Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online
A grassroots campaign is using music to try to boost turnout among Latino voters, particularly Mexican-Americans. Grita. Canta. Vota., which translates to Shout. Sing. Vote., holds combined concerts and voter-registration drives around the country that feature popular Mexican and Mexican-American artists. Latinos make up nearly 20 percent of the population, but they turn out at lower rates than white, Black, or Asian voters. Grita. Canta. Vota. is a nonpartisan project of the nonprofit IncludUs Fund. (Los Angeles Times)
Background from the Chronicle: Leading a Nonprofit Through Election Week? Here’s Your Survival Guide
Nonprofit leaders in clean energy are nervously watching the presidential election, noting that each candidate could take the country’s energy supply in starkly different directions. A second Trump administration could slow the transition from fossil fuels that got a boost from the Biden-Harris administration, although one nonprofit executive noted that renewable sources have become inexpensive “and will grow in the market regardless of who is president.” And leaders of regional green-energy trade groups say friendly state and local governments are at least as important as the White House in pushing for the transition. (Inside Climate News)
Background from the Chronicle: Prepared for Any Election Outcome
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- The Search for Justice: How a Local Nonprofit Is Leading the Charge to Solve Las Vegas Cold Cases (KTNV)
Museum News
- How AI Tracking Is Revolutionizing the Museum Experience. (Psychology Today)
- Exhale Through the Gift Shop (New York Times)
- Universities Transform Art Museums Into Spaces for Voting and Political Discourse (PBS News)
- NYC Trio Charged With Hate Crimes Linked to Pro-Palestinian Vandalism of Museum Officials’ Homes (Associated Press)
- Dallas Museum Director Agustín Arteaga to Step Down After Eight Years (ARTnews)
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