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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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#WeTheCivic: “America’s” Stories Can’t Be Told Without Us 

NonProfit Quarterly

It is the foundation of belonging—and a critical lever of democratic power. This is our month-long narrative celebration of the unquenchable nonprofit and civil society voices fighting for our democracy—and our future. That is how civilizations heal. We don’t just report on civil society—we help shape it.

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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.

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Philanthropy Must Accelerate Spending and Broaden Collaboration

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Meanwhile, our freedoms to give, to invest, and to speak freely—freedoms that are foundational to our democratic society—are under assault. We still have a great deal of freedom of action as individuals and as charitable foundations. On our best days, charitable foundations function as society’s risk capital.

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An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And as many are recognizing, philanthropic foundations that support their work must rally, and quickly, to their support. Many observers argue forand some foundations are announcing increases in grantmaking. They enable the scaled, collaborative action that is the sine qua non of any adequate response in this moment.

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Mission, message: Nonprofits navigate the new communications landscape 

Candid

The Communications Networks 2025 Pulse Polls | Survey #1 offers a snapshot of how nonprofits and foundations are adjusting their communications strategies under the new administration. Nonprofits (40%) were twice as likely to do so than private foundations (20%).

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COVID Was the Rehearsal

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Foundations, so often chided for sluggishness, moved with a kind of moral velocity. A few bold leaderslike the Skoll Foundation, Rippleworks, and the John D. Yet for civil society, this restraint feels indistinguishable from abandonment. Frontline workers prioritized. and Catherine T.