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:
- “A gunman’s rampage that killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, in the Atlanta area this week has set off a new wave of fear and outrage among Asian-Americans, coming in a year of anti-Asian violence across the country. … “Racially motivated violence should be called out for exactly what it is and we must stop making excuses and rebranding it as economic anxiety or sexual addiction,” Representative Marilyn Strickland, a Democrat of Washington State, said on the floor of Congress on Wednesday. “As a woman who is Black and Korean I am acutely aware of how it feels to be erased or ignored.”” NY Times
- “As Helen Kim Ho learned that a White man with a self-described sex addiction was charged with killing eight people — including six Asian women — at spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, she imagined the stereotypes of Asian women that must have run through his head. “We’re not really Americans, we’re perpetually foreigners, and that idea plays out with women as being oversexualized,” said Ho, a Korean American and a founder of the advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Atlanta. “All of that had to have played out in this man’s own mind. In addition to the unspoken notion that Asian people are easy targets.”” Washington Post
- “The group’s propensity for violence and extremism was no secret. But the “F.B.I. and other agencies had often seen the Proud Boys as they chose to portray themselves, according to more than a half-dozen current and former federal officials: as mere street brawlers who lacked the organization or ambition of typical bureau targets like neo-Nazis, international terrorists and Mexican drug cartels.” NY Times
Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets:
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta: On March 16, eight people were killed at three different spas in Georgia including six Asian women. We condemn misogyny, systemic violence, and white supremacy against our communities in all of its forms. Read our full statement at the link http://bit.ly/aaajcommunitystatement
- Grace Chiang Nicolette: Asian American Grant Makers Call on Philanthropy to End Violence and Bias on the Rise as Coronavirus Spreads [Ed. Behind The Chronicle of Philanthropy subscription paywall.]
- Darren Walker: My Ford Foundation colleagues and I stand with the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Together with our grantee partners, we will continue the work of dismantling white supremacy and disrupting inequality in all of its forms. Why the rise in anti-Asian violence is a call to confront America’s legacy of racism
- Kathleen Enright: Another fave: Re @AnneWallestad from @dbiemesderfer “To be truly collaborative, boards have to rethink how they define success. Will a CEO be rewarded for not taking a grant or maximizing an org’s visibility b/c it’s better for collective purpose for someone else to lead?”
- Benjamin Soskis: Only a handful of US foundations quickly pitched in as the COVID-19 pandemic got underway, early data indicates via @ConversationUS
- Nonprofit Quarterly: “The concept of forms is universal and elegant. It allows us to talk about a lot of things in a coherent and strategic way.” – @cyndisuarez Forms: A New Theory of Power
- National Council of Nonprofits: Wondering what’s in the #AmericanRescuePlanAct for #nonprofits? Check out our handy chart of the provisions affecting nonprofits.
- For Purpose Law Group: Intriguing Debate on Foundation Payout Rules #philanthropy #nonprofits
- Linda Rosenthal: Nonprofits in Crisis: Alternatives to Closing (Part Four) #nonprofits #philanthropy
- Philantopic: 13 #tech trends emerging in the nonprofit sector this year http://ow.ly/RYzu30rzYl3 @forbes #nonprofits
Black Lives Matter:
2-day Racial Equity Workshop led by Racial Equity Institute
Justice Denied: An Overview Of The Grand Jury Proceedings In The Breonna Taylor Case (NAACP Legal Defense Fund)
The bias facing Black and Asian Americans reflects a broader problem (Stephen Collinson with Caitlin Hu, CNN)
Pixar’s Soul Made History (But Still Has One Big Racial Issue) (Zack Krajnyak, ScreenRant)