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
- Karen Hopper from M+R shares great data on December fundraising for nonprofits and what it means.
- This week’s State of the Union presented a challenge for some nonprofits who may want to comment on political coverage but worry about jeopardizing their 501c3 status. This blog post from Abby Levine of Bolder Advocacy explains how to do this and links to some helpful documents.
- A recent report from Oliver Wyman, SeaChange Capital Partners, and GuideStar shows that approximately half of U.S. nonprofits are at financial risk. Jeannie Fox from NPQ discusses why headlines focused on disaster are misleading.
- Ava Kuhlen from the Center for Effective Philanthropy tackles why technology capacity building is complex, especially for this in the nonprofit/philanthropy industry.
Political News
- Jeremey Richardson from the nonprofit, Union of Concerned Scientists, explains why a reorganization at the Department of Energy could be devastating to research. On that subject, Chris Mooney and Steven Mufson of the Washington Post reports that the White House seeks 72 percent cut to clean energy research.
- Nidhi Subbaraman from Buzzfeed highlights how residents in Denmark, South Carolina suspect issues with their water, but the town’s mayor refuses to all tests.
- The nonprofit organization National Fair Housing Alliance and 19 fair housing organizations from across the country filed a lawsuit that alleges that Deutsche Bank purposely failed to maintain its foreclosed bank-owned homes (also known as real estate owned or “REO” properties) in middle- and working- class African American and Latino neighborhoods in 30 metropolitan areas, while it consistently maintained similar bank-owned homes in white neighborhoods. Click here to read a press release about the lawsuit.
- The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, announced a Seafood Slavery Risk Tool this week. For more information about it and how it was created, read Clare Leschin-Hoar’s article in KQED.
- Finally, an update to a story we shared last week. American Red Cross General Counsel David Meltzer has resigned. Last week ProPublica published a story that detailed the troubling aspects of how a sexual misconduct case was handled at American Red Cross.
Sharing Stories
- Alliance for Climate Education regularly shares stories from youth and what climate change looks like in their community. They recently published a great video featuring Amira who discusses her life in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Watch the video below and click here to view the whole series.
Something Positive
- Was this how you felt this past week trying to keep up with the news?