Author: Sanna K. Malinen, Maija Nikkanen, Tuula Kekki
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Expectation of Reciprocity and Other-Focused Values Foster Informal Volunteering Intentions in Disasters: Evidence From Finland
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Decentralization of disaster management calls every sector to contribute to disaster management—including private citizens. While literature on formal volunteering is rich, less is known about drivers of informal volunteering and the differences between … Goto full post >>
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Why Funding Black and Brown Lactation Initiatives Matters: A Personal Reflection on DME-R and Healing 19 Years Later
There’s a name for what happened to me when I tried to breastfeed my daughter, and I didn’t learn it until she was almost in middle school. It’s called DME-R, or Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex, and it’s a condition where a rush of intense negative emotions is released while nursing. This isn’t about willpower or…
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Place-Based Stigma and Community Foundation Grant Making
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Public concerns about the uneven geographic distribution of philanthropic grants have prompted scholarly interest in how place influences funding outcomes. This study adopts the concept of place-based stigma to examine how the racial and socioeconomic … Goto full post >>
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Restoring our capacities: How an asset lens can serve movements today
This article was originally published by NPQ Online on July 23, 2025, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/restoring-our-capacities-how-an-asset-lens-can-serve-movements-today/. Used with permission. “What do we want? Asset-based community development! When do we want it? Now!” That is a chant that I am pretty sure has never been uttered at a rally anywhere. Nonetheless, many movement activists, knowingly or otherwise, depend on asset-based…
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Podcast Episode 10: The Fragile Foundations of Global Health Data
GiveWell’s ability to find and fund highly cost-effective health programs relies on a foundation of credible data. A key source of that data, the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), recently had its primary funding from USAID discontinued. This creates the potential of a significant challenge for GiveWell’s research—and for evidence-based grantmaking across the global health…
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GiveWell’s 2024 Metrics and Impact
Thanks to the generosity of more than 30,000 donors, GiveWell raised $415 million and directed $397 million to cost-effective programs in metrics year 2024 (February 2024 to January 2025).1 GiveWell’s metrics year runs from February 1 through January 31. Our metrics report is typically published at least six months after the close of the metrics…
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Book Review: Faith and community: How engagement strengthens members, places of worship, and society by Glazier, R.
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Guarding Against Complacency in the Face of Existential ThreatsPhil Buchanan President, CEP
The nonprofit sector and foundations dodged several bullets in recent months. The threatened revocation of nonprofit status for entire categories of organizations, rumored in April, has not come to pass. […] The post Guarding Against Complacency in the Face of Existential ThreatsPhil Buchanan President, CEP appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full…
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Why we need a solidarity economy now
As the US faces historic cuts to the social safety net, local economic alternatives can meet basic needs and provide opportunities to organize for a better future. This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence. As people across the United States face massive cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other vital programs, many are asking: What happens…
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Podcast Episode 9: Advancing GiveWell’s Work on Family Planning
As GiveWell’s research team grows, that increased capacity and expertise allows us to evaluate a wider range of programs to find the most cost-effective opportunities to help people. Over the past year and a half, we’ve been investigating a new research area: family planning services that help people decide whether and when to have children.…
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Federal workers are organizing for democracy—from the inside out
This article was originally published by NPQ Online on June 25, 2025, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/federal-workers-are-organizing-for-democracy-from-the-inside-out/. Used with permission. In the face of a relentless effort to dismantle the federal government from within, a new movement is taking shape—led not by politicians or pundits but by federal workers themselves. The largest effort to date is the Federal Unionists Network (FUN).…
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July 2025 Updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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Social co-ops: An innovative solution to our social care crisis?
While a few green shoots are beginning to sprout, social cooperatives, also known as social co-ops, are still a relatively new concept to many Americans. That means their special characteristics, as we find them in the countries where they operate, are not yet well understood here in the U.S. If we take the definition offered…
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Book Review: Financial leadership for the arts: Sustainable strategies for creative organizations
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