Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 9/27/25
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week.
Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources:
Facing Free Speech Threats, Foundations Prepare for Next Volley From the White House (Alex Daniels, Stephanie Beasley, and Ben Gose, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation (Devlin Barrett, NY Times) [Ed. From the article: “The memo suggests department leaders are following orders from the president that specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation — a major break from decades of past practice meant to insulate the Justice Department from political interference.”]
How Justice-Rooted Organizations Can Respond to the Racial Justice and Equity Backlash (Kelly Frances Bates and Fiona Kanagasingam, NPQ)
Future-Oriented Leadership (Sara Ellis Conant & Jacob Harold, SSIR) [Ed. I think this great article fits nicely with Purpose-Driven Board Leadership.]
Who Is Included in and Who Will Fight for “We the Civic”? (john a. powell, NPQ)
Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V. (Apoorva Mandavilli, NY Times)
IRS Stay Exempt Resources (updated August 2025)
State AGs As Sources of Exempt Organizations Guidance (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)
5 Strategies to Break Out of the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle (Ted Bilich, TedBilich.com)
CalNonprofits Themes & Recommendations in Response to Last Month’s Select Committees Hearing (California Association of Nonprofits)
Significant Events:
- “Trump Gets the Retribution He Sought, and Shatters Norms in the Process A prosecutor’s drive to indict James Comey trampled over the Justice Department’s long tradition of keeping a distance from politics and the White House, and raised the prospect of more arbitrary charges.” NY Times
- “Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on Friday that his nation “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating war. … He spoke after dozens of delegates from multiple nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly hall en masse Friday as he began.” AP
- “President Donald Trump is worried that Attorney General Pam Bondi is moving too slowly to prosecute his political adversaries on fake charges. Trump has good reason to be concerned. He is carrying out his project to consolidate authoritarian power against the trend of declining public support for his administration and himself. He is like a man trying to race upward on a downward-moving escalator. If he loses the race, he will be pulled ever deeper below—and the escalator keeps moving faster against him.” Atlantic
Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:
UN decries racism against people of African descent in criminal justice systems (Salma Ben Mariem, Jurist)
Six World Leaders on Navigating Climate Change, Without the U.S. (David Gelles, NY Times)
Jason Momoa Back in Action in ‘Chief of War’ (Sandra Hale Schulman, Underscore Native News)
Climate Change Articles & Resources:
Fact-checking what Trump said about climate change during the UN General Assembly (Matthew Glasser, Daniel Manzo, and Daniel Peck, ABC News)
A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem: A pattern of getting rid of statistics has emerged that echoes the president’s first term, when he suggested if the nation stopped testing for Covid, it would have few cases. (Maxine Joselow, NY Times)
Nations ratify the world’s first treaty to protect international waters (Annika Hammerschlag, AP)
Good Vibes:
‘A perfectly calibrated Swiss watch of cringe’: why Fawlty Towers remains the greatest ever sitcom, 50 years on (Phil Harrison)
