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:
- “Top White House officials and Republican lawmakers were closing in Thursday on a deal that would raise the debt limit for two years while imposing strict caps on discretionary spending not related to the military or veterans for the same period. Officials were racing to cement an agreement in time to avert a federal default that is projected in just one week.” NY Times
- “The Supreme Court on Thursday cut back the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the nation’s wetlands and waterways, another setback for the agency’s authority to combat pollution. … Last term, the court’s conservative majority restricted the EPA’s authority to curb emissions from power plants.” Washington Post
- “If diplomats were on TikTok, “de-risk” would be trending. The word has suddenly become popular among officials trying to loosen China’s grip on global supply chains but not cut ties entirely, with the joint communiqué from this weekend’s Group of 7 meeting making clear that the world’s largest democratic economies will now focus on “de-risking, not decoupling.”” NY Times
Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets:
- Tony Martignetti: 6 Ways to Take Action Amid Economic Uncertainty – @Philanthropy
- For Purpose Law Group: CA’s Budget & Nonprofits: Part Four
- Alex Reid: How much nonexempt activity a social welfare organization can conduct depends on whether it is medical or political. LinkedIn
- Gene: Advocacy vs. Lobbying: Language Matters: Say What You Mean & Mean What You Say – @AFJBeBold
- Wagenmaker & Oberly: Due to a recent National Labor Relations Board’s ruling, many nonprofit employers may need to narrow non-disparagement and confidentiality provisions in employment-related severance agreements, on pain of their legal invalidation. Nonprofit Employers and New Severance Agreement Restrictions
- Phillip Pantuso: NEW: Several unhoused men at a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter say they were recruited to portray vets displaced by migrants this week — and were coached on what to say by the CEO of the nonprofit behind the scheme. Times Union
- Philanthropy News Digest: Top story: Since the burden of environmental disasters and #climatechange disproportionately affects low-income communities of color, nonprofit officials grapple with how philanthropy should work to dismantle structural racism in environmental causes https://bit.ly/3MT4cAr
- Anne Wallestad: “Saying No” – Part 2 in a series on Survival Skills for Nonprofit and Foundation CEOs. via @LinkedIn
- Danielle Kempe: Conversation about Ableism in Fundraising with the wonderful @jenbo1 Learning and Unlearning Our Way to Being Truly Inclusive: A Conversation about Ableism in Fundraising
- The Atlantic: “The problem is that we do not have any policies in place to support workers in the event that AI causes mass job loss. The good news is that we do not need to invent them,” @AnnieLowrey writes. “Say hello to the universal basic income.” Before AI Takes Over, Make Plans to Give Everyone Money
Equity and Justice:
Study reveals staggering toll of being Black in America: 1.6 million excess deaths over 22 years (Liz Szabo, NBC News)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace (Rachel Minkin, Pew Research Center)
A majority of U.S. workers say focusing on DEI at work is a good thing, but relatively small shares place great importance on diversity in their own workplace
A Black professor has long said what the IRS now admits: The tax system is biased (Char Adams, NBC News)
Culture wars are spreading to work: Republican and Democrat workers deeply divided over DEI (Jessica Glynn, USA Today)
Nothing About Us Without Us: Invest in Disabled Leaders to Advance Equitable Technology for Everyone (Lori McGlinchey and Sandy Ho, Nonprofit Quarterly)
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