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September 9, 2025
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From: Philanthropy Today

Subject: Facing Existential Threats, Nonprofits Reinvent Themselves

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    Leading

    A New Playbook: How Nonprofits Are Reinventing Themselves

    By Ben Gose September 9, 2025
    Amid the chaos of 2025, organizations are adapting and innovating to survive. The new approaches might eventually make them stronger.
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    Philanthropists

    Patagonia’s ‘Dirtbag’ Billionaire Is Out to Transform Philanthropy

    By Tamara Straus September 9, 2025
    David Gelles’s new book examines the life of Yvon Chouinard, an entrepreneurial outdoorsman whose $3 billion company is now giving its profits to a charity fighting the environmental crisis.
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    Technology

    How Foundations Are Using AI to Vet Grantees

    By M.J. Prest June 23, 2025
    Program officers at nearly 200 grant makers are using a new artificial intelligence tool to assess the financial health of prospective grantee organizations.

TRAINING

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    October 8 at 1 p.m. ET | Register Now

    The nonprofit sector today is under deep strain — the work feels more urgent than ever, and the way forward is anything but simple. Join us for Leading Nonprofits Through the Twists and Turns, an interactive workshop with Melanie Ho, founder of Strategic Imagination. You’ll have a chance to step out of survival mode, explore ways to manage change, and understand how to lead well as complexity becomes the norm.

FORUMS

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    Today — September 9 at 2 p.m. ET | Register Now

    Join us for the forum Making the Case for Investments in Data to learn from Jacqueline La Gamma of Northwell Health, Lindsey Nadeau of UNICEF USA, and Kristin Richardson of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as they share proven ways to persuade leaders to invest in data tools and analysis. They’ll explain how to start out small and build up to bigger budgets over time, and they’ll offer tips on how to demonstrate return on investments.

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Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to continue to freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid. The White House notified Congress it would not spend the money in late August, near the end of the fiscal year, meaning Congress did not have enough time to act on the request within the required 45-day period and that the money would go unspent. In response, a group of nonprofits sued, and a federal judge ruled the administration’s maneuver illegal. The administration seeks to have that ruling overturned. (Associated Press)

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More News

  • FireAid Releases 2 Audit Reports That Find No Misuse of Funds. ‘Aid Is Reaching Affected Communities’ (Los Angeles Times)
  • The ‘Good News’ and ‘Not So Good News’ About Jewish Giving From Historian Jack Wertheimer (eJewish Philanthropy)
  • Memphis Legal Nonprofit, Clergy Look to Create Immigration Court Watch Program (Tennessee Lookout)
    • Background from the Chronicle: Foundations and Government Team Up to Pay for Legal Help for Immigrants Facing Deportation
  • Detroit Gets $19.8M From Knight Foundation to Boost Art, Technology and Community Projects (Detroit Free Press)

Opinion

  • Nonprofits: You’ll Miss Them When They’re Gone (Fortune)
  • Disclosure Laws Put Targets on the Backs of Nonprofit Donors (National Review)

Note: In the links in this section, we flag articles that only subscribers can access. But because some journalism outlets offer a limited number of free articles, readers may encounter barriers with other articles we highlight in this roundup.

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