I want to share something I would not usually say in a professional setting… AI still scares me a little. Even now, when I am one of the people building it.
But here is what scares me more. An entire
It was a year of economic disruptions and political turbulence: wave after wave, sometimes within a single, 24-hour, news cycle. But the just-published Giving USA 2025 report – released yesterday – offers some rare good news for philanthropy after the
Earlier this week on Monday, June 15, 2026, California’s legislative leaders happily announced their much-anticipated budget agreement: “AB 109 – Budget Act of 2026 had been “enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 p.m.”
The lawmakers had discharged
“Because charities enjoy favored status under the law and do important work in their communities, directors and staff are sometimes lulled into thinking that the rules – including labor laws”- either don’t apply to them at all or “can be
“‘The nonprofit sector has been roasted on the outside’ … like a hard pretzel rod on the verge of snapping in half. ‘That’s how fragile things are right now.’”
It was late May 2023 when Tim Delaney, (then) CEO
“[M]any nonprofits operate in vulnerable spaces that are open to the public, and they often lack the resources to invest in security on their own,” according to “San Diego attorney May L. Harris, whose For Purpose Law Firm specializes in
It’s that frenetic time of year again in Sacramento – May 15th through June 15th – when the annual battle over the California state budget plays out.
More accurately, in flush years – good examples being 2021 and 2022 –
Those are the comments of Governor Gavin Newsom on May 14, 2026, as
In 2023, the hottest legislative news out of Sacramento for California’s charitable sector was the ambitious California Nonprofit Equity Initiative.
Spearheaded by the California Association of Nonprofits, it was a seven-bill package of much-needed reforms of the state’s grantmaking
Since Day One of the second Trump administration, there have been continual threats to the nation’s charitable nonprofits, including: cutting off funding, unilaterally reversing decades of settled “public policy,” and actively meddling in plans and programs to an unprecedented degree.
