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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One major strategy to counter this fear lies in massive collaboration, a coming together of individuals, groups, and organizations at unprecedented scale to exert major influence on political and social events. Forms of Combined Power Mass mobilization to combat authoritarianism and demand social responsibility dates back millennia.

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Ensuring The Right To Free Association Online

The NonProfit Times

It provides a way of thinking about building policies, procedures, and structures in online spaces. 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.

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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. Public schools, which serve about 40 percent of Lebanons 1.1 million students, have been particularly affected.

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When Academic Freedom Falls, Civil Society Is Next

NonProfit Quarterly

Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, Northwestern and the University of Pennsylvania have all experienced withdrawn federal grantspart of a broader strategy to condition public funding on political compliance. Federal officials had previously warned 60 institutions that their civil rights policies could jeopardize their grants.

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Beyond Wishful Thinking: How to Build Lasting Youth Political Infrastructure

NonProfit Quarterly

The Schott Foundation for Public Education accurately describes the familiar pattern as boom-and-bust cycles of funding whenever a big election is looming. As Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society Marshall Ganz points out, there is a large gap between mobilizing and organizing.

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How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

NonProfit Quarterly

As interest costs of carrying that rising debt increase, politicians will increasingly sacrifice government spending on social programs in order to pay off interest to corporations and the rich.” The opposition raises public anxiety about it, and [passage] looks doubtful.” Quite the contrary. This happens regularly,” Shapiro said. “A

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Asian Philanthropy Can and Must Lead From Within

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Both communities are designed to pool philanthropic funding, aligning resources and expertise among diverse partners, with an aim to support targeted programs and policy efforts that can create long-term, region-wide impact. This moment calls for a more expansive change, beyond reliance on single-source funds.