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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

An online game to advance social good like the World Food Programmes Freerice engages nearly 10 million people from 135 countries each year and has purchased over 225 billion grains of rice for food emergencies. The Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 involved over 25 million Americans in over 40 percent of the nations counties.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

What do Johnson & Wales University, Head Start, WaterFire, Amos House, and organizations that provide thousands of Providence residents with food, shelter, workforce training, education, and other services have in common? A RI Food Bank pantry being restocked. Theyre all nonprofits. And theyre under attack.

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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. Militia Groups’ Recruitment Strategy Militia groups often appear before federal agencies after natural disasters.