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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Through its iconic mobile showers, the San Francisco nonprofit LavaMae has found new ways to serve the homeless in the absence of more radical reforms of affordable housing. In fact, city leaders often follow the pioneering innovations of civil society organizations. Create synapses for within-city learning.

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The impact of COVID-19 on civil society, part two

Candid

The rate of Turkish organizations reporting complete suspension of their activities decreased from 29 percent in April 2020 to 16 percent in August, according to TUSEV. Perhaps some organizations that had to stop activity were able to bounce back. News from Turkey does offer a glimmer of hope.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Their experiences show how the interdependencies of the SDGs come to life at the local level: Ending homelessness requires addressing issues of poverty, mental and physical health, quality employment, environmental justice, and climate change—in addition to safe and affordable housing.

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Calling All Donors (and Would-Be Donors): The Vital US Nonprofit Sector Is Under Threat and Must Be Protected

NonProfit Quarterly

Officials and advocates are increasingly attacking philanthropic and charitable organizations on ideological grounds, with calls to strip their tax status or pen investigations based on the substance of their ideas, rather than the legality and appropriateness of their charitable activities. Have you walked on a trail through beautiful woods?

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Federal Funding Freeze Could Decimate Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

The unprecedented move, whose legality has already been challenged, could affect trillions of dollars in federal aid to thousands of programs, and threatens to have a catastrophic impact on the US nonprofit sectorand civil society at largeif the funds are successfully halted. That State funding?

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: A Conversation with Vincent Bevins

NonProfit Quarterly

Left wing and civil society organizations had been concretely decimated under global neoliberalism and decades of the Mubarak dictatorship. Our] government is doing things which affects hundreds of countries across the world, and it’s very difficult to ask the citizens of the United States to keep up with these activities.