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The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face What’s Next

The NonProfit Times

(Photo By Deposit Photos) By Marnie Webb From the frontlines of disaster relief to the forefront of technological innovation, civil society organizations are navigating a rapidly changing landscape. What does this mean for civil society in the coming year?

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Sustainable community-led solutions shaping disaster philanthropy 

Candid

The field of disaster philanthropy is facing a perfect storm of global crisesconflicts, climate disasters, economic instability, and growing humanitarian needsas disaster relief and humanitarian aid organizations face a changing funding landscape.

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Report Reveals Nonprofits Are a Major Employer in Nearly Every State

NonProfit PRO

For even more granular data, we invite those interested to consult our GMU Nonprofit Works website that provides user-guided access to these data points down to the county and metro statistical area (MSA) levels, and enables users to compare nonprofits to the government sector, in addition to for-profit businesses. setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

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In Authoritarian America, first, they came for Wikipedia and the Wayback Machine

Philanthropy 2173

Photo by Dalton Abraham, Unsplash They must not only worry about the official US government under Trusk. Listen to us, we are civil society. Both Wikimedia and the Internet Archive are well-established, cornerstone organizations of civil society. Worry about #KingMusk himself. And his minions. What about offense?

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Philanthropy Must Accelerate Spending and Broaden Collaboration

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. That has increased the pool of funds we could tap in private philanthropy.

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Though these violations continue, over the last 10 to 15 years, we have increasingly seen momentum among rightsholders, their allies, and civil society in advocating for rights-based and community-led conservation. Governments have returned ownership and management of millions of hectares of land in at least 39 countries.

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Mission, message: Nonprofits navigate the new communications landscape 

Candid

Fear of government backlash is a challenge for nearly two-thirds of nonprofits Fear of government retaliation or loss of funding for advocacy was a major communications challenge for 55% of all respondents, but more widespread among nonprofits (63%) than private foundations (29%). I also think theres just a lot of fear.