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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 2 It has been edited for publication here. 2 It has been edited for publication here. Two things changed how wealth was managed. The year is 2053.

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While many consider this rise in loneliness to be largely a social problem, communities around the world are applying innovative public health approaches to connecting people not only to each other but to health professionals and systems that can provide much-needed support. for every £1 invested.

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

TLDR; Many anti-nonprofit proposals this session stemmed from negative perceptions of nonprofits. Finally, we are still awaiting the governor’s signature on issues critical to the nonprofit workforce: the Best Beginnings scholarship program and closing the Medicaid Provider Rate gap. Read along for the full details.

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Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing

NonProfit Quarterly

Vienna and the Birth of Social Housing The staff and residents of Karl Marx-Hof , the famous public housing complex in Vienna, have seen an uptick in international visitors. Not so long ago, social housing was rarely discussed in the United States. But today there are over a dozen social housing campaigns across the country.

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Meet the New Global Tax Haven, the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

There are many reasons, including public policies—both on the expenditure side (that is, government support for education, childcare, healthcare, and so on) and on the revenue side (that is, how progressive or regressive taxes are). What accounts for such extraordinary concentration of wealth at the top in the United States?

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2023 Montana Legislature: Week One

MNA Association

MNA’s primary focus is on bills related to the nonprofit sector generally including Appropriations, Taxation, Ballot initiatives, Voting/Elections, Campaign Finance, and Lobbying. In addition we will be monitoring proposed changes to the Montana Constitution in the context of the MNA Public Policy Agenda. Bill Watch.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.