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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And Loneliness Awareness Week 2023 in Australia generated calls to action for more research, normalizing discussion about the issue, empowering communities to address weak social connections, and establishing a peak body, a national leadership organization to spearhead change. But they can’t operate in a void.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. Two things changed how wealth was managed. New policies were passed that mandate that corporations and private foundations pay land taxes to local Tribes.

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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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House Signs Off On Tax Bill That Hurts Charities

The NonProfit Times

Hadar Susskind, senior vice president of government relations for the Council on Foundations (CoF), said that the council has realized that the House bill is essentially set and has turned attentions to the Senate. CoF leadership has also supported Sen. The current estate-tax exemptions of $5.49 million for individuals and $10.98

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House Signs Off On Tax Bill That Hurts Charities

The NonProfit Times

Hadar Susskind, senior vice president of government relations for the Council on Foundations (CoF), said that the council has realized that the House bill is essentially set and has turned attentions to the Senate. CoF leadership has also supported Sen. The current estate-tax exemptions of $5.49 million for individuals and $10.98

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House Signs Off On Tax Bill That Hurts Charities

The NonProfit Times

Hadar Susskind, senior vice president of government relations for the Council on Foundations (CoF), said that the council has realized that the House bill is essentially set and has turned attentions to the Senate. CoF leadership has also supported Sen. The current estate-tax exemptions of $5.49 million for individuals and $10.98