Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

By Nithya Ramanathan & Jim Fruchterman Recent milestones in generative AI have sent nonprofits, social enterprises, and funders alike scrambling to understand how these innovations can be harnessed for global good. In order to build a complex machine, we first need to invest in the nuts and bolts.

Social Enterprise 112

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 29, 2025

Yet 94 percent of companies report a lack of personnel capable of effectively executing their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) agendas. In addition to design roles, the need for green supply chain management professionals, environmental managers, and sustainability consultants is also on the rise.

Education 61

Education Education Environmental Ethics 61

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

An underappreciated tool for closing this gap—potentially benefitting millions of US households—involves resident-owned manufactured housing communities. A Freddie Mac Multifamily survey conducted in 2019 estimated 45,000 manufactured housing communities operating across the United States. There is another option—a cooperative option.

Manufacturing 116

Manufacturing Finance Nonprofit governance and management Law 116

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Here, I focus on two of the book’s US case studies: Industrial Commons , a textile manufacturing network based in North Carolina; and Obran , a worker co-op holding company based in Baltimore that has gained national prominence. But the manufacturing decline hit many regions outside the Rust Belt, including western North Carolina.

Manufacturing 115

Manufacturing Nonprofit governance and management Healthcare Non-Profits 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Making more robust use of open 990 data requires that nonprofits, foundations, researchers, and the IRS and federal government alike commit to sustained action.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Manufacturing 126

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy 132

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? AI models are mirrors that are manufactured to produce certain kinds of reflections of human intelligence.

Technology 102

Technology Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Healthcare 102

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. It may not be immediately clear the connection between semiconductors and cooperatives; manufacturing makes up just a little over five percent of the worker co-op field. How does this work?

Manufacturing 119

Manufacturing Education Education Governance 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As discussions about ESG become more and more polarized—while progressive politicians push for aggressive regulations, billionaires like Elon Musk call it a “scam” and nonprofits accuse businesses of greenwashing—leaving consumers increasingly confused. However, the problem goes beyond this polarization.

Social Enterprise 137

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 8, 2023

This includes millions of jobs in IT , health , the manufacturing and skilled trade sectors , and the army of electricians needed to fully embrace renewables. ” But the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the flagship federal legislation governing job training, badly needs an update. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.)

Education 105

Education Education Nonprofit governance and management Race and Ethnicity 105

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Top Project Management Buzzwords You Need to Know in 2024 Communicate easier with colleagues. Learn industry terms, buzzwords and jargon most used in Project Management settings. Project management can seem like a daunting function to get right, and in many ways, it is. Check out these top Buzzwords.

Management 52

Management Values Manufacturing Production 52

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 10, 2024

In helping to develop the marketplace, Samad drew on his past work as director of contract manufacturing and culinary operating for CommonWealth Kitchen , a local food business incubator , and his expertise in helping BIPOC-owned businesses scale and obtain contracts with anchor institutions like Boston Medical Center. After raising $4.5

Food 131

Food Community Development Medical Finance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I also come from a family of grocery workers and managers. When I was little, my dad managed a large local grocery. Another local leader is Danielle Guerin , who founded and leads a nonprofit called the Soul Food Project. It is co-governed, co-designed, and co-developed by people like Muhammad, Guerin, Triplett, and Lowry.

Food 111

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 111

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 27, 2022

According to affiliate marketing team Scanteam experts, Global collaborations of businesses, governments, and other organizations have given an opportunity to everyone to learn about different cultures, communities and take care of their interests. . Water Pollution and Management. Plastic Pollution Problem. Climate Change.

Marketing 52

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy 52

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

We are here to talk about “How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment.” But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang, Bloomerang is donor management software. And, you know, I started way back working inside a nonprofit in 1991. Japanese car manufacturer, I believe it was Toyota.

Technology 122

Technology Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofits Production 122

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Innovate and Integrate: The Dynamic Impact of MSP Software on Operations In an era where technology is not an enabler but a driver of business success, understanding the dynamic impact of Managed Service Provider (MSP) software on operations is crucial. It requires an ongoing approach to managing technology.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Healthcare Technology Finance 52

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JULY 22, 2021

According to the 2018 reports from the UK Government, marine plastic pollution kills 100,000 marine mammals and turtles and 1 million seabirds annually. To actually turn this into a global reality, we will need to take plastic waste management to the next level. So, it’s simple, right? in a material passport. Current Efforts.

Retail 52

Retail Technology Manufacturing Governance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” …I advise everybody, be a little careful…best stay woke, keep their eyes open. 8 Similar experiments have been conducted outside the United States.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The lucky grantees included clusters on clean energy, next-gen agriculture, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, and robotics, among others. The nonprofit I founded, Tulsa Innovation Labs (TIL), led strategy for Tulsa’s proposal. Establish a strong leadership and governance model from the start. million went to Tulsa.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Manufacturing Governance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Reunification Was a Shock for the East On October 3, 1990, less than a year after the Berlin Wall came down, East Germany’s government was dissolved and incorporated into the West. As the German government reports , Easterners work more hours per week than their Western compatriots. Germany had been reunited.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Governance Healthcare Culture 124

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Why Excessive Wealth Matters Academics and nonprofit activists have long talked about income inequality—and, more recently, have begun to address the more significant issue of wealth inequality. Since the birth of the United States, the federal government has seized over 1.5 What level would that be?

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy Governance 124

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2023

Mattel began manufacturing Barbie dolls in Japan in 1959 when the country’s economic struggle right after World War II made labor cheaper. Squeezing manufacturing labor overseas became a brutal fallback strategy to eke out a profit. company that is managing franchises.” The specialty was: We make items. Now we are an I.P.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Culture Production Technology 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A report issued by the Atlantic Economic Council in February 2024 says the company can survive the net-zero transition, but only with government aid. The moratorium was partially lifted in 2019 by what was then a new provincial government. The company that owns the refinery, Irving Oil, is facing a precarious future.

Energy 111

Energy Public and Social Policy Sociology Governance 111

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

With the WORK Act, tens of millions of dollars in government resources will be disbursed to employee-ownership centers around the country, fundamentally changing the playing field for worker-owners, freelancers, and cooperative innovators. Each win, whether federal or local, unleashed consequential benefits.

Public Policy 98

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Image: “Color My World” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” places of collective stewardship of the resources provided by Mother Earth) that can produce and provide the goods and services we need.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Production 137

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

Image: “ Hiding From My Shadow” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” T]he federal government has largely left each state on its own to compete against other states for jobs and tax revenues.

Public and Social Policy 134

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

using non-toxic building materials that were manufactured, transported, and constructed using low-carbon, non-polluting methods and materials); reducing energy consumption and pollution; and using integrative design , which incorporates sustainability up front and promotes good health and livability throughout the building’s life cycle.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

“UNABLE TO INTERVENE” by Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” economy, worth more than all manufacturing and railroads combined.” Imagine this.

Non-Profits 98

Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management Finance Nonprofit governance and management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Center for Biological Diversity: Learning the Limits of Reform Strategies The Center for Biological Diversity is a national nonprofit conservation organization that believes that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature and to a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. 3 Below, we share each of our organizational stories.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

Fundraising Leadership

APRIL 14, 2023

At their recent Catalyst Awards 2023, the global nonprofit founded in 1962 to “accelerate and advance women into leadership” applauded an exceptional roster of those at the helms of “forward-thinking organizations that are developing new and innovative ways to advance gender equity and strengthen their organizations.”

Culture 52

Culture Race and Ethnicity Manufacturing Nonprofit governance and management 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Image: “One Sided” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” We should be regulating corporate capture; instead, our government has enabled it. H ow do we confront corporate capture in our work?

Public and Social Policy 134

Public and Social Policy Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, philanthropy’s role in reparations is not to replace the federal government in providing the scale of redress and racial healing the nation needs. Increase the use of Black asset managers and Black-owned investment firms. asks Dorian Burton, managing partner of the Southern Reconstruction Fund. Pick any gap.

Philanthropy 145

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Culture Public and Nonprofit Management 145

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

” One such organization is Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)—a US nonprofit based in Berkeley, CA, with chapters across the country—which has called for a ceasefire since Israel’s response to the October 7 attacks. The nonprofit and its actions are often viewed as controversial. In this case, it happens to be Jewish supremacy.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Dubois’ and Fannie Lou Hamer’s equally inspiring devotion to cooperation as a tool for Black liberation; and the Coleman Manufacturing Company in North Carolina, “the only cotton mill in the world owned, conducted and operated by the Negro race.” I saw so much of myself in the spirit of these ancestors.

Technology 122

Technology Culture Manufacturing Insurance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

But at the EconCon conference held in Washington, DC, in June, hosted by the Omidyar Network and a dozen nonprofit think tanks, speakers offered a far broader definition of public power— namely, the power of government to act on behalf of the public. This is why finding ways to manage public procurement for public good is so important.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Insurance 98

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 11, 2024

How UK Manufacturing Transformed in the 2000s The manufacturing sector in the United Kingdom has experienced substantial shifts since the turn of the millennium. Many UK manufacturing companies outsourced production to remain competitive, resulting in the closure of factories across the country.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Nonprofit governance and management Energy Production 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2025

million workers, now employ more people than the US federal government. Organizers at the heart of the campaign talked about how they were able to put a different level of pressure and responsibility on Target management because the Twin Cities were Targets corporate headquarters as well as the home of top company management.

Marketing 105

Marketing Marketing Retail Manufacturing 105