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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In retrospect, we can see with a borderless threat like COVID-19, collaboration was stymied across and within countries: Lacking clearly defined and owned targets, country responses often failed to meaningfully engage civil society.

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Council on Foundations Public Policy Summit.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

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. The SABSA healthcare cooperative is one of over 11,000 enterprises in the province of Quebec’s distinctive social economy. “We

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It’s Not Just You: Bernie Sanders Makes the Case for Passionate Movements

NonProfit Quarterly

Healthcare, education, and housing have all become unaffordable. As public policy has done less and less to mitigate the suffering of millions, faith in the government has declined. Movements need to know their enemy and counter efforts to exclude people from civil society by creating inclusive demands.

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Economic Justice: Why We Must Build a New Common Sense

NonProfit Quarterly

Civil society can be powerful. The Role of Civil Society At NPQ , we rarely write about why we publish what we publish. But it’s worth noting that our mission is to “advance conversations and practice in civil society.” Nonprofits are a part of civil society, but they are not all of it.