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 remarkable spate of historic heat is hitting the planet, raising alarm over looming extreme weather dangers — and an increasing likelihood that this year will be Earth’s warmest on record. ,,, “It just raises everybody’s awareness that this is not getting better; it’s getting worse,” said Jennifer Francis, senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Massachusetts. “My hope is that we’ll raise alarm bells by breaking a new record and that will help motivate people to do the right thing and stop ignoring this crisis.”Warnings of an “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education” Washington Post
• “The Supreme Court ended its term this week in familiar fashion, issuing blockbuster conservative decisions on affirmative action, gay rights and student loans that divided along partisan lines, with the court’s three Democratic appointees in dissent. … But the entire story of the most recent term is considerably more complicated than that of the previous one, which had seemed to establish an unyielding conservative juggernaut …. A year later, the court remains deeply conservative but is more in tune with the fitfully incremental approach of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who is attentive to his court’s legitimacy ….” NY Times
• “Dire forecasts point to swift and substantial drops in Black and Latino enrollment, perhaps by as much as half, at some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges after the Supreme Court rejected race-based affirmative action Thursday. “Expect a shock,” said Michael V. Drake, president of the University of California, who is in position to know.” Washington Post

Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets:

• For Purpose Law Group: New Reporting Duties for California Charitable Trustees
• JD Supra: Now That We’re Past the Holiday, Let’s Dissect the Supreme Court’s Decision Concerning Affirmative Action and Any Implications It May Have for Private Employers
• Sherrilyn Ifill: After gutting affirmative action, Republicans target minority scholarships – MSNBC
• Benjamin Soskis: The most interesting finding in this survey, looking in part at why donors have stopped giving, is indication that some do so bc they think wealthier individuals shld carry more of the philanthropic burden. This has long been a theory for donor decline… Give.org Donor Trust Special Report: Donor Participation
• Alan Cantor: Excellent analysis by @HelenofIPS as to how the sharp decline in charitable giving is tied to wealth inequality — and how in many ways, the drop is even worse than it seems. The 2022 Giving Slump Exposes the Fragility of Top-Heavy Charity
• Helen Flannery: t’s time for another installment of “Things We Found in Foundation Tax Returns.” Lots of places report on foundation payout rates, but it can be hard to find trends. It turns out the typical foundation hovers pretty consistently just above the minimum requirement. A short 🧵 [Ed. The concluding tweet in the thread states: “Our overall results jibe with what Candid has found in previous analyses: Foundation giving and payout in 2022: What changed and what’s next?]
• Inside Philanthropy: Why would a newly wealthy donor set up a private foundation when they could simply pour money into a DAF? Financial consultant Allan Henriques walks us through a surprisingly nuanced thought process. Mike Scutari reports: “Control, Impact, Ego.” How Wealthy Donors Make the Choice Between Foundation and DAF
• Center for Effective Philanthropy: NEW on the blog, @AP’s Julie Pace connects the dots between journalism, democracy, and #philanthropy, and reflects on why now is the moment to invest in journalism to support democracy: Journalism is a Cornerstone of Democracy
• TechSoup: Even with a larger budget, all #nonprofits need access to affordable technology solutions to meet their mission’s needs. Discover some of the best resources available for organizations with budgets over $10M USD, via the #TechSoupBlog: http://spr.ly/6010Mk4aY #NPTech
• Jeff Bradach: One of most impt insights from for-profit sector to social change is that even if something is “proven and “evidence-based”, it is almost always competing against entrenched incumbent “solution”. Rarely does it diffuse itself-a free lunch may be needed! Novo Nordisk bought prescribers over 450,000 meals and snacks to promote drugs like Ozempic [Ed. In a subsequent tweet, Bradach points to this article in SSIR: Selling Social Change]

Equity and Justice:

“A Tragedy for Us All”: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Dissent (The Nation)

Sotomayor says Supreme Court ruling condemns LGBTQ people to ‘second-class status’ (Michael Mitsanas, NBC News)

Opinion: For Most College Students, Affirmative Action Was Never Enough (Richard Arum and Mitchell L. Stevens, NY Times)

How the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Affects the AAPI Community (Stewart Kwon and Connie Chung Joe, Time)

Warnings of an “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education (Isaiah Thompson, Nonprofit Quarterly)

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