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Navigating Nonprofit Legal Infrastructure

With H.R. 9495 potentially putting nonprofits under siege, compounding existing threats to political organizing, here’s what to consider when navigating creating legal infrastructure. Map threats to movement infrastructure, get pointers on navigating material support for terrorism laws, and know your rights when providing mutual aid. Additional resources are linked at the end of the document.

Here’s the Community Guide for Grassroots Groups, developed by Muslims for Just Futures.

Additional related resources:

• Pro-Trump Project 2025 Has Sinister Plan to Crush Palestine Activism | The New Republic 

• Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU. 

• Charity & Security Network Write Up on HR 9495

• Charity & Security Network Background on U.S. Material Support Statutes 

• Congressional Research Service: Report Suspending the Tax-Exempt Status of Terrorist and Terrorist Supporting Organizations: H.R. 6408 in Context

• Muslims for Just Futures: Community Guide for Grassroots

• Sustainable Economies Law Center: Mutual Aid Legal Toolkit

• ICNL: 10 Major Legal Threats to U.S. Civil Society

• Muslims for a Just Future: Community Guide

• Charity and Security Network: Know Your Rights

• Checklist for New Nonprofits

• Bolder Advocacy resources

Coming March 2025.

Welcome to the resource hub! Come back in the future for vetted resources that will point you the right way, whether you’re a first-time protester or veteran organizer. The resource hub will contain information about the protest legal landscape, digital security, and protester safety. It will also contain resources about how to enact resolutions and policies that defend the right to protest. 

These resources will be vetted and sourced from networks of protest organizations. And, if you have resources to share, submit your own! Return in late January 2025 for the full resource hub.