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Russia Invades Ukraine, Triggers Full Scale War & Humanitarian Catastrophe Early Thursday morning, Russian ground troops launched an all-out war against Ukraine, with the assumed intention of overtaking the entire country and overthrowing its government. Here are 5 key takeaways from the NGO and humanitarian perspective: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees  now estimates  half a million Ukra...

DOJ Rules On Foreign Agent Registration Could Cause Headaches For Nonprofits According to  reporting from Axios , the U.S. Department of Justice’s new proposed rules regarding foreign agents and influence could cause major headaches for nonprofits. The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), aims to minimize the influence peddling of foreign countries and organizations, however some advocacy group...

Weekly news for the nonprofit sector .     Nonprofits & NGOs Prepare As The Russia Ukraine Standoff Becomes Dire As the situation in Ukraine deteriorates,  the nonprofit organization Project Dynamo has announced  it is preparing for the potential emergency evacuation of Americans from Ukraine. The organization, initially formed to aid in the evacuation from Afghanistan, is just one of many civ...

Weekly nonprofit news summary from hundreds of sources .   Crisis Text Line Ends Data-Sharing Relationship With For-Profit Entity As reported by Politico  and other outlets, Crisis Text Line has ended its data sharing relationship with for-profit spin-off organization Loris.ai, which uses data to inform customer service software. Crisis Text Line, which uses a text-based approach to provide crisis...

Pegasus Spyware Poses Major Threat To Civil Society Globally In a detailed  post released last week by Human Rights Watch , the global advocacy organization details the exact ways that its Crisis and Conflict director was targetted by the Pegasus spyware “five times between April and August 2021.” The breach was “peer reviewed” by  Amnesty International’s Security Lab , where it was determined tha...

Nonprofit news for the week of Jan 24th, 2022 .   ‘Red Flags’ At Nonprofit Backing U.S. Capitol Rioters Experts see lots to worry about with the far-right endorsed Patriot Freedom Fund, a registered nonprofit organization fundraising money to support people charged with crimes involving the events of January 6th, 2021.  As reported by NPR , the fund, led by an avid supporter of the U.S. Capitol ri...

Nonprofit news summary .   Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Draws Thousands To Community Service Across Country From  Des Moines  to  Portland  to  Charleston  and everywhere in between, thousands of volunteers across the country participated in a national day of service, often in partnership with local-based nonprofit and community organizations. MLK Day is the only federally-recognized national da...

Nonprofit News for mid January .    Acquisition of Network For Good, Backed By Provide Equity Firm, Rolls Up Numerous Nonprofit Technology Products The same venture firm that brought EveryAction, Social Solutions and CyberGrants under one corporate roof has  added Network For Good to its roster . The as yet unnamed umbrella firm is being funded by UK-based private equity group Apax Partners LLP. ...

Nonprofit News summary .     Nonprofits Struggle To Compete With For-Profit Businesses For Staff Amid rising inflation, rising wages, decreased unemployment, and the so-called “great resignation,” nonprofit organizations are struggling to maintain and hire staff,  according to reporting from The New York Times.  While for-profit businesses lost more jobs during the pandemic, the nonprofit sector h...

Nonprofit news in December.   Nonprofit Job Gains Slow As Sector Approaches Pre-Pandemic Employment Levels According to data from the Center for Civil Society Studies (CCSS) at Johns Hopkins University  as reported by the Nonprofit Times , nonprofit job growth slowed in November but shows that most nonprofit categories are expected to achieve near full employment by the end of the year. While nonp...

Weekly news from NonprofitNewsfeed.com   Elon Musk Dubbed “Troll Philanthropist” In New York Times Elon Musk’s high-profile brush with the typically staid world of philanthropy  is generating waves . Famously getting into a public ruff with the World Food Programme (WFP) over how much money it would take to “solve world hunger,” one researcher at the Urban Institute notes that Musk “doesn’t seem t...

 Nonprofitnewsfeed.com   summary of the week.    This Giving Tuesday Eve, Beware of Scams! On this day before Giving Tuesday,  consumers are being asked to be on the lookout for scams . The  Better Business Bureau has published a guide  to making informed decisions about donating. Nonprofits should  make this process easy for prospective donors by being transparent , proving credibility, and makin...

 Nonprofit News summary Prediction: GivingTuesday To Generate Over $3 Billion In Donation Revenue  Nonprofit digital marketing  agency Whole Whale predicts  that for the first time ever, GivingTuesday will generate over $3 Billion in revenue. While 2020 saw unprecedented charitable giving in the throws of the pandemic, the agency predicts revenue will surpass that record. “Based on our  analysis t...

  Nonprofit News for 11/8/2021     Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Passes, Includes Energy Updates For Nonprofits The $1-trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives last Friday, to become one of the most significant investments in infrastructure in U.S. history. The bill includes provisions for helping religious and nonprofit organizations update the sustainabil...

nonprofitnewsfeed.com   Climate Takes Center Stage At COP26 Summit In Glasgow The  world’s attention is focused on Glasgow this week  as the global COP26 climate conference begins. With world leaders like Joe Biden and Narendra Modi in attendance, the summit will again push collective climate action to the forefront of a global conversation about sustainability. The summit, which has drawn lots of...

Nonprofit news for the week of Oct 25th, 2021   Hong Kong nonprofits are forced to leave and Facebook Whistleblower is supported by nonprofit. Amnesty International Forced To Pull Out of Hong Kong International human rights organization Amnesty International has announced that it will be pulling its operations out of Hong Kong,  according to a press release . The decision comes on the heels of Hon...

Nonprofit news for the week of October 18th, 2021   Nonprofit Fundraising Off Of Breast Cancer Has “Deep Ties” To Scam PAC Groups In an  investigative report done by OpenSecrets and The Daily Beast , the nonprofit The American Breast Cancer Coalition appears to be a “scheme to extract millions of dollars in donations, mostly from small donors.” Since the organization was launched two years ago it...

Nonprofitnewsfeed.com   Nonprofits On Front Lines of Afghan Resettlement Seek More Foundation & Government Support Nonprofits on the front lines of helping the thousands of Afghan refugees settling in the United States say that they  need more financial support  to continue to provide services for resettlement. Many of these organizations, accustomed to relatively limited numbers of people who...

October nonprofit news .    Jack A. Brown III And Other NYC Nonprofit Housing Executives Benefiting From Organizations They Run A  feature investigative report by the New York Times  has found that Jack A. Brown III and other executives associated with homeless and housing nonprofits in New York City have derived significant personal financial benefit from the organizations they run. “ An investig...

The nonprofit news summary for the last week of September!   The Giving Block Expects To Process $100M In Crypto Donations In 2021 The Giving Block, a cryptocurrency giving solution for nonprofits,  reports that it expects to process over $100 million in donations  by the end of 2021. In a press release, The Giving Block estimates that 2021 has represented the highest amount of cryptocurrency dona...

nonprofitnewsfeed.com   Global Supply Chain Shortages Disrupt NGO Operations In Haiti & Elsewhere The New York Times reports that  many nonprofit organizations and international NGOs are facing severe shortages of goods , disrupting their charitable operations. The global supply chain issues, largely attributed to the pandemic, have caused headaches for groups like the Haitian American Caucus,...

Nonprofit News for September 13th, 2021 Nonprofits Honor Anniversary of 9/11 With Day Of Service On the 20th anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001, nonprofits across the country have made the solemn day one not only of remembrance—but one of giving back to communities. The nonprofit  9/11 Day , started by two friends, one of whom lost a brother in the attacks, seeks to encourage positi...

Nonprofit news from the sector .   Human Rights Campaign President Fired After Ties To Cuomo Alphonso David, President of Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, was  ousted due to ties to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.  After contentious internal decision-making, David was fired for his reported role in assisting Cuomo with responses to accusations of sexual misconduct. Da...

Weekly nonprofit news summaries .     Nonprofits And Volunteer Organizations Step Up in Wake of Hurricane Ida After Category 4 Hurricane Ida made landfall in south Louisiana on Sunday, organizations on the ground are already  stepping up to help their neighbors . The organization  Shreveport Volunteer Network , a community-based emergency response coalition, has  partnered with other local organiz...

  Viral Fundraiser For Afghans Pits Bountiful Generosity Versus A Logistical Nightmare A GoFundMe hosted by an “Instagram personality”  has generated well over $5 million in funds  in an effort to support the airlift of vulnerable people attempting to flee Afghanistan. Only one problem — organizing an evacuation from a war zone isn’t exactly easy. The funds are slated to go to a group called Raven...