesses and Offer Valuable Information As a historical society, we obviously link with other history-focused nonprofits, but we have developed many other relationships in both the public and private sectors. Our community has an active Main Street program.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2025

Epsteins 2019 arrest for sex trafficking and sex crimes involving minors brought his relationship with the university to the forefront. Ito resigned just a few months later, the first of several tactics MIT leadership used to restore public trust in the university. Both Ito and MITs president at the time, L.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In Germany, strained local resources for the ongoing flow of migrants, overburdened social services, and historic divisions between eastern and western states, have fueled anti-migrant sentiment and strengthened far-right parties. However, the citys resources are being stretched thin, particularly in terms of housing and social services.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Limited access to education is also a social vulnerability: the systemic barriers further exacerbate the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities. The climate crisis is an urgent and pervasive threat, and it disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Data controls involve technical measures like encryption and organizational policies to protect data integrity and security. 21 Integrating Data Ethics and Diversity into the Narrative In the United Kingdom, organizations can use personal data without consent under a rule known as lawful basis.

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 29, 2025

Image Credit: Kbra Arslaner on Unsplash Across the United States, universities are raising the alarm about what they see as a campaign by the Donald Trump administration to assert political control over higher education. Federal officials had previously warned 60 institutions that their civil rights policies could jeopardize their grants.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2025

It aims to advance grassroots anti-racist solutions for systemic change by impacting public policy and creating a new narrative of inclusion and racial equity for Afro-Latino communities. REBIA emerged out of this institutional commitment to racial equity. A panel moderated by Tanya Kater Hernndez , Archibald R.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2025

The Schott Foundation for Public Education accurately describes the familiar pattern as boom-and-bust cycles of funding whenever a big election is looming. And social media has facilitated that by reducing the cost of information sharing. Mobilizing is short term; organizing is long term, even generational. The result?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

Credit: Photo by Diva Plavalaguna on Pexels The list of institutions negotiating with or capitulating to the Donald Trump administration seems to grow longer every day, including universities , law firms , and companies that have quietly scrapped diversity programs. and Catherine T.

Foundations

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 26, 2025

Meanwhile, dozens of LGBTQ+ nonprofits—including the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center—have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding for refusing to comply with the administration’s transphobic policies, such as banning the use of terms like “transgender,” “queer,” and “gender identity.”

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 18, 2025

Others argued the bill would give nonprofits more power to fight back than under current law. In exchange, nonprofits are prohibited from engaging in partisan political activities or endorsing candidates for public office. Nonprofits must now navigate a stringent set of criteria just to operate.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 20, 2025

The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, if the version passed in May by House Republicans becomes law, make an already inequitable economy even less equitable. The progressive political sphere and the nonprofit universe need to quickly get way more savvy about digital media and content creation,” Harrell-Edge added.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 16, 2025

Image Credit: geckophotos on iStock In these perilous times, how can social justice philanthropy show up and be effective? Divestment worksnot just by removing capital, but by changing public perception, pressuring institutions, and stigmatizing injustice. Understandably, the focus tends to be on grantmaking.

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 22, 2025

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Dwidar Jul. I set out in search of this evidence. Maraam A.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 21, 2025

Background by Ave Calvar on Unsplash As billionaire tech entrepreneur and newly anointed Trump advisor Elon Musks star rises in conservative politics, free speech advocates warn that recent lawsuits brought by Musks social media company, X Corp., Painter , a professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota, told NPQ.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 12, 2025

The bill hands unchecked power to [Treasury] Secretary Bessent to punish organizations that do not fall in line with the administrations ideology, by labeling them as terrorist-supporting groups without due process, without a third-party investigation and without public evidenceall while concealing details under the pretext of national security.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2025

As a faculty member at the University of Texas (UT) in Austin, I have experienced the disadvantages of a hostile state government, but arguably now have the advantage of seeing what attacks on DEI look likeand an understanding of what kinds of response are possible. How can leaders who seek to protect racial justice respond?

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 13, 2025

Theres more philanthropic funding of these organizations, theres more public fundingat least until recentlyso the number of [nonprofit] organizations has risen steadily, particularly in the last 40 to 50 years. At the time, the amendment was uncontroversial and became law on August 16, 1954. How Did We Get Here?

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

The email informed the nonprofits, which provide critical intervention services for family, domestic, and dating violence, that the grant orientation was canceled, effective immediately with no reason given, and that the government office had been instructed to refrain from public speaking engagements, including communication with the nonprofits.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2025

Image credit: Maryland GovPics – Public Swearing In on Wikimedia Commons This is a good resurrection story for Easter, former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) Martin OMalley texted me on Easter weekend. [It] If state and local law enforcement dont step up, then private civil lawsuits offer a second path.

Law

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2025

Credit: Good Faces on Unsplash Eight years ago, at the dawn of President Donald Trumps first administration, airports were flooded by public demonstrations protesting an executive order banning travel from a number of majority Muslim countries. This time, as Trumps second administration begins, an explicit travel ban is missing.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Not to be outdone was first buddy South African-born US billionaire Elon Musk, who claimed on social media that the South African government is openly pushing for genocide of White people in South Africa. The new law is hardly confiscatory. He has also spoken to Musk to clarify the laws terms.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

Image credit: Garry Knight “What policy initiatives would I create if I could?” Of course, I hardly expect my preferred policies to be adopted wholesale. As we approach the Fourth of July, I want to propose a policy agenda that will strengthen democracy and give a fair shake to all. But being future-oriented is important.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2025

Image credit: North Atlantic Books, Dimple Abichandani Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. We saw the third wave of feminism as being this intersectional movement that was about young women and women of color leading social justice movements.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health justice advocacy groups adapted their strategies to the digital realm, leveraging social media platforms, virtual events, and other online resources to raise awareness and organize their efforts.1 Telemedicine, for example, powered by digital platforms, is a transformative force in improving access.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 28, 2025

This is not even to mention the administration’s reckless legal rationale for justifying executive power to “liberate” public lands for energy extraction by eliminating national monument areas set aside for protection under the federal Antiquities Act of 1906. As social archaeologist John R.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 30, 2025

Johnson signed Medicaid and Medicare into law. Roosevelt’s advisors wanted to include a national health insurance system as part of the Social Security program. That did not take place, and in 1950, efforts to create a universal health insurance system were defeated. In the 1930s, many of President Franklin D.

Healthcare

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Policy bodies like the National Governor’s Association are calling for more tailored mental health planning. Only 10 percent of organizations reported community engagement as a core activity of their policy support strategies. Current mental health policymaking tends to be insufficiently sensitive to these differences.

Health

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.

Social Entrepreneurship

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In Chicago, speakers surveyed the growth of the past 20 years while setting forth goals to bring worker co-ops fully into the economic mainstream through movement infrastructure, public policy, and culture building. Increasingly, worker co-ops are making public policy gains.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Naming gifts provide donors with reputational and market value , what legal scholar William Drennan refers to as “ publicity rights ,” and beneficiary organizations and their constituents with financial and mission-driven value. Charitable contributions driven by ethical egoism may provide the most benefit to the donor, however.

Ethics

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

Okinawa also tops the nation in unemployment rates , irregular employment rates, and single-parent household ratios , while having the lowest university enrollment rate. Toward Equity and Self-Determination In his paper, “ A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass ,” Harvard Law School Professor J. percent of the country’s total land area.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 22, 2023

Image Credit: Thiago Matos on pexels.com A new preliminary report by the American Association of University Professors is sounding alarms over a slew of legislative and political maneuvers by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 29, 2023

A report by the Associated Press found that Republican lawmakers in a dozen states have advanced at least 30 bills similarly targeting DEI measures at colleges and universities. Can you describe the potential impact you see in cutting funding to DEI at colleges and universities? I’m talking about gender. That’s what’s lost.

Race and Ethnicity