Governance, Public and Social Policy and Sociology

Meet the Hidden Majority of Nonprofits: The All-Volunteer Organization

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 10, 2025

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. Others may support public institutions like local PTAs and Friends of the Library chapters.

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Book cover by Oxford University Press In his new book People, Power, Change, author-activist Marshall Ganz writes about the art and science of organizing and social change. Effective public voice arising from commitment to common purpose—a political process—has become rare indeed. Public voice grows quite faint.

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Voter Engagement Coordinator

Anedot

AUGUST 29, 2024

Position Summary The Voter Engagement Coordinator manages community partnerships and conducts direct outreach activities to build capacity for Canal neighborhood and San Rafael Latino residents to register to vote and understand their ballots and government elected official roles.

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Webinars

Stop Budget Burnout: A Better Way to Grow Your Nonprofit in 2026

Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics? 1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics? So that was one path that was available. The second was economics.

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Within the social sector, nonprofit organizations and philanthropists are facing demands for greater inclusion, power-sharing, and more democratic governance. Eric Nee, editor in chief of Stanford Social Innovation Review , will moderate what is sure to be an inspiring and spirited discussion.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. What level would that be?

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How to Advance a Just Energy Transition in Oil-Dominated New Brunswick

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A report issued by the Atlantic Economic Council in February 2024 says the company can survive the net-zero transition, but only with government aid. Public pressure in Quebec and Prince Edward Island has led to legislated bans on future extraction projects. For a time, it seemed protestors had won the fight against shale gas.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. We need only look back one generation to understand the uniquely Black history of midwifery in the United States and the racialized policies that undermined it.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. A government can’t just come in and decide to print more like the U.S. government might decide to print more U.S.

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Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. A government can’t just come in and decide to print more like the U.S. government might decide to print more U.S.

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3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 4, 2021

On the other hand, global processes like collaboration against climate change, protests against social inequality and racism (#BlackLivesMatter), or social movement against sexual harassment and abuse (#metoo) have brought nonprofits even more prominence. Donations and Government Grants. 3 Tips to Raise Funds Online.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2 Governments, corporations, and individuals are not actors with equal amounts of influence. 6 Yet social transformation on this scale has not historically happened without concerted struggle by ordinary people demanding what they need to survive. But the question of “we” has always been a fraught one.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses.

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Reflecting on Equity: What Does It Mean to Love ‘All’?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 15, 2025

By Doug Hattaway In a special supplement to Stanford Social Innovation Review, the policy research and advocacy organization PolicyLink issues a call to action for people interested in realizing the unfulfilled promise of our democracy as one where all can thrive. Propelled by the 2023 U.S. Were going to be forgotten.

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The Break with Corporate Neoliberalism That Wasn’t—The Biden Years

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The social welfare state expansion that occurred early in the pandemicfirst under Donald Trump and then under Joe Bidenis now gone. As sociology professor and poverty expert Mark Rank explains, the 13.7 The social welfare state expansion that occurred early in the pandemicfirst under Donald Trump and then under Joe Biden is now gone.

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Meet the Hidden Majority of Nonprofits: The All-Volunteer Organization

Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

How to Advance a Just Energy Transition in Oil-Dominated New Brunswick

Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

Reflecting on Equity: What Does It Mean to Love ‘All’?

The Break with Corporate Neoliberalism That Wasn’t—The Biden Years

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