Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online
The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles is standing by its mission as it faces up to $2 million in federal funding cuts and pressure to abandon the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Museum officials said they would “scrub nothing” from its website and would consider litigation after the Trump administration canceled a grant from the National Endowment for Humanities as part of a nationwide attempt to claw back NEH funding. Other grants in the balance come via the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is targeted for closure. (Los Angeles Times)
In a record-setting deal, a New York nonprofit is buying $30 billion in unpaid medical bills for about 20 million people. Undue Medical Debt will spend $36 million, in charitable donations and taxpayer dollars, to acquire the steeply discounted debt from a debt trading company in Virginia. Half of the relief will go to people in Texas and Florida, which have not expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act. About 100 million people in the United States have medical bills they cannot pay. (KFF Health News)
Freezes, Cuts for Nonprofits
- Denver Area Nonprofit That Feeds Thousands Loses Millions in Federal Funding, Group Says (CBS News Colorado)
- Accounting Firms Help Nonprofits Navigate Trump-Era Funding Cuts (Bloomberg Tax)
- Oregon Humanities Loses Half Its Income As Trump Administration Cuts National Endowment Grant (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
- ‘I Am Stunned.’ Mass. Cultural Groups See Federal Funding Abruptly Slashed. (Boston Globe)
The Court Docket
- Judge Blocks Trump From Dismantling Agency That Funds Community Groups in Latin American Countries (Associated Press)
- Federal Judge Questions Whether EPA Move to Rapidly Cancel ‘Green Bank’ Grants Was Legal (Associated Press)
- States Challenge Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Library Agency (New York Times)
More News
- Private School Diversity Events Are Canceled Amid Government Crackdown (New York Times)
- Melinda French Gates Says It’s ‘Only Responsible’ to Give Away Her ‘Absurd’ Fortune to Help Women & Girls (People)
- Montana’s Youth Climate Activists Aren’t Stopping at Their Landmark Court Win (High Country News)
- Kushner’s Abraham Accords Institute to Merge Into Heritage Foundation (Axios)
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