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:

FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals (Ken Klippenstein, Substack)

Stronger Together: the Benefits of Joining Nonprofit Networks (Laurie Mazur, Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Opinion: How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails (Anand Giridharadas, NY Times)

“We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For” (MacKenzie Scott, Yield Giving)

This Year’s Federal Funding Freezes Offer Lessons on Emergency Grant Making (Stephanie Beasley, Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Crisis Communications: Four Things Your Board Needs to Know (BoardSource)

The Norman A. Sugarman Tax Lecture presents: Emergent Threats to the Charitable Sector with Roger Colinvaux (webcast, Case Western University School of Law)

Tax-Exemption and the Shadow of Law (Lauren Libby, SSRN)

Restricted Gifts: A Primer (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)

An Opportunity to Get Current in the Registry of Charities and Fundraisers (CalNonprofits)

Significant Events:

• “Indiana lawmakers have made a bold show of Republican defiance against President Trump, rejecting his push for a newly gerrymandered congressional map that would have helped the party defend its majority in the U.S. House. … Now, the failure of Mr. Trump’s gambit in deep-red Indiana is likely to reverberate around the country as the parties head into the 2026 midterm elections.” NY Times
• “The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.” AP
• “All tourists to the United States would have to reveal their social media activity from the last five years, under new Trump administration plans. … Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an agency under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), would also require any email addresses and telephone numbers visitors have used in the same period, and the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members, including children.” Guardian

Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:

Trump vows to slam America’s doors shut as he heaps scorn on immigrants (Robert Tait, Guardian)

What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it (Jeanne Theoharis, Guardian)

The Environmental Movement was Built on Assumptions of Racism; the Way Forward is Telling the Truth and Sticking to It. (Green Leadership Trust, Medium)

Climate Change Articles & Resources:

A Low Point of Human Inaction on Climate Change (Bill McKibben, New Yorker)

U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say (Eric Niller, NY Times) [Ed. The article’s subtitle places us in problematic company on environmental and political issues: “American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making.”]

Minding the Gaps: One Earth’s Climate Finance Report (One Earth)

Good Vibes:

End the Year With Great Movies (Isabel Fattal, Atlantic) [Ed. I intend to reach my target of 200 movies – mostly rewatches – by the end of the year.]