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:
FBI searches offices of Ohio voting-rights group (Marty Schladen, Ohio Capital Journal) [Ed. See also BakerHostetler Partner and fellow exempt organizations attorney Alex Reid’s LinkedIn page for his commentary on this matter.]
Outside groups are increasingly using an old tactic to hide their sources of funding (Jessica Piper and Andrew Howard, Politico)
Will Race-Based Scholarships Survive? (Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed)
Top Ten AI Usage Policy Considerations for Nonprofits (Holly Peterson, ABA Business Law Today)
Foundations Work to Counter Narratives of Fraud and Partisanship (James Pollard, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
What Is Movement Lawyering Really For? (Christian Snow, NPQ)
Community Benefit Agreements: A Tool for Building Stronger Democracies (Sameera Fazili, Pronita Gupta and Doug Bloch, NPQ)
Opinion: We Liked Remote Work. Then We Looked at the Data. (Emma Harrington and Natalia Emanuel, NY Times)
In Sacramento, It’s High Noon for the FY ’26-’27 CA Budget (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)
Significant Events:
- “[Trump’s] choice to launch a campaign against Iran was encouraged by others, but fully his own. It has led to a reversal that marks a strategic calamity far greater than the U.S. defeat in the Vietnam War. … [The United States’] allies will have less confidence in its capabilities; its public will be less willing to bear the costs of even productive engagement; its rivals will be likelier to challenge Washington’s will. Those results will be far more lasting and severe than the U.S. failure in its war in Vietnam.” Foreign Policy
- “The deal is a bad one. But Washington has no good choices at this point. Judged by the administration’s own objectives, the outcome is difficult to describe as anything other than a defeat. The United States entered the conflict seeking to eliminate Iran’s leverage, constrain its regional influence, and force it to accept strict limits on its nuclear program. Instead, Iran emerged with sanctions relief, a pathway to generous reconstruction financing, continuing ambiguity over key nuclear issues, and new leverage over the Strait of Hormuz.” Atlantic
- “‘This War Has Now Reached Your Homes’: Ukraine’s Startling New Message for Russia Inside Kyiv’s secret drone program that’s hitting targets deep inside Russia.” Politico
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity (Greg Jaffe and Kate Kelly, NY Times)
Is DEI Dead? Not According To New Catalyst Data On Workplace Inclusion (Michelle Travis, Forbes)
‘Intersectionality’ Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw Thinks it’s Time for Everyone to Talk Back (Sierra Lyons, NPQ)
Climate Change and Environment Articles & Resources:
US public still favours action on climate change despite Trump’s fossil fuel drive (Oliver Millman, Guardian)
Amoc collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected. We aren’t ready (Penny Holliday, Femke de Jong and Sjoerd Groeskamp, Guardian)
The Amoc is a vast system of ocean current that moves heat from the south to north in the Atlantic Ocean, thereby playing a crucial role in regulating global climate upon which modern civilisation is built – from agriculture, through infrastructure to health, prosperity and culture. Changes in Amoc can impact food security, coastal flooding, storms, energy demand, migration, infrastructure planning, etc. … Under current climate change, the Amoc is projected to weaken enough to radically change the weather and cause sea level rise in Europe.
How Can Conservation Programs Better Connect to Farmers? (Jaycie Thomsen, NPQ)
Democracy Articles & Resources:
Juneteenth and the Unfinished Fight for Voting Rights (Veronica Degraffenreid, Brennan Center for Justice)
Opinion: The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back (Gabriel Zucman, Guardian)
How (And Why) AI is Eroding Democracy in the US (Tom Valovic, Common Dreams)
A.I. Articles & Resources:
Opinion: Will it take a ‘Chornobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate AI? (Stuart Russell, Guardian)
A few months ago, Anthropic’s Claude Code became good enough that its leading researchers no longer write any code at all; they just describe ideas and experiments to Claude and it does all the work.
The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes (Eli Saslow, Visuals by Erin Schaff)
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good (Mariana Lenharo, Nature)
Good Vibes:
WATCH: Barack and Michelle Obama open Obama Presidential Center with Springsteen, Stevie Wonder (PBS)