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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

Johnson’s War on Poverty, which “expanded individual benefits related to health, education, and welfare and doubled down on the idea of working with nonprofit organizations.” And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.

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Instead of Disruption, Leverage What Already Exists

Stanford Social Innovation Review

What became abundantly clear was that change from the top down—new policies, new programs, new funding—was simply unattainable in the toxic and polarized political environment that has become the new norm, inhibiting new social policies from being enacted (let alone the funding mechanisms needed to pay for them).

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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

said Cory Howat, Executive Director of the Catholic Community Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana. “We For example, some foundations or organizations don’t support faith or religion-based organizations, said Gillian Doucet Campbell, Director of Stewardship and Development for the Anglican Diocese of Niagara in Ontario, Canada.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. These intrapreneurs are creative and self-motivated.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

After the Great Depression and World War II, President Roosevelt is pushed by organized labor, unemployed movements, and geopolitical urgencies to build the foundation for the welfare state. The whole New Deal program—including the rights to employment, housing, food, and education, and other necessities—was framed using the word “security.”

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

5 As they did, many became politicized; so, they began pushing for economic and social policies that would end discrimination and redistribute resources to the masses at home and abroad. The foundation compensated them for their time; if they needed childcare or transportation support, the foundation made sure it was provided.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Released in collaboration with Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy and the Leona M. Harvard Graduate School of Education receives $40 million gift. Harvard Graduate School of Education receives $40 million gift. Melinda French Gates won’t give bulk of her wealth to Gates Foundation.