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Subject: Exit Bill Gates; Enter Trust-Based Philanthropy (Opinion)
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AmeriCorps volunteers have often been “the first to respond and the last to leave,” when disaster strikes, but the Trump administration has gutted the program heading into hurricane season. At the order of Elon Musk’s DOGE team, the agency has placed 85 percent of its staff on leave, canceled nearly $400 million in grants and “effectively ended the service of an estimated 32,000 AmeriCorps workers.” A scholar of service programs and disaster recovery said AmeriCorps’ nationwide connections ideally placed it to coordinate efforts and predicted the program’s loss “will be disastrous to communities.” Two dozen states and some grant recipients have sued the administration to block the cuts. (Grist)
One of the country’s largest crisis hotlines for victims of sexual violence has stopped providing specialized resources for LGBTQ callers or other marginalized groups, in an effort to keep its federal funding amid the Trump administration’s campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Volunteers for the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network’s hotline can no longer refer callers to more than two dozen resources, including specialized mental health hotlines for gay and transgender people, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and more. Volunteers have protested the exclusions, but the organization’s leaders have said they had no good options while trying to protect RAINN’s core mission. (New York Times)
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