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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. She was a member of the American Economic Association’s Executive Committee.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. The Quebec law is even more recent—the category of solidarity cooperatives was created in 1997. The enabling legislation in Italy dates from 1991.

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Developing Responsible AI Policy For Civil Society

The NonProfit Times

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.

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Federal Funding Freeze Could Decimate Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

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?

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Meet the Hidden Majority of Nonprofits: The All-Volunteer Organization

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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In Defense of Philanthropic Freedom

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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.

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When Academic Freedom Falls, Civil Society Is Next

NonProfit Quarterly

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.