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Greetings, readers,

This week we are facing the fallout from two massive sources of bad news for our sector: the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” and the Republican-led budget that funds massive tax cuts for the ultra-rich by borrowing against our future and screwing over the most vulnerable Americans.

The BBB is bad for almost everyone. It is also, it turns out, bad for nonprofits, too. While it does create a way for non-itemizing individuals (that’s most people) to still deduct charitable donations—that’s good!—it also contains other provisions (new taxes on private foundations and university endowments, a minimum floor for corporate donations, and other measures ([link removed]) ) that are bad for the sector. The upshot is the bill “risks reducing charitable giving,” as the Brookings Institute concluded ([link removed]) .

But the threat to the sector is much greater than that: The bill’s measures hurting vulnerable Americans—massive cuts to Medicaid and food assistance, to name a couple—mean a coming tide of even greater need, “putting greater pressure on nonprofit organizations to help meet these needs,” as the National Council of Nonprofits’ Diane Yentel said last week ([link removed]) .

This week’s Leadership newsletter starts with the news of the passage of the BBB in the Senate. Then, a new survey by The Highland Project explores Black women voters’ ([link removed]) critiques of and solutions to the present state of affairs. Then, the third installment of our series on Liberatory Leadership ([link removed]) , all about designing for collective liberation.

And last but by no means least, we invite you all to take part in our new campaign, #WeTheCivic ([link removed]) .

#WeTheCivic aims to highlight, promote and support the work being done by the heroes of our sector—that is, the nonprofit sector but also civil society as a whole—to preserve and even enhance the fabric of civil society at a time when forces private and governmental seek to purposefully erode and tear down the institutions that advocate for and protect all members of our society.

We humbly ask you to join us in uplifting these critical voices by highlighting them in your own social media posts (as I recently did ([link removed]) the National Council of Nonprofits and Democracy Forward for their work suing the Trump administration over federal funding freezes) under the hashtag #WeTheCivic. Let the voices of your own organizations, as well as those you support, or depend upon, be amplified for the often unsung work they do to protect democracy, freedom, and expression in the United States and beyond.

The Nonprofit Stat of the Week is on holiday this week.

As always, we love to hear back from you. Email Leadership Editor Isaiah Thompson at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .

Thank you and sincerely,
Isaiah Thompson
Leadership Editor, NPQ
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#WeTheCivic Call To Action ([link removed])
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Your Voice Is Your Power—Will You Use It?

In a time when silence is surrender, storytelling is resistance.

This July, #WeTheCivic wants to flip the script on patriotism. While others sell simplified stories about America, we’re sharing real ones—stories of everyday people building democracy from the ground up.

Will you raise your voice? Let’s flood the feeds with nonprofit stories of American democracy in action.
* Choose your favorite #WeTheCivic graphic ([link removed]) .
* Spotlight a nonprofit: Share how an organization you work with or support is strengthening democracy in your community.
* Celebrate a democracy builder: Tag a nonprofit worker, organizer, artist, or leader doing the complex daily work of advancing democracy.

Share your stories throughout July using #WeTheCivic and #UniteInAdvance. Together, let’s get 10,000 stories out there this month and show the world that democracy’s backbone is anything but invisible. Because the humans laboring to protect democracy every day deserve to be seen, celebrated, and remembered. Will you help make them impossible to ignore?

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