Each week we bring you a collection of links that highlight political news that impact nonprofits, helpful links for nonprofit professionals, the importance of sharing stories, and something positive to end your week.
Helpful Nonprofit Links
- Shana Masterson from NPEngage wrote about how Blackbaud has been piloting Facebook’s new API to build peer-to-peer fundraising functionality within Facebook. This is another game-changer for P2P fundraising. On the other hand, Facebook announced changes to the News Feed that will see nonprofit organization’s organic reach decline.
- Is your organization large enough to think about product licensing? Joe Waters from Selfish Giving published a conversation with Rachel Leber, the owner of a cause marketing licensing agency. They discuss product licensing, how it works, and which nonprofits are the best fit for licensing agreements.
- Ben Myers, Eden Stiffman, and Ariana Giorgi from the Chronicle of Philanthropy shared fascinating data compiled from millions of online donations made through Network for Good in 2017.
- Kenneth Anderson Taylor penned an article in The Conversation about the racial makeup of nonprofit board of directors. “61.3 percent of Americans are white, about 84 percent of nonprofit board members are in that demographic group, along with 90 percent of nonprofit board chairs.” Taylor, the former CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas, includes steps on how to increase diversity.
Political News
- According to estimates from the Tax Policy Center, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will reduce the number of households that itemize their gifts to nonprofit organizations from about 37 million to 16 million in 2018. Howard Gleckman explained in a post on the TPC website.
- Byard Duncan from Reveal wrote about how many states lack a method to track data on how the opioid crisis is impacting children and the ramifications from that. This is something that is affecting a lot of organizations that work with foster youth.
- The Trump Administration is ending Temporary Protected Status, a program that has allowed 200,000 Salvadorans to live and work legally in the United States. This New York Times article from Miriam Jordan provided details.
- Natasha Geiling from ThinkProgress discussed how the Trump Administration has been removing available data related to climate change and the environment.
Sharing Stories
- Diana Nelson Jones of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette shares the experiences of people living in the path of construction of a natural gas pipeline and how it’s impacted their water, land, and livelihood.
Something Positive
- If you haven’t watched it yet, take the time to watch Oprah’s speech at the Golden Globes. If you’ve already watched it, today may be a good day to watch it again.
- We appreciated the response from the Washington Post to this Twitter story.
