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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

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By comparison, the rate of financial hardship at retail trade nonprofits (e.g., What resources and policies do hospitals and credit unions employ that can also be applied to retail trade and social assistance organizations? Nonprofits working in the areas of health care as well as finance and insurance (e.g.,

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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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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This famously occurred in 2021 when investors in the wallstreetbets Reddit community rallied behind GameStop, the retail video game seller, driving its price up 1,500 percent in a matter of days and creating massive losses for several large (short selling) investment firms.

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Digital civil society rises amid commercial turmoil

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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. So, there's that. And chaos is his tactic.

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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In fact, city leaders often follow the pioneering innovations of civil society organizations. The initiation power of civil society organizations does not end with “small wins.” .” Diffusion between cities does not only happen on the level of city governments. Create synapses for within-city learning.

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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We spoke with more than 80 people, representing workers, scholars, unions, the private sector, civil society, philanthropies, and multilateral agencies. Workers also face substantially more surveillance , in varied and disturbing forms.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This step, as described in a letter to the US Secretary of Education signed by hundreds of nonprofit organizations and scholars, is essential for nonprofit planning and policymaking, and would make nonprofits and foundations as visible as the manufacturing or retail sectors in federal statistical publications.