Sadly, racism dominated the news this week with the NBA’s handling of the Sterling fiasco overshadowing the playoffs. Have a listen to Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit while perusing this week’s tweets on nonprofits, philanthropy, governance and social enterprises:

• Steven Greenhouse: NAACP’s Planned Award for Donald Sterling Stirs Heaps of Controversy.  NY Times
• The Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers: Our Top 10 Philanthropy Resources for late April! Feat. @GTak @COF_ @Com_Network @SSIReview & more
• Council of Nonprofits: @Gtak we posted your blogpost re 1023-EZ on our homepage today http://www.councilofnonprofits.org/ [Ed. Everyone should also take a look at the Council of Nonprofits’ comments on the 1023-EZ.]
• Third Sector New England: New IRS proposal to rubber-stamp #nonprofit status will create more problems than it solves http://tsne.org/ill-advised-solution-serious-problem
• Greg Colvin: Big player calls for IRS to take “better approach” to political #501c4rules see Nonprofit Law Matters for #8 on our Top 25 comments today. [Ed. It’s Alliance for Justice!]
• C. Garber Siegrist: Crowdfunding for Nonprofits: Solicitation or Matchmaking?
• Nonprofit Quarterly: TRENDING: Unanswered Questions About Benefit Corporations, L3Cs & Social Enterprise More Generally http://ow.ly/wi4AH
• McKinsey Quarterly: High-performing boards: What’s on their agenda? http://bit.ly/McKQBoardAgenda
• Chronicle of Philanthropy: INFOGRAPHIC: The untapped potential of women in nonprofits http://ow.ly/wfHjD

From the AAPIP Annual Meeting in New York City:

• AAPIP moving forward as Peggy Saika shares news. Big change, *amazing* leadership. TY Peg for showing us the way
• Great reminder of @NewWorldFound’s seminal publication: Funding Social Justice Movements http://ow.ly/w8QRY
• Affinity groups of Council on Foundations share commonalities & strategies – but collaborations need to trickle down more to their members.
• Minorities on boards – pioneer or token. Need structures to support avoidance of the latter.