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How to Build a Just and Effective Public Sector Workforce System

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by Desola Lanre-Ologun on Unsplash Recent worker polling confirms that even in a low-unemployment economy, workers feel vulnerableand they feel that public policy does not serve them, including the nations system of workforce development. The need to restructure the US national public workforce system is clear.

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Digital Public Policy: New Priorities for Nonprofits

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Photo by Kier in Sight on Unsplash Proud to say this article, " Digital Public Policy: New Priorities for Nonprofits " has just been published. Just as digital practices and public policy shape online expression and assembly, civil society also shape digital practices and policies.

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Former Student Activist Couple Gives UCLA $10 Million for Ethnic Studies Centers

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy & Government Service, and Colby College landed $50 million from Paula and Peter Lunder to back efforts to provide more financial aid to students from underserved backgrounds. Here, Morgan Chu is at the center of a group of students marching up Bruin Walk.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It is also one of several DC-area foundations profiled in a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) on “ Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People.” Philanthropy is starting to talk more about reparations. One takeaway: Traditional practices of grantmaking are insufficient.

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Democracy in Peril: In South Africa, Will Philanthropy Back Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

To support South African democracy, philanthropy faces two challenges. The other is that global philanthropy itself is under threat as South African “populist” opposition advocates for so-called “ foreign agent laws.” A Government of National Unity As a response to the dwindling support, the ANC agreed to form a coalition government.

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How Much Do Americans Trust Nonprofits? It’s Complicated.

NonProfit Quarterly

But the group’s latest report, released this June, contained some good news for the sector: the survey found a rise in trust in nonprofits for the first time in four years—and that nonprofits remain the most trusted of various American institutions surveyed, from corporations to local and state government to the news media to the federal government.

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Report Assesses Impact of Philanthropic “Big Bet” on Employee Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

The MacArthur Foundation, too, has engaged in “big bet philanthropy” with its $100 million (“ 100&Change ”) grant competitions, with similarly mixed assessments to date. The principle behind such efforts is for philanthropy to eschew risk aversion and instead purposefully take risks to advance practice in a field.