Author:
Aine Creedon
Photo by Ortopediatri Çocuk Ortopedi Akademisi on Unsplash In a matter of just a few months, the US Department of Education has gutted nearly all staff responsible for special education oversight, leaving many disability-related programs across agencies to face growing uncertainty about the future of their funding. One in four adults lives with a disability, but only 2 percent of grant funding goes toward disability-related work. That approach is not only outdated; it’s strategically flawed. …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Children's Rights
Immigration
Law
Racial Justice
Image Credit: Frank Flores For Unsplash+ For decades, the United States has maintained a child welfare framework intended to protect unaccompanied migrant children who arrive at the border alone. Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act Reauthorization of 2008, unaccompanied minors were granted protections designed to safeguard them from trafficking and exploitation, including transfer to the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), access to legal screenings for asylum or other relief, and placement in …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Board Governance
Change Management
Communications
Stakeholder Engagement
Image Credit: dusanpetkovic on iStock Welcome back to Ask a Nonprofit Expert, NPQ’s advice column for nonprofit readers, by civic leaders who have built thriving, equitable organizations. As always, this series offers Leading Edge members the opportunity to submit tough challenges anonymously and get personalized advice. In this column, we’ll publish answers to common questions to strengthen our entire community’s capacity. In today’s issue, Cheretta Clerkley, MBA, associate vice president of content and co-created expertise …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Civic Infrastructure
Civil Society and Democracy
Economic Justice
Nonprofit Journalism
Politics
Trump Administration
Image Credit: SvetaZi on iStock On March 13, 2026, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held a press conference, where he complained about CNN’s recent coverage of the administration’s unauthorized war on Iran before admitting his anticipation for the day that David Ellison—son of billionaire donor and vocal supporter of Donald Trump, Larry Ellison—takes control of CNN. His comments came as a direct response to CNN’s recent report, which opened: “The Pentagon and National Security Council …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Climate Change
Climate Justice
Gender and Sexuality
Image Credit: Graficon Stuff For Unsplash+ “[This book] reads like a dispatch from the edge of a collapsing world.” That’s how Joám Evans Pim, a conservation leader in Spain, described Gerry McGovern’s book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology. McGovern, an author, speaker, and expert on internet experiences and data waste—which he has dedicated his life to helping people reduce—has written nine books, but many would describe 99th Day as his most radical. Maybe that’s …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Immigration
Racial Justice
Image Credit: A F For Unsplash+ Ohio is home to about 30,000 Haitian residents, with an estimated 15,000 living in the city of Springfield, OH, making it one of the largest concentrations in the state. The roots of this migration lie in Haiti’s crises: the devastating 2010 earthquake, subsequent hurricanes, political instability marked by gang violence and fragile governments, and a lack of economic opportunities. These conditions pushed many Haitians to seek a future in …
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Author:
Kate Elias
Categories:
Disability Justice
Gender and Sexuality
Policy
Transgender Rights
Image credit: Matt Hrkac on Wikimedia Commons This story was originally reported by Sara Luterman of The 19th. Meet Sara and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Nearly 40 years ago, disability advocates struck a deal with Republican lawmakers, who agreed to give their votes in exchange for excluding trans people from landmark federal disability protections. Over the past few years, and bolstered by the Biden administration, federal courts have …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Climate Justice
Economic Justice
Race and Power
Risk Management
Technology
Credit: Pablo Merchán Montes on Unsplash+ Digital Colonialism, a series co-produced by NPQ and MediaJustice, explores how the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is reshaping communities across the United States. Americans are experiencing high utility bills, extreme weather patterns, and a political system that continues to double down on oil and gas, even waging new wars to secure it. Now, AI data centers are locking us into another cycle of environmental degradation, …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
501c3s
501c4s
Civic Infrastructure
Financial Sustainability
Nonprofit News
Nonprofit Sector
Credit: Pixel Shot on Unsplash Thousands of small nonprofits were left reeling after Flipcause, once a trusted fundraising platform, withheld more than $29 million in donations. As the company slid into financial collapse, executives transferred millions to themselves while withholding money from cash-strapped nonprofits that scrambled to keep programs running. Now, bankruptcy proceedings are underway, a single underwhelming offer to buy Flipcause’s assets is on the table, and lawsuits are looming. Nonprofits face the grim …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Community Organizing
Leadership
Nonprofit Advocacy
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Our nonprofit limped along on tiny grants, barely covering basics. Losing staff could be detrimental to the projects we worked on, and there was a growing dissatisfaction with how meetings were run. These mostly one-sided discussions left the quieter half of us feeling pushed aside, like our thoughts didn’t matter much. If things stayed this way, I worried the good people on our team would start quitting one by …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Climate Justice
Health Equity
Health Justice
Mental Health
Image Credit: wildpixel Over the past five years, Caroline Hickman, a lecturer at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom and a climate-aware psychotherapist, has seen the number of requests from prospective patients struggling with climate anxiety quadruple. What was once a small portion of her client docket now dominates her therapy practice. She’s not alone. Research shows that 54 percent of therapists in Germany have seen clients presenting with environmental or ecological concerns …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Credit: Susan Wilkinson on Unsplash As political debates intensify against the backdrop of the 2026 midterm elections, many advocates feel the stakes could not be higher. Transgender communities have begun experiencing yet another round of ugly campaign ads meant to activate voters’ fears, resentments, and suspicions. It is a coordinated rollback of civil rights, with transgender people positioned as the testing ground. Anti-trans messaging isn’t just a side note—it is a core political strategy. During …
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