Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 8/15/26

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Nonprofit Resources of the Week, the #11 nonprofit blog to follow in 2026 according to Feedspot (7/14/26), 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:

Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities (Ellis Simani, Pro Publica)

U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Alan Feuer and Ernesto Londoño, NY Times)

Who Defines Public Policy for Charitable Organizations? (Garrett Pratt, SSRN)

Judge Dismisses Federal Government’s Antisemitism Case Against Harvard (Mark Arsenault, NY Times)

Nonprofits Should Keep Tracking Workforce Data, Even If EEO-1 Race and Sex Reporting Ends (Jennifer Johnson, NPQ)

Silicon Valley’s AI boom is remaking American charity (Economist)

The Case for Ranking Donor-Advised Funds (Robert Foster, SSIR)

Federal Grant Rules Are Changing: What to Do Before October 1 (Nonprofit Brief)

The Seven Labors of the Modern NGO (Ronald M. Miller & Maureen Andrade, SSIR)

Is OpenAI Foundation a Private Foundation? Should It Be? (Ellen P. Aprill, SSRN)

Significant Events:

“The IRS’s inability to conduct complex audits encourages law-breaking by the uber-rich, the richest of whom invariably avoid punishment. (Commoners who defy the rules are easy to catch.) An April report from the Yale Budget Lab estimates that the 2025 IRS layoffs will cost the nation $600 billion in lost revenues over 10 years—and the IRS budget cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill will add another $263 billion to the deficit. The combined losses total about what you’d need to restore the Medicaid funding that congressional Republicans, in passing that bill, took from America’s most desperate people.” Mother Jones
“Keeping gas prices low is now the United States’ “goal No. 1” in the Iran war, Vice President JD Vance has said, as Washington threatened an indefinite naval blockade and signaled it would soon intensify economic pressure on Tehran.” NBC News
“The Watchdogs Are Barking Themselves Hoarse … Although polls show that voters have long considered most politicians to be corrupt, a recent survey by Echelon Insights found that the share of Americans who see corruption as the biggest issue facing the nation is now 17 percent, up from 8 percent in December 2024. But there has also been a dampening of objections to possible instances of self-dealing, especially among Republicans, and the examples of accountability are scarce.” Atlantic