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What We Can Learn From the COVID-19 Philanthropy Commons

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Fineberg of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation penned an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle, lamenting philanthropy’s inability to join forces to amplify and expedite impact. We attribute this failure, largely, to sociological hurdles. By Melissa Stevens & Greg Tananbaum.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. When the wealthy establish foundations and contribute money to these foundations, they receive tax benefits. Donor-advised funds (DAFs) have exacerbated the problem.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

At around the same time that study was released, the Washington Area Women’s Foundation published a study of 36 Black women leaders’ experiences in the Washington, DC, area nonprofit sector. She has worked at several large institutions, possibly in labor, large national nonprofits, or well-endowed foundations.

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

by Mohit Mookim, Rob Reich, Nadia Roumani & Ayushi Vig Up for Debate: Should Foundations Increase Their Payouts During Big Crises? How Can Philanthropy Help Rehabilitate US Democracy? How Civil Society Saved the 2020 Census by Arturo Vargas, Gary D. Bass & Karen K. Narasaki (Subscriber-only article. Subscribe to SSIR here.)

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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

SD: At a National Community Reinvestment Coalition Conference last year, you mentioned you majored in sociology and theater. I thought I was appeasing my family by tagging on sociology. Over 60 percent of our loans are to women business owners, and over 85 percent are to BIPOC owners. But they wanted a harder science.

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How to make sure the experience you deliver to donors makes their giving feel worthwhile

iMarketSmart

It’s in foundations, funds, trusts, and endowments. The Sociological Review, 35 (1), 150-169. [3] The real power of these concepts, in the real world, shows up where the real money is. It’s not in auctions. It’s not even in pledges. It’s in the world of massive donations. Time-inconsistent charitable giving. NBER Working Paper No.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Alicia Suarez, “Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future,” Sociology Compass 14, no. We are essentially reimagining the birth center model on local and collective scales by reclaiming ancestral principles of collective economics and bound liberation. 11 (November 2020): 1–12. 1 (January 6, 1912): 1–7.

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