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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? GenAI allowed me to parse their input.

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Sustainable community-led solutions shaping disaster philanthropy 

Candid

The field of disaster philanthropy is facing a perfect storm of global crisesconflicts, climate disasters, economic instability, and growing humanitarian needsas disaster relief and humanitarian aid organizations face a changing funding landscape.

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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. From food banks to disaster relief providers, nonprofits are often the first to respond in times of crisis.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Emergency Crowdfunding: Here individuals combine funds (and sometimes in-kind services) to provide relief to communities in crisis as happened when donors on GoFundMe raised more than $250 million for victims of the January wildfires in Los Angeles. Such deep collaboration during adversity can yield effectiveness, solace, and even joy.

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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.[]

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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in India

Candid

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. Many nonprofits also engaged in disaster relief efforts out of necessity, despite having no previous experience in relief work. .

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Local Militias Step into Government Gaps

NonProfit Quarterly

In recent years, the group, labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as right-wing extremists , has been painting a different picture of itself—as a disaster relief organization. Another member also pled guilty to obstruction in connection to January 6th in early June.