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Get the tools to outlast the 2020 recession; your organization depends on it.

Spring2020Nonprofits in Recession: Design for the Commons!

Revisiting the Great Recession and Preparing for the Next
Nonprofit Winners and Losers: What Really Happened Last Time
Why Recovery Favored the Wealthy: The Role of Public Policy
How We Can Get to a More People-Centered, Democratic Economy

And more...

A few Spring 2020 issue highlights:

The Great Recession: Nonprofit Winners and Losers As speculations of an impending new recession abound, the Nonprofit Quarterly’s editor in chief Ruth McCambridge and the Do Good Institute’s Nathan Dietz review the effects of the last recession on the nonprofit sector and extract from that advice about what organizations could and should do to prepare for the next.
by Ruth McCambridge and Nathan Dietz

Recession Outcomes Exhibit Urgent Need for a Less Self-Centered Nonprofit Policy Focus
“The disproportionately negative financial effects that the recession and recovery have had on communities of people of color speak to the need for more comprehensive advocacy work where financial policies are concerned,” asserts this article.”The disproportion implies that we have spent so much time in short-term responsive behavior that we have lost the muscle for affirmative advocacy on the issues most fundamental to a healthy democracy.”
by the editors

Reconsidering Charitable Tax Exemption: A Modest Proposal for the “Nonprofit 1000”
“In looking at any kind of policy—public policy (policy made by public officials), organizational policy, or even personal policy—the relationship between the policy and its target may change,” begins this persuasive disquisition on why it may well be past time to reexamine the Revenue Acts of 1913 and 1917.
by John Tropman and James A. Blackburn

And many more...

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