Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online
A jury is deliberating in a lawsuit that could spell the end of Greenpeace in the United States, filed by the owner of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline. In seeking at least $300 million, Energy Transfer says the storied environmental nonprofit led a “vast, malicious publicity campaign” during 2016 protests against the pipeline, which cost the company money. Greenpeace says the case is a threat to free speech and that it entered the protests only at the invitation of the Indigenous people who were leading it. If successful, the litigation could force Greenpeace to shut down its American office, after more than 50 years of activism. (New York Times)
Even as some environmental groups regain access to millions of federal dollars that the Trump administration had frozen, they are bracing for a wave of probes and prosecutions. The new administration alleges that recipients of the Biden-era Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which it has canceled, defrauded the government. Some groups have reportedly been ordered to hand over their correspondence with staff from the Environmental Protection Agency, records of “transactions related to their programs, and their organizations’ articles of incorporation and policies.” (Floodlight)
- Plus: E.P.A. Offers No New Evidence in Battle Over $20 Billion in Climate Grants (New York Times)
The USAID Shutdown
- Bill Gates Reportedly Warned Trump His Foundation Won’t Be Able to Fund Global Health Gaps If the Administration Keeps Making Major Cuts (Fortune)
- ‘No One Can Fill That Gap’: Why a Global Health Leader Sees U.S. Funding as Irreplaceable (Stat)
- ‘We Couldn’t Wait Any Longer’: Anti-Hunger Nonprofit Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff Amid Federal Funding Delays (Boston Globe)
Nonprofits Face Cuts, Freezes, and Litigation
- San Antonio Catholic Charities Lays off 200 as Trump Cuts Put Agency ‘in Crisis’ (San Antonio Express-News)
- Immigration Nonprofits Sue Homeland Security Over Frozen Funds (Bloomberg Law)
- Nevada’s Mental Health Nonprofits Warn of ‘Devastating’ Potential Federal Funding Cuts (Nevada Independent)
- After Trump Halted Funding for Afghans Who Helped the U.S., This Group Stepped In to Help (Los Angeles Times)
More News
- At the U.S. Institute of Peace, It’s War When Musk’s Team Arrives (New York Times)
- Plus: Democrat Vows to ‘Stop Doge’s Illegal Power Grab’ At Nonprofit Peace Institute (Guardian)
- Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Trade Accusations Over Charities Investigation (Minnesota Star Tribune)
Trump Targets Museums and Libraries
- Trump Moves to Dismantle Institute of Museum and Library Services (Hyperallergic)
- Trump Cuts Could Mean Kentucky Libraries, Universities and Museums Lose Millions (Lexington Herald-Leader)
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