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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 rate of volunteerism, as measured by the Current Population Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

AS: One other point I want to raise with that, Steve, I think you said earlier that nonprofit is too limited a term to encompass, in your words, civil society and social justice. Everything’s held together with duct tape in this country. I call the nonprofit industrial complex the dystopian social safety net.