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How to Build a Just and Effective Public Sector Workforce System

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by Desola Lanre-Ologun on Unsplash Recent worker polling confirms that even in a low-unemployment economy, workers feel vulnerableand they feel that public policy does not serve them, including the nations system of workforce development. The need to restructure the US national public workforce system is clear.

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US Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness, but What Will We Do?

NonProfit Quarterly

One early critique of the nonprofit sectors ability to impact large-scale change appears in the 2001 paper, The Decline of Progressive Policy and the New Philanthropy by Robert O. Bothwell charts the arc of American philanthropy over the prior 40 years with a focus on progressive, issue-oriented advocacy work.

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How Can the Nonprofit Field Better Support Volunteerism?

NonProfit Quarterly

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. To answer that question, let’s look at the roles of nonprofit staff, nonprofit leaders, and philanthropy.

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How to Fix the Nation’s DAF System—a $250 Billion Question

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Flickr This article concludes a three-part series: Saving Philanthropy: Creating Rules of the Road for Donor-Advised Funds. From a “good government” standpoint, the US public has plenty of reasons to want someone to ensure that tax-exempt funds are efficiently deployed.

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A Looser Hold on Perpetuity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In response, we at Woods Fund Chicago made two radical changes to how we resourced our partners: We shifted to a model of trust-based philanthropy, and we significantly increased our payout. Community organizing and policy advocacy are historically underfunded, receiving less than 3 percent of philanthropic spending.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They should all be taught the leadership skills that are critical for success in their field, regardless of whether their program is focused on agriculture, business, field work, bench science, public policy, public health, or any combination thereof.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

The report also highlights some of the economic impacts: Native peoples, communities, and enterprises are excluded from philanthropy, investments, capital, and banking, and other economic systems.