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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

When I started at Justice Funders, the majority of philanthropic assets were held in private foundations where a family board made decisions about how resources should be allocated.” “But And over time, instead of starting new foundations, wealth was given over to democratic loan funds to redistribute. She’s right.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Conceptually, the threshold for excessive wealth would be the point at which an individual can take the government hostage or otherwise damage democratic institutions. Since the birth of the United States, the federal government has seized over 1.5 What level would that be? billion paid to more than 123,000 Indigenous people.

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In the United Kingdom, the Lonely not Alone campaign, led by the Co-op Foundation, systematically recruited, listened to, and publicized the voices of younger people talking about their loneliness. Make It a Priority for Government Each of these interventions clearly helps combat social isolation. But they can’t operate in a void.

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Oppose HB 391: Fees on Nonprofit Property

MNA Association

in House Taxation, Room 172. Local government entities would be forced to assess legislature-mandated fees. However, Montana Community Foundation and Montana Nonprofit Association are leading an effort to have the credit renewed this year until 2030 along with a request to double the maximum size of the credit.

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Civil Society Undermined by Conflict, Disinformation, and Repression of Protest

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Jorm Sangsorn on istock.com Worldwide, civil society—from NGOs to grassroots activist groups to social movements to unions—is being undermined by global conflict, suppressive governments, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the spread of disinformation. There is a need for transnational, rights-based solidarity.”

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Conway of Caltech, titled The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , examines the role of corporate propaganda. Musgrave offers a more satisfying answer, writing, “I understand neoliberalism as a governing rationality that directs state action in favor of the market” (177).

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Because higher education institutions provide the public good of education to surrounding communities, their property holdings are exempt from taxation in all 50 states. 38 Moreover, this sports complex sits on land that was initially deeded to the federal government to serve disabled and houseless veterans.