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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws. AQ: Dean Spade, the lawyer who does trans law, he had a great point. 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.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Law professor John Eason notes that present-day social justice movements often call for renouncing past namings for slave owners, white supremacists, or anti-Semites. Today’s utilitarian donor would ensure that others benefit equally and are not harmed by a naming gift for a building.

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Starting With the State

Stanford Social Innovation Review

That requires addressing high levels of corruption, a lack of rule of law, weak civil service capacity, poor public service delivery, and a lack of both transparency and accountability. Strategic philanthropy therefore needs to grow those governments’ ability. All are problems that philanthropy can and should help address.