Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

For example, millions of Americans boycotted Bud Light beer in protest of its association with transgender influencers, dethroning it from its position as the countrys top beer and resulting in a 28 percent reduction in sales and purchase incidence. These massive actions are not anomalies.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

More than a century later, Gardner observed that, our tradition of voluntary association is still vital. Belief in the power of community organizations to do good isnt partisan. It isnt ideological. Its American.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. The act prohibits unacceptable risks associated with manipulative AI.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2025

Based on the FEP’s Quarterly Fundraising Report for the fourth quarter of 2024, which aggregated information from over 12,000 nonprofits and 6.7 million donors, the nonprofit sector saw a 3.5 percent increase in fundraising dollars but a 4.5 percent decline in the number of donors, when compared to 2023.

Retention

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

Image Credit: PeopleImages on iStock When Amy Neugebauers third-grader son came home from school one day, he ran upstairs to raid his piggy bank for an American Heart Association fundraiser. In the United States, the American Heart Associations Kids Heart Challenge, which also provides resources to support students wellbeing, is popular.

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

The unprecedented move, whose legality has already been challenged, could affect trillions of dollars in federal aid to thousands of programs, and threatens to have a catastrophic impact on the US nonprofit sectorand civil society at largeif the funds are successfully halted. That State funding?

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 10, 2025

Some of these small-budget organizations do pay people modest amounts: Soccer leagues pay referees for Saturday games, historical preservation societies pay gardeners, and parent-teacher associations (PTAs) pay after-school art teachers. An association? The job of management is done by the volunteer leaders, usually the board.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 3, 2025

The Presidential Leadership Scholars program created the initial structure for Cassie and Terri’s friendship, but the principles can work anywhere—neighborhood associations, hobby groups, volunteer projects.

Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2025

As Putnam wrote, the middle ring used to be “the glue of American democracy—the PTA [Parent Teacher Association] meeting, the coffee shop, the church, and the bowling league.” Without the middle ring, there is a real imbalance that has led to economic and political imbalance. Bonding Versus Bridging Think about your own social circles.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 29, 2025

For nonprofitsespecially those working in civil rights, education, journalism, or public healththis should raise serious concern s. The suppression of academic freedom isnt just campus politicsits a warning signal for civil society and for our democracy. Our democracy depends on a strong, vibrant and independent civil society.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

The directive triggered legal action from a coalition of nonprofits, including the National Council on Nonprofits, Democracy Forward, the American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance, and SAGE.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

While the current targets appear to be organizations associated with the progressive left, former IRS official Lois Lerner acknowledged the government targeted groups on the conservative right between 2010 and 2012. Not so much for civil society. Those efforts were wrong then and they are wrong today. Great for headlines.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2025

As was noted in NPQ back in 2018, FCPRs approach on power, community organization, civil society, and racial equity sets it apart from the more established philanthropic approach focusing on strengthening large, established institutions. REBIA emerged out of this institutional commitment to racial equity.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

The order tasks departments to identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large non-profit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of 500 million dollars or more.

Foundations

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2025

As Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society Marshall Ganz points out, there is a large gap between mobilizing and organizing. Even if youre right and participants do have some degree of shared values, you havent reinforced those values for the long term. As Ganz observes , Mobilizing is a tactic.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Candid

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Energy Foundation through Keecha Harris and Associates. How funders can help civil society prepare for climate-related shocks Support organizing groups and build climate connectivity Just as voter data drives outreach efforts, climate data must become similarly accessible and meaningful.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 16, 2025

Every profession, every trade association, and every conference that is taking place right now should be lifting up what’s happening in our communities. And yes, we even need law enforcement to speak up about the lack of due process and the ways in which deploying the National Guard and the Marines has simply inflamed passions.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 22, 2025

In 2018, a coalition of environmental justice groups and oil industry associations formed to oppose changes to an Environmental Protection Agency regulation affecting the sale of gasoline with 15 percent Ethanol (E15)—and successfully rescinded the rule. Across local, state, and national organizing, coalition work is ubiquitous.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Im standing in the Kenyan Parliament shoulder-to-shoulder with 62 other community health workers (CHWs) from our Kenyan advocacy association, speaking to decision-makers in one unified voice with a clear demand: Pay us for our labor. After all, I still had to care for my own family: my wife and three girls. Fast-forward to 2022.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Those are among the bleak findings of a recent pulse survey by The Communications Network , a professional association for communications leaders in the social good sector, including nonprofits and foundations.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The nonprofit coalition, led by the National Council on Nonprofits, Democracy Forward, the American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance, and SAGE, will ask US District Judge Loren AliKhan on Monday to extend a restraining order preventing the Trump administration from freezing federal funds already allocated by Congress.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 28, 2025

But the incidents also reflect a dangerous and escalating pattern of attacks on civil society writ large that compromise the ability of nonprofits to support communities, fight injustices, and safeguard democracy.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

One organization that exemplifies this approach is the National Afterschool Association , a small but mighty nonprofit with a focus on supporting, connecting, and equipping professionals who work with and for afterschool children.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 20, 2025

Whether it is students being arrested or institutions cowering when faced with the withholding of federal funds, the threats to civil society are obviouseven as many institutions, such as the National Council of Nonprofits, have been vigilant in resistance. But that is only the latest assault of many. The rainy day is here.

Civil Society

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

This response was met with widespread support from a range of civil society. Part of why their response was effective was because it aligned with a value already associated with the university — what could be called one of its “zones of genius”: academic freedom and integrity.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

Make the case for civil society, and for philanthropy’s place within it. One means of responding to the current political situation in a way that addresses the contemporary crises of “social connection, isolation, and community” is through a defense, and an affirmative promotion of, civil society.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 15, 2025

For that reason, there is a growing interest in how civil society and civil society organizations (CSOs)—that is, groups standing between the individual and state, including everything from chambers of commerce to community groups, environmental organizations, bowling leagues, and more—can restrain rising autocracy in the United States.

Civil Society

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 18, 2025

Advocacy groups are the latest targets of the Trump administration, which is seeking to limit the independence of various civil society organizations or put them at risk of losing their federal funds and professional livelihood.

Civil Society

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

This response was met with widespread support from a range of civil society. Part of why their response was effective was because it aligned with a value already associated with the university — what could be called one of its “zones of genius”: academic freedom and integrity.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 13, 2025

As Hadley Renkin, associate professor at Central European University (CEU), explained to NPQ , Viktor Orbn and the Fidesz party began, as part of their renewed politics of nationalism, to target queer people, feminists, and others as anti-family and anti-national traditions of gender roles and relations.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 3, 2025

Karma Chávez, a University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) professor who works with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine Network (FSJP), has been an active participant in efforts to preserve diversity, equity, and inclusion in Texas higher education.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2025

Students also worked with Javier Navarro, whose research focuses on the complexity of the host-associated and environmental microbiome, including viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists. When Academic Freedom Falls, Civil Society Is Next The promise of these future scientists and artists must be allowed to flourish.

Civil Society

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to The Generosity Commission, they instead are complex actions that go straight to the core of civil society and democracy, which includes declining trust of institutions and neighbors and social isolation. By Paul Clolery Making a donation to charity or volunteering time would seem to be relatively simple acts.

Civil Society

Philanthropy 2173

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

.* Here's my question for nonprofits and foundations and activists and associations - to civil society, basically - how do we trust you and your research? This is a sector-wide issue.

Civil Society

Philanthropy 2173

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

for civil society organizations around the world to use. I have a new book coming out in July 2025 on AI And Assembly, written with an amazing group of collaborators, that looks at how AI is changing how we associate and assemble. I can still host things on DigitalImpact.IO This is just one example.

Civil Society

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

We founded the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford in 2014 to examine and act on the ways digital dependencies effect civil society. What skills, expertise, and practices do nonprofits, foundations and other associations need access to in order to collect, use, store, and destroy data safely and effectively?

Civil Society

The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

But also, publishing civil society work with meticulous attention to detail and context, often invisible to others, fosters diversity for future LLMs. We can examine terms of service and privacy implications associated with different AI tools, and share the results in a common rubric.

Civil Society