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:
Latest Trump guidance on race has schools scrambling amid ‘intense fear’ (Laura Meckler and Susan Svrluga, Washington Post)
Nonprofits Sue Over Trump’s “Anti-Equity” Orders (Lauren Girardin, NPQ)
Opinion: The Impossible Math of Philanthropy (Hans Taparia and Bruce Buchanan, NY Times)
Breaking the Mold: The Transformative Effect of MacKenzie Scott’s Big Gifts (Elisha Smith Arrillaga; Ellie Buteau; Christina Im; and Seara Grundhoefer, Center for Effective Philanthropy)
Trump and Musk Created a Crisis — Donor-Advised Funds Must Act (Amy Marks Dornbusch, Katie Couric Media)
New Administration Outlook: How Your Organization Can Adapt to Federal Grant Uncertainty (Jonathan A. DeMella, Davis Wright Tremaine)
America Will Pay Dearly for the NIH’s Mindless War on Wokeness and DEI (Henry Carnell, Mother Jones)
Is Trump’s Second Term Affecting Your Nonprofit? (Tamara Straus, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
The Federal-Funds Freeze & the Impoundment Control Act (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)
The Looming Fight Over How We Give Our Data (Lucy Bernholz & Brigitte Pawliw-Fry, SSIR)
Significant Events:
- “The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has blocked a key aide to tech billionaire Elon Musk from accessing individual taxpayer returns or other personal information as part of a deal signed between the tax-collecting agency and the Trump administration.” Reuters
- “President Trump fired the country’s senior military officer as part of an extraordinary Friday night purge at the Pentagon that injected politics into the selection of the nation’s top military leaders.” NY Times
- “Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s radical drive to slash billions of dollars in annual federal spending with huge job and regulatory cuts is spurring charges that they have made illegal moves while undercutting congressional and judicial powers, say legal experts, Democrats and state attorneys general. … “The president is openly violating the US constitution by taking power from Congress and handing it to an unelected billionaire – while Elon Musk goes after judges who uphold the law and rule against them,” said [Arizona Attorney General Kris] Mayes.” Guardian
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs (Zach Montague, NY Times)
NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans (Matt Brown, AP)
Missouri AG sues Starbucks, says workforce is ‘more female and less white’ (Vivian Ho, Washington Post)
Climate Change Articles & Resources:
Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2024 (Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Teresa Myers, Marija Verner, Jennifer Marlon, Matthew Goldberg, Joshua Ettinger, Eric Fine and Kathryn Thier, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication)
Al Gore: Action on climate is ‘unstoppable’, despite recent shifts in US policy (Robin Pomeroy, Natalie Merchant, World Economic Forum)
Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’ (Oliver Milman, Guardian)
Good Vibes:
Flow (film, 2024)