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:
- “President Trump effectively surrendered his three-week protest of the election results Monday by submitting to the government’s official transition to the incoming Biden administration, bowing to a growing wave of public pressure yet still stopping short of conceding to President-elect Joe Biden.” Washington Post
- “Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday with the pandemic at perhaps its most precarious point yet. Coronavirus cases in the United States have reached record highs, with an average of more than 176,000 a day over the past week. Deaths are soaring, with more than 2,200 announced on both Tuesday and Wednesday, the highest daily totals since early May.” NY Times
- “General Motors turned its back Monday on the Trump administration’s legal fight to nullify California’s strict fuel economy rules, signaling that it was ready to work with President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to reduce climate-warming emissions from cars and trucks.” NY Times
Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets:
- Washington Post: NRA reports to the IRS alleged misspending by current and former executives for personal benefit and enrichment Washington Post
- East Bay Community Foundation: “Online organizing doesn’t mean ads; it means relationship building. Grassroots organizing means no shortcuts, no gee-whiz scalable technological fixes. It means deepening relationships in communities.” Rage-Donating Only Made Democrats Feel Better
- Tim Mooney: Great example of a (c)(3) using litigation as an advocacy tool in the post-election phase. “NAACP LDF Lawsuit: Trump Violated Voting Rights Act” (h/t @rickhasen)
- For Purpose Law Group: Nonprofit Governance: Outside-The-Box Thinking
- Stanford Social Innovation Review: What are the best ways to reach donors and supporters in 2020? SSIR Editors have compiled a list of articles featuring innovative approaches to #fundraising, #philanthropy, and nonprofits’ finances.
- Crystal Hayling: Great advice to donors from @philxbuchanan Key Misperceptions in Philanthropy: Annual Meeting Aims to Educate Affluent Donors
- Philantopic: “It’s Easier to Get a Tax Deduction for Donations This Year” https://nyti.ms/33bsNJi @nytimes #charities
- Nonprofit Quarterly: The grant recipients of Jeff Bezos’ $10 billion Earth Fund that are getting the most represent white-centered, corporate friendly environmentalism: https://bit.ly/3fp69ly #climatecrisis
- Vox: To reckon with Thanksgiving is to understand how it helped set off a painful history of trauma — massacres, abuse, and negligence — that Native Americans still carry 400 years later: The trauma of Thanksgiving for Native communities during a pandemic
- Dan Cardinali: What are the things we’ll tell our children this Thanksgiving? A little reflection for Thanksgiving… The Stories We Tell
Black Lives Matter:
Between The World And Me (film, Ta-Nehisi Coates)
‘In response to the moment’: HBO’s ‘Between the World and Me’ reflects summer’s Black Lives Matter protests (David Oliver, USA Today)
It Started With ‘Birtherism’ (Jamelle Bouie, NY Times)
Trump Push To Invalidate Votes In Heavily Black Cities Alarms Civil Rights Groups (Juana Summers, NPR)
The Weary Blues (Langston Hughes)