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Generosity Commission: Giving, Volunteering And Civil Society Complexities

The NonProfit Times

According to The Generosity Commission, they instead are complex actions that go straight to the core of civil society and democracy, which includes declining trust of institutions and neighbors and social isolation. The nine recommendations in the report are divided into four categories — research, culture, practice, and policy.

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When to Call It Quits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the Nicaraguan government tightened its grip on authoritarian rule, it was threatened by civil society organizations who possess the power to hold them accountable, receiving funds they do not control and investing those funds in services that preserve human rights, protect democracy, and empower individuals.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

Our vision extended beyond the nonprofit sector to examine how corporations have captured our politics, large swathes of the economy, our nonprofits, our culture, our ideas, even our dreams. Rithika Ramamurthy and I asked the authors, including Alissa Quart, who is here today, to examine corporate capture and how to organize against it.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For the past three decades, I have guided museums, nonprofit arts organizations, and higher education institutions in planning, programming, fundraising for, and promoting new or renovated cultural facilities that fulfill mission imperatives. Charitable contributions driven by ethical egoism may provide the most benefit to the donor, however.

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