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Report Reveals Nonprofits Are a Major Employer in Nearly Every State

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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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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in India

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To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civil society organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. Optimistically, philanthropy and civil society have responded with creativity and flexibility.

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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In fact, city leaders often follow the pioneering innovations of civil society organizations. The initiation power of civil society organizations does not end with “small wins.” .” Diffusion between cities does not only happen on the level of city governments.

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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.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. A Key to New Insights and Practices.

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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. Workers also face substantially more surveillance , in varied and disturbing forms.

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Reimagining Business Ownership in the Global South

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This then set the stage for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide $4 million grant in 2015 that funded the issue of shares to smallholders, giving them a 30 percent ownership stake in the business. Historically, game-changing moves have been supported by larger societal shifts and state intervention.