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The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face What’s Next

The NonProfit Times

(Photo By Deposit Photos) By Marnie Webb From the frontlines of disaster relief to the forefront of technological innovation, civil society organizations are navigating a rapidly changing landscape. What does this mean for civil society in the coming year?

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It demonstrated that when innovative leaders empower proximate communities, orchestrate strategic collaboration across sectors and geographies, and unlock creative capital, they dont just challenge the status quothey leap past it, catapulting systemic change forward. Their effort was not an outlier. Our takeaway?

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Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide by Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg Every social system has its own unique and self-reinforcing characteristics, practices, and vocabularies. We Just Need to Get Them There.

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COVID Was the Rehearsal

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet for civil society, this restraint feels indistinguishable from abandonment. Crowd your funds with other donors into existing collaborative funds, like Co-Impact or the newly launched Beginnings Fund , to support high-impact organizations. Because it leaves those working closest to the challenge bearing most of the risk.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One major strategy to counter this fear lies in massive collaboration, a coming together of individuals, groups, and organizations at unprecedented scale to exert major influence on political and social events. Ready-made platforms for collaboration and broad connectivity mean that staggeringly fast mobilization is possible.

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An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They enable the scaled, collaborative action that is the sine qua non of any adequate response in this moment. It diminishes civil society overall by shrinking the broad web of collaborations toward big goals that would be otherwise possible. They are a counterweight to organizational wasting.

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Empowering Changemakers: A Framework For Public Good Tech

The NonProfit Times

And, how do these non-traditional digital makers get access to the resources to gather core needs, structure data in ways that serve civil society, and describe and measure impact? Design : Civil society does not often have a chance to make their needs explicit as tools are being developed. How is the data aggregated?