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Co-Leadership for Bottom-Up Transformation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Hayley Roffey For some organizations, co-leadership starts from the top down. We had seen inspirational examples of co-leadership in partner grassroots organizations worldwide. But GFC had already benefitted from co-leadership at regional levels, as well as on our board, with co-chairs.

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Idealist and VolunteerMatch to Merge

NonProfit Quarterly

Volunteers hold up the foundation of civil society, notes nonprofit watchdog Independent Sector , which maintains an ongoing measure of the average hourly value of volunteer time ($33.49, as of last spring) to nonprofits, many of which depend on volunteers to function.

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From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Pioneering civil society organizations and social entrepreneurs (such as Skoll Foundation partners Muso and Living Goods, among others) have proved CHWs efficacy, particularly in reducing maternal and child mortality and responding to disease outbreaks. CHIC has emerged as a pivotal system orchestrator for the proCHW movement.

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Generosity Commission: Giving, Volunteering And Civil Society Complexities

The NonProfit Times

According to The Generosity Commission, they instead are complex actions that go straight to the core of civil society and democracy, which includes declining trust of institutions and neighbors and social isolation. By Paul Clolery Making a donation to charity or volunteering time would seem to be relatively simple acts.

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How Global Talent Enriches a Global Health Organization

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Yet to address these problems, we need to zoom in, convening experts, civil society and affected communities to explore sustainable solutions that work in the local context. Adaptability is the final pillar of the foundation: the synthesis of collaboration, respect, and a commitment to learning. Did you enjoy this story?

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The impact of COVID-19 on civil society, part two

Candid

The latest Charities Aid Foundation COVID-19 report found that at the end of 2020, 93 percent of charitable organizations reported being adversely affected by the pandemic. Nonprofits surveyed by the Toronto Foundation widely believe (65 percent) that the pandemic will significantly threaten their finances for the next five years.

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X, Formerly Twitter, Sues Group Calling Out Hate Speech on Platform

NonProfit Quarterly

We’ve realized that we stand here on behalf of civil society more broadly.” Last week, the Guardian reported that a recent X Corp blog post accused the European Climate Foundation of aiding CCDH in its alleged violations. And that is why such an array of civil society bodies have come out in the last few days to back us.” “If