Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online
A North Dakota jury has ordered Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million to a Texas-based pipeline company over its role in the Dakota Access pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017. The company, Energy Transfer, said Greenpeace’s actions had caused it financial and reputational damage, while the environmental group said it joined the protests at the invitation of the Indigenous people who led it. Greenpeace called the case an attempt to stifle free speech and said it would appeal. (New York Times)
Catholic leaders in New York State are resisting efforts by survivors of clergy sexual abuse to get settlement payments from a nearly $4 billion, church-linked foundation. With almost all of the state’s dioceses in bankruptcy protection, lawyers representing thousands of victims are eyeing the assets of the Mother Cabrini Foundation, which makes grants to nonprofits and was formed after the sale of the church’s Fidelis Care health insurer in 2018. Church leaders say the foundation is separate from the dioceses, but some survivors say the sale of Fidelis and establishment of the foundation was a pre-emptive effort to shield church assets from what would be a flood of abuse claims. (Buffalo News)
Nonprofits in Trump’s Crosshairs
- With Orders, Investigations and Innuendo, Trump and GOP Aim to Cripple the Left (New York Times)
- Op-Ed: What Losing DEI Initiatives Can Mean for Nonprofits (Crain’s New York Business — subscription)
- E-Bike Vouchers and Rooftop Solar? Maybe Not, as Local Nonprofits Face Ongoing Federal Funding Freeze (LAist)
- In the Trump 2.0 Era, What’s a Foundation To Do? (eJewish Philanthropy)
Cuts for Museums, Libraries
- ‘We Cannot Lose That': Multiple Greater Cincinnati Museums Impacted by Federal Cuts (WKRC)
- Michigan Libraries, Museums May Feel Impacts of Trump’s Latest Federal Downsizing (MLive)
- Trump Is Attacking Libraries and Museums In Every State. Here Are 3 Things You Can Do to Help Communities Fight Back (Fast Company)
Nonprofits Push Back
- Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Terminating $14 Billion in ‘Green Bank’ Grants (Associated Press)
- U.S. Institute of Peace Accuses Trump and DOGE of ‘Takeover by Force’ (New York Times)
- Chicago Nonprofit Supporting Women in Trades Sues Trump Administration Over Anti-DEI Orders (WTTW)
More News
- Report for America’s Parent Organization Will “Sunset” Its In-House Editorial Projects to Focus on Funding Local Journalism (Nieman Lab)
- Massachusetts Prepares in Case of Collapse of Commonwealth Care Alliance, Insurer for 50,000 Poor, Elderly, and Disabled People (Boston Globe)
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