Below is a collection of links from the last two weeks 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
- Giving Tuesday happened. Hope you have all recovered. Classy published several helpful post-Giving Tuesday blog posts. Elizabeth Chung writes about what is next for your nonprofit after Giving Tuesday. Ellie Burke highlights how historic this year’s Giving Tuesday was. And Meredith Kavanagh shares data that discusses long-term trends.
- Giving Tuesday makes many nonprofit employees wonder how their communication can rise above the noise on such a busy day. Julia Campbell explains why you can’t and you shouldn’t.
- Keenan Wellar from NPQ digs into the decline of small gifts and the negative impact on small nonprofit organizations.
- Todd Polyniak put together a list of five books you can gift to the nonprofit leader in your life.
- An interesting read from Kelsey Piper at Vox focuses on the challenges of evaluating nonprofits based on overhead. “When charities have to focus on keeping overhead low, they often do worse work. They try to cut costs on staff, which can mean employees end up burned out or underqualified to begin with.”
- Cassie Kozyrkov from HBR writes about the important role of data analysts and why they are needed.
Political News
- Marian Conway from NPQ outlines the challenges with the appointment of Interim Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and his background working for a nonprofit organization that doesn’t provide transparency about their work.
- Darryl Fears from the Washington Post details how the Trump Administration’s approval for requests allowing companies to conduct deafening seismic surveys could harm thousands of marine animals.
- Pam Bailey from NPQ highlights recent media articles that have documented the widening gap between black and white homeownership. The systematic racism has cost African-American families billions in wealth. “Areas with high levels of African-American homeownership generally have very active fair-housing and social-justice activity. You will find a history of active organizing and engaging,”
Sharing Stories
- You may have seen a clip of Greta Thunberg, a Swedish 15-year-old who spoke at a U.N. Climate Conference. Emily Bloch at Teen Vogue provides further background about Thunberg’s incredible activism.
Something Fun
- This pretty much sums up Giving Tuesday for nonprofit folks who are on A LOT of email lists.
Me and #GivingTuesday emails. pic.twitter.com/BwGYbZ9DkJ
— The Whiny Donor (@thewhinydonor) November 27, 2018