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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Leading the nation’s largest homebuilder, Reckford gathers partners to bring grocery stores to food deserts, medical care to those neighborhoods and he won’t need to be brought up to speed. She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters.

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Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination

NonProfit Quarterly

That was the moment, according to Boal, when these artists came to understand that art which sees audience members merely as passive observers could itself be as oppressive as landlords or bosses handing down racist, classist, or sexist rules and laws. Through this process, TONYC helped to shape city policy and practice between 2013 and 2019.

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Transgender Rights Under Threat: Preparing for Federal Crackdowns

NonProfit Quarterly

Anti-transgender state laws have been linked to a significant increase in suicide attempts in the past year among transgender and nonbinary youth, with rates rising by up to 72 percent. Transgender activist and journalist Erin Reed has recommended that trans people consider reducing dosages or stockpiling medications.

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LGBTQ+ and Disability Rights Organizations Are Resisting Trump’s Nonprofit Crackdown

NonProfit Quarterly

Transgender activist and journalist Erin Reed reported that the domestic violence support organization Futures Without Violence, The Victim Rights Law Center, and The Boys & Girls Club of America have also eliminated references to gender identity and trans issues from online materials. LGBTQ+ individuals are scared right now.

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Foundations Rally Behind Call for Unity

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Photo by Diva Plavalaguna on Pexels The list of institutions negotiating with or capitulating to the Donald Trump administration seems to grow longer every day, including universities , law firms , and companies that have quietly scrapped diversity programs. We fund a lot of basic needs around food, medical care, and early learning.

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How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

NonProfit Quarterly

The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, if the version passed in May by House Republicans becomes law, make an already inequitable economy even less equitable. Where Movement Wins Might Be Possible Despite the long odds, people in civil society do have some means to effect change. “If

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Preparing for a Second Trump Term by Learning from Hungary’s Playbook

NonProfit Quarterly

Orbns track record underscores how constitutional amendments and censorship laws can be used to marginalize LGBTQ+ people and silence dissentand Project 2025 is a roadmap for US politics that aims to curtail civil liberties further.