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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.” The vehicle for the development of nonprofit infrastructure was government grants, beginning with President Lyndon B.

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Muslim Giving 101: An Introduction for Fundraisers & Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Recently, Lake Institute paired up with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) to learn more about American Muslims’ giving practices. After giving to mosques, the second highest category of giving is toward domestic poverty alleviation and education. This is comparable with other faith groups in the U.S.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

The whole New Deal program—including the rights to employment, housing, food, and education, and other necessities—was framed using the word “security.” We treat the rest of life on this planet as a set of products or objects that don’t have rights. AT: To redefine security, we need to cultivate an ethic of vulnerability.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Impact investing, as defined by the Global Impact Investing Network , is an investment tool “made with the intention to generate positive, measurable, social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.” Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. Social Finance in North America.” Himmelweit, and M.

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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. 8 Hegelian dialectics asserts that growth is the process and product of struggle between competing visions. Martin Luther King Jr.

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A Fair Shot for Every Child: The Nuts and Bolts of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images For Unsplash+ This article is the second in a three-part series Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.