Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 8/18/24

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:

Candid’s 2024 Nonprofit Compensation Report: Executive compensation is on the rise, but not for everyone (Candid)

Grant Makers, Here’s How to Support Nonprofits Led by People of Color (Aisha Benson, Chronicle of Philanthropy)

AAUW Statement Regarding Do No Harm v. AAUW (Gloria L. Blackwell, American Association of University Women) [Ed. This Statement follows a joint dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Do No Harm against AAUW based on the claim that a fellowship open only to women of ethnic minority groups historically underrepresented in certain fields violated Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866; AAUW agreed to not consider race or ethnicity in its award of fellowships, acknowledging “that recent Supreme Court decisions have changed how we must fight for equity.”]

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Houston immigrants’ rights org over political speech (Alejandro Serrano, Texas Tribune)

Elon Musk’s X Sued a Nonprofit Advertising Initiative. It Shut Down Days Later. (Megan Gramham, Wall Street Journal)

Challenging Corporate Influence in the Nonprofit Sector (Anne Price, Nonprofit Quarterly)

These AI-Powered Nonprofits Are Making Health Care More Equitable and Effective (Kevin Barenblat & Nick Cain, Stanford Social Innovation Review)

In Counterculture San Francisco, a Church Has Become the Place to Be (Heather Knight, NY Times)

‘We Can Save Our City’: The $100 Million Plan to Revive East Oakland (Sara Herschander, Chronicle of Philanthropy)

A Look Back At Some FPLG Favorites From the Past Decade (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group)

Significant Events:

• “Vice President Kamala Harris unspooled her economic agenda on Friday in her first major policy address, casting her vision as one for the future and former President Donald J. Trump’s as of the past, as she argued that she would improve the lives of middle-class Americans and benefit generations of their descendants.” NY Times
• “Former president Donald Trump’s ongoing meltdown over his changed electoral prospects is becoming genuinely bizarre. It is foolish to underestimate him, but this doesn’t come off as any kind of subtle gambit in a game of three-dimensional chess. It looks and sounds like angry, disoriented flailing that inflicts more self-harm than damage on his opponents. … Away from social media, Trump’s public statements have become increasingly divorced from reality.” Washington Post
• “The FBI is investigating suspected hacking attempts by Iran targeting both a Trump associate and advisers to the Biden-Harris campaign, according to people familiar with the matter, as the agency formally acknowledged Monday it has opened a high-stakes national security investigation months before Election Day.” Washington Post

Equity and Justice Related Articles & Resources:

This is exactly how Project 2025 plans to gut DEI (Pavithra Mohan, Fast Company)

The Strange Report Fueling the War on Trans Kids (Lydia Polgreen, NY Times)

Asian American Voters Could Be Key Swing Voters of 2024 (Amy Qin, NY Times)

Climate Change Articles & Resources:

9 Things Musk and Trump Said About Climate Change, Annotated (Brad Plumer and Raymond Zhong, NY Times)

Opinion: I’m a pediatrician, and I know how climate change threatens children (Debra Hendrickson, L.A. Times)

If you want Americans to pay attention to climate change, just call it climate change (Wändi Bruine de Bruin and Gale Sinatra, Conversation)