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Kamala Harris Partners With Soros-Funded Nonprofit To Rebrand Her Failed Campaign's Social Media Accounts (Chuck Ross/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/kamala-harris-partners-with-soros-funded-nonprofit-to-rebrand-her-failed-campaigns-social-media-accounts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p106#a260205p106

⁉️ Hat jemand Bock, Guppe wieder aufleben zu lassen? Es muss sich jemand um Serveraufsetzen und Betrieb kümmern.
https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/119

Guppe(.)org registered: we will donate the domain or will try running the service if some tech folks will help us · Issue #119 · immers-space/guppe
Our nonprofit / NGO runs a very small instance at games(.)ngo. We have benefited from using gup(.)pe over the years to help us engage with other instances more effectively. It is frustrating that s...

OpenAI's nonprofit foundation announces it's awarding $40.5M in grants this year to 208 nonprofits across the US; the nonprofit donated only $7.5M in 2024 (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

For fellow art-poetry nerds/lovers, Édouard Glissant’s art collection is coming to New York.
https://www.cara-nyc.org/program/exhibitions/the-earth-the-fire-the-water-and-the-winds-for-a-museum-of-errantr…

WIRED: Sam Altman’s new brain venture, Merge Labs, will spin out of a nonprofit, Forest Neurotech https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interface-merge-labs-spin-out-nonprofit-forest-neurotech/ Focus on usin…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

Mastodon announced fiscal sponsorship via WE AID,
a German nonprofit organisation that supports charitable projects within an established legal framework.
This partnership offers donors
tax-deductible contributions in Germany
and ensures verified integrity through WE AID’s oversight.
It also enables Mastodon to operate as a nonprofit entity,
strengthening the commitment to a user-first,
community-driven platform,
free from algorithmic manipul…

Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
We're partnering with WE AID as our fiscal sponsor for donations in Europe.

All four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/florida-no…

Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.

Phishing attempt against Reporters Without Borders attributed to Russia-linked group https://therecord.media/phishing-attempt-reporters-without-borders-callisto-coldriver

The Sacramento Music Archive has some amazing stuff!
#music #punk

Sacramento Music Archive
A 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. For best results, view on desktop systems

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

“NPR’s board members were excited in the fall of 2023 when they found Ms. Maher. She had worked for the World Bank and HSBC. As the chief executive of the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, she oversaw a sprawling, complicated community of volunteer editors. And she was prepared.”
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Katherine Maher of NPR Has Come Out on Top Despite Battles With Trump and the CPB
Katherine Maher has taken an unyielding approach to NPR’s biggest battles — which has sometimes put her at odds with her colleagues in public media.

Mastodon announced fiscal sponsorship via WE AID,
a German nonprofit organisation that supports charitable projects within an established legal framework.
This partnership offers donors
tax-deductible contributions in Germany
and ensures verified integrity through WE AID’s oversight.
It also enables Mastodon to operate as a nonprofit entity,
strengthening the commitment to a user-first, community-driven platform,
free from algorithmic manipulation an…

Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
We're partnering with WE AID as our fiscal sponsor for donations in Europe.

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark and Eurazeo, after launching in September (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/eric-schmidt-x…

The Philadelphia Inquirer had an operating profit of several million in 2025, with its first YoY revenue growth since 2004; 70% of revenue is from readers (Elizabeth H. Hughes/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/comme…

Elizabeth Hughes: There is a viable path for Pittsburgh to save its newspaper. Here’s how we did it with The Inquirer.
As publisher of The Inquirer, I believe that our own experience over the past decade offers a template for success.

Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence's Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures (Josh Dawsey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/top-heritage-officials-flee-to-mike-pences-nonprofit-as-think-tank-fractures-28765f2b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p26#a251222p26

Yes! Well done nonprofit @… living your values! The #Union makes us strong.
#Utah #jouralism

Had to go through a "#security" training for a new #nonprofit client, and all I could think was - you call this secure? Are these really your "#bestpractices"? Is this how nonprofits op…

This is a great milestone to see for Mastodon, in evolving towards its new community-focused governance structure. I’m optimistic about what this portends for the platform and how its features & future evolve. (And it’s fun that I was there for the photo being taken!) https://

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo nonprofit conversions in science and tech since Jan. 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-complet

#New_Public is testing their nonprofit alternative to #NextDoor / Local #Facebook Groups. This could be very good! <…

"Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says"
#FossilFuels #Brazil #Climate

Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says
This November, as Brazil opened the curtains to host the UN Climate Conference (COP30), in its Pará state capital, Belém, the troubles orbiting the country’s environmental agenda were featured in a new report by U.S.-based conservation technology nonprofit SkyTruth, which is dedicated to satellite-based environmental monitoring. In the run-up to the climate summit, the study […]

This is a direct mutual aid program organized by parents; there’s no nonprofit or governmental intermediary.
I realize that involves a lot of trust, and again, I’m personally vouching for this fundraiser (for whatever that’s worth, I’m just a foot with an eyeball on top on the internet). The advantage of this kind of mutual aid process is that it will get money to families who need it •fast•.
https://givebutter.com/famshelpingfams

wow, all the headlines seem to be burying the lede that the newly added recordings are the infamous joe bussard collection (though maybe that's only headline news to record collectors) https://c.im/@didgebaba/115566845008488758

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/15/former-…

Exclusive: Former OpenAI policy chief creates nonprofit institute, calls for independent safety audits of frontier AI models
Former OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage has launched AVERI and says top AI labs should have independent AI safety audits

Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/offshore-fossil-fuel-exploration-jeopardizes-brazils-climate-leadership-study-says/

Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says
This November, as Brazil opened the curtains to host the UN Climate Conference (COP30), in its Pará state capital, Belém, the troubles orbiting the country’s environmental agenda were featured in a new report by U.S.-based conservation technology nonprofit SkyTruth, which is dedicated to satellite-based environmental monitoring. In the run-up to the climate summit, the study […]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/

"That possibility is being explored through a new collaboration between Corewell Health, Michigan State University, and Every Cure, a nonprofit biotech organization focused on unlocking new uses for existing medications."
Decades-Old Drug May Offer First Real Hope for Ultra-Rare, Life-Threatening Genetic Disorder
https://scitechdaily.com/decades-old-drug-may-offer-first-real-hope-for-ultra-rare-life-threatening-genetic-disorder/

Corporate algorithms and chatbots are taking over the internet, and it’s very bad.
Wikipedia, on the other hand, is a nonprofit made by and for human users who believe in sharing free, organized, accessible, quality information for the good of humanity.
Let’s not take that for granted.
-- Doug Lindner
https://

Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social)
Corporate algorithms and chatbots are taking over the internet, and it’s very bad. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is a nonprofit made by and for human users who believe in sharing free, organized, accessible, quality information for the good of humanity. Let’s not take that for granted. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

A look at the "explosion" of LA media upstarts, like the LA Local News Initiative, which has $18M in funding, SFGate's Southland, and nonprofit LA Public Press (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/…

“More of everything”: In Los Angeles, an “explosion” of new efforts aim to up the city’s local news game
A well-funded coalition building out neighborhood news, a new newsletter from an expanding for-profit site, and a nonprofit breaking through on social media are just a few examples of the latest bids to deliver more local news to the city.

Nonprofit groups offer legal assistance to U.S. troops amid debate over boat strikes (Dan De Luce/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/nonprofit-groups-offer-legal-assistance-us-troops-debate-boat-strikes-rcna249524
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p145#a251216p145

Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko,
is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X riva
as part of the organization’s transition to a nonprofit structure,
announced at the beginning of the year.
The change is Mastodon’s most significant leadership overhaul to date, and one designed to ensure Mastodon’s longevity

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the Executive Director as the company become structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Press Forward and the Online News Association join the Rebuild Local News Coalition, a nonprofit supporting policies that strengthen local news (Rebuild Local News)
https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/press-forward-and-the-on…

Press Forward and the Online News Association Join the Rebuild Local News Coalition
New national partners and a longtime local publisher will support efforts to strengthen community access to local news and information through nonpartisan public policy solutions.

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-t…

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-t…

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/three-andean-condor-chicks-hatch-in-colombia-as-species-nears-local-extinction/<…

Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction
Since July 2024, three Andean condor chicks have hatched at an artificial incubation program located near Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, contributor Christina Noriega reported for Mongabay. The artificial incubation program is run by the Jaime Duque Park Foundation, a Colombian conservation nonprofit that has worked since 2015 to counter the birds’ population decline. Globally, the […]

"Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says"
#Nature #Environment

Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says
Bill Gates recently claimed that protecting nature or improving human health is an either-or choice, but former national leaders like Russ Feingold, a retired U.S. senator, and Mary Robinson, former Irish president, disagree. As chair of the Global Steering Committee of the Campaign for Nature, a nonprofit organization uniting prominent politicians in support of nature […]

MAGA-oriented voices say that they want fearless judges
— but many of them seem really to want judges who will do Trump’s bidding,
Mike Davis, the founder of the Article III Project,
a legal nonprofit that, like the Federalist Society, also espouses originalism,
but is more closely aligned with the MAGA movement, said too many of the Federalist Society’s leaders were “missing in action” during the Biden years,
when Trump faced criminal investigations and a length…

The Federalist Society Is Torn Between Its Legal Philosophy and Trump’s Demands
Guided by Leonard Leo, the society built a pipeline for traditional conservative judges. But that might not be enough for President Trump in his second term.

Good Morning #Canada
If you are a vintage Canadian, you will remember a 1973 commercial comparing the health of a 30-year-old Canadian to a 60-year-old Swede or taking a #BodyBreak with Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod. The nonprofit organization #ParticipACTION has either motivated you to start an exercise program or caused you to feel guilty about being a couch potato. From 1971 to 2001, ParticipACTION operated independently, with government support, and focused on improving the health of Canadians through physical activity. It disappeared for a few years but was relaunched in 2007 as a nonprofit with guaranteed support from the federal government (funding and administrative).
Every year, they release the ParticipACTION Report Card, and for 2025, the data shows a failing grade in most categories. I acknowledge my contribution, or lack thereof. Despite the well documented positive impact of exercise, we are falling short.
#CanadaIsAwesome #GetActive
https://www.participaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025_ParticipACTION_Report_Card_Summary.pdf

An interview with Audrey Cooper, EIC of The Baltimore Banner, on local news decline, growing regionally, paywalls, experimenting with AI, and more (Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories

The Baltimore Banner enters a new year — and a new chapter — with a new editor-in-chief
Local journalism is shrinking in much of the country — but The Baltimore Banner is moving in the opposite direction. In just two years, the nonprofit newsroom has grown into Maryland’s largest reporting operation, expanded beyond Baltimore, and built a fast-growing base of paying subscribers. Now, with their new editor-in-chief, Audrey Cooper, at the helm, The Banner is doubling down on a belief that many in the industry have quietly abandoned: scale still matters. In this wide-ranging conv…

The nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune plans to remove its paywall in Q1 2026 and projects 2025 net revenue of about $1M on gross revenue of $13.57M (Andy Larsen/Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/footer/2025/11/21/tribunes-2025-annual-report/

A broad retreat is underway in the nonprofit world.
After Donald Trump ordered his administration to root out “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts earlier this year,
opening the door to investigations and funding cuts for offenders,
more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed this year with the Internal Revenue Service,
removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities.<…

Deleting DEI
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.

Bronx building Mamdani used to showcase new housing commish's talents has 200 violations -- after favored nonprofit ran it into the ground (Rich Calder/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/11/us-news/bronx-building-mamdani-highlighted-to-showcase-nycs-new-housing-commissioners-talents-has-nearly-200-violations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p67#a260111p67

Political fixer Bradley Tusk's nonprofit releases VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic protocol for mobile voting, amid skepticism from cryptographers (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bradley-tusk-mobile-voting-protocol/

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen
Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology.

A look at The Amargi, a new nonprofit digital outlet based in Germany covering Kurdish news in English and trying to avoid favoring any specific political party (Seyma Bayram/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/amargi-kurdish

‘The Amargi’ imagines a free Kurdish press.
The Amargi, a digital outlet based in Germany, takes the lead on Kurdish news.

New spyware discovered on Belarusian journalist’s phone after interrogation https://therecord.media/spyware-belarus-journalist-rsf

Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Good Morning #Canada
My youngest daughter is visiting this weekend, and while cooking our family breakfast, we had a long conversation about #AI and #LLM applications. She works for a nonprofit - Rainbow Railroad - and is in charge of all their data applications and funding processes. Her manager is suggesting that they need to start exploring AI/LLM, perhaps to automate email responses to donors. Her response, backed by the fundraising team, is "no effing way will a machine talk to any donor." Losing the personal touch can kill an organization that relies on the emotional empathy and kindness of the public.
That led to a new discussion - are there examples of #AI being used for good. #AskEllyn, the nonprofit chatbot that supports breast cancer patients, was the only one we could name, unfortunately, because both my daughters have relied on it over the past few months.
Tell me about other positive examples of AI - bonus points if they're Canadian.
#CanadaIsAwesome #
https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/kitchener-ont-ai-chatbot-for-breast-cancer-patients-becomes-focus-of-national-clinical-research-study/

PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/po

The Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…

Liberty Justice Center | Supreme Transparency
The Liberty Justice Center is the litigation arm of the right-wing Illinois Policy Institute. It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions (including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case), attacked gun safety measures, and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

A stretch of undeveloped California coastline on the border of Marin and Sonoma counties has officially opened to the public for the first time in a century.
Set on the coast just south of Bodega Bay and west of Valley Ford, the "Estero Americano Coast Preserve" is a 547-acre expanse at the mouth of the Estero Americano estuary.
The property is managed by the Wildlands Conservancy,
a nonprofit in the San Bernardino Mountains. The conservancy acquired the preserve …

Estero Americano Coast Preserve » The Wildlands Conservancy
The Wildlands Conservancy's Jenner Headlands is a spectacular 5,630-acre mosaic of redwood and Douglas-fir forests, oak woodland, chaparral and coastal prairie overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The Preserve adjoins Pacific Coast Highway for 2.5 miles adjacent to Sonoma Coast State Park. Jenner Headland

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

Source: OpenAI privately complained to NBC News that the author of a story about OpenAI pressuring nonprofits was backed by a nonprofit involved in the story (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2025/ai-critics-funded-ai-coverage-…

Exclusive: AI critics funded AI coverage at top newsrooms
A behind-the-scenes media war over coverage of AI reflects a deep split inside the tech community.

The Post-Gazette closes in five months, leaving time for Pittsburgh institutions to react, maybe by growing a replacement or helping its owner start a nonprofit (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/will-pittsb…

Will Pittsburgh become America’s most important city without a newspaper?
One of the country's oldest newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, says it's shutting down in May. Not going digital-only — just closing. But the delayed closure could also spur some long-delayed action.