Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week.
Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources:
The IRS and ‘Churches’ That Aren’t Really Churches (Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Coming Together, Not Apart: How Philanthropy Supports Connection in a Time of Dangerous Division- Part 1 (Council on Foundations)
Funders Weigh the Future of DEI, Climate, and Aid at U.N. Meeting (Stephanie Beasley, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Community Perspectives Survey: Insights from the Field: Health of entities serving low- and moderate-income communities (Nishesh Chalise, Violeta Gutkowski, Steven Howland, Fed Communities)
ALICE in the Nonprofit Workforce: A Study of Financial Hardship (Independent Sector, United for ALICE)
The Societal Role of Social Entrepreneurship (Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair, Stanford Social Innovation Review)
The Evolution of a Movement (Angela Glover Blackwell, Stanford Social Innovation Review)
California Bans Legacy Preferences at Private Universities (Shawn HublerSoumya Karlamangla and Stephanie Saul, NY Times)
It’s a “No” On Two Key Nonprofit Bills, Says Newsom (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)
Melinda French Gates’s New Life: Abortion Politics and Kamala Harris (Theodore Schleifer, NY Times)
Significant Events:
- “The Israeli military is expanding its operations on multiple fronts around the anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Monday, including planning for a “significant and serious” retaliation against Iran for last week’s large-scale ballistic missile attack on Israel.” Guardian
- “Senator JD Vance of Ohio and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota spent most of their only debate aiming not at each other but at their running mates, relitigating the last two administrations and eight years as each promised his ticket would deliver a new direction for the nation. … But no issue made clearer the size and stakes of the country’s current political divide than the final topic of the night, when Mr. Vance refused to concede that former President Donald J. Trump had lost the 2020 election.” NY Times
- “Federal prosecutors laid out their most extensive case to date against former President Donald Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election in a sweeping legal brief that was unsealed Wednesday by a federal judge who is weighing the explosive criminal charges against him.” CNN
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
California Schools Now Required To Teach About Mistreatment Of Native Americans (Sophie Austin, HuffPost)
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (Government of Canada)
Autocracy in America (podcasts, Atlantic)
Climate Change Articles & Resources:
The climate crisis is here. We can still have a better world. (Sean Illing, Vox)
Gen Z, worried about climate change, unified in holding politicians responsible: Poll (Kelly Livingston, ABC News)
Supreme Court clears way for Biden limits on methane and mercury pollution (Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post)