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Why the Marguerite Casey Foundation is leveraging its endowment

Candid

We keep hearing from scholars, community organizers, neighborhood leaders, and families that civil society as we know it is at stake. Where everybody sleeps in a safe and decent home and has access to the care they need for their children, elders, and themselves.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For instance, Costa Ricas largest nature preserve of over 57,000 acres is the Childrens Eternal Rainforest , created through donations from school children around the world, while the Greater Yellowstone Coalition recently purchased 1,300 acres that had been targeted to develop a damaging gold mine.

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Providence Nonprofits Reeling from Funding Cuts and Threats (And, Organizations—What You Can Do!)

NonProfit Quarterly

Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits (NCN) calls these efforts a coordinated assault on civil society and democracy. When people think about nonprofits, they tend to think of food banks, homeless shelters, and disaster relief. If you dont have this, the economy collapses.[]