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February 13, 2025
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From: Philanthropy Today

Subject: Jerry Falwell's Long Game Has Lessons for Fundraisers (Opinion)

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Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online

Some nonprofits, local governments, and others are still waiting for federal payments that were supposed to restart after two courts ordered the Trump administration to lift an across-the-board freeze on grants. Among the previously approved projects in limbo are an emergency shelter in Mississippi, wildfire prevention in Montana, and a fleet of electric school buses in Illinois. The grantees say they have received no explanation for the stoppage, but administration officials now say they are blocking payments on a grant-by-grant basis, pending reviews for irregularities. That approach has been permitted by a federal judge. (New York Times)

  • Background from the Chronicle: ‘It’s Not Over’: Steps to Rethink Fundraising After Trump’s Spending Freeze

In a first, President Donald Trump has removed all the members of the Kennedy Center’s board appointed by his predecessor and installed himself as chairman. The new board of Trump loyalists, in turn, has fired the federally funded nonprofit center’s president, Deborah Rutter, and named Richard Grenell as her interim replacement. Grenell served as the U.S. ambassador to Germany during the first Trump administration and has been a Fox News contributor. Of the takeover, Trump told reporters, “We’re going to make sure that it’s good and it’s not going to be woke.” (Washington Post)

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