Barely Civil Society
Alex EvansSociety. Politics. Charity. The leftist politics blog for nonprofits.
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Shitshow Update: Nonprofit Newses, May 2026
Hello, my Barely Civil Comrades, and welcome to a new edition of BCS after a taking longer break than usual. I am barely refreshed, because the break in publication had more to do with workload than the week’s holiday I took, which made it...
Time for a Nonprofits Union?
Image by Chat GPT (I know, you’d never have guessed.) I absolutely love the bear.
How I got on people’s nerves this month
In the UK, we have had a flap over the restructure of our membership body for charitable organisations - the 100...
Is Philanthrocapitalism Ending?
Welcome to this week's Barely Civil Society, where we talk about society, politics and non-profits. After a longer piece kicked off by the NYT article on the Giving Pledge, we move on to the usual quick fire news and nonsense from UK philan...
When philanthropy is PR for billionaires
The only good billionaire is, erm, nope.
Asif Aziz, billionaire landlord and owner of Criterion Capital, was standing on a podium, next to Mayor Sadiq Kahn in London. They smiled for a photograph. Above the assembled crowds, the Ramada...
There Sure Were a Lot of 'Philanthropists' on That Island....
Behold, I am returned from the coldest four days of my life in Copenhagen.
In a week where the news choice was between Bad Bunny and Jeffrey Epstein, I chose Bad Bunny and his hypnotic jiggling every time.
But, much as every fibre of my...
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Critical friend to the nonprofit world. Former critical theory and cultural politics academic. Proud socialist.
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