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Subject: Lobbying and Nonprofits: What You Need to Know
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The Gates Foundation is learning to navigate the newly hostile environment for foreign aid as it watches the Trump administration dismantle much of its international work. The $75 billion philanthropy has long avoided politics and is trying to find sympathetic ears in the White House. It fears threats to its tax-exempt status and paralyzing investigations while fielding calls to help replace the research and programs lost with the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development and cuts at the United States’s premier research institutions. CEO Mark Suzman said priorities will remain vaccine research and distribution, and the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. (New York Times)
Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has asked the Justice Department to probe a New York City nonprofit that has held pro-Palestinian demonstrations and exhibitions. Citing a 2023 New York Times investigation, Grassley says the People’s Forum appears to have ties to the Chinese Communist Party and “could be compelled” to register as an agent for a foreign government. The People’s Forum received money in 2017 from a tech entrepreneur who sold his company and moved to China. The Times article said the donor “works closely ‘with the Chinese government media machine” and has used shell companies to fund a network of nonprofits that allegedly parrot Chinese state propaganda. The organization’s executive director said it has never taken money from the Chinese government and said Grassley is trying to silence its advocacy work. (Hyperallergic)
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