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Research Friday: The Functions of Government in Social Entrepreneurship

ASU Lodestar Center

Consider some examples from American policy history. In response to the Great Depression in the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration enacted the nation’s first-ever social policy with the programs of the Social Security Act. There is also a distinguished history of social innovation in the U.S.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. His parents were Latvian immigrants who met on a kibbutz in Israel in 1930. Capitalism and socialism are wrestling themselves to death in the tar pit of history.

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Diversify Your Year-End Campaigns: How To Be Mindful And Inclusive Of Cultural Traditions

Bloomerang

If we post on Facebook to remind our supporters it’s National Pancake Day, then it seems insensitive (for example) to not remember Hanukkah. By expanding out from the homogeneous group we also demonstrate acts of leadership within that more numerous portion of the local and national population. There are 7.5

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Our EveryAction Hero: Jewish Voice for Peace

Everyaction

Jewish Voice for Peace has been around for 20 years, We’re a national organization with over 70 chapters and 15,000 members across the country. We do everything from legislative organizing to engaging in campaigns that seek to put nonviolent pressure on the government both in the US and Israel to respect international law.

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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: US and Israel. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i,

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: US and Israel. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i,

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

Van: Well, we are on the right side of history with this one, I mean at the end of the day, we are on a completely unsustainable course as a society. But then you go overseas, and my experience, in Israel and Palestine and London and South Africa, Mozambique, people ask you, "What the heck are you doing over there?

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