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

NonProfit Quarterly

—Toni Morrison This July—in deliberate celebration of our founding ideals and defiant response to those who would narrow our “American” stories—NPQ and a coalition of nonprofit workers, leaders, artists, journalists, organizers, and funders are launching #WeTheCivic. That is how civilizations heal. We volunteer.

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US Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness, but What Will We Do?

NonProfit Quarterly

Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. I have been a managing director, a board member, a board president, a consultant to nonprofits, and taught college courses on nonprofit management and policy at several Chicago universities.

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Outsourcing Cost of ‘Impact’ Data Could Mean 13 Percent More Bang for Every Charitable Buck

NonProfit Quarterly

I’m a public and international affairs professor who researches nonprofits and philanthropy. I conducted a study in 2023 with Chengxin Xu and Huafang Li , two other scholars of nonprofit management, to better understand whether these costs influence how donors pick charities.

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Three Whys, Three Times (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Tags Nonprofit Management ,  Systems Change ,  Teamwork ,  theory of change Free Weekly eNewsletter Sign up latest newsletter Related Stories Cultivating and Sustaining Generative Teams By Margaret A.

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Digital Civil Society and Democracy: How we got here and where we need to go

Philanthropy 2173

I am delighted to be speaking in a master class for Columbia University's Nonprofit Management Masters Program. In so doing, we have enclosed civil society within the bounds of the marketplace and public sector, obliterating any meaningful sense of an independent sector. You can sign up directly here -

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Fundraisers Are Like Farmers

The Agitator

Here’s a sample of such thinking … Charities can’t blame ‘economic climate’ for falls in income , from Civil Society Fundraising in the UK, seconded by our own US pal Jeff Brooks at Future Fundraising Now … charities Don''t Miss these Posts fundraising innovation nonprofit management nonprofits premium'

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The Taxman Cometh, Part 1: The Downside of the 2017 Tax Bill for Nonprofits

The Agitator

I can’t remember who said it and thus can’t cite it, but there’s a great quote along the lines of “I know that taxes are the price I pay for civilized society and I am honored to pay them. (I assume almost everyone is trying to minimize, not maximize their bill. I also could be just as honored for half as much.”).