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

NonProfit Quarterly

Mentored teenagers building educational dreams denied to their parents. The nonprofit sector employs over 12 million people , but Capitol Hill dismisses our policy power. Every voice we don’t amplify is a policy we can’t pass. Authoritarians understand narrative as warfare: Control the story, and you control the policy.

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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In particular, a devastating economic and institutional meltdown that began in 2019 has taken a huge toll on schools and on education in the country. Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance.

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Report Reveals Nonprofits Are a Major Employer in Nearly Every State

NonProfit PRO

Alan Abramson, in collaboration with his Center faculty colleagues Dr. Mirae Kim and Dr. Stefan Toepler, the GMU-NED Project aims to continue and expand on the important prior work of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Civil Society Studies. Continue to your page in 15 seconds or skip this ad. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Though these violations continue, over the last 10 to 15 years, we have increasingly seen momentum among rightsholders, their allies, and civil society in advocating for rights-based and community-led conservation. Engage government in collective action to create conditions for favorable tenure rights policies.

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US Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness, but What Will We Do?

NonProfit Quarterly

I have been a managing director, a board member, a board president, a consultant to nonprofits, and taught college courses on nonprofit management and policy at several Chicago universities. After all, 501c3 nonprofits cannot endorse candidates for public office. You could say that this is by design.

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Local Leaders Are Driving Systems Change. Philanthropy Must Follow.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These leaders are transforming public systems from within—finding champions in government, building cross-sector coalitions, persisting through setbacks, and continuing to deliver impact for the communities they work with. It’s not to replace public systems but to help make them better. 2) We’re getting on with the work.

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Three Whys, Three Times (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Simply asking “why?”