Samwise Nonprofits and Charities Newsletter
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
SPLC Interim CEO Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee Amid Congressional Inquiry
Bryan Fair, interim president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, testified Tuesday before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee as part of a congressional inquiry into the organization. Fair defended the SPLC’s 55-year civil rights mission, including litigation that dismantled the United Klans of America following the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, and highlighted current clients including Karen Finn, whose son Eron — who lives with autism — graduated after the SPLC prevailed in a school discrimination case, and Tanya Gersh, who received a $14 million judgment against a Neo-Nazi for antisemitic harassment. Fair noted constraints in answering some questions due to a pending criminal case against the organization.
Sources: SPLC Center
NH Gives Opens With a Record 701 Nonprofits in New Hampshire’s 11th Annual Giving Day
New Hampshire’s 24-hour charitable giving event launched Tuesday with a record 701 nonprofits registered to participate — up from 650 last year. The 11th annual NH Gives, organized by the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits, runs from 5 p.m. June 9 through 5 p.m. June 10. Since the event’s 2016 launch, it has raised more than $22 million for nearly 1,200 organizations. Last year, more than 13,000 donors contributed over $3.4 million to support 650 nonprofits. This year, the Katy Burns Local Journalism Fund will match the first $2,800 in donations to InDepthNH.org, a nonprofit news outlet participating in the statewide campaign.
Sources: InDepthNH
SPLC Annual Year in Hate Report Identifies 1,263 Hard-Right Groups Active in 2025
The Southern Poverty Law Center released its annual Year in Hate & Extremism report on June 9, identifying 1,263 hate and antigovernment groups active in the United States during 2025. The report documents the hard-right movement’s consolidation of power across the federal government and private tech sector, including extremist groups exploiting cryptocurrency for harassment campaigns and targeting college campuses for propaganda and recruitment. SPLC interim CEO Bryan Fair said the movement’s federal allies helped transform hard-right rhetoric into “dangerous policies that have come at the direct expense of Black and Brown people, immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ communities.” The report includes an interactive state-by-state hate group map.
Sources: SPLC Center
Nonprofit Quarterly and Liberation Ventures Launch 16-Day Week of Repair for America 250
Nonprofit Quarterly and Liberation Ventures announced Tuesday a 16-day editorial collaboration running from Juneteenth through July 4, centering reparations narratives within America’s 250th anniversary commemorations. The “Week of Repair” will feature essays, reporting, poetry, and visual art on WeTheCivic.org from dozens of movement organizations — including the BLIS Collective, Reparations Finance Lab, and The Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. Content is organized around four pillars: Repair is Personal, Repair is Love, Repair is Community, and Repair is the Future. NPQ interim CEO Sara Hudson said official commemorations are “arguments about who belongs” and that anniversaries do not erase harm. Submissions are open on a rolling basis.
Sources: Nonprofit Quarterly
Georgia Farm Turns Regenerative Agriculture Model Into a Place-Based Teaching Nonprofit
White Oak Pastures, a fourth-generation family farm in Bluffton, Georgia, has become a model for regenerative agriculture and the home of an educational nonprofit. Will Harris, the farm’s owner, abandoned industrial cattle production in 1995 and spent decades rebuilding the 3,200-acre operation around regenerative land management. Growing demand for farm visits and knowledge-sharing led to the creation of the Center for Agricultural Resilience, a place-based nonprofit training both mass producers and hobby farmers in regenerative grazing techniques. The U.S. invested $700 million in regenerative agriculture in 2025. Farmer-managed natural regeneration has been adopted in 40 countries. Harris says his goal is to ensure the farm remains “perpetual.”
Sources: Nonprofit Quarterly
Philadelphia’s Free African Society of 1787 Was America’s First Black Mutual Aid Organization
In April 1787, weeks before the Constitutional Convention convened nearby, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones founded the Free African Society in Philadelphia, a mutual aid organization that charged members one shilling monthly to cover medical care, burials, and apprenticeships. Historians credit the FAS as a precursor to the nonprofit sector; more than 100 similar societies existed in Philadelphia by 1838. In 1794, Allen and Jones obtained what historian Richard S. Newman identifies as the first federal copyright held by African Americans, for their pamphlet on the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. The society disbanded around 1791; the institutions it started — including Mother Bethel AME Church near Independence Hall — endure.
Sources: Nonprofit Quarterly
Trans Organizer Documents How Cross-Movement Coalition-Building Wins LGBTQ Majorities in North Carolina
Jess St. Louis, a trans woman and narrative strategist with North Carolina’s Guilford for All, documents how cross-movement organizing — across race, class, and gender — has built stronger support for LGBTQ advocacy than identity-exclusive spaces alone. St. Louis co-founded Guilford for All in 2020; the cis, multiracial group helped flip Guilford County’s commission that year. In 2021-22, a cis member drafted a transgender healthcare and wellness policy; 84 percent of members and survey participants voted in favor. Guilford for All is a chapter of the Carolina Federation, a statewide network. St. Louis argues that limiting trans advocacy to already-aligned spaces forfeits the large-scale power needed to counter anti-trans legislation.
Sources: Nonprofit Quarterly
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