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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Dillen has litigated precedent-setting cases that have held polluters accountable and cleared the way for clean energy projects. She has the roadmap for the nation’s clean energy future. Rutzen has worked on the legal framework for civil society, digital rights, and public participation in 100 countries.

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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And the US Green Building Council (USGBC), an intermediary promoting energy-efficient construction, developed guidelines and rating systems for sustainable cities and neighborhoods. In fact, city leaders often follow the pioneering innovations of civil society organizations. Some small wins even turn into legislation.

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A Volunteer Hour In U.S. Jumps To $33.49

The NonProfit Times

The latest value, calculated by the University of Maryland’s Do Good Institute, is measured based on annual average hourly earnings estimates that are available from the U.S. When you volunteer, you help hold up the foundation of civil society. Benefits are included in the final estimate. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Other schools are observing the energy and momentum, and they are eager to join the movement. The effort is still a work in progress, and it is too early to tell whether it will achieve what has emerged as a galvanizing ambition of nafda: healing and transforming a broken society through schools.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Efficiency gains from the digitization of service delivery have also significantly reduced energy consumption and methane emissions. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. million a day.

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Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Brazilian movement scholar Rodrigo Nunes, argues in his recent book about movements like Occupy and the Arab Spring, there is not one universally correct answer to the question of how we make change. The answer is an “ecosystem” approach that looks at how different theories of change can reinforce each other.

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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. Caroline Crumpacker: Hello everyone.