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Can Public Power Advance Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Luriko Yamaguchi on pexel.com What is public power? In a word, a large share of public services during the neoliberal era of the past few decades has been outsourced. Why focus on “public power”? In a word, a large share of public services during the neoliberal era of the past few decades has been outsourced.

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Philanthropy and Social Justice: A Conversation with Deepak Bhargava

NonProfit Quarterly

Deepak Bhargava: My motivation for taking the job is believing that we are at a pivotal point in the country’s history and that many of the gains that social movements have won over many decades are in jeopardy. That is the strategy for social change that philanthropy should get behind. What made you want to come to JPB?

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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. From 2000 to 2021, progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has been anemic, registering less than 10 percent growth over 20 years. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors?

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Invest in Networks for Exponential Climate Wins

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Google solved the problem with networks : By engineering connections among hundreds of thousands of computers, Google radically expanded what their search technology could do. But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy.

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With Help from the Donors of Color Network, Two Organizations Are Creating Change

NonProfit Quarterly

The Right to Be Free from Environmental Harm The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) works toward equity and justice in environmental, energy, and climate policies. The Kresge Foundation supports the education and research skills training that has helped develop solutions to severe flood risks in these areas. “As

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. Consider the climate crisis. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Over the last year, she had to visit the emergency room at the local hospital three times when she and members of her family developed severe respiratory symptoms. Historically, the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) has been used as a term to capture these important upstream, non-medical drivers of health. Elisa isn’t alone.

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