Perspectives & Insights: The Blog of TNPA

Elevate Your Partnerships With TNPA’s RFP Best Practices Guide 

Navigating the RFP process is easier thanks to our expert ADRFCO Council Member volunteers who developed a comprehensive guide to help you make smarter, more strategic vendor selection decisions. This practical resource includes pre-RFP assessment questions, sample RFI templates, objective evaluation scorecards, NDAs, and communication frameworks—tools these industry leaders use in their own daily work. Created by volunteers from leading agencies, this guide reflects TNPA's commitment to empowering our 2,600+ members with high-level resources that solve real-world challenges. 

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2025 Nonprofit Policy Moments and a 2026 Look Ahead

The Nonprofit Alliance (TNPA) was proud to engage with policymakers regarding important legislative and policy moments in 2025. As we move into 2026, a midterm election year, it is an important time to reflect on some of the key policy moments for the nonprofit sector, highlighting both successes and challenges. We remain grateful to TNPA members for their support of our advocacy engagement and for sharing their individual and organizational perspectives to help shape our work.

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The President’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Nonprofit Alliance (TNPA) reviewed the Trump administration’s December 11, 2025, Executive Order (EO), Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence. As expected, the EO lays out several new initiatives that will create bureaucratic roadblocks for AI regulation, building on the January Executive Order and July AI action plan, which included language regarding possible retaliation towards states that regulate AI and pushed for a general lack of AI oversight.

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Leading EDGE Updates | November 2025

Check out our latest TNPA blog post for quarterly updates, including ways to get involved with our community of nonprofits, nonprofit-supporting companies, schools, and students who are passionate about making a difference through the social good sector!

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The Government Shutdown’s Impact Will Continue for Nonprofits

The Nonprofit Alliance (TNPA) welcomed the end of the 43-day government shutdown on November 12, 2025, the longest shutdown in U.S. history. The funding agreement, which included a minibus and a continuing resolution (CR) through January 30, 2026, is unfortunately a band-aid on broader funding challenges and undermines Congressional authority to authorize and appropriate funding.

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