Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 25, 2024

It’s like a one-stop shop for the serious funder. The more people I talked to, the more it felt like the hungover aftermath of a great party: Those who weren’t invited feel left out, while many of those who went are wondering how they’ll get through the day ahead. It’s not actually a thing (at least not yet).

Philanthropy 90

Philanthropy Recruitment Production Fundraising 90

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Steve Dubb: Could you begin by talking about why you moved from California to organize the solidarity economy in Mississippi? Kali Akuno: I was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, but my connection to Mississippi runs fairly deep on my maternal side. That side of the family goes back to being in the Natchez area since its founding.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Education Education Recruitment 135

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

And then the big things, like they would be sent home if it rained, cutting their wages more. He was like: “In Memphis, they are doing this work. Image credit: Jack Boucher and md. On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while visiting Memphis to support that strike. Why is that? And the dangerous things.

Governance 115

Governance Culture Construction Community Development 115

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 28, 2024

I think a large reason that folks feel like politics is inaccessible is because we make it so. I think a large reason that folks feel like politics is inaccessible is because we make it so. Excitement is not what we should be gauging. Excitement is not going to let you know who’s showing up to the polls.”

Environmental 123

Environmental Law Governance Health 123

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2024

Rebekah Barber: What has the response been like since the publication of your book? I felt like maybe the language was going to be too “soft.” So many people—women, Black women, especially, saying things like, “This book…it’s like you’ve written my life.” This book has helped me to feel like I’m not crazy.” “I’m

Health 94

Health Leadership Universities Philanthropy 94

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 4, 2024

Like Black people themselves, Black hair has historically been policed. Black women with coily or textured hair are more likely to experience discrimination than their counterparts with straight hair. Some would even use soap or broken glass to carve images like stars or the moon into their hair. Take Texas, for instance.

Law 116

Law Health Education Education 116

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As children, many of us would celebrate Black History Month in school by learning about people like Martin Luther King, Jr. If we were lucky, we might even be taught about people like Ella Baker , Fannie Lou Hamer , or Pauli Murray. or Rosa Parks. Woodson was born in 1875, 10 years after the end of chattel slavery in America.

Associations 114

Associations Education Education Children 114

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

As Brazilian movement scholar Rodrigo Nunes, argues in his recent book about movements like Occupy and the Arab Spring, there is not one universally correct answer to the question of how we make change. Instead, groups will always pose different strategies, like mobilizing and organizing.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Medical 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 8, 2024

It can feel like the achievement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and symbolic reparation for years of racial injustice. But like the Hollow Prizes won by Black mayors, too many of these nonprofit leaders are inheriting organizations that simply aren’t set up to run effectively. I was excited about all the possibilities.

Nonprofit governance and management 109

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Leadership Non-Profits 109

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

How has the rise of inequality over the past 40 years contributed to the defeat and the recent resurgence of the labor movement? Rising inequality is not just an economic story. In a country where money can buy power, it’s a political one.” Hamilton Nolan: In the 1950s, one in three American workers was a union member. It will be hard.

Law 130

Law Governance Leadership Poverty 130

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I think we learned a lot from watching how the COVID crisis went down, as movements. There was a massive amount of organizing that came out of that and won big things—and built infrastructure in communities. Even though it was so hard in some ways to build movement infrastructure during COVID, it is enduring.

Governance 110

Governance 110

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Like many immigrant communities, the idea that we would make all these sacrifices and then do the arts—it was just assumed that you would never do that. SD: At the same conference, you noted that running a CDFI is a little bit like directing a play. We have a relatively small asset size, just under $20 million.

Nonprofit Management 109

Nonprofit Management Management Sociology Collaborations 109

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2024

Image credit: Christopher Jolly on Unsplash With publisher permission, this article was adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ Recover, Explore, Practice: The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals , ” published in December 2023 by the Academy of Management Discoveries. Policies also vary in length and accessibility.

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Activism Leadership 91

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2016, one month before the presidential election, Katie Couric asked Ruth Bader Ginsburg about athletes like Colin Kaepernick , who refused to stand for the national anthem. As we all know, the Supreme Court was not burned down. There were no riots. Aside from some candlelight vigils and unfocused marches , not much happened.

Manufacturing 128

Manufacturing Construction Psychology Governance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 31, 2024

We don’t have a paywall like most other publishers. At NPQ, we have long tracked changes in the business model of journalism, including the rise of nonprofit journalism. In this interview, Monika Bauerlein, who has worked at Mother Jones since 2000 and has been its CEO since 2015, shares her perspective. Advertising isn’t going to.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Advertising Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 104

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. Perhaps potential buyers would be swayed by the “superior construction” or the “unusually big lots.”

Philanthropy 125

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Advertising Universities 125

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Days before the unprecedented event, warm weather disrupted a long list of planned seasonal festivities, many of them fundraising opportunities, like a youth ice fishing derby. According to legend, that means winter is on the way out. “We If the groundhog sees a shadow, it’s six more weeks of winter. If he doesn’t, spring is coming.

Food 106

Food Health Universities Activism 106

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2019, I moved home to start KC Tenants, which is the citywide tenant union here. So, it is a bit of a circuitous journey, but it starts with eviction research and then there is a whole other story about organizing. It felt impossible to me to just observe the trends. SD: What is the Homes Guarantee campaign and how has it developed over time?

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Governance Finance Marketing 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 25, 2024

An intermediate layer between physical infrastructure (like broadband) and sectoral applications (like social security) DPI provides the building blocks for offering transformative digital services—such as systems for digital identity and payments—at scale. It was easy enough to use it that she preferred it to cash.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Governance Agriculture Activism 121

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 10, 2024

Peers in the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network , which DSNI has helped seed, like the Chinatown Community Land Trust and the East Boston Neighborhood Trust have been key thought partners. Owning the Land Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) has long offered a nationwide model of community control.

Food 115

Food Medical Community Development Finance 115

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Cosponsored by nine organizations and endorsed by hundreds of others, the rally and march brought members and supporters from as far away as Maine, Florida, and Illinois to the capital. It was the largest demonstration of solidarity with Palestine that the United States has ever seen. “We know that the streets are with us.”

Ethics 138

Ethics Values Energy Governance 138

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Last year, 474 people died due to climate disasters, and studies show people with disabilities are two to four times more likely to die or be critically injured in them. Crosby says she and her husband prepared for the hurricane in many of the ways that nondisabled people do, like making sure they had their important papers in a safe place.

Medical 141

Medical Disaster Relief Environmental Management 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2024

Throughout the book are affirmations like “I will break generational curses,” “I am gentle with myself through life’s transitions,” and “I don’t need to justify my need for rest.” I felt like the third book should be another self-care practice activity. Oludara Adeeyo: I’ve written two other self-care/self-help books for Black women.

Health 100

Health Culture Education Education 100

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Image credit: Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash The portrayal of the starving artist might be commonplace, but it isn’t fair. Regardless of whether artisans are called artists, crafters, creatives, or makers, because they enjoy what they do, their work is too often considered a hobby that doesn’t merit fair financial remuneration. How Did We Get Here?

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Non-Profits Manufacturing 125

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Like most foundations, we were endowed through wealth accumulated through extractive capitalism. Moving from being simply philanthropic critics to co-creating movement infrastructure…provided many opportunities to change longstanding practices. Becoming a Movement Funder First: some information on how we got to this point.

Foundations 112

Foundations Nonprofit Administration and Development Philanthropy Leadership 112

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Nature doesn’t like sharp edges. Like a grass in a storm, like a cloud in the sky. I watch us fitting together perfectly, like two puzzle pieces—and maybe we are: once, for nine months you grew inside of me, a part of me, like a bit of photosynthetic algae inside the lips of a giant clam. A strange design.

Food 90

Food Energy Children Universities 90

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 24, 2024

This is how class differs from other forms of identity, like race, gender, sexuality, or disability, even as class intersects with these categories in important ways. Reprinted with permission. When I was young everyone was “middle class.” The United States, we were told until the aughts, was a big undifferentiated mass.

Finance 99

Finance Collaborations Production 99

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But the Black and Puerto Rican students who lived around the school were not likely to walk the campus until SEEK began. “The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.” In the 1960s, colleges and universities created several programs to address problems resulting from racial segregation in America.

Education 105

Education Education Universities Poverty 105

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The title refers to the fact that one in five Black men born in 2021 is likely to be incarcerated in his lifetime. Ghandnoosh also shares the type of policies The Sentencing Project would like to see enacted and how she hopes advocates and policymakers will use the research to uplift the need for reform.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 106

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

The walls were flush with mosses, plants, and bugs, some of which looked like they didn’t even belong to this planet. The walls were flush with mosses, plants, and bugs, some of which looked like they didn’t even belong to this planet. They didn’t taste like anything in particular but something about the process was deeply satisfying.

Construction 76

Construction Nonprofits 76

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I think a major critique of CDFIs, especially right now, is that they operate a lot like banks.…They Facts like these led Community Vision to partner with the African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs (the Alliance) to develop some “rules of the road” as to what counts as supporting Black communities. They should be more creative.”

Finance 123

Finance Leadership Associations Foundations 123

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The book is a memoir, but it also gives historical context and social commentary because I, as a Black woman who lives in this country and as a Black physician, I felt like my experiences, in all aspects of my life, really help inform how I see this problem. We can’t fix the problem until we can see it clearly,” writes Blackstock. “It

Healthcare 67

Healthcare Medical Health Education 67

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. NPQ : In your book, you make a point of connecting the idea of “family separation,” as it occurs all the time in the present-day child welfare system when children are put under the custody of the state, to the widely criticized family separation immigration policy of the Trump administration.

Children 137

Children Poverty Law Public and Social Policy 137

Nonprofit Fixer

MAY 2, 2024

You don’t want to come across as a jerk or too pushy or like a micromanager. The more specific and clear you are with people the more likely you are to be understood. “ In all my years of nonprofit leadership and management, I have searched for simple tools that get solid results. I am busy, so I want simplicity, not complexity.

Management 52

Management Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

US history certainly has several versions of these better models—things like progressive media outlets, community-owned newspapers , and worker-owned media cooperatives—that speak truth to power and give strength to movements. Did you know that just six large corporations control 90 percent of what people in the United States watch and read?

Public and Nonprofit Management 116

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Civil Society Foundations 116

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

Much like the citizenship schools built by civil rights organizers in the US South, ateneus taught reading and writing, politics, literature, history, and science to anyone who wanted to learn. However, the situation was once quite different. From 1939 to 1975, Spain was ruled by a fascist government led by General Francisco Franco.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Culture Children Education 106

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2024

In a big company like Mondragon, made up of lots of cooperatives, the…highest-paid worker…doesn’t make more than six times, typically, the lowest-paid worker… That makes a huge difference. The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: Building Regional Solidarity Economies.”

Production 84

Production Management Marketing Marketing 84