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My new book from @OUPAcademic, The Nonprofit Crisis, takes a look at the vital role that nonprofits play in American society and the disturbing erosion of public trust that they have experienced in recent years. Available here: amazon.com/Nonprofit-Crisis-…
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How should the NYPD handle rowdy Knicks fans? Former cop @BrandondelPozo on the grey area between celebration and hooliganism: vitalcitynyc.org/knicks-hool…
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Greg Berman retweeted
Jun 11
“DEI has been transformed from what was basically a leftist academic theory into a protest. ‘These are now fighting words,’ writes @GregBerman50 in ‘The Nonprofit Crisis.’”
Read @mhartmannmke’s review here: modernagejournal.com/deis-da…
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Greg Berman retweeted
Jun 4
Just another quick plug for the recent Hypertext forum on nonprofits courtesy of @NiskanenCenter. A handful of writers wrestling with the question: How can nonprofits respond to illiberal threats and simultaneously engage in self-examination?
hypertext.niskanencenter.org…
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Greg Berman retweeted
Jun 10
Read @VitalCityNYC on Zohranomics and the future of New York ... contributions by @DiSalvoCCNY , @NYHammond , @AndrewRigie , me, and others.
vitalcitynyc.org/issue-16/
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Greg Berman retweeted
Jun 11
Can philanthropy survive our polarized politics?
@mhartmannmke reviews @GregBerman50’s book “The Nonprofit Crisis” @OxUniPress: modernagejournal.com/deis-da…
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Jun 11
More on the language wars in criminal justice:
liberalpatriot.com/p/the-end…
vitalcitynyc.org/the-problem…
Jun 11
Just talk about crime!
slowboring.com/p/can-we-reti…
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Jun 3
In honor of the start of the Knicks first Finals appearance in a generation, I wrote a little about how I became a fan and what the team has meant to me over the years. Link in next tweet.
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Jun 10
New! Latest issue of Vital City just dropped with dozens of contributors weighing in on the economics of NYC in the age of Mamdani. Essential reading for anyone who cares about the healthy of the city. vitalcitynyc.org/issue-16/
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Jun 6
“When the weather gets nice, I still dust off my sneakers and head to the park.” open.substack.com/pub/gregbe…
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Jun 6
The same is true for the nonprofit sector generally. open.substack.com/pub/gregbe…
The new higher ed report is weak insofar as it largely ignores the way that academia’s political economy and labor system causes the problems it diagnoses, but it is striking how many profs think academics have done nothing wrong and the public decided to hate them for no reason.
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Jun 6
Thank god their might be a positive unintended side effect to this perversion of democracy
Partisan gerrymandering by both sides is a net negative for our democracy, but a silver lining is that it gives more members of Congress a stake in our nation's urban areas. My @CouncilonCJ colleague @KhaCumberbatch & I explain why this matters for justice & housing policy. 1/2
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Jun 3
In honor of the start of the Knicks first Finals appearance in a generation, I wrote a little about how I became a fan and what the team has meant to me over the years. Link in next tweet.
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May 28
Glad to see @NiskanenCenter's thorough analysis of the public safety situation in my hometown of Washington DC, along with a reaffirmation of this seemingly simple (but nevertheless important and often overlooked) insight:
May 28
Public safety isn't determined by how many officers a city has on payroll.
It's about where they are, when they're there, and what they're doing.
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Greg Berman retweeted
May 28
Patrick Gaspard will chair this Mamdani Charter Revision Commission focused on making city government work better. cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc…
Like Mayor Mamdani, he's an avid Vital City reader. nyeditorialboard.substack.co…
This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency.
This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people.
New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.
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May 27
Just learned that Jeff Hobbs, my old colleague from the Midtown Community Court (now the Midtown Community Justice Center) has passed away. I will always remember him fondly. When he retired I wrote about him here: gregberman.substack.com/p/je…
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Greg Berman retweeted
May 27
.@EbooPatel showed up to his first teaching job ready to inspire.
Afterward, a student pulled him aside. He had a new baby. A GED meant a dollar more an hour at his job. The last teacher had inspired him too — and he'd still failed the exam.
Was this teacher going to be any different?
Patel uses that moment to make a sharper point about the social sector: passion for a cause is not the same as mastery of a craft. And the people we're trying to serve can tell the difference.
More: hypertext.niskanencenter.org…
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Greg Berman retweeted
May 19
Grateful to @NiskanenCenter for this forum partially inspired by The Nonprofit Crisis
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So how should they navigate this moment? We asked @GregBerman50- author of The Nonprofit Crisis from @OxUniPress- @EbooPatel, Daniel Stid of @AEI, and John MacIntosh of @seachange to weigh in. hypertext.niskanencenter.org…
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