Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern.

Civil Society 129

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

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. Under his watch, the company was fined $18 million in 2009 for environmental pollution in Rhode Island where Brown is located.

Ethics 122

Ethics Public and Social Policy Universities Philanthropy 122

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Intimidation, protest disruption and detentions of protesters were the top violations documented in 2023, with democracy, climate and environmental activists and women and LGBTQI+ people often are targeted. Long-established tenets of international human rights and humanitarian laws are being flouted.

Civil Society 52

Civil Society Environmental Law Ethics 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

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 contractor doing environmental restoration?

Civil Society 142

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Law 142

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The administration has signaled its intention to defund diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); climate change and environmental justice; gender ideology extremism; Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies; and more. Executive orders are not law.

Civil Society 124

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 124

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Image Credit: photos by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash, Anzhela Bets on Unsplash , Henry Wilkins via VOA, and Steve Sandford via VOA “Civil society is being tested like never before by a series of multiple and accelerating crises” (4). Threats to US Civil Society These threats to civil society include the United States.

Civil Society 130

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Law Environmental 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

More and more of society has been converted into commodities—that is, items that can be bought or sold. But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. 24 Additionally, as Quart has pointed out, not just failure but also success is seen as “self-made.”

Public and Social Policy 133

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

In January 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) suspended federal funding for foreign aid; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; and environmental programs under Trumps anti-DEI executive order. However, advocates urge organizations to resist and refuse compliance.

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