Philanthropy Today

The Trump administration’s elimination of about $1 billion in federal aid to anti-hunger programs has hit rural areas particularly hard. Food banks and soup kitchens in Appalachia, which have fewer options for sourcing food than their urban counterparts, are scrambling with dwindling shipments of increasingly random items that do not add up to balanced meals. Meanwhile, farms that would have sold their produce to the federal government, for distribution to feeding programs, are facing a steep drop-off in revenue. (New York Times)

A philanthropy-funded program in Los Angeles aims to help community college students stay in school while easing the area’s shortage of health-care workers. Funded with $3.1 million from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and $867,500 from the California Community Foundation, the pilot program gives $1,000 a month to 251 low-income students in health-related fields for a year. Experts at the University of Pennsylvania will examine the effort to see if it can help students stay in school. (Los Angeles Times)

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More News

• Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
• Feeling Political Heat, Colleges Pump Up Their Lobbying (New York Times)
• Nonprofits, Hobbled by Funding Cuts, Now Worry About Losing Tax-Exempt Status (Barron’s — subscription)
• How Religious Public Schools Went From a Long Shot to the Supreme Court (Washington Post)
• Members of Houston Megachurch Claim Church Leaders Shut Them Out, Planned “Takeover” Of Church Assets (Chron.)

Spending Cuts: The Nonprofit Response

• Federal Funds Were the Lifeblood of U.S. Scientific Discovery. Where Will the Money Come From Now? (Boston Globe)
• ‘Nobody’s Coming to Save Us’: How U.S. Museums Are Battling for Their Future Under Trump (Artnet News)
• Johns Hopkins to Tap Earnings From Endowment to Help Address Federal Cuts (Baltimore Banner)
• ‘It Could Shut Us Down': Central Florida’s Homeless Outreach Nonprofit Losing Money, Calls for Help (WESH)
• Operator of NYC’s Mental Health Crisis Hotline Warns of Layoffs Without More Funding (Gothamist)

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