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MARCH 17, 2020

We all live in digital civil society now. In January, the Digital Civil Society Lab released a report about how this is true, why it matters and what to do about it. In January, the Digital Civil Society Lab released a report about how this is true, why it matters and what to do about it.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Were in a period of polycrisis, yet the business world, government, and civil society persist in their siloed approaches to solving it. The field lacks universal metrics of success; developing robust impact measurement frameworksboth quantitative and qualitativeis essential for building trust and attracting investment.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 21, 2023

It has enabled me to work with an incredible group of people here at SSIR , the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and Stanford University. It has been a privilege to help lead SSIR the past 17 years.

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Philanthropy 2173

APRIL 23, 2020

These days I'm not just writing and teaching about digital civil society, I'm watching as people all around me come to realize they're living it everyday. I'm sitting in on seminars at universities in other countries. Teaching via video conferencing allows me to connect across classes, schools, and disciplines. elsewhere ).

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Philanthropy 2173

OCTOBER 9, 2020

I am delighted to be speaking in a master class for Columbia University's Nonprofit Management Masters Program. In so doing, we have enclosed civil society within the bounds of the marketplace and public sector, obliterating any meaningful sense of an independent sector. You can sign up directly here -

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Do lead naming gifts actually stimulate high-level philanthropy from other donors and is that what motivates HNWIs to make such charitable contributions? My research finds otherwise and implicates current legal constructs and fundraising practices that continue to privilege the self-interests of donors over beneficiaries and society.

Ethics 122

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Book cover by Oxford University Press In his new book People, Power, Change, author-activist Marshall Ganz writes about the art and science of organizing and social change. Oxford University Press, 2024) by Marshall Ganz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Where Strategic Philanthropy Went Wrong by Mark Kramer & Steve Phillips When it comes to solving our societys most urgent challenges, strategic philanthropy has been astonishingly ineffective. By bolstering communities agency to decide when and how to use it, the transformation can happen with them, not to them.

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Candid

MARCH 13, 2023

We also committed to developing a new generation of tools designed to champion the causes, organizations, and knowledge that power civil society worldwide. It is a universal database that combines all data across Candid’s products and is the foundation of the unified platform. What is a unified platform?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But the release of landmark research in 2013, combined with a concerted campaign by the Aspen Institute and partners such as Candid and the nonprofit research centers at the Urban Institute, Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, made a strong case for greater transparency and efficiency. Examples include the Dorothy A.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

By Rafia Khader , Program Manager at the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and Managing Editor of the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society. It is this idea that propels the work of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have watched the nonprofit sector, which ranges from large hospitals and universities to the small magazine that’s being folded in someone’s living room, being ever more caught up in the matrix of what we might call late-stage capitalism. They give money to get their name on the university. Caroline Crumpacker: Hello everyone.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

The gains would be universal, and in the new internet economy, everyone would have a place. We spoke with more than 80 people, representing workers, scholars, unions, the private sector, civil society, philanthropies, and multilateral agencies. Democracy, freedom, and prosperity were the original promises of the internet.

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Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 5, 2020

Original post Since we started the Digital Civil Society Lab I’ve been invited to countless conferences, workshops, and philanthropic or corporate launches of “some kind of tech” for “some kind of good.” There is no universal definition of good. 5) The lack of universality in terms of what “good” means applies to ethics, also.

Civil Society 59

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Independent Sector is a broad cross-sectoral national membership organization that includes nonprofits, private foundations, and corporate giving programs with a mission to strengthen civil society. We were getting calls from other sectors: education called us, arts called us, philanthropy called us. We don’t have a CEO Circle.

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Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 22, 2024

Don't offer them reasons to say no - Sean Kosofsky, The Nonprofit Fixer “I imagine the powerful role philanthropy can play in supporting bold solutions for systems change by resourcing new paths toward a more regenerative and racially just future. Your job is to raise money. After asking for a gift.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When contemplating migration that can deliver massive income gains to low-income households and benefits to both sending and receiving economies—but must maintain public support in a difficult political climate—public, private, and civil society actors all play important roles in a complex system’s effective functioning.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

Which is why today we are announcing a public solidarity sign-on campaign to support philanthropys freedom to give. Philanthropy is often slow by design. And when we tell our story, lets do it in plain languagenot philanthropy speak. Intimidation dressed up as transparency. It is not new. But our response must be. We convene.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Another questions, “If philanthropy is all about relationships, then why do metrics only measure money?”[3]. The universal hero story (monomyth) is an identity-enhancement journey. [26] One study examined 270 university fundraisers. If philanthropy is all about relationships, then why do metrics only measure money?

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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. All are problems that philanthropy can and should help address.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This year’s Frontiers of Social Innovation convening, “ The Role of Social Innovation in Democracy ,” will gather international leaders from nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, academia, research, business, and government to debate and discuss the role that social innovation plays in creating a more just and democratic society.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To date, most funders investing in artificial intelligence—including McGovern, Schmidt Futures, and Open Philanthropy—have focused primarily on understanding AI’s potential risks, or supporting AI’s positive impacts on society, in the longer-term. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2022

All sectors have a role to play in achieving climate justice, but it’s fair to say that compared to government and civil society, business is late in addressing the challenge and is in fact frequently called out as part of the problem. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business. The framework consists of a three-by-seven axis.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

A report from Native Americans in Philanthropy advises philanthropy to maximize general operating support and diversify investment vehicles to meet today’s shifting demands. A survey from Council on Foundations, Philanthropy California, and Dalberg Advisors found that approximately 60 percent of U.S.

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Philanthropy 2173

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Photo by Bioscience Image Library by Fayette Reynolds on Unsplash The connective tissue of American civil society—the associations, clubs, congregations, and other spaces where people gather and experience collective life—has deteriorated significantly in recent decades, diminishing community resilience and jeopardizing the health of our democracy.

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Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Here the national trend seems to be to double down on a handful of elite, private universities, sell of our public universities for parts (or outsource teaching to online platforms), and then decry the inequitable system. Higher education.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2024

Hunt-Hendrix, Taylor, and I discussed Solidarity at a public event at Stanford University on April 18, 2024. And then we moved to rural New Mexico for a couple years where I really witnessed the wealth inequality that characterizes American society. And I didn’t think that philanthropy was solving the problem.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Preventing Genocide Should Not Be a Dangerous Mission Foreign policy, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and Middle East politics may not be the central issue for some progressive organizations in the United States, but preventing genocide is an issue of universal importance.

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Philanthropy 2173

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

First and foremost, Donald Trump's campaign has declared it will be " taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments " to fund its own propaganda-driven alternative university. Now, big private universities don't usually inspire a lot of sympathy, I get that. That's not helpful.

Civil Society 91

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Image: “ The Universe Delivers” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Corporate capture is visible too in the names adorning the walls of nonprofit university and hospital buildings.

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Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 20, 2020

Many things that defined philanthropy before it became a formalized, industry unto itself (early 1900s in the U.S.A.) But all the signs were there - connectivity, familiarity with direct giving (due to crowdfunding), cultural traditions of mutual aid that never went away, they only stopped being seen by the formal "counters" of philanthropy.

Civil Society 40

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The measure has raised alarm across the nonprofit sector and US civil society, and a multitude of organizations—from civil rights groups to nonprofit media to advocacy and direct service groups—have mobilized against the bill. The measure has raised alarm across the nonprofit sector and US civil society.

Civil Society 145

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 25, 2025

But in Mexico such groups receive no government assistance, while the countrys civil society sector has a fraction of the wealth and power of its counterpart to the north. The US philanthropic sector is 100 to 200 times larger than Mexicos, according to Harvard Kennedy Schools Global Philanthropy Report.

Civil Society 74

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Book cover by Oxford University Press Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. MG: There is an interdependence between our political structures and our civil society structures. The other part of it is a boom in philanthropy.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2025

Last week, immigration officers took Mahmoud Khalil , a Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian human rights activist, from his home in an effort to deport him, even though he is a legal permanent resident. Philanthropy is being called and tested. What Can Philanthropy Do? Philanthropy is being called and tested.

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