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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in India

Candid

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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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in Brazil 

Candid

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. Brazil’s culture of giving and philanthropy has been growing since the 1980s. billion by the summer of 2020. .

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How Organizations Build Trust

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It is earned person by person, moving through large segments of society. American civil society institutions have an important role to play. For leaders of civil society organizations, earning, rebuilding, and maintaining trust is a complicated but doable and essential undertaking to achieve their mission.

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Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hence in February 2016 they launched the “Let Them Stay” campaign, demanding that the Australian government allow 267 asylum-seekers, including 33 babies, to remain on mainland Australia, where they had come for medical care, rather than be returned to offshore detention centers. Rather than acting alone, GetUp!

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Protocol in Action Grupo Fleury, a health care company specializing in medical diagnostics , illustrates how a signatory with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies already in place can direct them more effectively toward racial equity. One example of an organization that evolved is a firm that originally scored -0.72

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

This record acts as a form of permanent punishment, limiting our ability to participate in civil society through a complex web of laws in Illinois that punish people with criminal records, often indefinitely. Rehabilitation includes medical and psychological care, as well as legal and social services.

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The program now also offers services and support such as grocery cards, free medical care and transportation, and training programs for economic independence. Our findings and recommendations provided the main input for the government program, which later established a support network that recognizes, reduces, and redistributes care hours.