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(Photo By Deposit Photos) By Marnie Webb From the frontlines of disaster relief to the forefront of technological innovation, civilsociety organizations are navigating a rapidly changing landscape. What does this mean for civilsociety in the coming year?
Photo by Dalton Abraham, Unsplash They must not only worry about the official US government under Trusk. Look at what's happening with Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation. The Heritage Foundation (home to Project Esther and Project 2025 ) is preparing to use facial recognition and online sources to dox contributors to Wikipedia.
Image Credit: Jorm Sangsorn on istock.com Worldwide, civilsociety—from NGOs to grassroots activist groups to social movements to unions—is being undermined by global conflict, suppressive governments, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the spread of disinformation. And it’s more difficult than it sounds.”
According to The Generosity Commission, they instead are complex actions that go straight to the core of civilsociety and democracy, which includes declining trust of institutions and neighbors and social isolation. By Paul Clolery Making a donation to charity or volunteering time would seem to be relatively simple acts.
The Communications Networks 2025 Pulse Polls | Survey #1 offers a snapshot of how nonprofits and foundations are adjusting their communications strategies under the new administration. Nonprofits (40%) were twice as likely to do so than private foundations (20%). Fear of retribution was one of the primary things we saw.
As a leader in the space, RRI plays a coordinating role as one of the fields system orchestrators , and the Skoll Foundation has deepened our understanding of land tenure by supporting and learning from their work. Governments have returned ownership and management of millions of hectares of land in at least 39 countries.
Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civilsociety within a larger framework of social and political transformation. The provincial government agreed to help underwrite worker salaries. The governance model for solidarity co-ops is a multi-stakeholder approach.
As government funding for social good is slashed, even if temporarily, it will have waterfall effects for years to come. Meanwhile, our freedoms to give, to invest, and to speak freely—freedoms that are foundational to our democratic society—are under assault. Many nonprofits have already gone underwater and more will.
And as many are recognizing, philanthropic foundations that support their work must rally, and quickly, to their support. Many observers argue forand some foundations are announcing increases in grantmaking. Finally, only about one in 10 foundations share decision-making power with those most affected by their funding.
Foundations, so often chided for sluggishness, moved with a kind of moral velocity. A few bold leaderslike the Skoll Foundation, Rippleworks, and the John D. Yet for civilsociety, this restraint feels indistinguishable from abandonment. Governments that once hesitated embraced professional CHWs. and Catherine T.
Foundations regularly fail to ask their nonprofit grantees about volunteers. government began collecting data on volunteering, reported the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland. Just as bees are essential pollinators that nurture healthy ecosystem, a strong volunteer base helps maintain a healthy civilsociety.
Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future.
Were in a period of polycrisis, yet the business world, government, and civilsociety persist in their siloed approaches to solving it. It also includes making the case to government and helping those in the public sector understand how social innovation can achieve their goals.
He wrote, [P]rogressive advocacy organizations continue to work within their policy silos, often hampered as much by their foundation funding as helped. Yet, compared to the business sector and government sector, nonprofits have been sitting silently on the sidelines [emphasis added].
To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civilsociety organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. Optimistically, philanthropy and civilsociety have responded with creativity and flexibility.
From Experimentation to Diffusion of Urban Innovations The innovative role of dynamic cities has been referred to as government by experiment. Experimentation is particularly important for climate governance, where cities have developed new ideas at an impressive rate.
At the core of every dominant power structure is a narrative foundation. Society’s narrative hierarchy, underpinned by institutional forces—government, economy, religion—and mediated through culture and digital spaces, assigns credibility in a way that often silences marginalized voices. All rights reserved.
I have received some self-searching emails about the claims of sexual harassment in the Effective Altruism community, by people in the community (I am not in it) but those are about "culture" and "governance" not the work itself so much.* This is a sector-wide issue.
We founded the Digital CivilSociety Lab at Stanford in 2014 to examine and act on the ways digital dependencies effect civilsociety. How does a global exoskeleton of corporatized infrastructure and government/corporate data surveillance change how people take collective action? Today, not so much.
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Many worry that legislation similar to a bill passed last year by the House, which would have allowed the government to easily revoke the nonprofit status of organizations it opposes under thepretense of fighting terrorism, will be introduced again in 2025. What, then, should major donors and foundations do?I
The Systemic Climate Action Collaborative is bringing civilsociety, philanthropy, and public and private institutions to align climate ambitions, pool resources, and share knowledge. The Nathan Cummings Foundation invests in a more sustainable and equitable future by funding at the intersection of climate change and inequality.
The Report notes: “ Because nonprofit organizations are, and have been for at least a century, the bedrock of American civilsociety, providing important services and public goods that the government and the market either have not provided or will not provide.” Why is this important?
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. 2) We’re getting on with the work. 3) Here’s what we’re doing and why it’s working. percent of global funding directly.
I've been arguing for several years now that civilsociety is dependent on digital systems, which are not neutral, designed with civilsociety in mind, or inately democratizing. This is the entire premise of the Digital CivilSociety Lab. That's another way of saying civilsociety is digital civilsociety.
These days I'm not just writing and teaching about digital civilsociety, I'm watching as people all around me come to realize they're living it everyday. Some foundations are getting into the act. Governments are using the pandemic as an excuse to ban gatherings. I'm sure nonprofits are doing the same.
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One is that many foundations, under the guise of philanthropic pluralism , have supported a status quo that has harmed South Africa’s Black majority. A Government of National Unity As a response to the dwindling support, the ANC agreed to form a coalition government. Today, that democracy is fraying.
In so doing, we have enclosed civilsociety within the bounds of the marketplace and public sector, obliterating any meaningful sense of an independent sector. In so doing, we have enclosed civilsociety within the bounds of the marketplace and public sector, obliterating any meaningful sense of an independent sector.
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. The integration of these values has led to transformative changes in many nafda schools.
The Bill & Melinda Gates , Ford , and Open Societyfoundations have announced commitments of $2.1 The commitment includes $650 million to expand the foundation's support for women's empowerment collectives and efforts to strengthen the care economy, improve women's financial inclusion, and reduce barriers to paid work; and $1.4
Making more robust use of open 990 data requires that nonprofits, foundations, researchers, and the IRS and federal government alike commit to sustained action. This makes it difficult for foundations and nonprofits seeking to respond to changing needs in the field to get the information they need. Barriers to Potential.
At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws.
These business models rebalance economic (and often governance) rights away from outside investors to other stakeholders, such as workers and producers who drive value creation in the business. Similar efforts to advance these ideas continue today driven by individual enterprises, philanthropy, and government.
Consider Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (and leader of Bangladesh’s interim government ), who brought the idea for lending to the poor to mainstream banks in the early 1980s.The banks challenged Yunus to prove it could work, and he did —first in one town, then five. Why Employee Ownership So, what is employee ownership?
How Tech Moves Fast and Breaks Workers In 2021, IT for Change, with support from the Ford Foundation, undertook a major study of the digitization of the economy to try to understand how the internet has affected work and workers’ rights. Most crucially, rights-based regimes need to be evolved through global standards setting.
Access to news is key to an engaged civilsociety, and without it, social worlds shrink and become suffused with disinformation and bias. Mainstream media sometimes offers the kind of investigative reporting that exposes bad corporate actors and sheds light on the power structures governing politics and the economy.
In 2023, 149 foundation models were released, more than double the amount released in 2022. Delivering on and scaling AI’s potential for impact on the SDGs is a collaborative endeavor that requires work across companies, universities, nonprofits, governments, and individuals to have real-world impact, according to the authors.
” As a frequent participant in funder calls and donor working groups, our team at the Roddenberry Foundation has seen this “systems change fatigue” up close and personal. As a collaborative effort with multiple funding partners , we have regular conversations with foundations from across the globe.
When contemplating migration that can deliver massive income gains to low-income households and benefits to both sending and receiving economies—but must maintain public support in a difficult political climate—public, private, and civilsociety actors all play important roles in a complex system’s effective functioning.
For foundations and individuals who are reluctant to develop a national presence in the places where they are funding activities, creating an effective constellation of local organizations is especially difficult. Ultimately partnerships are human relationships, and entities need to expect missteps.
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Alt Headline: Thoughts on Non-public digital infrastructure for civilsociety. For decades the sector has relied on analysis of of tax forms, survey data, and foundation reporting to see big trends in giving - these trends and data are useful to practitioners in the sector, researchers, and policy makers. Thoughts?
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