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:
Creative Leaders Find Ways to Replace Lost Revenue (Stephanie Beasley, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Turning Challenges Into Programming Innovations (Ben Gose, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Iowa Supreme Court Blocks University of Iowa from Redirecting Donor’s Scholarship Fund for Black Students to Others (ACLU of Iowa) [Ed. If you’re following the impact of the Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard/UNC Supreme Court decision and attacks on race-conscious programs (mis)using Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, this is well worth a read.]
Economic Mobility Is Essential to Family Wellbeing—and to Society (Chastity Lord, NPQ) [Ed. From the article: “The rollback of pandemic-era family support offered a clear lesson: temporary relief instead of long-term infrastructure destabilizes progress. … Nonprofits play a critical role in supporting families, but direct service alone will never be enough. … [I]f organizations stop there, without advocacy and an eye toward structural change, we risk helping families survive the systems we should be working to transform.”]
Former Congressional Tax Counsel Unpacks Planned Form 990 Overhaul (Maureen Leddy, Checkpoint News)
Shifting Out of Neutral (Phil Buchanan, CEP) [Ed. Citing Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University, Buchanan states: an “infatuation with neutrality” risks making “cowardice into a policy.”]
We the Nonprofit Founders: Dreaming, Building, and Nurturing Democracy for All (Sayu Bhojwani, NPQ)
Commentary: More Than 300 Proposed Changes To Federal Grant Rules (Henry Flood, Nonprofit Times)
Important New Case on “Employee” vs. “Volunteer” (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)
Trump administration blocks federal homelessness funds in Los Angeles (Marisa Kendall, CalMatters)
Significant Events:
- “The United States and Israel went to war in Iran seeking regime change. Nearly four months later, there has been regime change, but not the kind they wanted. The Islamic Republic 3.0, as some call it, is now less a theocracy and more a military junta dominated by the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. … Washington and Jerusalem also went to war to eradicate Iran’s nuclear program and end the threat it poses. So far, this conflict has only produced a wounded Iran more willing to take risks and more likely to persist in its goal of advancing its nuclear program.” NY Times
- “Elon Musk is now the world’s first trillionaire, after his SpaceX exploration and satellite company went public on the Nasdaq on Friday. … What does this tell you about capitalism in this era? That it’s no longer based on economic principles as they’re taught in school – prices set by supply and demand. It’s now based on hype, connections and total, arbitrary control.” Guardian [Ed. This is an opinion written by Robert Reich.]
- “Last summer, as pressure mounted on the Trump administration to release material it held on Jeffrey Epstein, the president’s top advisers gathered in a series of meetings, many of them in the White House Situation Room — typically used during national-security crises — as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself.” NY Times
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
The March 26, 2026 Executive Order on Federal Contractors and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility: What You Need to Know (NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., Asian Americans Advancing Justice; AAJC; ACLU; Democracy Forward; LatinoJustice PRLDEF; Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund; National Women’s Law Center; National Partnership for Women & Families)
Opinion: ‘All Men Are Created Equal’? Not Everyone Agrees. (Kim Phillips-Fein, NY Times)
Being Black in Pete Hegseth’s Military (Clint Smith, Photographs by Nate Langston Palmer, Atlantic)
Climate Change and Environment Articles & Resources:
Could States Lead Climate Justice Funding? (Abdullahi Lawal, NPQ)
How Climate Change is Making Your Life More Expensive (Simmone Shah, Time)
Scientists warn Trump plan to axe US ocean monitoring system will leave world ‘flying blind’ (Karen McVeigh, Guardian)
Democracy Articles & Resources:
American Democracy Wasn’t Designed for This (Jeffrey Rosen, Atlantic)
The three things Democrats must do to regain rural America’s trust (Anthony Flaccavento, Guardian)
Before the State Showed Up: Black Mutual Aid as the Infrastructure of Our Democracy (Ayomide Samuel, NPQ)
A.I. Articles & Resources:
White House’s new push to block state AI laws could ride on kids’ safety (Brendan Bordelon, Cheyenne Haslett, and Gabby Miller, Politico)
Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits (Thomas Claburn, Register)
Who Will Actually Thrive in the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force (NY Times Magazine)