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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

Nonprofit professionals working in this sector of philanthropy cite a strong belief in their organization’s mission and daily activities as critical to continuing to make an impact, even in challenging times. This desire to help others is also expressed in the philanthropy of those practicing Islam. Pandemic Impact.

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Supporting Black-Led Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

” The report , Grassroots, Black & Giving: How Philanthropy Can Better Support Black-led and Black-benefiting Nonprofits , is based on a survey of over 200 such organizations conducted by YBGB. Engage in broad systems analysis to better understand and address the context in which the work of Black-led nonprofits occurs.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One example is human activity causing climate change and contributing to poor health outcomes (e.g. Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life.

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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Philanthropy would do well to follow a similar strategy. This approach has been key to the remarkable progressive reshaping of California’s policy landscape, as well as to changes of national significance like Georgia’s blue shift. The forces of oppression that pushed people into the streets in L.A.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Regulatory policy, tied to long-term care agreements with impact investment funds, can contractually require that certain health and social care standards are met, thereby helping ensure the vulnerable elderly population receives the quality care that is largely being paid for by taxpayer money. Social Finance in North America.”

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Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

There is even a political tendency at the time called Solidarism which proposes that solidarity is the solution to problems arising from the Industrial Revolution—and puts forward social policies and ideas about the role of the state. People everywhere are attempting to support one another, and they face an active assault.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

10 Dunning focuses her research on the city of Boston, and notes that the Boston Foundation, like Ford before it—and one could argue philanthropy in general—has developed on this assumption of expanding opportunity. 18 But this kind of political activity is exactly what the nonprofit designation discourages.