NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 28, 2025
households giving to charitable organizations has fallen from two thirds in 2000 to just 47 percent in 2020, the most recent year from which data on giving participation levels is available. Lets start with the drop in rates of giving to nonprofits. The decline has been driven especially, most recently, by a drop-off in secular giving.
Candid
MAY 27, 2025
We keep hearing from scholars, community organizers, neighborhood leaders, and families that civil society as we know it is at stake. These rights enable nonprofits to focus on community well-being, regardless of political affiliation or ideology, per the IRS exemption requirements for charitable organizations.
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NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 8, 2025
Our purpose is to support civil society by expanding the capacities and strengths of charitable organizations that help meet the needs of the communities in which they work. Step up to provide more support to communities who need us. Foundations do not exist to perpetuate ourselves.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 20, 2025
House Republicans have *removed* (for now) a provision from the tax bill that would have granted unprecedented authority to the Executive Branch to revoke nonprofit status from organizations without due process! Its a win for civil society, for democracy, and for free expression. Nonprofits pushed back hard and won.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 17, 2025
Not so much for civil society. They are different degrees of the same destructive approach: political actors who seek to regulate, exclude, or intimidate in order to shape the actions of civil society in line with their own preferences. Great for headlines. Other examples abound.
The NonProfit Times
APRIL 23, 2024
Charitable organizations most frequently use the value of volunteer time to recognize the amount of community support an organization receives from its volunteers. When you volunteer, you help hold up the foundation of civil society. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Candid
APRIL 13, 2021
Organizations across the globe continue to feel negative impacts of COVID-19. The latest Charities Aid Foundation COVID-19 report found that at the end of 2020, 93 percent of charitable organizations reported being adversely affected by the pandemic. This finding holds true across a range of locations.
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