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:
Best of 2024: Editors’ Selections (NPQ)
Editor’s Picks: The Best of the CEP Blog in 2024 (Center for Effective Philanthropy)
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2024 (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
Your Top 5 Stories of 2024 (Independent Sector)
New Advocacy Playbook Series Provides Tailored Lobbying Guidance (Bolder Advocacy, Alliance for Justice)
Charitable Giving Coalition Lobbies for Non-itemizer Charitable Contribution Deduction (darryl k. jones, Nonprofit Law Prof Blog)
The Economist’s philanthrocapitalism is still the predominant narrative (Charles Keidan, Alliance)
In 2025, Let’s Build on Racial Equity Wins — Not Retreat in the Face of Pushback (Cora Daniels, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Congress stripped IRS of another $20 billion in government shutdown fight (Jacob Bogage and Shannon Najmabadi, Washington Post)
Migrants and End of Covid Restrictions Fuel Jump in U.S. Homelessness (Jason DeParle, NY Times) [Ed. “The number of people experiencing homelessness topped 770,000, an increase of more than 18 percent over last year and the largest annual increase since the count began in 2007.” I imagine this number will continue to increase dramatically over the next few years. NPR reports on research predicting a three-fold increase in the number of seniors experiencing homelessness from 2019 to 2030.]
Significant Events:
- “South Korea’s parliament impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday, less than two weeks after suspending President Yoon Suk Yeol’s powers over his short-lived declaration of martial law, plunging the country deeper into political chaos.” Reuters
- “Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to protect noncombatants, allowing officers to endanger up to 20 people in each airstrike. One of the deadliest bombardments of the 21st century followed. … An investigation by The New York Times found that Israel severely weakened its system of safeguards meant to protect civilians; adopted flawed methods to find targets and assess the risk of civilian casualties; routinely failed to conduct post-strike reviews of civilian harm or punish officers for wrongdoing; and ignored warnings from within its own ranks and from senior U.S. military officials about these failings.” NY Times
- “Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office.” CBS News
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures (Dana Hedgpeth, Sari Horwitz, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Andrew Ba Tran, Nilo Tabrizy and Jahi Chikwendiu, Washington Post)
The schools were part of a sprawling system of more than 400 facilities created by the U.S. government, some in partnership with churches, religious orders and missionary groups, to target Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children. The Post reported in May that more than 1,000 children had been sexually abused by Catholic priests, sisters and brothers in multiple boarding schools.
Research: Why Forming Diverse Teams Is Harder in Uncertain Times (Anyi Ma, Jessica J.W. Paek, Fangzhou Liu, and Jae Yun Kim, Harvard Business Review)
Immigrant rights groups gear up to fight Trump mass deportation plan (Adrian Carrasquillo, Guardian)
Climate Change Articles & Resources:
2024 Was a Bad Year for Sustainability (Andrew Winston, Harvard Business Review)
From the US to Uganda, how climate activism has been criminalised in 2024 (Nina Lakhani, Guardian)
What we just found out about the possible tie between microplastics and cancer (Shannon Osaka, Washington Post) [Ed. From the NRDC: “Study shows that plastic production could be nearly one third of the global carbon budget and emits four times more greenhouse gases than the airline industry.”]
Good Vibes:
Favorite Pixar’s Up scene ever – Ellie and Carl’s relationship through time, Sad scene (YouTube)