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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? We see restrictions playing out in Paraguay and the United States.
Photo by Dalton Abraham, Unsplash They must not only worry about the official US government under Trusk. But what about suing Heritage for violating tax laws or reckless endangerment? Listen to us, we are civilsociety. They were at the forefront of our collective conversion to digital civilsociety.
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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.
Credit: Christian Ladewig on Unsplash Nonprofits that receive government contracts and grants have gotten used to waiting months or even years for payments, often for services already delivered. Compounding the problem, contracts can be delayed as they wind their way through layers of government red tape before they’re finalized.
For example, Horizon 2045s legal strategies initiative is an interdisciplinary exercise in borrowing from, replicating, and integrating tactics from international environmental and humanitarian law to shrink the space in which the nuclear weapons complex can legally operate.
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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.
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Image Credit: photos by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash, Anzhela Bets on Unsplash , Henry Wilkins via VOA, and Steve Sandford via VOA “Civilsociety is being tested like never before by a series of multiple and accelerating crises” (4). Threats to US CivilSociety These threats to civilsociety include the United States.
The unprecedented move, whose legality has already been challenged, could affect trillions of dollars in federal aid to thousands of programs, and threatens to have a catastrophic impact on the US nonprofit sectorand civilsociety at largeif the funds are successfully halted. That State funding?
The onslaught of executive orders; revenue and funding freezes; and investigations against universities,law firms, and businesses demonstrate a pattern of attacks foundations may see next: attacking individual institutions to silence a sector and forcing concessions that seek to limit our freedoms. Intimidation dressed up as transparency.
voluntary [third sector, civilsociety]) groups that manifest substantial voluntary altruism as groups and use the associational form of organization and, thus, have official memberships of volunteers who perform most, and often all, of the work/activity done in and by these nonprofits. But this does not explain why AVOs exist.
But where local government can be a source of collusion and collaboration with federal officialsit can also be a source of powerful resistance. Those resources get diverted to civil immigration enforcement, which we know actually makes communities less safe. This is a ruse, Mark says.
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Credit: Something Original on Wikimedia Commons On March 17, members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) forced their way into the US Institute of Peaces (USIP) offices, under President Donald Trumps directive, despite its status as an independent nonprofit. As USIPs former Executive Vice President Tara D.
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The National Domestic Violence Hotline in Austin and the Houston Area Womens Center, for example, rely on government sources for about 80 percent of their budgets. According to the Center for American Progress, the Trump administration has removed over 350 government web pages containing LGBTQ+ policies and information.
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As Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and CivilSociety Marshall Ganz points out, there is a large gap between mobilizing and organizing. The idea of the Green New Deal was transforming what people thought was possible or practical for the government to do. As Ganz observes , Mobilizing is a tactic.
The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, if the version passed in May by House Republicans becomes law, make an already inequitable economy even less equitable. Where Movement Wins Might Be Possible Despite the long odds, people in civilsociety do have some means to effect change. “If
American Federation of Government Employees to pause a lower courts order to rehire fired federal workers. This case stemmed from the Donald Trump administrations layoffs in February of over 24,000 probationary federal employees across multiple departments, under the guise of cutting government waste.
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The US government is kidnapping and abducting people from our community, Linda Sarsour, a nationally prominent author and a Palestinian American organizer from Brooklyn, told NPQ. The report also indicates that law enforcement encounters increased from 295 in 2023 to 506 in 2024a 71.5 This is a very disturbing trend. percent increase.
Credit: Saad Ahmad on Unsplash The nonprofit sector remains among the most trusted institutions in American society. However, there are signs this trust may be fraying amid concerns about the role of the federal government and the influence of wealthy donors.
It doesnt just ban certain travelers; it explicitly includes the removal of visa holderswho were lawfully admitted by the Biden administrationif they criticize government policies. African, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian movement groups have pushed back against government scapegoating.
Credit: Frank van Mierlo on Wiki Commons As the Trump administration deepens its assault on constitutional rights and the rule of law, how can people effectively respond? Some people focus on political institutions , such as federal courts or opposition-led state governments, to act as bulwarks against autocracy.
Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, has openly praised Orbns governance as the model for conservative statecraft. Orbns Systematic Attack on LGBTQ+ Rights Since returning to power in 2010, Viktor Orbns government has systematically targeted LGBTQ+ rights as part of its broader nationalist agenda.
In Poland, we had the Law and Justice Party, after an eight-year reign, similarly lose power. In the case of Poland, ousting the governing far-right Catholic religious party required some pretty significant narrative building. And I think being able to pull back the curtain of what the Law and Justice Party was doing was key.
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Last year, campus organizing drew national attention to bombing and military attacks by Israel in Gaza that have to date taken the lives of an estimated 55,000 Palestinians —and the role of the United States in sustaining those attacks by providing military hardware to the Israeli government.
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.”
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International nonprofits and other non-government organizations (NGOs) need American support to function, or even exist, a trio of witnesses told U.S. In the past five years, 72 countries have introduced 270 measures restricting civilsociety,” Douglas Rutzen, president and CEO of the International Center for Nonprofit Law testified.
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