@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNonprofit SF news outlet The Frisc is shutting down after nine years as local outlets proliferate in the city and media donors diverted funds to public media (Max Harrison-Caldwell/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/09/09/the-frisc-nonpr…
@cdarwin@c.imGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has poured $102 million into a political nonprofit bankrolling ballot measures that could block California’s proposed wealth tax on billionaires.
Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on assets of California billionaires,
raising tens of billions for healthcare, education and food aid,
-- but competing measures 41 and 42 could override it.
The November showdown over taxing the ultra-rich has drawn national figures, powerful unions…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMadden Is Designed to Feel Real. So Where Are the Concussions? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/madden-27-nfl-concussions.html
@cdarwin@c.imUkrainians, already drone innovators, are turning their focus to psychological operations aimed at undercutting Russian support for the war.
Maria Berlinska has formed a nonprofit organization,
Victory Neurones,
and last month gathered specialists in cognitive influence,
a term that includes everything from strategic communications to cyberwarfare.
“Wars begin and end not in the trenches,
but in people’s heads,”
she told the gathering.
“You ar…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCrooked Media's nonprofit Crooked Ideas launches an initiative to support progressive video creators, with digital strategist Kyle Tharp as executive director (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/07/2026/crooked-me…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/nonpr…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialReport: Indonesian authorities weaponize laws to silence environmental and Indigenous defenders https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/report-indonesian-authorities-weaponize-laws-to-silence-en…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"How Can Nonprofit Presses Advance the Diamond Ecosystem?"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/how-nonprofit-presses-can-advance-diamond-oa
"Earlier this year, three nonprofit…
@barijaona@mastodon.mgUS's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/06/26/trump-shuttered-climate-change-site-back-online-in-nonprofit-hands/5263319
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p95#a260626p95
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgI have donated to Complexly #Complexly is a nonprofit that produces shows like Crash Course, SciShow, Eons, Ask Hank Anything, Bizarre Beasts, Study Hall, and more. Providing great content for f…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Campaign Legal Center (CLC),
a nonprofit whose stated aim is to defend democracy,
has filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
regarding monetary “gifts” from Donald Trump to a handful of White House staffers.
Trump made payments of $45,000 each to Natalie Harp, his doting executive assistant who rarely leaves his side;
Chamberlain Harris,
his deputy director of Oval Office operations;
and Margo Martin,
a Wh…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJournalists, OSINT specialists, and nonprofit leaders discuss the future of visual investigations with the rise of AI manipulation and declining reader trust (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/the-future-of-visual-investigat…
@ncoca@social.coopI support I should feel sorry, but as someone who has repeatedly warned #nonprofits (& media outlets) that I've worked about their over-rerliance on #bigtech platforms, I find it hard to really be so sympathetic.
Also - how can it be that I, an individual, have a most robust data backup and…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgThe Internet Archive San Francisco tours on Fridays at 1pm are getting more and more people. So fun. 300 Funston Ave.
Here are some other tiny bookie non-profits in San Francisco...
Letterform Archive https://letterformarchive.org/
Prelinger Library
@cdarwin@c.imIs AI superintelligence inevitable?
AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be.
Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable,
warns that “we need to mitigate the risk of extinction” with regulation
and moratoriums to halt the development of AI’s computational power and complexity,
which he says is progressing at a rate much faster than current levels of human supervision can manage.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeNo. #Utah State Senator Todd Weiler is not new to politics. He knows Alliance for a Better Utah. It's existed since June 2012 and been active in advocacy that whole time.
It's a local nonprofit with annual, public Form 990s.
If Todd was "duped", he was a willing dupee. Kevin O'Leary was obviously lying to Fox News for an audience outside of Utah politics.
@chiraag@mastodon.online @cdarwin@c.imAs businesses adopt artificial intelligence,
fears of a wave of job displacement continue to grow.
A new nonprofit called RAISE US
aims to bring together states,
major businesses and AI firms
to prepare workers, companies and local economies for what’s to come.
It’s a bipartisan effort, co-founded by Republican Eric Holcomb and Democrat Gina Raimondo
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Restoration News, a three-year-old news site funded by the right-wing nonprofit Restoration of America, with ties to Metric Media's network of sites (C.J. Robinson/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imScientists race to save Florida’s coral reef as El Niño heats the ocean
The waters off the coast of South Florida were already growing warm by late June
— ominously warm to Ken Nedimyer and other scientists and conservationists
still scarred by a devastating 2023 marine heat wave
that led to the worst mass coral bleaching event on record in the state.
Nedimyer, technical director for the nonprofit Reef Renewal USA,
and other colleagues kicked into gear. …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow a 2023 deal that gave Pennsylvania newspaper LNP to public radio station WITF brought financial woes and self-dealing allegations, and ultimately fell apart (Carolina Abbott Galvão/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/what-happened-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWorld Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/409610/world-foundation-wld-token-sale-funding
@gray17@mastodon.socialSaw a photo of a doctor office with this image on a screen, and had to track it down.
( Image of someone in a orange/black/yellow leather pup mask, sunglasses, chain collar, with text "We're not a vet... but we treat pups!" )
This is by Equitas Health, a nonprofit lgbtq healthcare provider in Ohio
https://www.…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump administration required to pay $65 million owed to lawyers of unaccompanied migrant children
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to pay about $65 million in overdue invoices to nonprofit organizations that provided legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children facing deportation.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to release the funds by noon Friday, Pacifc time.
Immigrant rights advo…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMatt Gaetz announces he's 'returning to public service' on Florida nonprofit board (Emilio Perez Ibarguen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/23/matt-gaetz-florida-public-service-00972794
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p109#a260623p109
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeHey, #Utah. How's about a new, government-funded cult, as a treat?
"These group exercises and private corrections resemble tactics used in Synanon, a notorious and controversial drug treatment program seen as one of the first versions of a therapeutic community model. The Other Side Academy leaders don’t claim a tie to that program. But Delancey Street Foundation — where several ear…
@servelan@newsie.socialUS's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSemipublic, a nonprofit offering data-driven analysis of public media funding, debuts about a year after it started "Adopt A Station" to encourage more funding (Alex Curley/Semipublic)
https://newsletter.semipublic.org/p/introducing-adopt-a-stations-commu…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land
in the Black Hills,
in Custer County, South Dakota, United States.
It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land.
The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski.
It is operated by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
Crazy Hor…
@cdarwin@c.imRepublicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding
for the late and beloved Dolly Parton's children's book charity.
Imagination Library,
the nonprofit founded by Parton that sends free books to children across the world,
faces an uncertain future in Indiana and Missouri
as Republican lawmakers limit public funding.
The charity, meanwhile, has vowed to carry on.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNonprofit linked to seductive Swalwell honeypot Fang Fang has CCP ties -- and still places interns into political offices across US (Isabel Vincent/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/09/02/us-news/nonprofit-linked-to-swalwell-spy-fang-fang-has-ccp-ties-and-still-placing-interns-into-us-political-offices/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260902/p68#a260902p68
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is no longer offering due process protections to the most vulnerable immigrant children
-- as it tries to increase the number of deportations,
according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of six children,
five of whom reside in Allegheny County.
“This case is about the most vulnerable in our immigration system:
abused, abandoned, neglected, and trafficked children,”
the opening lines of the lawsuit read.
“One would assum…
@teledyn@mstdn.caClimate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information | Climate.us
Climate.us is not an official U.S. government website. It is an independent nonprofit project created to protect public access to climate knowledge and continue the plain-language, science-reviewed communication that made Climate.gov an essential resource for educators, journalists, decision-makers, and communities across the country.
https://www.climate.us/news-features/feed/climateus-launches-independent-website-trusted-climate-information
@cdarwin@c.imOn Monday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court
— on a 5-4 vote
— cleared the way for Trump’s ballroom construction to proceed on White House grounds
despite no congressional authorization for the action,
holding that the nonprofit organization that sued likely did not have standing to do so.
The unsigned, “per curiam” order issued on behalf of Justices Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett
held that the National Tru…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA new nonprofit launched a text campaign to pressure California's AG to drop a challenge against the Paramount-WBD deal; critics call it corporate astroturf (Matt Sledge/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/21/paramount-merger-war…
@joe@toot.worksI don't have an interest in nonprofit governance, event planning, or fundraising but I am tempted to see what I can do to help. I really like that library.
#WhitefishBay #Library
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRe this post:
Back in 2012, the Minnesota Orchestra musicians went on strike over a semi-secretive plan from the board to remake the orchestra (one of the best in the world) by slashing player salaries, gutting creative direction, and turning them into a sort of pop-lite-classical easy listening machine of some kind — details very fuzzy, rationale even fuzzier.
During the dispute, a slide deck of their shadowy plan leaked. It was somewhat garbled and confusing, and missing all the key details and analysis that everyone was dying for. “What are you hiding??” the public cried, “Show us the full plan!!” “What are you talking about? We did!” “No, not just the presentation! The actual plan!”
A confused period followed during which it became clear that the slide deck •was• the full plan.
This little gaggle of the Brightest Minds of Business moonlighting on a nonprofit board thought that gutting a local institution required so little thought that when people saw the full analysis, they assumed the board must be hiding something.
https://chaosfem.tw/@theogrin/116808542563847455
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump admin set to target George Soros nonprofit, Southern Poverty Law Center and CAIR in major tax crackdown: sources (James Franey/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/08/27/business/trump-admin-set-to-target-george-soros-nonprofit-in-tax-crackdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p91#a260827p91
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPrism and other nonprofit outlets that focus on "movement journalism" and exposing injustice are struggling with funding as the Trump administration targets DEI (Uyiosa Elegon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imOn a July afternoon in 2019, I found myself in a large, sun-dappled room within one of America’s great estates.
An assemblage of distinguished jurists, Ivy League professors, nonprofit leaders, journalists, and theologians sat around me in a half circle.
I was trying to be on my best behavior, but I blurted out a word dirty enough to make them blanch.
In my defense, I thought it was what I had been summoned there to do.
An independent commission had spent the previ…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSalem Media goes private after completing its sale to WaterStone, the operating name of The Christian Community Foundation, which held a 49.5% voting interest (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/08/20/salem-media-goes-private-as-w…
@cdarwin@c.imMissouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has spent months telling voters that the state constitution is under threat from
“out-of-state special interests”
using ballot initiatives to bypass the Republican-controlled legislature
and enact major policy changes.
The measures have included legalizing recreational marijuana,
expanding Medicaid
and restoring abortion rights.
That argument is at the center of Kehoe’s support for Amendment 4,
a measure in the Aug. 4…
@cdarwin@c.imParamount refused to air an advertisement blasting the $111 billion merger agreementbetween Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, according to Freedom of the Press Foundation, the nonprofit advocacy group that submitted it to run during the Tump/Whitehose cage match.
The rejected 30-second spot features Trump calling journalists
“the enemy of the people”
and suggested that Trump-allied Paramount chairman and CEO
David Ellison could force CNN, the flagship War…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Georgia Trust for Local News purchased The Macon Telegraph and The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer from McClatchy; The Macon Melody will merge with The Telegraph (GTLN)
https://www.gtln.org/post/georgia-trust-for-local-new…
@gray17@mastodon.socialmost of the 140 groups in the parade of course were boring corporate and nonprofit groups, in rainbow colors, and a few not-really-furry mascots.
a large but ordinary trans group had two fursuiters.
a few pup masks escaped the normal kink groups. the oddest was a bull mask worn by someone carrying one side of the sign for ... um I think it was the Oregon Department of Justice, or maybe the Portland Justice Center. I don't remember exactly any more, and that was after my phone died
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUnearthed Video Exposes Nasty Drama Inside Michael Flynn's Nonprofit (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/unearthed-video-exposes-nasty-drama
http://www.memeorandum.com/260702/p98#a260702p98
@cdarwin@c.imStandards Not Force
may be useful for residents who want to become more involved in local government, public oversight, peaceful protest, corporate accountability, or community organizing.
It may also support journalists, researchers, democracy advocates, neighborhood groups, students, nonprofit organizations, and volunteers seeking a structured approach to lawful civic engagement.
The organization presents an advocacy framework rather than a neutral government or academic…
@cdarwin@c.imHere’s what you have to understand:
In Donald Trump’s America, all types of protest are unacceptable.
And if he gets his way, everyone involved in either of them could face the same fate.
Trump is currently at war with the left.
Antifa, communists, radical leftist agitators
— call them what you will, he’s coming for them.
But he’s also making plans to come for the center:
attacking nonprofit groups,
suing the press,
and making every ef…
