NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

These executive actions, which carry the force of law without requiring congressional approval, have been deployed at an alarming scale. These orders have also reshaped the implementation of policy, with many designed to increase presidential control. 7 (2024): 145. Elizabeth A.M. Searing, Kimberly K. Wiley, and Sarah L. link] Sarah L.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 7, 2025

Leonardo Cuello , a public policy research professor at Georgetown University and critic of the proposed Medicaid cuts, described them as “the largest and most damaging cuts in the program’s history.” Some may have no choice but to shut down key departments—such as maternity wards—or close completely, especially in rural areas.

Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 13, 2025

Orbns track record underscores how constitutional amendments and censorship laws can be used to marginalize LGBTQ+ people and silence dissentand Project 2025 is a roadmap for US politics that aims to curtail civil liberties further. Hungarian police have also targeted safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community.

Civil Society

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

JANUARY 30, 2024

Darity and Kirsten Mullen , “the capable and culpable party” that set and enforced policies and laws to actively build the assets of white families and destroy the assets of Black families. That remains true even if that wealth was donated to promote a public good. Foundations could follow this model.

Philanthropy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 20, 2023

The Nonprofit Talent Summit, co-presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners , Christian Brothers University Institute for Leadership Development , and Mid-South Philanthropy Network , is perfect for nonprofit executive directors, board members, HR professionals, COOs, directors, and managers. Learn more Our Keynote Speaker David L.

Nonprofit governance and management

MNA Association

JUNE 12, 2023

Specific issues addressed by MNA Following is a recap of specific issues MNA addressed in the context of our Public Policy Agenda. HB307 ultimately passed and was signed into law. If it seems long, well… it was a long session. Every success represents the power of association. Together we are a force for good!

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Or consider if the retirement money of our prestigious public universities and their medical centers, where cleaners, cafeteria staff, and medical assistants care for students and patients, was invested in one of the largest corporate landlords in the country, and this landlord doubled their rent or evicted their families.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 3, 2023

We are excited to announce that the conference will return to in-person attendance at the University of Memphis, Thursday, April 20th. The Conference + Catalyst are presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners in partnership with the Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

This network works to collectively influence change across Minnesota, including through a nascent effort at the University of Minnesota Medical School that convenes community leaders and academic advisory boards across the university to address how the institution as a whole engages with community leaders.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

losing primary intact forest results in biodiversity declines —it is unlikely we will have universally agreed-upon targets for all biodiversity measures anytime soon. Sodexo , a company primarily catering food in corporate and university cafeterias, is transitioning a third of its dishes to be plant-based by 2025.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As a result, the best that policy makers can do is to rely on lists of previously evaluated model programs that are considered “evidence-based.” ” This approach constrains the universe of choice for policy makers and doesn’t advance our understanding of why some programs work and others do not.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In many ways, I imagine a nonprofit sector committed to economic justice looking like a sector where the suggestions we made as we braced for the brunt of COVID are universal norms. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 20, 2023

The Nonprofit Talent Summit, co-presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners , Christian Brothers University Institute for Leadership Development , and Mid-South Philanthropy Network , is perfect for nonprofit executive directors, board members, HR professionals, COOs, directors, and managers. Learn more Our Keynote Speaker David L.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

Slavery ensued for the next three centuries and was only abolished on May 13, 1888, through a law titled Lei Áurea (the “Golden Law”) —66 years after Brazil became independent. According to the latest IBGE data, self-declared Brown people currently comprise 45.3

Public and Social Policy

The Agitator

MARCH 15, 2018

Or, under this new tax law, doesn’t get cheaper for many. I had the pleasure of working with a great MADD public policy volunteer named Nadine Milford. If it’s a drunk driving law in New Mexico, she probably helped pass it. The idea I like best for charitable deductibility is universal, above-the-line deductibility.

Law

Fundraising Leadership

JULY 14, 2023

Retired Major General Margaret (Peggy) Wilmoth, PhD, MSS, RN, FAAN, and professor in the School of Nursing at University of North Carolina, is a moderator at the 2023 Power Up Conference and Concert. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions at Georgia State University. It is quite another to serve your own mission.

Medical

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Until it was.

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Many have incorrectly suggested—including, most recently, Steve Phillips, in his book How We Win the Civil War 6 —that Black people were betrayed by their supposed northern political allies in Congress when they began to roll back Reconstruction policy and to yield power to former southern Confederates, as if they had suddenly changed sides.

Manufacturing

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy!

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

According to research from the University of Colorado Boulder , since the systems were trained on faces that reinforce the gender binary, they are also deficient in recognizing genderqueer, nonbinary, and transgender people.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy!

Public Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the following conversation, two expert leaders—Nick Hart, president of the Data Foundation, and Jason Saul, founder and executive director of the Center for Impact Sciences at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy—share thoughts about the next phase of the evidence movement. Is the government doing that?

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs. Here, nonprofit unions can also play a catalytic role.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When federal or nonprofit assistance is available to victims of natural disasters, Black families often find that they do not qualify for relief because of informal land ownership arrangements that are the legacy of Jim Crow laws, which often denied Black people formal means of passing property from one generation to another.

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These narratives not only evoke emotions that affect our behavior—they also help directly shape our public policy priorities. This strategy has led to over 35 states either passing or introducing “anti-CRT” laws.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mali Obomsawin: I would like to acknowledge that I’m a citizen of a nation that is not one of the nations in so-called Maine, so in terms of federal Indian law sovereignty, it does not apply to me in that context. They don’t just happen automatically without some of that Land Back politics, law, policy kind of thing.

Nonprofit governance and management

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. (TLC is committed to a place-based strategy—building deeply and over time in one state ecosystem and at multiple levels of leadership within organizations.)

Leadership

Ken Goldstein

JUNE 4, 2020

Communities need to control the laws, institutions, and policies that are meant to serve them, but all too often fail (and fail by design). That includes local schools, public budgets (budgets are political documents), and the police. Each day has a demand, and a list of suggested actions you can take in support of it.

Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many reasons, including public policies—both on the expenditure side (that is, government support for education, childcare, healthcare, and so on) and on the revenue side (that is, how progressive or regressive taxes are). This rule was based on a 1682 British common law case.

Law

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Image: “ The Universe Delivers” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Corporate capture is visible too in the names adorning the walls of nonprofit university and hospital buildings.

Public and Social Policy

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 20, 2020

our current built system of tax policies for nonprofits and philanthropy is - the legal and tax incentives that define the "nonprofit sector" in the U.S. It's good to see long-called for changes like a universal charitable tax deduction finally getting attention, although no one wants a crisis to be the reason. Broadband access.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As the executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center, Zoe Polk, wrote recently for NPQ about the PSLF program , “Legal aid attorneys like me work to ensure that millions of low-income people of color stay in their homes, are paid fair compensation, expunge faulty criminal records, and access immigration relief.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2025

Meanwhile, the infamous Black codes were used to weaponize tax laws to effectively force freed men and women back into a state of near slavery, by restricting their rights to own property and engage in certain jobs. Unequal Enforcement : Tax laws are often applied unequally. times the rate of non-Black taxpayers.

Public and Social Policy