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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Benjamin L Storey |Jenna Storey |Daniel Stid |Christine Rosen
Post Why Civic Thought? Op-Ed Civil Society in the Second Trump Administration: Reckoning with the Meaning of “Nongovernmental” Op-Ed How Low Can It Go? Event Is American Civic Culture the Source of Our Challenges?
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Benjamin L Storey |Jenna Storey |Daniel Stid |Samuel J. Abrams
Post Why Civic Thought?
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Daniel Stid |Robert George |Samuel J. Abrams |Ansel Herz
Op-Ed Civil Society in the Second Trump Administration: Reckoning with the Meaning of “Nongovernmental” Multimedia 9DashLine Reclaiming Fidelity – Faith, Family, Country: Foundations Worth Fighting for with Robert P.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
philanthropy.com | Daniel Stid
How should grant makers concerned about the health of democracy in America respond to the 2024 election? One response would be for them to counter-mobilize and once again join the vanguard of the resistance to Trumpian populism. This has been the strategy that many philanthropists and grantees working to defend democracy have pursued during the rise, fall, and resurgence of Donald Trump’s political fortunes.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
theartofassociation.org | Daniel Stid
With everything that appears to be at stake in this presidential election, it sounds off-key to refer to it as a coin-flip. But given the odds of either candidate and party prevailing over their opponents, that is what it is. The situation has prompted me to return to a pithy definition of democracy from the political scientist Adam Przeworski: “Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections.” The simplicity of these nine words is deceptive.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
theartofassociation.org | Daniel Stid
As I had hoped, my recent SNF Agora Institute report, “Taking Democracy for Granted: Philanthropy, Polarization, and the Need for Responsible Pluralism,” is prompting spirited exchanges. Several recurring themes have emerged in webinars, workshops, zooms, and conversations about the report. Across these discussions, multiple people have asked me some variant of the following five questions:Isn’t the big problem here left-of-center philanthropists and the groups they support?
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Daniel Stid
Stid is the executive director of Lyceum Labs, a fiscally sponsored project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute. It is challenging for philanthropic funders to get started and stay focused when it comes to strengthening democracy. The vagaries of our political system — really a complex system of systems cast on a continental scale — make it hard to know where to even begin. There are dozens of solutions that could be worthy of support.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
cep.org | Daniel Stid
This post originally appeared on The Art of Association blog. It is challenging for philanthropic funders to get started and stay focused when it comes to strengthening democracy. The vagaries of our political system — really a complex system of systems cast on a continental scale — make it hard to know where even to begin. There are dozens of solutions that could be worthy of support. Alas, none are backed by dispositive evidence indicating that they are the single-best way forward.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
democracyjournal.org | Daniel Stid |Debbie Cox Bultan
The current moment may seem like an odd time to herald a promising renewal of political leadership in the United States. In the presidential election, two men—one in his ninth decade, the other about to enter it—will stage a rematch of their dispiriting 2020 contest. As of May, their favorability ratings remain submerged in the low 40 percent range. One candidate tried and failed to overturn the last election.
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May 2, 2024 | 
philanthropy.com | Daniel Stid
Philanthropists seeking to bolster U.S. democracy are pulling out the stops in the run-up to the election. Based on a recent Democracy Fund report, we can expect that annual funding to support democracy will exceed $3 billion this year.
