NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 10, 2025

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Others may support public institutions like local PTAs and Friends of the Library chapters.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

Thats why, in public policy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. We need policies that support a robust system of IP rights in order to develop successful AI models. Throughout this processimproving, applying, and using AIthe human element is essential. Consider the realm of scientific research.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

These shifts have introduced uncertainty for organizations committed to equity, as they put funding, legal standing and public perception in flux. Some helpful questions to consider: How vulnerable are your funding streams to changes in public policy or political oversight? What are their social identity markers?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

These shifts have introduced uncertainty for organizations committed to equity, as they put funding, legal standing and public perception in flux. Some helpful questions to consider: How vulnerable are your funding streams to changes in public policy or political oversight? What are their social identity markers?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 26, 2025

Poverty, social exclusion, and a lack of worker rights have long been drivers of trafficking and bonded labor, but the ecological damage wreaked by climate change not only supercharges those forms of vulnerability but, in turn, leads desperate workers to carry out further destruction.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 14, 2021

Jackson Center’s social media accounts and oversees the production of the quarterly newsletter, press releases, promotional materials, and other communications. I usually check my email and my orgs social media pages at least once during the evening to make sure everything is running smoothly. She manages the Robert H.

Communication

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 7, 2009

As you may know, I am in the middle of writing the full-length, printed book version of Nonprofit Marketing Guide, to be published in Spring 2010 by Jossey-Bass. Here is the my list of 10 marketing realities for nonprofits, with abridged commentary. Reality 1: Marketing is not a dirty word.

Marketing

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Facing this crisis, new social economy movements emerged in Korea, not only as an immediate response to the neoliberal economic crisis, but also as a visionary long-term alternative for building a different kind of economy. Social Enterprises The Social Enterprise Promotion Act, passed in 2007, was more far reaching.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 25, 2019

Elizabeth Leslie is the Communications Manager for the League of Women Voters of California, a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 12, 2015

Lauren Lawson-Zilai is the director of public relations and national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International , a social enterprise that provides job training to nearly ten million people a year through the sale of donated clothes and household goods. timeframe. There are 165 local Goodwill headquarters (agencies) in the U.S.

Communication

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

This has led me to the conclusion that if we want to close the racial wealth gap, we need to get serious about public banking. Public banking could help change these dynamics. Public banking could help change these dynamics. How did I come to adopt this position? My journey began far from the financial world.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2020

Once supporters choose a charity to fundraise for, they can share their fundraiser with friends and family on social media to rally around their cause. Share upcoming events that your nonprofit is organizing with your audience through social media and email marketing campaigns so that they can schedule the upcoming month accordingly.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 24, 2017

Will the way an arts organization approaches its communications work vary significantly from a social service agency? Over the seven years that we’ve done the Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , we’ve seen few significant differences between nonprofits with different missions.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. The social sector has figured out how to do the first one well. They also draw from public reference datasets, such as the Human Genome Diversity Project , HapMap , and the 1000 Genomes Project. By Jason Saul.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

A healthy, skilled labor force, an economically secure consumer base, and stable democratic systems are essential for robust markets and business growth. Business Has a Social Impact (And Always Has) Some would say that corporations should stick to selling things and making money, and stay out of social issues, especially divisive ones.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

Image Credit: Thiago Matos on pexels It would be under [President Dwight] Eisenhower’s watch that the nation would add the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and would offer “In God We Trust” as the country’s first official motto—one that would be added to US currency to remind the citizenry of the divine nature of the free market.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 3, 2023

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. Our speakers Xavier Ramey is the CEO of Justice Informed, a social impact consulting firm based in Chicago, IL.

Public and Social Policy

Getting Attention

JULY 29, 2014

Please post your open nonprofit marketing positions here. Communications Operations Manager , Public Policy Institute of California (San Francisco, CA). Public Health Communications Manger , Canyon Ranch Institute (Tucson, AZ). Social Media Manager , Not For Sale (San Francisco, CA). Recent Opportunities.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right. Why is that?

Public and Social Policy

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

Regular readers of the newspaper were likely already familiar with the development thanks to news articles that praised Morris Cafritz’s “vision and courage” and a constant stream of advertisements bringing his over 3,000 new units to market. That remains true even if that wealth was donated to promote a public good.

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. This is particularly important in social impact, where we need evidence to make decisions related to policy, funding, and programs, so we can solve intractable problems. million studies.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Yet despite these challenges, global philanthropy has much to learn from South Africa on democracy, development practice, and social justice. According to Afrobarometer, between 2011 and 2024, levels of public satisfaction with the democratic state also plummeted to 39 percent from 60 percent. Where is philanthropy?

Philanthropy

Philanthropy 2173

MAY 9, 2023

Eileen Pan on Unsplash There's been a lot of writing over the last three decades about the blurring of boundaries between nonprofits, governments, and markets. The whole social enterprise movement is an example of blurring lines between philanthropy and business.

Public and Social Policy

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. Black Lives Matter or Pride Month marketing campaigns might lead us to believe these movements are attracting all the funding they need, but they are not. The reality is more complicated.

Public and Social Policy

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. Foster public/private partnerships where possible. What do you see as the value of nonprofits in Montana?

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

The nonprofit sector is hugely important both economically and socially to this country. But I dare to say a large portion of the social sector was going through a lot of leadership changes and we started to see more and more leaders of color take the helm of organizations. The social contract between them and work has shifted.

Civil Society

Care2

DECEMBER 27, 2010

In the nonprofit arena, the word "marketing" can have a bad rap. Marketing, in particular, social marketing can make all the difference in your organization's work come 2011. What is social marketing? Social marketing is an evidence-based and theory-backed approach to achieving social change.

Public and Social Policy

Getting Attention

DECEMBER 14, 2012

1) Communications/Policy Project Manager. 1) Communications/Policy Project Manager, Robert M. Work involves public policy research, drafting written material (issue briefs, press releases, op-eds, etc.) The successful candidate will be creative, public-interest minded, and detail-oriented. 2) Fundraising Writer.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

Almeida defines structural racism as a broadening of the notion of institutional racism, and argues that institutions are only the materialization of a social structure or a means of socialization whose components include racism. Yet Brazil has seen growing racial awareness in recent years.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Gender Inequity in Latin America Gender inequalities have deep and complex roots in economic, social, and political structures around the world. These entrenched social norms deeply impact women’s lives and opportunities.

Nonprofit governance and management

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MAY 24, 2012

The behavioral economists behind the favorite book Nudge are advising UK policymakers (and the Obama administration) on how to use insights into how people think to advance public policy. One question is whether nudges can be designed to harness existing social norms. I want to go work for the Nudge Network! Maybe you should.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2015

While the price and registration deadlines are yet to be determined, participants of Cause Camp 2016 can expect to expand their knowledge of fundraising, nonprofit marketing and more. Social media. Social media strategies. Social Good Tech Week. Follow Social Good Tech Week on Twitter. public policy.

Public and Social Policy

Candid

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Based on aggregated survey and research data from multiple sources in four categories—financial resources, human capital, governance and trust, and public policy and advocacy—the second edition of the Health of the U.S. While nonprofits have contributed significantly to U.S. Read more. .

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2012

For my final posts this year, I’m going to publish some of my favorite interviews on marketing from my book, Robin Hood Marketing. Novelli started his career at Unilever, where he marketed laundry-detergent products in New York. “I Then they gave me another account, which was public broadcasting.

Public and Social Policy

Care2

DECEMBER 3, 2010

About The Speakers: Alia McKee (Principal, Sea Change Strategies): Alia helps nonprofit clients innovate engaging, inspiring, and successful online fundraising, advocacy and marketing campaigns. Alia holds a masters degree in public policy and communications from the LBJ School at the University of Texas at Austin.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One central challenge is that the majority of mainstream economists believe that capitalist markets can solve all (or at least most) global problems, and they contend that continual economic growth within this system is required to improve the lives of the billions of people living in poverty. But this view is certainly not universally held.

Education