Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. With Twitter’s rebrand, the Nonprofit Law Blog’s Tweets of the Week series of posts published weekly since 2009 will also look to evolve. Stay tuned …
Notable Events of the Week:
- “Prosecutors announced additional charges against Donald Trump on Thursday in his alleged hoarding and hiding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, accusing the former president and a newly indicted aide of trying to keep security camera footage from being reviewed by investigators and bringing the number of total federal charges against Trump to 40.” Washington Post
- “A law passed in Israel’s Parliament on Monday to limit the power of the judiciary left the country with something of a cliffhanger, with the real effects of the government’s move likely to remain unclear for weeks or even months. … The opposition fears a slow descent toward authoritarianism, while the government — which rejects those concerns — is waiting to see how disruptive and prolonged the response will be from its critics.” NY Times
- “This week, the White House announced that it had secured “voluntary commitments” from seven leading A.I. companies to manage the risks posed by artificial intelligence.” NY Times
Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets:
- Inside Philanthropy: Commitments to racial justice surged in philanthropy after the summer of 2020. Now, amid a cultural, legal and policy backlash, a group of funders is encouraging peers to stay the course. Dawn Wolfe reports: https://bit.ly/43F7lZL
- Inside Philanthropy: The Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action sent a shockwave throughout higher ed philanthropy. Leaders in the field offer a to-do list to help fellow funders carry out their missions in this new legal landscape. Mike Scutari reports: Nine Ways Funders Can Increase Diversity in Higher Ed in a World Without Affirmative Action
- For Purpose Law Group: “Thank You, Funders.” But There’s More Work To Do.
- Center for Effective Philanthropy: NEW RESEARCH: #Nonprofits are experiencing meaningful changes in the practices of #funders since 2020, according to CEP’s new report, based on an analysis of grantee #data. Read it here #research
- Davarian Baldwin: Excited to use my research and organizing to discuss the dangers of nonprofit real estate and how to fight back! Please check out, “Educational Purposes? Campus Land as a Site of Struggle” in the @npquarterly’s Movement Economies special issue
- Bridgespan Group: We’ve collected resources from Bridgespan and @BoardSource that provide guidance on how to find a rewarding #nonprofit board position, how to build a board, and what it takes to be an effective nonprofit board. Read more: Nonprofit Board Resource Center
- Jesse Eisinger: NEW: -Buy your house for $26M -Get it valued at $130M -Put it in your “foundation,” meant for the public -Allow the public access 2hr a week -Voila! Massive tax break @JeffErnsthausen: How the Ultrawealthy Use Private Foundations to Bank Millions in Tax Deductions While Giving the Public Little in Return
- Stacy Palmer: A Crisis in America’s Theaters Leaves Prestigious Stages Dark
- Harvard Business Review: Motivation is less about employees doing great work and more about employees feeling great about the work they do. Motivating Employees Is Not About Carrots or Sticks
- Washington Post Opinions: “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” tell the same terrifying story, Tyler Austin Harper writes in a guest opinion. [Ed. A quote from the opinion: “[B]oth “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” tell the story of core ideas of the 20th century: accelerating militarism and unbounded consumption, ideas which might well outlive our species in the form of plastic and plutonium’s lingering traces across our fragile planet.”]
Equity and Justice:
Column: Emmett Till and his mother are icons. DeSantis is just another politician wooing white supremacists (LZ Grandson, LA Times)
New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills (Antonio Planas, NBC News)
Tony Bennett, enraged by racism, championed civil rights alongside MLK (Daniel Arkin, NBC News)
Why Disability Justice Is Crucial for Liberation (Laurie Flanders, The Nation)
A Scientist Said Her Research Could Help With Repatriation. Instead, It Destroyed Native Remains. (Mary Hudetz, Pro Publica)
If there are any attorneys or law students who identify as Black, Native Americans, or Pacific Islanders who are interested in nonprofit corporate and tax-exemption laws and who’d like to pursue this area of practice, I’m committing one hour each week to being a resource. Please contact me if I can be of service.