resources to meet 2025 challenges

Jan 29, 2025

The Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network is a coalition-led initiative providing free legal support to federal employees fired or mistreated under the Trump administration, mobilizing thousands of pro bono lawyers to defend their rights and uphold the integrity of public service.

The Undo List shares simple ways to adjust our spending and daily habits to support our communities, save money, and shift resources away from billionaires who are harming our future.

Resilience Roundup is a live, crowdsourced space drawn from partners in human services nonprofits, coalitions, grassroots networks, media, philanthropy, local government, and more. Led by Human Services Council.

Executive orders affecting charitable organizations, updated frequently by the National Council of Nonprofits.
Resources for challenges arising from recent federal decisions, such as the Office of Management and Budget's memo freezing federal grants and ambiguous Executive Orders by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. Topics include legal, scenario planning, financial modeling, and communications.
Post Election Toolkit by 20 Degrees.
IRS guidance on staying exempt as a 501(c)(3) organization.

Guide to help immigrant families and their allies understand their rights and to prepare for immigration emergencies that might happen. [District of Columbia focused. English, Spanish, Amharic and more languages].
Know Your Rights by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Legal Toolkit for volunteer-run and grassroots-led mutual aid groups.
Statistics on income and wealth inequality across groups in the United States by Realtime Inequality.

Transforming Climate Finance Through A Black Liberation Lens through ten mandates for coordinated action by Gilmore Khandhar, LLC and The Chisholm Legacy Project.
Solidarity Economy Funding Library, a vital resource for grants, investments, and fiscal sponsorships aligned with cooperative, transparent, and reparative practices around flowing capital between projects and funders.

Multi-state guidance from 16 Attorney Generals to assist businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations in understanding the ongoing legal viability and critical importance of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) efforts (updated 2/13/2025).
Understanding and adapting to Trump administration policy shifts by Seramount.

How to build a village. Be the person who asks twice.
My Parting Prescription for America and the core pillars of community - relationships, service, and purpose [by Dr. Vivek Murthy, 19th and 21st US Surgeon General].