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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

Many nonprofit organizations devote their time, talent, funding, and mission to helping people who live in financial hardship. We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology.

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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

As the CEO of a global organization, I have seen firsthand the power of global talent. Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. The organization now reaches into 73 countries and has touched the lives of more than 2 billion people.

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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. Public schools, which serve about 40 percent of Lebanons 1.1 million students, have been particularly affected.

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When to Call It Quits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In an already unstable economic climate, the ground beneath our organization had crumbled beneath us. Civil society creates a balance between sectors, providing a means for private companies to create social impact, and to improve civilian access to essential needs usually covered by the public sector, like education and health care.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Yet despite these breakthroughs, the social sector has only begun to scratch the surface of open 990 data’s capabilities.

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One in Five Nonprofit Workers Can’t Afford Basic Expenses

NonProfit Quarterly

The findings should concern all who care about a healthy—and just—nonprofit sector, notes Independent Sector president and CEO Akilah Watkins. More than one out of five nonprofit workers cannot afford basic living expenses. “We Watkins and Hoopes both emphasized that the nonprofit sector must take leadership on this issue.

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