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Community Beyond Resources (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

29, 2025 (Illustration by iStock/stellalevi) In 20 years of working in the homelessness sector, I’ve come to believe that while housing is essential, long-term stability most often hinges on relationships and social integration. Except when it’s not. share comment print order reprints related stories By Simon Dwight Jul. Except when it’s not.

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Calling All Donors (and Would-Be Donors): The Vital US Nonprofit Sector Is Under Threat and Must Be Protected

NonProfit Quarterly

We should try to communicate something like this: Have youor perhaps someone in your familybeen helped through addiction, abuse, illness, or homelessness? I am no messaging expert, but Id suggest that we remind people that their lives have been touched by numerous nonprofits, whether they know it or not.

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New York and Other States Move to Fix Nonprofit Contracting Delays

NonProfit Quarterly

Kristin Miller, executive director of Homeless Services United, a coalition of nonprofits serving homeless and at-risk adults and families, said in a statement to the New York City Council that the city still owes some organizations millions of dollars on contracts dating back to fiscal year 2019. It’s like Groundhog Day.”

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Federal Funding Freeze Could Decimate Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

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 civil society at largeif the funds are successfully halted. That State funding?

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The Continued Threat to LGTBQ+ Communities—and What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know

NonProfit Quarterly

Haddock explained that while explicitly anti-transgender policies—such as restrictive ID and name change laws —have a real impact on the community, many people, especially Black trans women, need their basic needs met first.

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Providence Nonprofits Reeling from Funding Cuts and Threats (And, Organizations—What You Can Do!)

NonProfit Quarterly

Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits (NCN) calls these efforts a coordinated assault on civil society and democracy. When people think about nonprofits, they tend to think of food banks, homeless shelters, and disaster relief. If you dont have this, the economy collapses.[]

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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Through its iconic mobile showers, the San Francisco nonprofit LavaMae has found new ways to serve the homeless in the absence of more radical reforms of affordable housing. In fact, city leaders often follow the pioneering innovations of civil society organizations. Create synapses for within-city learning.