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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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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This famously occurred in 2021 when investors in the wallstreetbets Reddit community rallied behind GameStop, the retail video game seller, driving its price up 1,500 percent in a matter of days and creating massive losses for several large (short selling) investment firms.