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Preparing for a Second Trump Term by Learning from Hungary’s Playbook

NonProfit Quarterly

Orbns track record underscores how constitutional amendments and censorship laws can be used to marginalize LGBTQ+ people and silence dissentand Project 2025 is a roadmap for US politics that aims to curtail civil liberties further.

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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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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SOS Children’s Villages International :: @ SOS_Children. SOS Children’s Villages works to stop more than half a million children ending up alone, abandoned or in institutions. Southern Poverty Law Center :: @ SPLCenter. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS. ECPAT International :: @ ECPAT. Demos :: @ Demos_Org.

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Paths from systems failure

Philanthropy 2173

Children's hospitals across the country are overflowing, and many have been closed or converted to adult hospitals which make more money. So we're choosing for children to die. Private money speaks; public access, equitable service, equal rights before the law - nice concepts, not reality.

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Federal Funding Freeze Could Decimate Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

The unprecedented move, whose legality has already been challenged, could affect trillions of dollars in federal aid to thousands of programs, and threatens to have a catastrophic impact on the US nonprofit sectorand civil society at largeif the funds are successfully halted. That State funding?

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Nonprofits Self-Censoring in Wake of Trump Actions

NonProfit Quarterly

The decision, facing countless nonprofits, of whether and/or how to take preemptive action to protect themselves in the wake of recent developments is not one that an organization should take lightly, says Gene Takagi, principal attorney for the Neo Law Group, and a board member of NPQ.

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Reading List: Bridging Divides to Create Social Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. The conference will explore the role of civil society organizations in finding common ground, ways to facilitate collaboration, combatting disinformation, and other topics.