Alex Daniels

1 week ago | philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels

Susan Goldberg, president of Boston public broadcaster WGBH, feels like a poster child for nonprofit leaders dealing with federal funding cuts and lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s executive orders. In early June, Goldberg announced a layoff of 6 percent of her staff, 45 people, because the broadcaster expects its federal support could be zeroed out. The job cuts aren’t the first.

3 weeks ago | philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels

Is the “nonprofit killer bill” dead? According to Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, the measure, which lawmakers in the House punted on last week, could soon resurface. If so, all nonprofits should take notice, not just those that support Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas war, the original focus of the bill. The legislation would have allowed the U.S. Treasury Department to strip the nonprofit status from any group it believes supports terrorists.

1 month ago | philanthropy.com | Alex Daniels

In the absence of key financing from federal grants and loans, Marla Bilonick worries that the community development nonprofits and small businesses she serves will soon see their credit frozen. Bilonick is president of the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders, a membership organization of more than 200 Community Development Financial Institutions that invest in businesses and housing development in areas long overlooked by commercial finance.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.