Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 10/23/20

Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week.

Notable Events of the Week:

  • “The parents of 545 children separated at the border still haven’t been found. The pandemic isn’t helping.” Washington Post
  • “More than 75,000 new cases were reported in the United States on Thursday, the second-highest daily total nationwide since the pandemic began.” NY Times
  • “Winkleman voted for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in his life in 2016, largely due to Donald Trump’s promise to bring back manufacturing jobs and invest $1 trillion to rebuild U.S. infrastructure in Rust Belt states like Wisconsin. This year, Winkleman will vote for former vice president Joe Biden, a decision sealed in part by Trump’s decision to pursue tax cuts — which Winkleman says primarily benefited the rich — over infrastructure investments. Winkleman said he and other members of the building trades were “snookered” by Trump’s 2016 promises to rebuild the country.” Washington Post

Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets:

  • Marc Gunther: Who rules #philanthropy? White people, mostly | My new story for Medium looks at big foundations that have yet to share power with people of color.
  • Nonprofit Quarterly: “Only by disrupting existing negative patterns and replacing them with positive ones can we hope to achieve the anti-racist systems change…” https://bit.ly/3m9vP7R #nonprofit #blackleaders #nonprofitleaders
  • Forbes: 28,000 Charities Had Tax-Exempt Status Revoked After Trump Administration ‘Error,’ Lawmakers Say
  • Aysha Bagchi: Listening to day 1 of the ‘Fairbairns v. Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund’ trial. The case shines a light on donor-advised funds, a fast-growing vehicle for charitable giving with tax implications. Read more on the case here
  • Brian Mittendorf: With Fairbairn vs. Fidelity underway today, here’s my summary of why it’s important to the Past & future of Donor Advised Funds. HistPhil
  • Stanford PACS: “To build healthy, resilient orgs, nonprofits need to do more than adopt standard diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. They need to acknowledge systemic racism then commit to and implement processes to upend it.” @maryfwinters via @SSIReview: Equity and Inclusion: The Roots of Organizational Well-Being
  • Harvard Business Review: First of all, the business case for diversity is often misunderstood. It’s not as simple as more diversity = more profit. Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case
  • M4BL: “White supremacists and other rightwing extremists have been responsible for 67% of domestic terror attacks and plots so far this year, with at least half of that violence targeting protesters” Guardian
  • Mother Jones: Now We Know Facebook Made Changes to Show You Less News From Mother Jones https://bit.ly/31eOVBK [Ed. This is disturbing, though not surprising. Mother Jones is a nonprofit publication, investigative news organization, and 2017 Magazine of the Year – American Society of Magazine Editors.]
  • Stacy Palmer: Catching up with the news and insight you missed in the past week? Here’s the latest weekly summary from @philanthropy You can sign up to get this free every Saturday morning

Black Lives Matter:

When Movements Are Guilty of What They Are Trying to Challenge (Alicia Garza, Atlantic)

Isabel Wilkerson (Armchair Expert)

Let’s Talk About Kamala Harris (Code Switch)

‘White Supremacy’ Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More. (Michael Powell, NY Times)

Watchmen (television series)