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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 6, 2025
He wrote, [P]rogressive advocacy organizations continue to work within their policy silos, often hampered as much by their foundation funding as helped. In a summary of the book, the Aspen Institute asserts, [I]f nonprofits want to pursue their organizational missions effectively, they need to be actively engaged in public policy. [A]
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 8, 2025
In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers, Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Foundations regularly fail to ask their nonprofit grantees about volunteers. Keynotes rarely mention volunteers.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. In 2018, SABSA also established its own foundation, which operates independently from the clinic, to operate more sustainably.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 11, 2025
At the core of every dominant power structure is a narrative foundation. By unraveling these stories, we confront the foundational myths that uphold systemic inequalities and challenge ourselves to envision a radically different world. All rights reserved. Reprinted here with author and press permission.
Philanthropy 2173
APRIL 23, 2020
These days I'm not just writing and teaching about digital civil society, I'm watching as people all around me come to realize they're living it everyday. Some foundations are getting into the act. I'm sure nonprofits are doing the same. I've taught two classes simultaneously via one video call.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
One is that many foundations, under the guise of philanthropic pluralism , have supported a status quo that has harmed South Africa’s Black majority. Yet philanthropy often supports neoliberal policies that reinforce the market power of elites—and perpetuate poverty. Today, that democracy is fraying. Today, that democracy is fraying.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
These cases, on opposite sides of the globe, illustrate with painful clarity how the irresponsible use of artificial intelligence can harm both workers and the public, and how unregulated technology in the workplace also hurts communities.
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