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:
Threats to Nonprofits — and an Opportunity — on Capitol Hill in 2025 (Ben Gose, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
HR 9495: The Good, the Bad?, and the (Potential) Ugly (Lloyd Mayer, Nonprofit Law Prof Blog)
Corporations and Higher Ed Are Backtracking on DEI. Will Foundations Fold? (Alex Daniels, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
IRS alert: Charitable contribution scams on the rise; taxpayers beware of those promoting fraudulent schemes (December 4, 2024)
IRS Tax Exempt & Government Entities (TE/GE) Program Letter Fiscal Year 2025 [Ed. Not terribly illuminating for most of us, but it does provide the following: (1) newly hired TE/GE employees make up more than half of all TE/GE workforce (so time may be required to build up the new hires’ expertise); and (2) collaborations across IRS on highly complex and or emerging issues including, but not limited to, examinations of tax-exempt hospitals, tax-exempt collectives utilizing NIL, and elective payment for certain clean energy credits are a priority.]
How billionaire Charles Koch’s network won a 40-year war to curb regulation (Justin Jouvenal, Jon Swaine and Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post) [Ed. The article references the Supreme Court’s decision in the Loper Bright case that effectively ended the doctrine known as Chevron deference, “which for 40 years had required judges to give federal agencies significant latitude in implementing laws in areas where Congress did not give specific guidance.” This may allow more wealthy and powerful companies to prevail in challenging administrative regulations that serve to protect our health, our safety, our work conditions, and our environment.]
What Does the End of the “Chevron Doctrine” Mean to Charitable Nonprofits? (Steven M. Woolf, National Council on Nonprofits)
Colleges scramble to shield programs amid growing hostility from GOP (Susan Svrluga, Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson, Washington Post)
The FPLG Blog Favorites Continue (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)
Year-End Approach: 17 To-Do List Items For Nonprofits To Remember (Forbes Nonprofit Council, Forbes) [Ed. A list of important items, but I’d love to see some mention of the persons being served (very heavy emphasis on donors and funders in the list), compliance, values, diversity, equity, and inclusion.]
Significant Events:
- “President-elect Donald J. Trump outlined an aggressive opening plan for his second term in an interview that aired on Sunday, vowing to fulfill his campaign promises to crack down on immigration and to pardon some of his most violent supporters on the first day of his new administration.” NY Times
- “The Syrian Upheaval Has Iranian Leaders Reeling, Too For decades, Iran poured money and military aid into Syria, backing the Assad regime in its ambition to confront Israel. Now many Iranians are openly asking why.” NY Times
- “South Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, almost two weeks after his short-lived declaration of martial law plunged the country into its worst political crisis for decades.” Guardian
- “The line between a normal, functioning society and catastrophic decivilization can be crossed with a single act of mayhem. This is why, for those who have studied violence closely, the brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and, more important, the brazenness of the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed and the conditions that exacerbate it.” Atlantic
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
The ‘little r’ racist idea that swung the election (podcast) (CodeSwitch, NPR)
Toward Solidarity: Reparations and Land Back on California’s Horizon (Trevor Smith and Savannah Romero, NPQ)
New survey finds nearly half of Asian Americans were victims of a hate act in 2023 (Minnah Arshad, USA Today)
Climate Change Articles & Resources:
What Trump’s second administration could mean for environmental justice (Amudalat Ajasa and Anna Phillips, Washington Post)
Missing Voices: How Climate Week Excludes Those Most Affected (Yasmina Benslimane, NPQ)
The Promise of Blue Carbon Credits (Maria Medeleanu, Frank Mazza, Thaisa Tylinski Sant’Ana, Fatima Formuli & Joseph Wong, Stanford Social Innovation Review)