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— 12 April 2023 —

Nonprofits as battlegrounds for democracy

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By Cyndi Suarez

“The formal engagement of neighborhood-based nonprofits in urban governance constitutes one of the most profound, if hidden, transformations in the United States over the second half of the twentieth century.”

Claire Dunning, author of Nonprofit Neighborhoods

Link to article in Nonprofit Quarterly by Cyndi Suarez

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