Catch up with the week’s notable events and shared resources with Nonprofit Tweets of the Week.
Notable Events of the Week:
- A lone gunman killed 59 people and injured over 500 more in Las Vegas on Sunday night. NY Times
Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets:
- Gene: Important: Fewer Americans Find Room in Their Budgets for Charity, Chronicle Data Shows – Chronicle of Philanthropy #taxreform #advocacy [Ed. For Chronicle subscribers, behind the paywall is How America Gives Special Report: Breaking the Charity Habit.]
- Nonprofit Times: Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving … http://bit.ly/2fPs7nr #YMCA @KevinWashYMCA #TaxReform #Charitablededuction
- Vox: 1/ What every American should know about about Puerto Rico’s humanitarian crisis
- National Council of Nonprofits: How to help Puerto Rico https://buff.ly/2g3KCS3 Share @funds4disaster ‘s website: https://buff.ly/2g5hslN
- The Hill: Oxfam launches unprecedented intervention in Puerto Rico after declaring Trump response “inadequate” http://hill.cm/ypAtoSc
- Nonprofit Quarterly: How can #nonprofits help in the wake of #LasVegas shooting? “In today’s climate, our work is cut out for us” NPQ
- Stanford Social Innovation Review: What are we doing about gun violence? Revisit our series featuring leaders working on the issue: http://ow.ly/Ktle30fAGw1 via @CatchafireCEO
- Ezra Klein. 1. Enough with thoughts and prayers. Here are some charts and maps that make clear why this keeps happening in America. Vox
- Benjamin Soskis: The way in which this bogus “scandal” has almost entirely undermined ability of IRS to effectively reg nonprofit creation is a small tragedy [commenting on tweet from Mike DeBonis: NEWS: Treasury IG, revisiting IRS scandal, finds liberal groups got plenty of scrutiny alongside conservatives. Washington Post]
- Jed Emerson: A really important article: Integrated Value: What It Is, What It’s Not and Why It’s Important | HuffPost
Themed Media Selection:
Tom Petty – Free Fallin’ (YouTube)