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Muslim Giving 101: An Introduction for Fundraisers & Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Recently, Lake Institute paired up with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) to learn more about American Muslims’ giving practices. But before we get into that study, some basic understanding of Muslim beliefs are paramount.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Impact investing, as defined by the Global Impact Investing Network , is an investment tool “made with the intention to generate positive, measurable, social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.” Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. Social Finance in North America.” Himmelweit, and M.

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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Black Women’s Views on Homeownership Is Key to Progress

NonProfit Quarterly

PNW Production on pexels.com. This erasure of Black women from social policy built on a single-axis framework is especially true with respect to housing. Specifically, policymakers do not consider Black women living in poverty when developing programs that help people purchase and retain ownership of a home.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

5 As they did, many became politicized; so, they began pushing for economic and social policies that would end discrimination and redistribute resources to the masses at home and abroad. 8 Hegelian dialectics asserts that growth is the process and product of struggle between competing visions. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

We treat the rest of life on this planet as a set of products or objects that don’t have rights. How can recognizing shared insecurity spur social change and create a strategy to redefine security? But as we take on the manufacture of climate instability, we have to put the denigration of animals and the environment front and center.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

6 The term “nonprofit neighborhoods” refers to “places where neighborhood based nonprofit organizations controlled access to the levers of political, economic, and social power and mediated the local manifestation of the state and the market.” And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.