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1 week ago | 
philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels
In the days following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, as he pulled federal grants from nonprofits and put the weight of the federal government behind efforts to quash racial equity programs, Ricshawn Roane knew as leader of the Weissberg Foundation that she had to take action.
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2 weeks ago | 
philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels
The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term in office began with a frenzy of actions that left many nonprofit leaders stunned.
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3 weeks ago | 
philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels
The call that the Vera Institute of Justice had with DOGE lawyers seemed like the early stages of a “hostile takeover” recalls Nicholas Turner, president of the criminal-justice reform organization. The Trump administration had already sent Turner notice that Vera’s five federal grants, totaling about $5 million, had been terminated.
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1 month ago | 
philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels
Less than two weeks after a conservative legal activist asked the Internal Revenue Service to strip the Gates Foundation of its tax-exempt status for offering scholarships based on race, the largest private foundation in the United States has decided to open its signature scholarship program to students of all races.
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1 month ago | 
philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels
A pledge to increase the flow of money to grantees in response to the Trump administration’s defunding of nonprofits that promote progressive policies has collected 79 signers, 10 of whom declined to identify themselves publicly.
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1 month ago | 
philanthropy.com | Sara Herschander |Tamara Straus |Alex Daniels |Elizabeth Haugh
At the end of last year, nonprofits were facing a wave of program cuts, layoffs, and closures as inflation, declining donations, and other forces hit budgets. Now, the Trump administration is aggressively cutting federal funding that many organizations rely on. What is the toll on the sector as a whole?
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1 month ago | 
philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels
A salvo of White House executive orders aiming to snuff out diversity, equity, and inclusion programs has triggered nearly a dozen lawsuits challenging their constitutionality. The court actions in the first weeks of the Trump administration have led to dizzying rounds of motions, preliminary injunctions, and other court orders that have left progressive grant makers reeling.
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1 month ago | 
philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels
During the past two months, as the White House pummeled left-leaning nonprofits through a series of executive orders and federal funding freezes, some nonprofit executives have wondered why foundations are not responding with aggressive support and action. Amber Hamilton, CEO of the Memphis Music Initiative, a $5 million arts education and advocacy nonprofit, said foundations are acting too much like a “wealth protection industry” — and she keeps hearing the same refrain when she contacts them.
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1 month ago | 
philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels
Late last year, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced that her giving would come with a new twist: Rather than park her wealth in the stock market with a goal of making a profit, some of it — how much is unclear — would be invested in companies and funds that aim to make societal and environmental improvements, such as reducing wealth disparities and providing more people with homes.
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2 months ago | 
philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels
Debra Hauser’s response to having her nonprofit’s federal funding yanked in the early weeks of the Trump administration was essentially, “You can’t fire me, I quit.”A slate of orders issued by the White House that attempt to extinguish federal support for programs that encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion and deny the rights of transgender people, seemed tailor-made to target Advocates for Youth, where Hauser serves as president.
