Philanthropy Today

The Trump administration plans to cut $1 billion in funding for Gavi, the global vaccine initiative, as part of its massive downsizing of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The United States is the third-biggest contributor to Gavi, behind the United Kingdom and the Gates Foundation. The organization’s CEO said she had not been notified of the cuts, which she warned could lead to the deaths of more than 1 million children over five years. The State Department refused to discuss specific cuts to foreign aid but said in a statement that it has not cut programs that “advance the core national interests of the United States.” (Washington Post)

• Background from the Chronicle: As USAID Is Gutted, Here’s How Philanthropy Can Stop Panicking and Start Helping (Opinion)

Researchers at Columbia University are waiting to see if their federal funds will be restored after university administrators bowed to nearly all of the Trump administration’s demands for measures to prevent the kind of protests over Gaza that roiled the school last year. Among the work in the balance is research on brain cancer, water quality, and babies born to mothers who had contracted Covid. The Department of Education has not said yet whether the $400 million in grants will be restored. As they await word, some researchers are angry that the government drew their work into the fight with Columbia. (Associated Press)

More Cuts and Uncertainty for Nonprofits

• Pause and Effect: Threat of Trump Funding Freeze Is Making the Future Tense for North Carolina Nonprofits (Carolina Public Press)
• ‘It’s Devastating’: Trump Cuts Hit Oregon Nonprofit Providing Legal Aid to Migrant Children (Oregonian)
• Federal Cuts to Library and Museum Services Will Impact Eastern Iowa (KCRG)
• Will Trump Administration Overhaul How States Get Funding for Low-Income and Special Needs Students? (Boston Globe)
• Jewish Social Service Agencies Brace for Federal Funding Cuts Amid Uncertainty (Jewish Insider)
• Pressure on NPR and PBS Is Also Coming From the F.C.C. (New York Times)
  
  • Background from the Chronicle: Nonprofits and the Trump Agenda

Nonprofits Push Back

• A Judge Blocked the Trump Administration From Rescinding Grants for Fair Housing Groups. (New York Times)
• Judge Blocks Trump Bid to Suspend Refugee Funding, in Legal Victory For Jewish Group HIAS (Forward)

More News and Opinion

• Opinion: Let Catholic Charities Be Catholic — With Charity For All (National Catholic Register)
• Prince Harry Resigns From an African Charity He Co-Founded After a Leadership Dispute (Associated Press)
• “Some Hard and Important Lessons”: One of the Most Promising Local News Nonprofits Looks Back — and Ahead (Nieman Lab)
  
  • Background from the Chronicle: After Shaky Start, Philanthropy Coalition’s $500 Million Local News Effort Takes Shape

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