Stephanie Beasley

1 month ago | philanthropy.com | Stephanie Beasley

Immigration raids, harassment, the loss of critical environmental and legal aid funding — these are among the many challenges facing Latino-led nonprofits as the Trump administration rolls out new policies affecting the communities they serve, Hispanic Federation President Frankie Miranda said. In this moment, Hispanic Americans are being conflated with people living in the country without proper documentation, and that has had a chilling effect on these groups, according to Miranda.

1 month ago | philanthropy.com | Stephanie Beasley

This story will be updated as we add more emergency funds. With the future of federal funding for the nonprofit sector uncertain and layoffs mounting, foundations and other grant makers are stepping up efforts to deliver emergency funds to civil society organizations, especially those serving women, people of color, and LGBTQ communities.

2 months ago | philanthropy.com | Stephanie Beasley

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty” that included the provision of direct federal grants to nonprofits tasked with delivering education, health care, and other social services to marginalized communities. More than 60 years later, President Donald Trump appears to be dismantling much of that strategy, according to Claire Dunning, author of the book Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State.

2 months ago | philanthropy.com | Stephanie Beasley

The Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and pause or cancellation of federal funding to a wide range of human service and other organizations have caused chaos in the nonprofit sector. In just two months, program cuts, layoffs, and financial uncertainty have become rife. Many major foundations have been slow to respond to the administration’s actions and its cascading effects, but in recent weeks several emergency funds have emerged.

Mar 7, 2025 | philanthropy.com | Stephanie Beasley

In its nearly two decades of operation, GiveDirectly, the direct cash payment charity started by MIT and Harvard graduate students, has delivered more than $800 million to more than 1.6 million people, largely in sub-Saharan Africa. The effort to allow financially struggling people to use aid money as they see fit — rather than as directed by faraway grant makers — has seen success and failure, both in its work abroad and in its first seven years in the United States.