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Honest Brokers, Technology, and Health Justice: What Are We Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

By decentralizing decision-making, this structure empowers participants, families, and frontline workers to impact policies prioritizing dignity, justice, and positive change. The perception of what is fair depends upon transparency, primarily about the interests and motivations of the supposedly impartial organization.

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An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social sector actors are hardly alone in this regard, of course, but they have both the opportunity and a mission-driven motivation to respond. It diminishes civil society overall by shrinking the broad web of collaborations toward big goals that would be otherwise possible.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Similar digital simulations could engage participants to work on fairer distribution of global resources, building on analog exercises like Buckminster Fullers World Game. Concrete Products (Simple Aims): More than anything, participants in massive collaborations want clout.

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Three Whys, Three Times (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This question reveals underlying motivations, values, and goals, and can help reframe action through secondary questions like if those are our motivations, is this work really what would best serve us at this time? For each question, I ask participants to write down the question, filling in the problem or challenge at hand.

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Beyond Dialogue: Igniting Racial Justice in a Shifting Political Landscape

NonProfit Quarterly

As was noted in NPQ back in 2018, FCPRs approach on power, community organization, civil society, and racial equity sets it apart from the more established philanthropic approach focusing on strengthening large, established institutions. REBIA emerged out of this institutional commitment to racial equity.

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Critical Coalitions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Lawmakers, for example, have few incentives to take up the concerns of communities with low rates of political participation (Mayhew 1974). They must often balance different motivations, such as a much-needed win, with the countervailing interests of different constituent groups.

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Trust in Nonprofits Holds Strong Despite Political Attacks

NonProfit Quarterly

More specifically, Americans are increasingly skeptical of the motivations of the ultra-wealthy when it comes to their participation in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. However, there are signs this trust may be fraying amid concerns about the role of the federal government and the influence of wealthy donors.