The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The information flows one way, from officials to citizens, with no process for feedback or negotiation, and little opportunity for input into data production. Under this structure, influence is redistributed through negotiations, with citizens, supporting civil society organization and officials all serving as empowered stakeholders.

Citizen Participation

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 18, 2025

percent of the national gross domestic product, according to the recent report by Independent Sector. A Significant Driver of GDP and Employment Nonprofits generated more than $1.4 trillion in economic activity in 2023 (the most recent year for which data is available), or 5.2

Governance

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 29, 2025

For nonprofitsespecially those working in civil rights, education, journalism, or public healththis should raise serious concern s. The suppression of academic freedom isnt just campus politicsits a warning signal for civil society and for our democracy. Our democracy depends on a strong, vibrant and independent civil society.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2025

As Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society Marshall Ganz points out, there is a large gap between mobilizing and organizing. It is also important to teach how to have productive conflict, how to build genuine relationships and networks, and different theories of change and practice.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 20, 2025

Arguably, tariffs could in the long run encourage some firms to move production facilities to the United States, although this usually works better when tariffs are complemented by other industry-supporting policies. Where Movement Wins Might Be Possible Despite the long odds, people in civil society do have some means to effect change. “If

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

Throughout the region, civil society and philanthropy efforts have long operated within various forms of constraint, whether legal, political, or cultural. Navigating sensitivities and working within boundaries is not new, but neither has it stopped these efforts from advancing. This pattern is echoed elsewhere.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 11, 2025

The core value of civil society is to nourish and enrich communities to ensure that the needs and dreams of each community are heeded. In this moment of deepening crisis, civil society must act. But civil society is vast, fragmented, and compromised. A Fragmented Sector How is civil society divided?

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 7, 2025

Studies showed the increased connectedness between universities and their local industries boosted regional productivity, employment, and payroll, among both established and new firms. Read more like this, plus SSIRs full archive of content, when you subscribe.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Set up in 2002 by the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (FNC) to promote Colombian coffee, Procafecol has expanded the scope of Colombias coffee industry from commoditized beans to value-added products sold in domestic and international markets. million in bonuses paid over and above their greenleaf income.

Governance

Philanthropy 2173

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We can't trust the answers from ChatGPT and the tech companies are racing each other to implement similar AI systems into their search products and elsewhere. Here's my question for nonprofits and foundations and activists and associations - to civil society, basically - how do we trust you and your research?

Civil Society

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The following post is about the chaos that is now Twitter, the growth in the #fediverse, the damage being done in real time to disbursed communities of people and activists, the possibilities of digital civil society coming through to shine, and the need to think carefully and collectively. Digital civil society's moment is now.

Civil Society

The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

Personal And Organizational Productivity AI excels in structuring documents where the content is noncontroversial and exists all over the Internet. Do you need a product manager job description? Key to maximizing AI’s personal productivity benefit is stepwise prompting. AI can assist. This isn’t novel.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Most importantly, without farmers producing reliable, high-quality agricultural products, businesses across the apparel, food, and other industrial sectors will quite simply fail.

Agriculture

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With better context-specific information, these workers could become more productive in the tasks they are performing and venture into new, more complex tasks. Companies must recognize that, in reality, labor is a critical resource for productivity growth. Alas, this more hopeful path is not where we are heading.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The fervor of the British Raj, and now of transnational corporations and local elites, to shift lands from community ownership to private control of a few (usually) affluent men continues to denigrate women’s status from being equal and prolific members of an agrarian society to dependent wives with limited access to productive resources.

Food

Candid

MARCH 13, 2023

We also committed to developing a new generation of tools designed to champion the causes, organizations, and knowledge that power civil society worldwide. It is a universal database that combines all data across Candid’s products and is the foundation of the unified platform. What is a unified platform?

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Pressures on Civil Society Financial experts warn of cascading impacts. Offices and supply depots can be disrupted by increased storm activity as well, and clients and staff may not be able to access services or products. Without insurance, people cannot get mortgages.

Insurance

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Survival was less a miracle than a product of the self-reliance that the Indigenous children had developed due to their upbringing. Civil society efforts to promote the wellbeing of Amazonian communities like the Huitoto, including and especially their land rights, have been highly effective.

Children

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Often these systems are touted as increasing efficiency and productivity and making decisions more neutral, by removing human subjectivity. But too often, algorithms replicate and intensify inequality and bias, lead to escalating demands for more worker productivity, and use employees’ data in ways that are both secretive and abusive.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

It’s time to work shoulder-to-shoulder with civil society and government to do the big, urgent work that no sector can accomplish alone, to adopt entirely new systems of operating that enable all people to thrive and reach their full potential and protect our natural environment.

Public and Social Policy

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 5, 2020

Original post Since we started the Digital Civil Society Lab I’ve been invited to countless conferences, workshops, and philanthropic or corporate launches of “some kind of tech” for “some kind of good.” What commercial applications call externalities, civil society and the public sector exist to address. Not enough.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These laws, purportedly designed as a check on foreign interference, limit civil society organizations and restrict democratic practice by cutting off funding from foundations to movement organizations. percent of the country’s 63 million people living in poverty, gross domestic product growth that slowed to 0.6

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

We spoke with more than 80 people, representing workers, scholars, unions, the private sector, civil society, philanthropies, and multilateral agencies. Consequently, employees have progressively lost control over fundamental rights to personal and digital privacy.

Race and Ethnicity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

The implication is that we need to approach social change not like we are seeking a silver bullet, but rather in search of collaborative principles that allow different people power strategies to coexist and stimulate productive change together. Central Coordination In 2015 and 2016, GetUp!, Rather than acting alone, GetUp!

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Population Council conducts research worldwide to improve policies, programs, and products in three areas: HIV and AIDS; poverty, gender, and youth; and reproductive health. National MS Society :: @ MSSociety. Population Council :: @ Pop_Council. Clinic In A Can :: @ ClinicInACan.

Poverty

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

By Rafia Khader , Program Manager at the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and Managing Editor of the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society. Faith and giving are intrinsically tied with one another.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 15, 2024

What makes AI-powered nonprofits’ contributions in this category unique is that their products are designed for extremely specific audiences who may otherwise be overlooked. An AI-powered product is certainly not a silver bullet for solving a social problem. Nonprofits and civil society belong at the forefront of AI.

Curriculum and Teaching

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

The Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network brings together civil society organizations, traditional leaders, farmers, local authorities, and other groups in the land and agrarian sectors. Together, they address food security challenges related to climate change, land tenure, and agriculture productivity that smallholder farmers face.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

People joined from more than 15 countries, representing business, government, and civil society. Employee-owned businesses are more profitable and productive. In early August, such a community gathered in the United Kingdom for the third installment of the Oxford Symposium on Employee Ownership.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 22, 2024

The nonprofit sector should get way more credit for being a bedrock of our society — for being the compass leading us all in the direction of a truly civil society. It deserves that.” - Joan Garry ( source ) “Nonprofits attract the best in society because they see beyond the economic gain.

Nonprofit Leadership

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When contemplating migration that can deliver massive income gains to low-income households and benefits to both sending and receiving economies—but must maintain public support in a difficult political climate—public, private, and civil society actors all play important roles in a complex system’s effective functioning.

Public and Social Policy

The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 22, 2024

technology sector, trust and safety emerged in the past fifteen years as a term to describe the teams and operations working to mitigate the harm (to users or others) arising from an online product or platform. Here’s how The Atlantic Council puts it: “Rooted in the U.S. Fact-checking is not enough.

Associations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It is the attitudes and skills that enable individuals to use their competencies and become more productive and efficient. This can disrupt not only the development of new products and services, but also of new business models and social innovation that has a real impact.

Social Entrepreneurship

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 8, 2022

I was slightly scared, but I stepped up to assume my responsibility as a productive member of a civilized society. I felt like an adult as I walked into the booth alone and made a decision that would help chart the course of our nation.

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In some locations, solidarity economy is institutionalized and recognized by the state but in others involves civil society and informal practices. For some, the phrase indicates economic reform and for others radical transformation. 2019, DeFilippis et al.

Non-Profits

iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

And they usually don’t become highly productive until about their fourth year at a charity.[14]. In short, focusing on fewer but essential metrics results in increased productivity across a wide range of activities.”[17]. We regularly engage our strategic accounts in our product/service planning process. Civil Society.

Fundraising

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 4, 2024

To establish effective AI governance, then, is the challenge for civil society organizations and social innovators. This entails determining the frameworks and structures we need to build to effectively organize and govern society amid rapid technological change and unchecked power consolidation. We need a new roadmap.

Governance