Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week.
Notable Events of the Week:
- “Days before the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria killing thousands in Puerto Rico, another storm clobbered the island archipelago this week and set back its halting progress toward modernizing its fragile infrastructure.” Washington Post
- “How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia’s disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them.” NY Times
- “A dozen Republican candidates in competitive races for governor and Senate have declined to say whether they would accept the results of their contests, raising the prospect of fresh post-election chaos two years after Donald Trump refused to concede the presidency.” Washington Post
Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets:
- David Fahrenthold: NEW: Prosecutors charge 47 people in Minnesota with fraud on a staggering scale: they allegedly stole $240 million from federal food-aid programs during the pandemic. NY Times
- Rhodri Davies: Have just published a new piece on this week’s news about Patagonia being transferred into nonprofit ownership: exploring some of the potentially relevant precedents & what they might tell us about the questions we should be asking.👇 The Business of Philanthropy: Patagonia and nonprofit corporate ownership
- Rhodri Davies: Also, if you want more context on the connection between philanthropy and business going back even further, there’s a handy guide to precisely that on the website: Philanthropy & Business
- Steve Rosenthal: I favor Mr. Chouinard’s enviromental [sic] agenda over Mr. Seid’s. But our tax laws should not subsidize political activities. Congress Could End Tax Breaks for Gifts to Non-Profits with Political Agendas
- Karl Mill: A blog post to consolidate all of my thoughts on the Patagonia gift, explain how it works tax-wise and why this structure is so powerful, and announce an exciting opportunity. (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love 501(c)(4) philanthropy). A Modest Proposal for You (A Billionaire) to Give Your Company to Our 501(c)(4)
- Chronicle of Philanthropy: Eighty-five percent of Americans said they liked the idea of allowing people to take deductions for up to $300, according to the national polling firm TargetPoint. Lion’s Share of Americans Support Giving Everyday Donors Tax Breaks, Poll Finds
- Urban Institute: While more people of color are sitting on the boards of 501(c)(3) organizations, they tend not to have board chair positions, writes @mathitak: https://urbn.is/3LtsVJ7
- Cyndi Suarez: Nonprofit leaders of color say current capacity-building efforts often miss the mark. Here are three principles that funders can adopt to change the field. Redesigning Capacity Building: How Philanthropy Must Support Leaders of Color via @npquarterly
- For Purpose Law Group: Nonprofits & Unions: A Fall 2022 Update
- Sarah Eagle Heart: The gasp in the audience when I said 80% of biodiversity is being cared for by Indigenous People, and yet our life expectancy in the US just dropped from 75-65 years old. Yeah. It’s true. [Ed. See How the Pandemic Shortened Life Expectancy in Indigenous Communities, NY Times]
Racial Equity and Justice:
Governors who shipped migrants North took a page from an old, racist playbook (Ray Ewing, Philadelphia Inquirer)
When Diversity Isn’t the Right Kind of Diversity (Pamela Paul, NY Times)
In the new ‘Little Mermaid,’ Black girls and moms see themselves (Samantha Chery and Anne Branigin, Washington Post)
Indigenous knowledge in food system transformations (Dhanya Vijayan, David Ludwig, Constance Rybak, Harald Kaechele, Harry Hoffmann, Hettie C. Schönfeldt, Hadijah A. Mbwana, Carlos Vacaflores Rivero, and Katharina Löhr, Communications Earth & Environment)
Asian American women fall off by 80% at corporate leadership levels, a new report says (Kimmy Yam, NBC News)
If there are any attorneys or law students who identify as Black, Native Americans, or Pacific Islanders who are interested in nonprofit corporate and tax-exemption laws and who’d like to pursue this area of practice, I’m committing one hour each week to being a resource. Please contact me if I can be of service. 🙏
