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"The Milken Institute is launching a Women’s Health Network chaired by former first lady Jill Biden.

The network will engage research institutions, startups and entrepreneurs, corporations and businesses, investors, payers, policymakers, patient and community organizations, health systems and philanthropists to advance women's health."

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/jill-biden-teams-milken-institute-womens-health-research-network

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Mastodon entwickelt seine Organisationsstruktur weiter: Das Projekt wird künftig von einer neu gegründeten europäischen Stiftung getragen, deren rechtliche Grundlagen nun stehen. Die bisherige US-501(c)(3)-Organisation bleibt für Fundraising und Beratung zuständig. Vorstandsmitglied Amir Ghavi, der den Wandel juristisch begleitete, trat zurück. Neu im Vorstand ist Hannah Aubry, Expertin für Community- und Open-Source-Arbeit. Auch das Team wächst: David, Shannon und Echo verstärken die Technik, Scott Jenson berät zur Produktstrategie, Andy Piper ist neuer Kommunikationsleiter, Philip Schröpel wurde Chief of Staff, Zora Steiner Junior-Projektmanagerin. Das Team zählt nun 15 Personen, davon 3 in Teilzeit oder freiberuflich. Mastodon bleibt werbefrei, datenschutzfreundlich und dezentral – ohne Risikokapital. Die Organisation setzt weiter auf Community-Unterstützung für Entwicklung, Betrieb und politische Arbeit im Fediverse.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

Mastodon entwickelt sich weiter: Gründer Eugen Rochko übergibt seine Rolle als CEO, um sich künftig auf die technische Entwicklung zu konzentrieren. Die Führung geht an eine neue europäische Non-Profit-Organisation über. Ziel ist, Mastodon dauerhaft als dezentrales, werbefreies und gemeinnütziges soziales Netzwerk zu sichern. Dieser Schritt soll organisatorische Stabilität schaffen und die Abhängigkeit von Einzelpersonen reduzieren. Die neue Struktur stärkt die Unabhängigkeit von Mastodon, erleichtert Kooperationen und verbessert die Vertretung gegenüber der Öffentlichkeit. Eugen bleibt als Entwickler und technischer Berater aktiv. Die Vision: Ein demokratischeres, transparenteres und dauerhaft community-getriebenes Netzwerk.
• Rochko tritt als CEO zurück
• Neue Non-Profit führt Mastodon
• Fokus auf Transparenz und Stabilität
• Weiterhin dezentral, werbefrei und offen
• Entwicklerrolle bleibt bei Eugen

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

"—built as a and run by independent communities—has essentially made it impossible for itself to fall into the familiar pattern of “enshittifiction".
, despite its innovative technology & good intentions, is built on the same -backed foundation.
Mastodon–despite being slightly more challenging to get started with–represents our best chance at building a truly of the internet that benefits everyone."
https://phillipjreese.com/the-social-network-that-cant-sell-out-understanding-mastodon-vs-bluesky/

Umm, no.

DOGE reps told leaders of a [nongovernmental] group Tues that it wants to assign members of its team to work at all institutes or agencies that receive federal funds….

A 20-min phone call involved 2 members of DOGE & attorneys for the Vera Institute of Justice, w/DOGE reps revealing plans to potentially attach its team members to more organizations & institutes that receive govt funding….


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/15/doge-musk-nonprofit-vera-institute/

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They're a 501c3 , so taxes, and maybe you can get an employer to match?

Support local .
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It is important that we not collapse these differences even while recognizing a set of shared structural forces and logics. This is especially important as non-profits themselves are vulnerable to these structural forces. For example, non-profit organizations continue to feel impacts of the recession in both the increased demands for basic social services as well as the shrinking of government and foundation funding and individual donations. Many small organizations made up of poor and working-class members have dissolved or folded into larger non-profits. A lack of funding has led such groups to give up vital infrastructure and compensated staff positions, but the work continues through volunteer labor, in members' homes or donated space.

— The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by  (Page xviii - xix)

If non-profits are to serve as a tool for liberation and reconstruction, then they need their own productive forces to call upon for fueling their efforts. Subjugation to capital, be it directly through philanthropic foundations, indirectly through (capitalist) government funding, or even tortuously through individual donors --themselves dependent upon exchanging their labor to capital for the money they donate-- necessarily clips the non-profit's wings. It is always contorting itself upon the whims of capital. Perhaps a partnership between non-profits and co-ops, both worker owned and operated, could serve to foster such a development of productive forces beyond --or at least less hindered by-- the antagonistic ruling capitalist class's reach. In this model, non-profits could serve as a stabilizing foundation upon which less certain co-operative proletarian endeavors could build.

#socialism #communism #marxism #coops #coop #NonProfit #npic