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:
Nonprofit Legal Compliance in an Unfriendly Political Environment (Gene Takagi, NPQ)
How Nonprofits Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Harmful Executive Orders (Brittany Hacker, Alliance for Justice)
Nonprofit Scenario Planning in an Age of Chaos (Onuka Ibe, La Piana Consulting)
Nonprofit’s lawsuit over the federal funding freeze is part of an ‘avalanche’ of litigation (Thalia Beaty, AP)
Federal Funding “Pause”: Five-Alarm-Fire, Doused for Now (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)
Nonprofits Dependent on Federal Grants Scramble Amid Mixed Signals From White House and Federal Judge (Alex Daniels and Sara Herschander, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Foundations Remain Largely Mute as Nonprofits Face Slashed Federal Funding (Stephanie Beasley, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax (Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel, Pro Publica)
Standing Strong for DEI (Phil Buchanan, CEP)
Trump Issues Sweeping Memo to Defund Nonprofits, NGOs (Isaiah Thoompson, NPQ)
Significant Events:
- “Elon Musk’s headlong rush to take control of crucial federal agencies and functions — and to dismantle some of them virtually overnight — has stoked widespread alarm in Washington about the aims of his Donald Trump-backed mission. … The opaque office’s early moves have violated the Privacy Act and cybersecurity laws, according to legal experts, and triggered a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s assault on government bureaucracy. … Legal and security experts are particularly exercised by Musk’s move to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and take control of the Treasury Department’s central payments database.” Politico
- ““People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True. … American-funded aid organizations around the globe, charged with providing lifesaving care for the most desperate and vulnerable populations imaginable, have for days been forced to completely halt their operations, turn away patients and lay off staff following a series of sudden stop-work demands from the Trump administration.” Pro Publica
- “The third week of Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by more major action from the US president and his team. … From announcing US goals on the future of Gaza and massively slashing the US agency for foreign aid to intervening in a golf dispute and banning transgender women from female sports competitions, Trump, his adviser Elon Musk and the rest of his team have pressed on with their agenda. … There’s a lot to keep up with – so here’s a reminder of 15 moves this week.” BBC
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
‘Very retaliatory’: the federal workers caught up in Trump’s DEI purge (Chris Stein, Guardian)
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’ (Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Erika Edwards, NBC News)
‘Kick in the teeth’: Disabled federal workers fear for their jobs after Trump remarks (Jessica Guynn, USA Today)
Climate Change Articles & Resources:
Trump moves to shutter environmental offices across the government (Maxine Joselow and Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post)
USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites (Zack Colman and Marcia Brown, Politico)
Scientists brace ‘for the worst’ as Trump purges climate mentions from websites (Oliver Millman, with visuals by Andrew Witherspoon, Guardian)
Good Vibes:
The 57 Most Beautiful Places in the World (Condé Nast Traveler)