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Dr. James explains how to harness friendship reciprocity to unlock heroic donations

iMarketSmart

For example, it had little impact on their willingness to work at a homeless shelter. Showing that you care: The evolution of health altruism. Social roles, prestige, and health risk. Civil Society. For example, they indicated greater willingness to run into a burning building to save a trapped victim.[20]

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Trends across multiple indicators linked to SDG targets, such as maternal mortality, overdose and suicide rates, and proficiency in reading and math, suggest that the future health and well-being of American youth, women, and minority racial and ethnic groups are particularly at risk.

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Federal Funding Freeze Could Decimate Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

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 State funding?

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: A Conversation with Vincent Bevins

NonProfit Quarterly

Left wing and civil society organizations had been concretely decimated under global neoliberalism and decades of the Mubarak dictatorship. But because the media saw what it wanted to see, apparent leaderlessness and lack of organization in Tahrir Square was seen as a good thing by certain parts of the global media.