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:
Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity (Steven Waldman, Columbia Journalism Review)
Philanthropy report explores pandemic’s impact on charitable giving, ‘declining donors’ trend (Teresa Mackin and Adriene Davis Kalugyer, Indiana University)
New Reports Offer Data on Donor Decline, Clues on How to Engage Supporters (Rasheeda Childress, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
NPO Leaders Walking An Advocacy Tightrope (Nonprofit Times)
The Sierra Club’s California members are torn over its mission. Can a new leader forge consensus? (Lila Seidman, LA Times)
Why billionaire philanthropy might not be as generous as you think (Tobias Jung, Conversation)
Strategies for Scaling Philanthropic Impact Through Values-Aligned Investing (Daniel Gould, National Center for Family Philanthropy)
Why donors should ask local communities what matters to them while deciding what success looks like (Erin K. McFee and Jonathan Röders, The Conversation)
Charitable Crowdfunding: An Alert for “Recipient Charities” (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)
Supreme Court ignites wave of lawsuits against federal regulations (Tony Romm, Washington Post)
Significant Events:
- “‘Higher Odds for an Upset’: Election Forecasters Break Down the 2024 Race” Politico
- “Donald J. Trump’s closing rally at Madison Square Garden on the second to last Sunday before the election was a release of rage at a political and legal system that impeached, indicted and convicted him, a vivid and at times racist display of the dark energy animating the MAGA movement. … By the time the former president himself took the stage, an event billed as delivering the closing message of his campaign, with nine days left in a tossup race, had instead become a carnival of grievances, misogyny and racism.” NY Times
- “If Trump wins the presidency again, conservatism will be homeless, a philosophy without a party, for at least a generation. … Trump has, in a way no Democrat ever could, changed the GOP from within and broken with the most important tenets of conservatism. That’s no surprise, because his desire isn’t to conserve; it is to burn things to the ground.” The Atlantic
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
Racial Discrimination in Contemporary America (White House)
Trump on DEI and Anti-Discrimination Law (Alexis Agathocleous, Kim Conway, ReNika Moore, ACLU)
It’s been a year of modest victories and tough losses for California’s reparations movement. What comes next? (Robin Buller, Guardian)
Climate Change Articles & Resources:
Climate change reshapes cities, both environmentally and financially (Saul Elbein, The Hill)
It’s Time to Redefine What a Megafire Is in the Climate Change Era (Jeffrey Kluger, Time)
Planet-warming pollution is growing at the fastest rate in history, scientists say (Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post)