Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 8/23/25

Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources:

The Values We Share: What People Want From Government (PolicyLink)

From Precarity to Promise: How Public Policy Can Reverse the Wealth Gap (Hope Wollensack, NPQ)

As Government Retreats, the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Organize (Matt Watkins, Substack)

Opinion: Adapt or Resist? How to Survive the Threat of Political Litmus Tests for Federal Grants (Matt Watkins, Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Rethinking Nonprofit Survival: Why Partnership Is the New Leadership (Michael Anderson, Rumbidzai Mufuka, and Adelaide Rohrssen, NPQ)

Not just philanthropy middlemen: The unseen role of intermediaries (Davina Rojas Murga, Hilda Vega, Samie Blasingame, and Amanda Mercedes Gigler, Alliance)

Study Finds Widespread Self-Censorship in the Philanthropic Sector (Ted Siefer, NPQ)

Searching for Clarity in Trump v. CASA, Inc. (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)

US judge rejects challenges by Trump, affirmative action foe to Illinois nonprofit diversity law (Nate Raymond, Reuters)

California’s hidden homeless children: living in garages, doubled-up and unseen (Isabeau Doucet, Guardian)

Significant Events:

“President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered his assurances that U.S. troops would not be sent to Ukraine to defend against Russia, after seeming to leave open the possibility the day before. Trump also said in a morning TV interview that Ukraine’s hopes of joining NATO and regaining the Crimean Peninsula are “impossible.” AP
“The Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Supreme Court decided Thursday.” AP
“In 2022, the [AI] doomers went mainstream practically overnight. When ChatGPT first launched, it almost immediately moved the panic that computer programs might take over the world from the movies into sober public discussions. The following spring, the Center for AI Safety published a statement calling for the world to take “the risk of extinction from AI” as seriously as the dangers posed by pandemics and nuclear warfare. The hundreds of signatories included Bill Gates and Grimes, along with perhaps the AI industry’s three most influential people: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis—the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, respectively. … [I]n 2025, the doomers may be on the cusp of another resurgence. ” Atlantic

Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:

Judge strikes down Trump administration guidance against diversity programs at schools and colleges (Collin Binkley, AP)

Under Trump, the Education Dept. has flipped its civil rights mission (Laura Meckler, Washington Post) [Ed. “The administration is prioritizing allegations that transgender students and students of color are getting unfair advantages while a backlog of other cases grows.” That’s the priority – the most urgent problem with public education? Or maybe could it be …]

Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’ (Zolan Kanno-Youngs, NY Times)