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Subject: Controversial Proposal Resurfaces in GOP Tax Bill
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s philanthropic corporation has suspended grants to nonprofits across California in what it says is a shift to more science-based grant making. But current and former employees say leaders of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are trying to avoid undue attention, and possibly litigation, from the Trump administration over anything that hints of diversity, equity, and inclusion work. CZI was founded with the mission of “advancing human potential and promoting equal opportunity” but has recently turned away from social advocacy work. A spokesperson for CZI said the philanthropy’s “organizational strategy is driven by our science vision to cure, prevent, and manage all disease by the end of this century.” (San Francisco Standard)
A group of former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development is helping philanthropists figure out which abandoned foreign-aid projects to support. Using a spreadsheet of tens of thousands of programs that had been funded by USAID before it was gutted by the Trump administration, the Project Resource Optimization group recommends recipients based on geography, impact, urgency, and other factors. So far it has found funders for 13 of the 54 programs it deems “urgent and vetted.” Supported by the Center for Global Development think tank, the PRO will probably run for only four or five weeks, before many of the programs in its database shut down. “This is very time sensitive,” said an economist working on the project. (NPR)
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