Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 2/15/25

Wrinkled and crumpled US Constitution on dark background

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:

Protecting Vital Services: Mobilizing Support for Nonprofit Federal Funding (Pooya Pourak and Shannon McCracken, Nonprofit Alliance)

Litigating “Freezing-Funds” Directive From OMB (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)

DEI Initiatives in the Crosshairs of the Administration: What Nonprofits Need to Know to Mitigate Their Risk (Jeffrey S. Tenenbaum and Kevin Serafino, Tenenbaum Law Group)

Trump Orders a Review of Federal Support to ‘Nongovernmental Organizations (Alex Daniels, Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Nonprofits Self-Censoring in Wake of Trump Actions (Lauren Girardin, NPQ)

Reverse Discrimination Decisions Threaten Charities (Alexander Reid, Trusts and Estates Magazine)

Commentary: Hold The Champagne (Paul Clolery, Nonprofit Times)

Trump threatened college research, culture and funding. Confusion reigns. (Susan Svrluga and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post)

Tax Exemption, ESG, and Mass Murder (darryll k. jones, Nonprofit Law Prof Blog)

Building Narrative Power With BIPOC Artists (Haleh Hatami, Anna Maria Luera & Melanie Meinzer, SSIR)

Significant Events:

“There is no universally accepted definition of a constitutional crisis, but legal scholars agree about some of its characteristics. It is generally the product of presidential defiance of laws and judicial rulings. It is not binary: It is a slope, not a switch. It can be cumulative, and once one starts, it can get much worse. … “We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now,” [Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley] said on Friday. “There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this.”” NY Times
“The Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Health and Human Services secretary, a victory for President Donald Trump after Kennedy faced intense scrutiny over his controversial views on vaccines and public health policy. … The confirmation vote highlights the extent of Trump’s influence over the Senate GOP majority, as a slate of contentious nominees who faced questions over whether they could be confirmed – including Kennedy, Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence – have been approved by Senate Republicans for top administration posts.” CNN
“Why Federal Courts May Be the Last Bulwark Against Trump With a compliant Congress and mostly quiet streets, the president’s opponents are turning to the judicial branch with a flurry of legal actions. But can the courts keep up?” NY Times

Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:

Black History Month (Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

How Democrats lost the DEI war (Brakkton Booker, Politico)

State Department erases LGBTQ victims from human trafficking report (Phillip Martin, WGBH)