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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. Leaders from across the charitable sector were part of the commission for insights into the landscape.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

We have watched the nonprofit sector, which ranges from large hospitals and universities to the small magazine that’s being folded in someone’s living room, being ever more caught up in the matrix of what we might call late-stage capitalism. They give money to get their name on the university. So, maybe this is a framing note.

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When to Call It Quits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Civil society creates a balance between sectors, providing a means for private companies to create social impact, and to improve civilian access to essential needs usually covered by the public sector, like education and health care. BPP provided children and youth with these essential courses and other valuable enrichment programs.

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The importance of expressing impact and gratitude in fundraising

iMarketSmart

The universal hero story (monomyth) progresses through four steps: The compelling donation experience includes these same steps. 3] Both work by supporting reciprocal social relationships.[4] In the game, expressing desire for a social, helpful-reciprocity relationship is meaningful. It starts by connecting with identity.

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How To Use Numbers To Inspire More Giving (and How You Should NOT Use Them)

iMarketSmart

In fundraising, we enter an alternate universe where numbers don’t work the same way. The social-emotional content is the same. Starting with the statistical explanation reduced the social emotion.[6] 7] One system is: Social. The social-emotion system motivates charitable giving.[8] Numbers can show impact.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Naming gifts provide donors with reputational and market value , what legal scholar William Drennan refers to as “ publicity rights ,” and beneficiary organizations and their constituents with financial and mission-driven value. Charitable contributions driven by ethical egoism may provide the most benefit to the donor, however.

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Cancelling Student Debt Is Necessary for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

After a decade of organizing to move debt cancellation from the margins to the center of national policy debates, the movement to cancel student debt continues to gain ground, as NPQ’s Rithika Ramamurthy documented earlier this year. The Problem of Student Loan Debt. I am 62 years old and do not know how I will retire.”