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Notes
1 Patricia Bromley, “The Organizational Transformation of Civil Society,” in The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, 3rd ed., edited by Walter W. Powell and Patricia Bromley, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2020.
2 These are the numbers of organizations categorized...
Good Thursday morning!
Ed. note: In observance of Shavuot and Memorial Day, the next issue of Your Daily Phil will arrive on Tuesday, May 30. Chag sameach and Shabbat shalom!
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