The Year Ahead

By |2026-01-21T17:57:24-06:00January 21st, 2026|501(c)(3), DEI, Nonprofit|

To our clients, friends and community, I write this on the heels of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, as we usher in the second year of the current administration amid more headlines, cruelty, and chaos than most of us can fully digest. As we face 2026, a sense of trepidation feels unavoidable. I keep hearing the word “uncertainty” from our clients, across the nonprofit sector, and frankly, in conversations about the world at large. I don’t dispute this uncertainty, but I also look around (at many of you, in fact) and see communities that continue to work for [...]

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July 29 DOJ Memo and August 7 Executive Order

By |2025-08-14T15:51:17-05:00August 14th, 2025|Compliance, DEI|

Excuse this long update but we want you to be aware of recent communication from the Trump Administration, primarily on DEI issues. TL;DR: stay focused on creating work and program environments that treat people with differing characteristics, beliefs, experiences, and viewpoints with dignity and respect, regardless of their differences. On July 29, the Office of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi released a memo titled “Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination” (DOJ Memo). The Memo provides a list of practices that the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) describes as “not mandatory and intended to be practical guidance.” [...]

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