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:
The IRS’s cruel new proposal weaponizes civil rights law against itself (Phil Hackney, The Hill)
The Ayuda Incident and the New Risks Facing Legal Aid Nonprofits (Jason Collins, NPQ)
How Might Tax Policy Respond to a Changing Nonprofit Sector? (Renu Zaretsky, Tax Policy Center)
Flipping the Script: How Civil Society Organizations Can Support Protest in the Face of Suppression (Rachel Goodman and Katie Schwartzmann, NPQ)
What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals (Janay Kingsberry, Atlantic)
Why foundation endowments must become instruments of impact (Stefan Germann, Alliance)
Recent Developments in Cause Marketing Regulation (Karen I. Wu, Perlman + Perlman)
LA homelessness non-profit workers arrested over alleged corruption and bribes (Cecilia Nowell, Guardian)
More Insight from Philanthropy Thought Leaders (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)
Ray Madoff (on how billionaires avoid taxes & threaten capitalism) (Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard)
Significant Events:
- “In a prime-time address just two months ago, President Trump accused China of “sinister election meddling” in the 2020 presidential contest he lost. … But when he finally came face to face this week with China’s president, Xi Jinping, any public hint of that concern disappeared, replaced by an ebullience that bordered on gushing.” NY Times
- “In the event of a midterms election battering, it is possible that a deflated Donald Trump, constrained by a Democrat-controlled Congress, will gradually have to face up to the indignity of irrelevance. … Many observers, including the former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and the former UK foreign secretary David Lammy, predict Trump will concentrate even more on his disruptive foreign policy after November’s midterms …. Potential legislative gridlock in Congress would block him off from domestic initiatives, so the thinking goes, but much less so foreign policy.” Guardian
- “In the case of the Iran war, we must see the conflict not as a war unto itself but rather as the latest campaign in a war that has gone on since the 1979 Iranian revolution, conducted for the most part with covert warfare, naval skirmishes, and raids. … It may well get worse if, for example, Iran were to consider that it would gain some advantage from the use of chemical or biological weapons, which it undoubtedly has the engineering ability to develop. … Asking how this war will end, therefore, is unfortunately the wrong question. … [T]he better request is: Tell me how this gets worse.” Atlantic
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
Trump slashed DEI. Now it’s making a surprising bipartisan comeback (Jessica Guynn, USA Today)
Envisioning a Radically Different and Inclusive Future for Disabled Folks (Kenrya Rankin and Meier Galblum Haigh, NPQ)
Major Foundations Form Disability-Focused Credit Union (Michelle Diament, Disability Scoop)
Climate Change and Environment Articles & Resources:
Let’s Talk Climate (Katrin Bennhold, NY Times) [Ed. The World newsletter is covering this week’s Climate Forward event.]
‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak (Damian Carrington, Guardian)
The current El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into an atmosphere in which temperatures are already rising rapidly due to human-caused global heating. … The UN secretary-general António Guterres said earlier in September: “El Niño is being supersized before our eyes. The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters and the world is in the danger zone of extreme weather. The race now is between rising risks and our commitment to take climate action and protect people.”
What Does the Climate Movement Do Now? (Jason Dove Mark, Atlantic)
Democracy Articles & Resources:
The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms (Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Michael Scherer, Atlantic)
MAGA is Making the World Safe for Corruption (Anne Applebaum, Illustrations by Ben Hickey, Atlantic)
How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (Jim Rutenberg and Maggie Haberman, NY Times)
A.I. Articles & Resources:
Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios (Barbara Ortutay, AP)
Opinion: A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Tressie McMillan Cottom, NY Times)
Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk (Frances Fukuyama, Persuasion)
Good Vibes:
Channel Islands National Park (Very fortunate to have had the opportunity to visit this gem for the first time. Here’s hoping that many of us will use our voices to work towards pushing the federal government to place more importance on our national parks and the physical environment on which we all depend with our lives.)
