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Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Book Excerpt From Relationality : Connection Is Our Lost Superpower by David Jay Imagine that year after year for decades at a time our capacity for relationship keeps getting better.

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An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Certainly, because many nonprofits are being hamstrung by frozen or withdrawn government grants and must respond to many other policy challenges, philanthropy can play an exceedingly valuable role by investing counter-cyclically to ameliorate these headwinds.

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Calling All Donors (and Would-Be Donors): The Vital US Nonprofit Sector Is Under Threat and Must Be Protected

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Katt Yukawa on Unsplash Editors Note: This article was republished with permission from the Center for Effective Philanthropy. A recent report from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at the University of Indiana notes that the proportion of U.S. Donors Down, Dollars Down? It isnt ideological. Its American.

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“How Do We Break Out of Pity?”: Reframing Children as Philanthropic Citizens

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Philanthropy at schools happens without us talking about it. Philanthropy at schools happens without us talking about it.

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Donor Base Continues to Decline, FEP Report Says

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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In Defense of Philanthropic Freedom

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Brian Hooks In the spring of 2023, I joined five others to write an article for the Chronicle of Philanthropy urging the sector to reaffirm its commitment to pluralism. We saw a need for the sector to steel itself against threats from political polarization that were dividing and destroying other institutions in society.

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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.