The election gave several nonprofits a welcome boost

Since Election Day, donations have been flooding in to organizations that focus on civil rights, women's health, immigration rights, and the environment.

Groups whose agendas are at odds with proposals Donald Trump made during his campaign, like Planned Parenthood, have seen an avalanche of contributions and volunteer applications, Adam Chandler writes at The Atlantic. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said that nearly 80,000 donations came in over the three days after the election, with many making their offering in Mike Pence's name; over the course of his political career, the vice president–elect has signed controversial abortion laws and voted against a law that would prohibit discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace. "It's an unprecedented outpouring of support," Richards said.

The American Civil Liberties Union was inundated with donations on Wednesday, causing its donation page to crash, and after five days it had $7.2 million in new gifts. The Anti-Defamation League's CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said the day after the election, "we received a 50-fold increase in online donations," with nearly 70 percent from first-time donors, and more than 500 volunteer applications have been sent to the Council on American-Islam Relations (CAIR). Nonprofits can prepare for even more money to come in — on Sunday's Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver urged viewers to give to groups like the National Resources Defense Council if you "don't believe man-made global warming is a silly issue," and to the International Refugee Assistance Project "if you don't think refugees are a terrorist army in disguise."

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