The Retreat of Influence: Exploring the Decline of Nonprofit Advocacy and Public Engagement

This report finds that:

A significantly lower proportion of nonprofits report advocating or lobbying compared to 20 years ago.
Mission plays the largest role in determining nonprofit advocacy and lobbying.
Today, significantly fewer nonprofits know advocacy activities they are legally allowed to do compared to 20 years ago.
Only 13% of nonprofits conduct nonpartisan activities to help people vote.

Strengthening Response in Real Time

This Rapid Response Report serves as a testimony to how Minnesota’s philanthropic ecosystem organized during a critical moment in state history. It offers vital lessons, structural insights, and

Guide to Fiscal Sponsorship

As fiscal sponsorship continues to become a more widely used tool for charitable impact, it is important that 501(c)(3) organizations acting as a fiscal sponsor are doing it right.

Immigrant Rapid Response Fund: Briefing Series

Between Christmas 2025 and February 2026, Operation Metro Surge brought roughly 2,000 federal immigration agents to the Twin Cities. More than 4,000 people were arrested. Two Minnesotans were killed.