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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Leading the nation’s largest homebuilder, Reckford gathers partners to bring grocery stores to food deserts, medical care to those neighborhoods and he won’t need to be brought up to speed. Rutzen has worked on the legal framework for civil society, digital rights, and public participation in 100 countries.

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#WeTheCivic: “America’s” Stories Can’t Be Told Without Us 

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits are immigrant-led cooperatives and Native-run community clinics, LGBTQ+ aid networks and IEP advocates for students, schools for liberation and researchers for medical cures. This is our month-long narrative celebration of the unquenchable nonprofit and civil society voices fighting for our democracy—and our future.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Donors combined contributions to relieve over $15 billion dollars in medical debt for almost 10 million people living in the United States, facilitated by a nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt. Such deep collaboration during adversity can yield effectiveness, solace, and even joy.

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Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination

NonProfit Quarterly

The audience tested their ideas onstage, leading to a proposal that the new ID should allow applicants to state their preferred gender marker without having to show proof of medical procedures, or even leave the gender box blank.

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Beautiful Solutions: A Conversation with Eli Feghali and Rachel Plattus

NonProfit Quarterly

Those clinics, some of which are still operating, were voluntary, had elements of democratic management that included both service providers and the folks that they were serving, and got medical care for folks who did not have it, and did not rely on the state. It was a form of mutual aid outside of the state.

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When Journalism Becomes a Weapon: A Call for Ethical Reporting

NonProfit Quarterly

They invest in affordable housing, support medical research, and provide relief to communities facing climate catastrophes. Compiling a comprehensive list of civil society targets under a hostile government puts lives at stake. But even in its lack of seriousness, the impact of its publication is real.

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Transgender Rights Under Threat: Preparing for Federal Crackdowns

NonProfit Quarterly

Transgender activist and journalist Erin Reed has recommended that trans people consider reducing dosages or stockpiling medications. Transgender people are also preparing for potential disruptions to hormone replacement therapy (HRT)or gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT).