Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 2/7/26

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Nonprofit Resources of the Week curates timely articles, tools, and commentary to help nonprofit organizations, their leaders, and their advisors stay informed about legal developments, sector trends, and emerging issues affecting the nonprofit and philanthropic ecosystem, including those related to equity, climate change, and resilience. The series also seeks to share tools, perspectives, and sources of inspiration that support more effective, thoughtful, and sustainable nonprofit leadership, and that help those working for and with nonprofits carry out their roles with greater confidence, efficiency, and purpose.

Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources:

Nonprofit Toolkit: Resources for organizations facing government investigations (Protect Democracy)

Once and Future Revocation of Tax Exemption for Pursuit of DEI and Other Alleged Violations of Section 501(c)(3) (Ellen Aprill, SSRN)

Light at the End of the Tunnel? (David Callahan, Inside Philanthropy)

Four ‘Principles of Interpretation’ for Philanthropic and Nonprofit Leaders Navigating Crises (Sam Gill, Center for Effective Philanthropy)

The criminalizing of protest and dissent has a long history in America (Whitney Bauck, Guardian)

Philanthropy Must Defend the Right to Bear Witness (Vina Kay and Melissa Rudnick, NPQ)

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon (John Woodrow Cox, Washington Post)

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump (Jaimie Seaton, Pro Publica)

The Missing Discipline: How Organization Design Can Align and Propel Justice-Committed Nonprofits (Jeanne Bell and Daniel Tucker, NPQ)

Group Exemptions Are Back: 8 Things to Know (Shirley McLaughlin, Adler & Colvin)

Significant Events:

“On Thursday, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia expired. For the first time since 1972, it leaves both superpowers with no limits on the size or structure of their arsenals, at the very moment both are planning new generations of nuclear weapons and newly evasive means of delivering the deadly warheads.” NY Times
“Trump’s racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it … President Donald Trump’s social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted after a backlash from both Republicans [but very few of them at the time] and Democrats who criticized the video as racist.” AP
“‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo … The White House posted a manipulated photo of her arrest to its official social media account, depicting Ms. Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney and activist, as hysterical — tears streaming down her face, her hair disheveled, appearing to cry out in despair. “ARRESTED” was emblazoned across the photo, along with a misleading description of Ms. Levy Armstrong as a “far-left agitator” who was “orchestrating church riots in Minnesota.” … The [doctored] photograph of Ms. Levy Armstrong was different. It has the hallmarks of brazen disinformation from the top level of government ….” NY Times

Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:

Should Any Programs Help Minority Groups? In Lawsuits, Conservatives Say No. (Anemona Hartocollis, NY Times)

State violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism (Jason Stanley, Guardian)

Sowing Backlash, One DEI Training at a Time (Lily Zheng, SSIR)

Climate Change Articles & Resources:

A really simple guide to climate change (Mark Poynting, BBC)

Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Spring 2025: Executive Summary (Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Marija Verner, Teresa Myers, Joshua Ettinger, Julia Fine, Emily Richards, Matthew Goldberg and Jennifer Marlon, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication)

Where things stand on climate change in 2026 (Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections)