The NonProfit Times

JUNE 3, 2024

That was the topline conclusion of The Council for a Fair Data Future, a consortium of academics, civil society stakeholders, policymakers and technologists brought together under the umbrella of the Aspen Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based What is your plan for public disclosure of data collected? based organization thinktank.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Now, suppose we’re managing a group of social media “influencers.” The social media manager then shares the best metrics for managing “writers” and their “output.” This social/sharing world has different rules. 26] In fundraising, this enhanced identity can be private meaning, public reputation, or both. Civil Society.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

On some platforms, workers face automatic penalties for canceling jobs over reasons protected by law in traditional employment. That’s certainly the case at Handy, and is a key reason why, several years ago, the Public Rights Project (PRP) began working to address labor abuses there.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For blue-collar trades, workers were subjected to numerous mandatory new health screenings, from temperature checks to social distancing sensors, while still frequently lacking real protections against the pandemic. And that makes sense, historically.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The purpose of the conference is to expose future social sector leaders to a vibrant learning experience that promotes best practices, innovative thinking and awareness of the full scope of the sector. The Agents of Change Summit’s vision is to establish the field of behavior change marketing as a catalyst for positive social change.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. The Agents of Change Summit aims to unify and expand the community of professionals using marketing and technology to change people’s health and lifestyle behaviors for social good.

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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. UNICEF has developed guidelines for AI use.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By Tim Hanstad To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed ; “Only government has the capacity to address social and environmental problems on a national scale.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

At this uncertain time, as the potential use-cases of generative AI begin to become apparent, there are at least 10 things that funders can do to help the existing field of tech-related nonprofits—and society at large—better prepare. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. The future is now.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Naming gifts provide donors with reputational and market value , what legal scholar William Drennan refers to as “ publicity rights ,” and beneficiary organizations and their constituents with financial and mission-driven value. Yet over time, perpetual naming gifts for facilities may prove detrimental to future generations.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The other is that global philanthropy itself is under threat as South African “populist” opposition advocates for so-called “ foreign agent laws.” Similar laws have already rapidly spread across Europe and Central Asia , yet South Africa has avoided them so far. Today, that democracy is fraying. With an estimated 55.5

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Polls show that an overwhelming majority of the American public support a ceasefire and that our elected officials who refuse to budge on the issue are misaligned with their constituents. Collective action and acts of civil resistance are helping shift the Overton window around the conflict.

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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. 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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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In the past five years, 72 countries have introduced 270 measures restricting civil society,” Douglas Rutzen, president and CEO of the International Center for Nonprofit Law testified. Phase one, per Gigauri, included the use of propaganda to discredit against civil society, USAID and other U.S.-based

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2024

And what would it take for us to realize solidarity in our relationships, our communities, our social movements, and our governments? Rather it’s the product of considerable effort, organizing, and a willingness to reimagine just about every facet of a social structure that rewards the few while sowing division among the many.

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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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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.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In some cases, organizations have been ordered to change language on their websites or other public-facing materials; but in other cases, organizations appear to be preemptively scraping their websites, social media, and other communications of language that might provoke the Trump administrations wrath.

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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.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. And, over time, the for-profit corporation has occupied more and more social space; its tentacles reach into politics , our economy , our daily life , and—perhaps most insidiously—our culture and ideas.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The crippling polarization of Congress; the antidemocratic rhetoric and actions of the far right to undermine voting, education, and academic freedoms, among other aspects of civil society ; and, of course, the dark chapter of the January 6, 2020, attacks on the US Capitol—all arguably represent threats to American democracy itself.

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