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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right. Why is that?

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Effective public voice arising from commitment to common purpose—a political process—has become rare indeed. Public voice grows quite faint.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

6 Yet social transformation on this scale has not historically happened without concerted struggle by ordinary people demanding what they need to survive. The event was convened by Contra el diluvio, an organization dedicated to revealing the consequences of climate change to the public.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics? 1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics? Just as markets make us selfish, movements make us mutual.

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3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

On the other hand, global processes like collaboration against climate change, protests against social inequality and racism (#BlackLivesMatter), or social movement against sexual harassment and abuse (#metoo) have brought nonprofits even more prominence. 3 Tips to Raise Funds Online. Target financing.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. The market capitalization for Bitcoin currently when we started this webinar was about $750 billion. It is about $750 billion.

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Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. The market capitalization for Bitcoin currently when we started this webinar was about $750 billion. It is about $750 billion.