Author: Emily Kawano & Mike Strode
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Resist and Build: A Movement Building Process Centering the Solidarity Economy
This article was originally published by NPQ online on February 26, 2025 at https://nonprofitquarterly.org/resist-and-build-a-movement-building-process-centering-the-solidarity-economy/. Used with permission. State of the Movements is a recurring NPQ column dedicated to tracking the pulse of social movements and the solidarity economy in 2025. The solidarity economy movement finds itself at a critical juncture. The opportunity for a breakthrough amid crisis is real, even as…
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Hop in and Drop Out: How are Changes in the Life Course Related to Changes in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations?
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article examines to what extent life course changes are associated with the likelihood to start humanitarian volunteering, and how many people start, quit or continue humanitarian volunteering over a longer time period, in the Netherlands. Using rich … Goto full post >>
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NCRP Research on Funding for Anti-Democracy Organizations
NCRP tracked $1 billion in total foundation funding from around 3,500 private and public funders between 2020 and 2022. In that time, $1 billion in total foundation funding went to 155 election denial and anti-voting rights organizations. These anti-democracy organizations control more than $7 billion, more than each of the well-known conservative funders combined. These…
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A Time of Crisis: As Nonprofit Leaders Face Extraordinary Challenges, Here’s What They Are Saying
“With funding freezes, the most vulnerable are impacted. We provide vital assistance to people in need of life-saving healthcare, and we’ve seen an increase in the number of people who […] The post A Time of Crisis: As Nonprofit Leaders Face Extraordinary Challenges, Here’s What They Are Saying appeared first on The Center for Effective…
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Building a just energy future together: Join the REC Co-lab this March
It’s 2025. That fact alone is a lot to deal with in the United States, especially for those who understand the urgent imperative to transition to a just, democratic, and inclusive energy system, powered by clean, renewable energy. With the current administration ideologically committed to toxic and inefficient forms of energy of the past—fossil fuels…
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Philanthropy is onto the next: how themes from Black Funding Denied are coming up today
In 2020, I remember being on a regional call with funders in New England who were optimistic that, after months of a global pandemic and a summer of the largest racial uprising this country has seen since the Civil Rights Movement, we were in a new era of philanthropy. I was not as convinced that…
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Social Identification and Charitable Giving: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. To enhance their effectiveness, nonprofit fundraisers may wish to harness the power of identification. Informed by Social Identity Theory and Charitable Triad Theory, we meta-analyzed 40 years of research on social identification and charitable giving to quantify the overall relationship and conducted meta-regressions to investigate moderators. Across…
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Nonprofit Revenue Portfolios and Exposure to Business Cycle Risk
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Public sector organizations frequently face increased demand for their services during economic downturns at the same time that their revenues decline. This problem is particularly acute for nonprofit organizations, who cannot rely on involuntary taxation in the same manner that governments can. In this paper, we document…
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Organizing Transgender People: Toward a Process-Based Theory of Representative Bureaucracy
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Despite advancements in LGBTQ+ rights, transgender people remain as one of the most socially stigmatized and marginalized members of society. Many continue to face state-sanctioned discrimination. Kerala stands out in supporting and advancing transgender people. We interviewed 15 government officials and 28 transgender women to explore how…
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The school of gentrification – an excerpt from Defying Displacement
The following is an excerpt adapted from Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War (IAS/AK Press, 2024). Universities as gentrifiers “These super-men and world-mastering demi-gods listened, however, to no low tongues of ours, even when we pointed silently to their feet of clay.” —W.E.B. Du Bois The workers and capitalists who profit most from the…