Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

All sectors have a role to play in achieving climate justice, but it’s fair to say that compared to government and civil society, business is late in addressing the challenge and is in fact frequently called out as part of the problem. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / Redwood City, CA / $350. Planned Giving Primer.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 24th Annual Conference for Institutionally Related Foundations.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

(Photo By Deposit Photos) By Marnie Webb From the frontlines of disaster relief to the forefront of technological innovation, civil society organizations are navigating a rapidly changing landscape. What does this mean for civil society in the coming year? We see restrictions playing out in Paraguay and the United States.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. Foundational efforts in these areas are underway. Her email is skeating@techsoup.org.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

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.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To date, most funders investing in artificial intelligence—including McGovern, Schmidt Futures, and Open Philanthropy—have focused primarily on understanding AI’s potential risks, or supporting AI’s positive impacts on society, in the longer-term. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. This might include: 1.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 8, 2023

Image Credit: Jorm Sangsorn on istock.com Worldwide, civil society—from NGOs to grassroots activist groups to social movements to unions—is being undermined by global conflict, suppressive governments, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the spread of disinformation. And it’s more difficult than it sounds.”

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Philanthropy 2173

JANUARY 9, 2025

Look at what's happening with Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation. The Heritage Foundation (home to Project Esther and Project 2025 ) is preparing to use facial recognition and online sources to dox contributors to Wikipedia. But what about suing Heritage for violating tax laws or reckless endangerment? What about offense?

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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. Feeney contributed to over 1,000 public-sector buildings on five continents, yet none bear his name nor that of his foundations.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When contemplating migration that can deliver massive income gains to low-income households and benefits to both sending and receiving economies—but must maintain public support in a difficult political climate—public, private, and civil society actors all play important roles in a complex system’s effective functioning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research is dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research. American Nicaraguan Foundation :: @ ANF. The American Nicaraguan Foundation is a nonprofit that provides basic needs and tools for people to help stop poverty in Nicaragua. National Park Foundation :: @ GoParks.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One is that many foundations, under the guise of philanthropic pluralism , have supported a status quo that has harmed South Africa’s Black majority. The other is that global philanthropy itself is under threat as South African “populist” opposition advocates for so-called “ foreign agent laws.” Today, that democracy is fraying.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As a Muslim executive director of a national racial justice organization and a Jewish former foundation executive, we find that most organizational leaders and activists we talk to are horrified by the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza, the killing of Palestinian civilians, and the repression of Palestinian solidarity movements in the United States.

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Candid

MARCH 16, 2022

It was original published on the Council on Foundations' website. . Over the last two weeks, the Council on Foundations has received scores of questions from the field about how to help the Ukrainian people during the ongoing Russian invasion, including during our recent webinar with the State Department.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

People joined from more than 15 countries, representing business, government, and civil society. To qualify under the new Canadian law, sellers must sell a majority (minimum of 51 percent) of the company to workers, and the trust must hold shares on behalf of all employees—current and future. But it’s only a pilot.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. In 2018, SABSA also established its own foundation, which operates independently from the clinic, to operate more sustainably.

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Philanthropy 2173

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Here's the 5th article in the series I've written for the Chronicle of Philanthropy: " What Now: The Philanthropic Future our Democracy Needs " [link] Foundations and nonprofits exist within a set of norms and laws unique to democracy. We see this around the world. has known it - is blinding itself to the threats.

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Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 20, 2020

Privacy laws and protection from fraud. The second was that said recession would reveal the fragility of our built institutions, including nonprofits and foundations. Buried in this crisis is the opportunity to re-examine what we need from civil society and philanthropy and how we get it. Broadband access. Encryption.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

You can have all the laws on the books, but if you don’t have a base of people to protect them, if you don’t actually address the root causes of why injustice is occurring, then it doesn’t matter—those laws will be overturned eventually. Our grantees and others are part of how to maintain access for people.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2024

My grandfather had started an oil company and my mom had taken what she inherited and started a foundation focused on supporting the women's movement. And it goes back to ancient Roman law, where the word solidarity—obligato in solidum—meant collective obligations.” So, I was raised in the midst of the women’s movement.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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. Executive orders are not law.

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Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash Civil society organizations are on the front lines of advocating for or against the most divisive issues in the United States. The links are almost entirely to civil society organizations fighting to protect the rights to free expression, free assembly, voting, reproduction, and work.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Violations of Free Speech and Due Process The Legal Defense Fund and Lambda Legal brought the lawsuit on behalf of the National Urban League, the National Fair Housing Alliance, and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago.

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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.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 13, 2025

Central to this looming threat is Project 2025 , a comprehensive policy agenda spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation that aims to dismantle protections for LGBTQ+ people , ban diversity initiatives , and defund gender-affirming care under Medicaid. This alignment is no coincidence.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Last week, ACLU senior policy counsel Kia Hamadanchy told NPQ that “the fear is that this is the sort of thing that a Trump administration could weaponize against civil society broadly—not just organizations that might be involved in protests regarding the conflict in Gaza, but civil society writ large.”

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