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“How Do We Break Out of Pity?”: Reframing Children as Philanthropic Citizens

NonProfit Quarterly

Shifting from Pity to Solidarity Children are often encouraged to contribute by evoking pity, said Neugebauer (the classic example: Eat up your peasthere are starving kids in Africa.). While children are increasingly involved in school-based fundraising, this is often framed as the haves giving to the have-nots.

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What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Photo by Los Muertos Crew on pexels.com On May 1, 2023, a Cessna plane took off from the tiny Amazonian town of Araracuara in Colombia, carrying seven passengers: the pilot, four children, their mother, and another adult. But the four children—Lesly (13), Soleiny (9), Tien Noriel (4), and Cristin (1)—survived.

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Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024

Stanford Social Innovation Review

No Disabled Child Left Behind by Madalitso Wills Kateta* The NGO Sightsavers is working to change social attitudes toward disabled children in Malawi so they are not deprived of equal education and opportunity.

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Co-Leadership for Bottom-Up Transformation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In 2024, when Global Fund for Children (GFC) announced that I would transition from global managing director to co-CEO alongside John Hecklinger (who had been sole CEO and president for over six years) it was the next step in a co-leadership journey that began several years earlier with co-leaders at other levels.

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We all live in digital civil society

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Friends telling stories over video chat to their neighbors' children to give the parents a wee break. We all live in digital civil society now. In January, the Digital Civil Society Lab released a report about how this is true, why it matters and what to do about it.

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The School System Rebuilding Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Noor Noman The Citizens Foundation is transforming how education is delivered in Pakistan, with remarkable outcomes for the country’s underprivileged children.

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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

We can help our children to understand the importance of giving back. I think we can start by identifying organizations we can support and give to, even if they are simply ones that have helped us in our lives. We can volunteer.