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:

Senate GOP Ramps Up Attacks on Left-Wing Nonprofits (Isaiah Thompson, NPQ)

Regulatory Compliance: A Nonprofit Organization’s First Line of Defense (Shannon McCracken, Nonprofit Alliance)

Staying Committed to Social Justice and Advocacy in Times of Political Crisis (Jeanne Bell, NPQ)

Mounting Pressure: U.S. Foundations and Nonprofits on the 2025 Political Climate (CEP) [Ed. I attended the brilliant 2025 CEP Conference where this report was presented. We’ll publish a post of some highlights from the Conference later this month, but you can also find CEP’s great recap on its blog.]

Ford Foundation’s New Leader Vows to Protect Elections and the Rule of Law (Adam Liptak, NY Times)

Opinion: To Protect American Democracy, Pretend It’s Already Gone (Cora Daniels, Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Opinion: Who Can Rescue Democracy? Local Funders Have the Edge (Daniel Stid, Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Court leaves order in place requiring Trump admin to provide full SNAP payments for November (David A. Lieb, Michael Casey, Scott Bauer, and Mike Catalini, AP)

OpenAI Restructuring (Samuel Brunson, Nonprofit Law Prof Blog) [Ed. This makes the OpenAI Foundation one of the biggest, if not the biggest, 501(c)(3) organizations ever with an estimated $130 billion in assets. OpenAI Inc. (I believe this is the same entity) reported about $23 million in assets at the end of 2023. What charitable activities will the huge Foundation engage in?]

The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart. (David A. Fahrenthold and Claire Brown, NY Times) [Ed. It’s a mistake to assume from the title that embracing social justice as a value is not mission-related or that it was the embrace of social justice rather than how it was operationalized that caused the internal conflicts. There are certainly lessons to be learned, but they require a deeper examination of the organization’s purpose and whether its shift resulted in loss of resources to core aspects of its purpose or whether those resources shifted to other organization with a substantially similar purpose. Longer term impacts will also inform us more about how Sierra Club’s past decisions ultimately play out.]

Significant Events:

• “An estimated 200,000 civilians are unaccounted for in El Fasher, Sudan. They fled a city under siege, yet never arrived at safety. Only a few thousand have reached humanitarian reception centers, including the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC). … Where are the rest? And will they survive? The absence of answers should shake the conscience of the world.” Time
• “Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old state lawmaker, who was set to become the city’s most liberal mayor in generations.” AP
• “Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda The president has stretched the limits of his powers to help those at the heart of his agenda, not the many in greatest need. … In fact, the administration had billions of dollars at its disposal — more, by its own admission, than it needed to sustain food stamps for the roughly 42 million low-income people who depend on them.” NY Times

Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:

Supreme court considering taking up case challenging legality of same-sex marriage (Carter Sherman, Guardian)

Why DEI needs depth, not death (Marycarmen Lara Villanueva, Conversation)

Movement Is Justice (A-dae Romero Briones, NPQ)

Climate Change Articles & Resources:

Trump 2.0 Environmental Case Scorecard (Peter Aldhous, Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News)

10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are (Somini Sengupta, Graphics by Harry Stevens and Mira Rojanasakul, NY Times)

On eve of UN climate talks in Brazil, a call for less talking and more doing (Seth Borenstein and Mauricio Savarese, AP)

Good Vibes:

Dodgers still can’t believe what happened in all-time World Series Game 7 (Bob Nightengale, USA Today)