Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 4/11/26

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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:

How Minnesota nonprofits continue to serve immigrant communities (Nonoko Sato, Candid)

MacKenzie Scott rewrote the rules of philanthropy. Who will follow her lead? (Felecia Hatcher, Fortune)

Black-led nonprofits didn’t see the lasting funding boosts promised after 2020’s racial reckoning (James Pollard, AP)

Philanthropy’s Drag Coefficient: When Process Costs More Than Failure (Nicole Marie Bergeron, NPQ) [Ed. A fascinating and expansive way to consider fiduciary duty issues related to grantmaking due diligence.]

Can AI Make Grant Seeking Easier and Grant Making More Refined? (Alex Daniels, The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

2026 Global Philanthropy Leaders Summit (Jess Gelsthorpe, Alliance Magazine)

How Nonprofit Boards Can Better Support Growth, Innovation And Trust (Forbes Expert Panel)

Lessons From the Flipcause Collapse (Ben Gose, Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Chairmen Moolenaar, Smith Call on IRS to Examine CCP-Linked Organizations Potentially Violating their Tax-Exempt Status by Engaging in Political Activity (House Select Committee on China)

IRS expands Business Tax Account access to partnerships, government entities, and tax-exempt organizations (IRS)

Significant Events:

“World leaders expressed relief on Wednesday that the United States, Israel and Iran had agreed to a temporary cease-fire, with President Trump backing off his apocalyptic threat to escalate a war that had already set off a cascading series of global crises. … But the relief was tempered by the profound powerlessness that most countries have felt over the last six weeks as they watched Mr. Trump wage a war that has rattled their economies, their energy supplies, their domestic politics and their relationships with the world’s pre-eminent superpower.” NY Times
““A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump declared on Truth Social. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” … [T]his threat would appear to meet the definition of genocide under the 1948 UN convention …. The president has spent the past few days warning he would attack civilian infrastructure, which most experts agree would constitute a war crime, but an apparent explicit threat of civilizational erasure is unheard of outside of cartoon villains ….” Atlantic
“China stands to learn a lot from the war in Iran. Red lines and deadlines imposed by the United States, even when backed by the threat of genocide, can turn out to be rather wobbly. The American military, despite its unrivaled power, has trouble swatting down swarms of cheap drones. But the most valuable lesson, at least for China’s ambitions to seize Taiwan, has more to do with the way the world’s supply chains, energy prices, and stock markets influence the U.S. willingness to fight.” Atlantic

Global democracy is in better shape than you think (Economist) [Ed. From the article: “America lost 0.2 points from last year and remains a flawed democracy. The long decline in global democracy may be easing a little. But in America, it is not abating.”]

The State That Could Decide Trump’s Gerrymandering War (Russell Berman, Atlantic)