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:
Health of the U.S. Nonprofit Sector (Independent Sector) [Ed. Among the reported findings: 81% of nonprofits report struggling to raise enough funds to cover all their costs; 14 million people work in the U.S. nonprofit sector. 1 in 5 experience financial hardship; 57% of Americans indicate high trust in nonprofits; 75% of nonprofits surveyed in 2022 said they have never lobbied.]
Generosity Sweeps the Globe: Participation and Donations Rise on Another Record-Breaking GivingTuesday (Giving Tuesday)
This Giving Season, Nonprofits Should Address the Chill in the Air (Jennifer Dresden, Genevieve Nadeau and Ellinor Heywood, NPQ) [Ed. Excited to learn that NPQ will launch In Defense of Civil Society, a new column from the staff at Protect Democracy in 2026.]
Pam Bondi tells law enforcement agencies to investigate antifa groups for ‘tax crimes’ (Sam Levine, Guardian) [Ed. From the article: “The memo, earlier reported by Reuters and Bloomberg, also suggested the Trump administration was continuing to look for ways to revoke the tax-exempt status of leftwing groups, a move that could cripple their philanthropic efforts.”]
More About Executive-Order Pushback (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)
How to Keep an Anti-Profiteering Law from Undermining Civil Rights Today (James A. Lomastro, NPQ)
Charitable Giving and Civil Rights: A Defense of Private Remedial Action (Roger Colinvaux, Yale Law Journal, SSRN) [Ed. This revised version notes: “[N]ew legal and political attacks on affirmative action of all types have put charities on the defensive, leading many groups to change their programs and behavior even when the law is on their side. … Congress has passed no civil-rights law targeting donative assistance, and public policy and the First Amendment right of expressive association strongly support the efforts of private groups to address social problems free from government interference. “]
A Message for Philanthropy in the 2025 Giving Season (Phil Buchanan, CEP)
Opinion: How to Stop Authoritarianism: What Every Funder Needs to Know (Joe Goldman, Laleh Ispahani and Deepak Bhargava, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Four Ways Philanthropy Can Support the Movement for a Third Reconstruction (Richard Besser and Carmen Rojas, NPQ)
Significant Events:
- “The Trump administration said on Friday that Europe was facing the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” and pledged that the United States would support like-minded “patriotic” parties across the continent to prevent a future in which “certain NATO members will become majority non-European.” … [The administration’s document] echoes some of the language of the Great Replacement Theory, a nationalist conspiracy theory embraced by some of his top aides that warns of a deliberate effort to replace white people with nonwhite immigrants.” NY Times [Ed. The referenced document is the National Security Strategy of the United States of America.]
- “President Donald Trump ended his Cabinet meeting on Tuesday by unleashing criticism on Somali immigrants, whom he described as “garbage,” saying he doesn’t want them in the United States. … “Our Somali American neighbors — the vast majority of them U.S. citizens — deserve to feel safe in their own country,” [Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman] said on social media. “Why are some ‘othering’ Americans? Have we learned nothing?”” ABC News
- “President Trump formally pardoned former President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras on Monday evening, fulfilling a vow he had made days before to free an ex-president who was at the center of what the authorities had characterized as “one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.”” NY Times [Ed. The NY Times also concurrently published: The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine.]
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
Data snapshot: DEI as differentiator (Toby Mitchenall, New Private Markets)
Judge blocks DHS from tying Bay Area disaster aid to DEI and immigration (Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle)
Former Federal Employees Sue Trump Administration for First Amendment Violations and Discrimination (ACLU)
Climate Change Articles & Resources:
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War (Lisa Friedman and Steven Lee Myers, NY Times)
Here’s what’s next in the fight to curb climate change, now that talks in Brazil have ended (Seth Borenstein, AP)
Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll (Lydia DePillis, NY Times) [Ed. The revised estimates would still be a “devastating blow to human welfare.”]
Good Vibes:
Pictures of the Year 2025 (National Geographic)