Author: Susan Appe
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Grassroots INGOs in Africa: Perspectives on What They Are (and Are Not?)
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This research explores philanthropic transfers and exchanges between and among the North and the South, namely, through grassroots international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), which tend to fall outside of the aid industry. The broad research question that frames this study is as follows: How do these organizations, grassroots…
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Justice, accountability are key to peace in Yemen, report finds
Based on dozens of interviews, the report from the Open Society Foundations found that civil society leaders in Yemen agree that the transitional justice process must be focused on the concerns and needs of victims and include mechanisms for truth telling, redress, and mental health support…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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MacArthur Awards $18 million through Safety and Justice Challenge
To drive reform, participating sites incorporate data from, and work with, diverse groups of community members, individuals who work in the justice system, and people with lived experience of the system…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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People in the News (02/14/2021): appointments, promotions, obituaries
The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Do Service Provision NGOs Perform Civil Society Functions? Evidence of NGOs’ Relationship With Democratic Participation
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Scholars have long been interested in the relationship between civil society and democracy. Today, international donors promote civil society in developing countries, and they explicitly define civil society to include nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). It remains an open question, however, whether service provision NGOs in developing countries fulfill…
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Oregon State receives $50 million gift for stadium renovation
Slated to be completed by 2023, the project includes the renovation of the west side of Reser Stadium and construction of university facilities, including an interactive welcome center, new health center facilities, healthcare facilities for OSU faculty and staff, and additional meeting space…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Maurice Turnor Gardner Welcomes Today’s Kids Company Judgment
Private wealth firm successfully represents one of the former trustees LONDON — Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP (MTG), a boutique private wealth law firm, today welcomed Mrs Justice Falk’s judgment handed down for the Kids Company 10 week trial in favour of the defendants; seven of the former charity trustees and CEO Camila Batmanghelidjh. The unusual…
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Newmark Philanthropies commits $15 million to address food insecurity
The commitment will support a three-pronged approach to the issue: ensuring that people have access to food today, tackling the issues that drive hunger so people can feed themselves tomorrow, and working to create a new economic normal in which all Americans are food secure…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Reconciling Theory and Context in Comparative Nonprofit Research
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The article reviews a family of multilevel models that can be used to build general theories of the nonprofit sector that are still sensitive to variations in context. The comparative study of the nonprofit (or nongovernmental) sector presents formidable challenges to social scientists who are attempting to…
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Walton Family Foundation launches $2 billion strategic plan
The foundation has pledged more than $2 billion in philanthropic support over the next five years to achieve goals across three longstanding programmatic areas…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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The Role of Mediators in Diffusing the Community Foundation Model of Philanthropy
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. We examine the role of mediators in locally embedding the community foundation model of philanthropy to enable its global diffusion. We hold that mediators, as trusted agents within elite networks, promote and legitimate institutional innovation by tailoring the model to satisfy local requirements. They thereby limit resistance…
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Global Fund, partners announce grants totaling $773 million
Grants will support efforts to expand access to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria prevention services for vulnerable populations in Mozambique…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Mellon Foundation awards grants totaling $4 million for dance
The grants will support “bubble” residencies designed to enable dancers and choreographers — the arts discipline hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic — to safely pursue their work in quarantine…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Populism and Charity Donations: An Australian Case Study
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The reasons why people donate to charities have been extensively researched, but how this behavior relates to political values is less well understood. We also know little about how the rise of populist values among the electorate will influence charitable giving in the future. Using a national…
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Blackstone commits $40 million to expand entrepreneurship program
The foundation will partner with UNCF to expand the LaunchPad entrepreneurship program from thirty to seventy-five campuses over the next five years, with a focus on colleges and universities that have a majority-diverse student body or are serving underresourced communities…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Gilead commits $3.2 million for LGBTQ education, transgender justice
The grant will fund a public awareness campaign by the HRC Foundation aimed at ensuring access to comprehensive HIV prevention and care, with a focus on communities of color…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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McDonnell Foundation announces $6 million in science initiative grants
The 21st Century Science Initiative funds research in two areas — human cognition and dynamic and multi-scale systems — and also awards grants in support of projects aligned with its programmatic interests but structured so as to allow the foundation flexibility to pursue unusual opportunities…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>