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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These range from arts, cultural and heritage activities, financial guidance, physical activity, and nature experiences, each of which fosters social connections. Canadians sign up to a weekend and choose an activity, from apple picking to sporting events. But they can’t operate in a void.

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

These nonprofits” are the very organizations government and communities count on for quality of life: kid’s summer food programs, houses of worship, 4-H, shelters and sanctuary, and more. There were remarkable and numerous attempts to make litigation a non-charitable activity which would then be taxed. This will come up again.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Conway of Caltech, titled The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , examines the role of corporate propaganda. Musgrave offers a more satisfying answer, writing, “I understand neoliberalism as a governing rationality that directs state action in favor of the market” (177).

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Nonprofit Isn’t the Only Option: Benefit Corporations, B Corps and More

NonProfit Hub

Plus, as a private company, it can be active in politics without restrictions. First, your organization completes an impact assessment to determine the effect it has on the community in four segments: governance, workers, community and environment. Becoming a B Corp requires just three steps.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

2012) and demonstrate the failure of government regulations to rein in abuses (Coskun 2022; Silver-Greenberg and Gebeloff 2021). ESOPs also provide workers with important governance rights. Using a tax credit policy also avoids the need to establish a new government agency to administer the policy (Howard 2002).

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Civil Society Undermined by Conflict, Disinformation, and Repression of Protest

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Jorm Sangsorn on istock.com Worldwide, civil society—from NGOs to grassroots activist groups to social movements to unions—is being undermined by global conflict, suppressive governments, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the spread of disinformation.

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Looking for Tax Money in All the Wrong Places: Structural Racism at the IRS

NonProfit Quarterly

These provisions reinforce systemic racism and discrimination that have actively prevented Black people and other people of color from obtaining things like home and business loans—or benefitting from programs like the GI Bill that helped White people acquire homes, businesses, and land.

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