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Building Blocks of a Public Policy Agenda for Volunteerism

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Here, I propose action items in the form of a public policy agenda for volunteerism.

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Beyond Dialogue: Igniting Racial Justice in a Shifting Political Landscape

NonProfit Quarterly

As was noted in NPQ back in 2018, FCPRs approach on power, community organization, civil society, and racial equity sets it apart from the more established philanthropic approach focusing on strengthening large, established institutions. REBIA emerged out of this institutional commitment to racial equity.

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Critical Coalitions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In 2018, a coalition of environmental justice groups and oil industry associations formed to oppose changes to an Environmental Protection Agency regulation affecting the sale of gasoline with 15 percent Ethanol (E15)—and successfully rescinded the rule. Across local, state, and national organizing, coalition work is ubiquitous.

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Navigating DEI Challenges: Strategic Advice for Nonprofits to Meet the Moment

NonProfit PRO

Some helpful questions to consider: How vulnerable are your funding streams to changes in public policy or political oversight? This response was met with widespread support from a range of civil society. Prior to relocating to New Orleans, Isaac worked at a number of environmental nonprofits in Washington, D.C.

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Resisting Authoritarianism: How to Activate Civil Society’s Pillars of Support

NonProfit Quarterly

For that reason, there is a growing interest in how civil society and civil society organizations (CSOs)—that is, groups standing between the individual and state, including everything from chambers of commerce to community groups, environmental organizations, bowling leagues, and more—can restrain rising autocracy in the United States.

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Navigating DEI Challenges: Strategic Advice for Purpose-Driven Organizations to Meet the Moment

NonProfit PRO

Some helpful questions to consider: How vulnerable are your funding streams to changes in public policy or political oversight? This response was met with widespread support from a range of civil society. Prior to relocating to New Orleans, Isaac worked at a number of environmental nonprofits in Washington, D.C.

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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It’s time to work shoulder-to-shoulder with civil society and government to do the big, urgent work that no sector can accomplish alone, to adopt entirely new systems of operating that enable all people to thrive and reach their full potential and protect our natural environment.