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How the Facing Race Conference Is Meeting the Political Moment: A Conversation with Leslie Grant-Spann

NonProfit Quarterly

The evolution includes not only thinking about policy as a way to move the needle on racial justice here in the US but also looking at how people are contributing to racial justice movement making through art, culture, narrative development, communications, cultural organizing, innovation, and technology. Louis and Ferguson.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

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Arts nonprofits saw revenue fall in every category in 2024. What lies ahead? 

Candid

arts and cultural organizations have faced a global pandemic, inflationary pressures, shifting audience behaviors , and changes in public policy and government funding. Formal collaborations, such as mergers, may make sense for some mission and culture-aligned organizations but require extensive strategic and financial planning.

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How Can the Nonprofit Field Better Support Volunteerism?

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. But organizational culture starts at the top.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Jump forward to 2007: The book Seen but not HeardStrengthening Nonprofit Advocac y , authored by a team of researchers and published by the Aspen Institute , reported that nonprofits participate sporadically and infrequently on public policy, based on a survey of 1,738 organizations.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

Advocating for Change Public policy solutions are necessary to narrow the healthcare gap. The HBPM trajectory shows that CGMs can become more accessible, as long corporations dont co-opt them for profit as diet-culture devices rather than life-saving tools.

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Using Narrative Power to Advance Liberation: Six Key Elements

NonProfit Quarterly

Society’s narrative hierarchy, underpinned by institutional forces—government, economy, ­ religion—and mediated through culture and digital spaces, assigns credibility in a way that often silences marginalized voices. It seeks to build a new cultural and ideological consensus representing oppressed groups’ interests and perspectives.