Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 12/1/24

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:

For Philanthropy, This Actually Isn’t 2016 All Over Again (Dimple Abichandani, Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Trump Is Running His Transition Team on Secret Money (Ken Bensinger and David A. Fahrenthold, NY Times) [Ed. The “dark money” appears to be running through a new 501(c)(4) organization, Trump Vance 2025 Transition, Inc.]

Opinions Differ On If Donors Will Show Up On GivingTuesday (Richard H. Levey, Nonprofit Times)

Legal complications await if OpenAI tries to shake off control by the nonprofit that owns the rapidly growing tech company (Jill Horwitz, Ellen P. Aprill, Rose Chan Loui, The Conversation)

A New Blueprint for Financing Community Development (David Fukuzawa, Nancy O. Andrews & Rebecca Steinitz, Stanford Social Innovation Review)

Reflections on H.R. 9495 and Risk (Karl Mill, Mill Law Center)

ExpertEASE: Defending Human and Civil Rights as a Charitable Purpose (NGOsource) [Ed. Thanks to our friends at NGOsource for amplifying our post on this topic!]

Trump Disavowed Project 2025 During the Campaign. Not Anymore. (Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Erica L. Green, NY Times) [Ed. It may be helpful for nonprofits to familiarize themselves with how the Project 2025 playbook could affect their organizations, missions, values, and beneficiaries. See, e.g., Project 2025 Explained (ACLU).]

The Perception Gap That Explains American Politics (Stephen Hawkins and Daniel Yudkin, Atlantic)

Reinventing Corporate Sustainability (Richard Roberts, Stanford Social Innovation Review)

Significant Events:

“Donald Trump’s threat to impose steep tariffs on goods imported into the US has set the stage for a bitter global trade war, according to trade experts and economists, with consumers and companies warned to brace for steep costs.” Guardian
“What to Know About the Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Under the agreement, Israel will gradually withdraw its forces from Lebanon over the next 60 days, and Hezbollah will not entrench itself near the Israeli border.” NY Times
“Russia conducted a “massive” attack against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Thursday, firing nearly 200 missiles and drones and leaving more than a million households without power, Ukrainian officials said. … Russia’s second major aerial attack on Ukraine’s power grid in less than two weeks amplified fears that the Kremlin aims to cripple the country’s power generation capacity before winter.” AP