NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 9, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Mingook Kim on unsplash.com Two major problems confront California’s energy policy. Net energy metering is a policy that compensates households with solar panels for the extra energy they give back to the grid and, in turn, helps lower their utility bills. This policy decision was complicated.

Public and Social Policy 123

Public and Social Policy Energy Environmental Non-Profits 123

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

By prohibiting any future sale of the property to Black or other non-white owners, restrictive covenants gave white buyers confidence that their homes and neighborhoods would remain white enclaves and therefore retain the “ enduring value ” that Cafritz promised for his “lifetime homes.” And it worked.

Philanthropy 134

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Advertising Universities 134

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The World Bank even dubbed this phenomenon the “MENA paradox,” highlighting a reduction in public sector jobs–mostly held by educated workers—which has not been offset by a sufficient increase in private sector jobs. These examples all underscore the importance of job creation in addressing this challenge.

Manufacturing 136

Manufacturing Education Education Foundations 136

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It was these earlier forms of automation that contributed to the decline of American manufacturing employment and the huge increase in inequality over the last four decades. Three big social changes would be necessary for such a path, and each one of them is a tall order. Alas, this more hopeful path is not where we are heading.

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Technology Production Civil Society 142

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Business publications once celebrated how the internet helps artisans thrive. Many crafts, such as sewing and quilting, were considered “women’s work,” allocated as much value as doing the laundry. When these items started to be manufactured in factories, those jobs were often relegated to women, who were paid far less than men.

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Non-Profits Manufacturing 133

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Policy gains have been significant, especially at the state level. Because nonprofits depend on funders who often value immediate results, they are incentivized to share the stories of transitioning businesses. But early public disclosure can result in a deal being lost to a competitor—or inflict other damage.

Public and Social Policy 126

Public and Social Policy Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Philanthropy 126

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Another piece of this painting would look like a landscape of advocacy and policy change institutions that prioritize racial and economic justice to level the playing field. The reality is more complicated.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s about shrinking the state—or its social programs, at least rhetorically. These policies have real-world effects. They argue that the country faces a crisis in capitalism, one that politics rooted in more generous social programs and greater market regulation could correct. But what is meant by neoliberalism?

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Marketing Marketing Governance 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even where there is overall economic growth, continued concentration of ownership prevents ordinary working people, and marginalized communities in particular, from reaping the benefits of their contributions, reinforcing power imbalances and social inequalities. million dairy farmers who own the business.

Governance 71

Governance Public and Social Policy Production Finance 71

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While voting, lobbying, and all types of policy work are important forms of democratic participation, collective bargaining across multiple channels inserts much-needed democratic practice into our economic system. Both aim to socialize the risks of operating a business while limiting the profitable rewards among a select few.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 105

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

Public Policy 98

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

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 122

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 122

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Many highly educated workers moved to West Germany for a better life, noncompetitive companies were liquidated, and entire industries disappeared, with about half of all East German manufacturing jobs lost by 1991 and unemployment ballooning to 24 percent. Initially, there was public support for Merkel’s immigration policy.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Governance Healthcare Culture 124

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

One of my favorite stories to tell is that, in 2018, a year-and-a-half into my work with that campaign, we brought the leadership team together—tenants, unhoused people, public housing residents from across the country. That analysis says that 70 percent of comments that were public comments were from tenants and allies.

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Governance Marketing Marketing 143

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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.

Public and Social Policy 124

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

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

4 Our accomplishments are minor in comparison to what we would have achieved had we had the full support of the municipal authorities and institutions, buttressed by a beneficial set of policies and procedures that supported local labor, procurement, and production.

Public and Social Policy 137

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

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

New Brunswick is home to Canada’s largest oil refinery, which employs more than 4,000 full-time workers, produces over half the province’s export value—and emits 3 million tons of carbon annually. Public pressure in Quebec and Prince Edward Island has led to legislated bans on future extraction projects. Movements take time.

Energy 111

Energy Public and Social Policy Governance Sociology 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure access to safe and affordable housing, to be unhoused— and to live in places that are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 111

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

The solidarity economy is a global movement that offers a framework to connect practices that are aligned with the values of solidarity, democracy, equity, sustainability, and pluralism (not a one-size-fits-all approach), all of which articulate a post-capitalist system that puts the welfare of people and planet front and center.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Businesses—in their myriad roles as employers, suppliers, and investors—need to lean into end-to-end sustainability by taking actions that improve not only the environment but also livelihoods, particularly among vulnerable communities in their value chains. Companies can also look beyond their own walls for innovative ideas.

Health 122

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, there is a growing understanding that the gap is a result of a pattern of race-based policies , fueled and sustained by anti-Black narratives, that have systematically demolished the wealth and humanity of Black people while reinforcing inequities across generations. The existence of the $11.2 As Ibram X.

Philanthropy 145

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Culture Public and Nonprofit Management 145

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Johanna Bozuwa, the executive director of the Climate and Community Project, details how the corporate capture of climate policy has impeded the public’s ability to respond effectively to the climate crisis. 5 Tenants are confronting [corporate] capture by organizing toward a world in which housing is guaranteed as a public good.

Public and Social Policy 134

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

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Israel and its policies have been widely embraced, with notable exceptions , by US elected officials and much of the US political establishment. Meanwhile, JVP, which is openly “anti-Zionist,” is defiantly centered around its Jewish identity, characterizing its activism as rooted in Jewish values and beliefs around justice.

Public and Social Policy 98

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

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

He views such an approach as the modern manifestation of colonialism, leading to structural debt traps and locking the continent at the bottom of the world’s economic value chain. Since it isn’t, the public sector steps in to nudge the market. Subordinated debt, where public lenders agree to be repaid after private lenders.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Energy Participation and motivation 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 7, 2025

Yes, aggregated data can inform policy, but it cannot capture the lived experiences at play. In the fiercely competitive private sector, even rivals strike distribution and manufacturing deals. Why is this so rare in a sector where collaboration is a core value? Fund global public goods.

Manufacturing 69

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Altruism and Helping Children 69

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

There are multiple reasons for this silence—including fear of being labeled anti-Semitic for expressing public support for the people of Gaza—but there is another less acknowledged reason. Boards in the nonprofit sector serve as donors and guide the mission and values of institutions.

Education 145

Education Education Manufacturing Public and Social Policy 145

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

The aircraft manufacturer Boeing, granted the authority by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2009 to self-certify compliance, uses that authority to cut regulatory corners—with tragic results. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”

Public and Social Policy 133

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 133

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 23, 2023

That share ownership comes with two core bundles of rights for shareholders: economic rights, which provide monetary value, and governance rights, which grant control over the enterprise. The clothing manufacturer and retailer Patagonia is now controlled by a PPT, while Newman’s Own is foundation-owned.

Non-Profits 139

Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 139

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Data controls involve technical measures like encryption and organizational policies to protect data integrity and security. Not all data are generated, valued, or treated in the same way. 56 The way that data are currently gathered and used can obstruct equitable medical research and public health efforts.

Race and Ethnicity 73

Race and Ethnicity Health Ethics Public and Social Policy 73

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 99

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 99

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 14, 2025

Over time, sustained trade deficits have led to the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs. Writing before the election, Ryan Mulholland, senior fellow at the Center for American Politics International Economic Policy program, concurred : It is now evident that the era of neoliberal trade that defined the last several decades is over.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Manufacturing Governance 104

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The social welfare state expansion that occurred early in the pandemicfirst under Donald Trump and then under Joe Bidenis now gone. The social welfare state expansion that occurred early in the pandemicfirst under Donald Trump and then under Joe Biden is now gone. million student loan borrowers by an estimated $500 a month.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Sociology 116