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“The question is: Will we govern for all or just a few?” asked PolicyLink's president Ashleigh Gardere said in a recent Chronicle interview for #TheCommons. “And then, will we hold ourselves accountable for delivering for all?”

Read more and watch the full interview at: https://phlnthrp.com/4qGgRbR
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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🚀 🌪️ Launched Storm Events Database today w/ #thecommons & #internetofwatercoalition. We're unlocking 1.9 million US severe weather events from 1950 to the present!

🔗https://ourcommoncode.org/digital-service-case-studies/sed
Explore the platform: stormevents.internetofwater.app
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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トリプルファイヤー吉田が客1人ひとりに「言葉」を売る
https://natalie.mu/music/news/644551?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

#TheCommons #音楽カルチャーマーケット
October 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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📣Location Update! Meet at #TheCommons in downtown Minneapolis for #NoKings #TwinCities on Sat., 10/18 at 1 pm and then we march!📣

Additional details:
indivisibletwincities.org/no-kings-twi...

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October 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
Opinion: After the Kirk assassination in Utah and the attack on a Mormon church, the Mormon commitment to serving others emerges as a powerful answer to hate, division, and violence, writes Eboo Patel for #TheCommons.
https://phlnthrp.com/474oDDl
The Church Americans Often Mock Could Teach Us to Heal
After the Kirk assassination in Utah and the attack on a Mormon church, the Mormon commitment to serving others emerges as a powerful answer to hate, division, and violence.
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October 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
Distracted by dreams of scale, philanthropy overlooks the key to much of what it wants to accomplish: the neighborhood. #TheCommons
https://phlnthrp.com/42OwLXa
Think Globally, Act Neighborly: 6 Small Steps to Get Big Change
Advice about how micro-efforts by nonprofits — even street festivals or block parties — can help turn neighborhoods into engines of the big change philanthropy seeks.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Of Revenue Without Rulers: #Public #Goods in the #Egalitarian Cities of the Indus #Civilization

www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol... #research #archaeology #egalitarianism #TheCommons #commonwealth
Frontiers | Of Revenue Without Rulers: Public Goods in the Egalitarian Cities of the Indus Civilization
The archaeology of collective action addresses a widespread myth about the past–that premodern societies were despotic, and only produced public goods when e...
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September 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
ecomindful.bsky.social
This is a great Australian TV series around similar themes.

#CliFi
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The Commons (TV series) - Wikipedia
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September 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
Opinion: Right-of-center donors would join with their progressive counterparts to replace public media's lost federal funding — if the money goes to local stations, says Howard Husock of American Enterprise Institute for #TheCommons.
https://phlnthrp.com/3VeUTOx
September 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
Opinion: Right-of-center donors would join with their progressive counterparts to replace public media's lost federal funding — if the money goes to local stations, says Howard Husock of American Enterprise Institute. #TheCommons
www.philanthropy.com/commons/publ...
A Rescue Plan for Local Public Media That Conservatives Will Love
Right-of-center donors would join with their progressive counterparts to replace lost federal funding — if the money went to local stations.
www.philanthropy.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social
We need to demand the return of this land!

#TheCommons
workingclasshistory.com Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Aug 18
#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...
August 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Learn more about Tiffany and read the full announcement here: blog.comment.org/thecommons/c...
Comment Names Tiffany Thompson as Executive Editor
Comment magazine has announced that Tiffany Thompson has joined its leadership team in the newly created position of Executive Editor.
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August 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
p2173.bsky.social
Looking for something to read? Here are two lists generated by two very different groups of #philanthropy professionals. #PBC #Philanthropy #TheCommons #books #podcasts #nonprofits #civilsociety
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Books and other stuff
The Philanthropy Book Club (PBC) has been up and running since the beginning of this year. We're on our fourth book together. So far we've covered Nonprofit Neighborhoods; Everything for Everyone: An ...
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August 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
The Chronicle of Philanthropy asked experts to share books, movies, podcasts, and TV shows that will help you think differently about what divides us — and how to find solutions.
The results? Check out the list, and let us know what you'd add to it: phlnthrp.com/45iwxYM
#TheCommons
34 Summer Books, Movies, and Podcasts to Mend America’s Divisions
Those working to bring America together — advocates, foundation chiefs, experts, and more — recommend fiction, nonfiction, podcasts, plays, movies, and even an Owen Wilson TV show.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
If democracy is unraveling, what can save it? Scholar, author, and nonprofit leader Danielle Allen joins #TheCommons in Conversation podcast to talk about a range of solutions championed by philanthropy and nonprofits.

Listen in wherever you get your podcasts: phlnthrp.com/4omCNYj
LISTEN NOW! ‘Pick Your Lane': Democracy Advocate Danielle Allen’s Advice for Philanthropy
The author, advocate, and nonprofit leader outlines where philanthropy fits in her “double barrel” strategy to strengthen democracy in Washington and nationwide.
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August 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
New #TheCommons in Conversation #podcast episode: @halilee.bsky.social, co-founder of the Donors of Color Network, argues that collective giving, not Big Philanthropy, is the real change-maker. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts, or read the story: phlnthrp.com/458t52H
August 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
8 Things a Mega-Donor Did Right: How $160 million from Netscape pioneer Jim Barksdale — a newcomer to social-change philanthropy — helped make schools in his native Mississippi a source of pride, not shame.

Drew Lindsay reports for #TheCommons: phlnthrp.com/4mfGs8d
July 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
New #TheCommons in Conversation podcast episode: Hali Lee, co-founder of the Donors of Color Network, argues that collective giving, not Big Philanthropy, is the real change-maker. 🎧 Listen on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts, or click play in our story: phlnthrp.com/458t52H
JULY 29: Move Over, Mega-Donor: Philanthropist Hali Lee the Power of Collective Giving
The co-founder of the Donors of Color Network argues that giving circles and mutual aid are the real change-makers.
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July 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
Why is big philanthropy funding small hyperlocal projects? Join #TheCommons podcast to hear Rockefeller Brothers Fund president Stephen Heintz share with the Chronicle's Drew Lindsay how getting involved in community projects is helping break down political divides. 🎧 phlnthrp.com/4kZ4LX9
July 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
Big foundations behind a multicity project are trying to measure the intangibles of community building. In one Akron, Ohio, neighborhood, the numbers are adding up to something good. #TheCommons
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How 59 Data Points Helped Foundations Spark Elusive Change
Big foundations behind a multicity project are trying to measure the intangibles of community building. In one Akron, Ohio, neighborhood, the numbers are adding up to something good.
phlnthrp.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
chronphilanthropy.bsky.social
How can philanthropy and nonprofits pursue equity? On #TheCommons in Conversation podcast with @stacypalmer.bsky.social, W.K. Kellogg Foundation CEO La June Montgomery Tabron calls attention to how a majority of anti-DEI shareholder proposals have failed.

Listen in: phlnthrp.com/40WmyXB
July 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM