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Staff Picks for 2025: Isaiah Thompson

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By Isaiah Thompson
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Journalism, nonprofits, and multiracial democracy are under attack. At NPQ, we fight back by sharing stories and essential insights from nonprofit leaders and workers—and we pay every contributor. Can you help us protect nonprofit voices? Your support keeps truth alive when it matters most. Every single dollar makes a difference.
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Making Sense of GivingTuesday 2025

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By Isaiah Thompson
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Credit: Giving Tuesday on Pexels There’s no question that GivingTuesday, the annual fundraising event started in 2012 by the 92nd Street YMCA in New York City and the UN Foundation, has grown into a force of its own. It is now coordinated by a nonprofit of the same name, and is a nontrivial factor in many nonprofit organizations’ annual fundraising. With this year’s GivingTuesday behind us, we’re taking a look at not just the numbers, but also the stories about our sector that those numbers tell.
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A Move to Fund the Fight for Health Equity in the Trump Era

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By Isaiah Thompson
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Image Credit: Getty Images For Unsplash+ Among the first actions President Donald Trump took upon assuming office in 2025 was a series of executive orders and memoranda targeting what his administration claimed was the “illegal” practice of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEI, or DEIA)—not just across the federal government but within the private sector, including or especially the nonprofit sector.
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