Tax Bill Is Latest Blow to a Reeling Sector

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July 7, 2025

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Subject: Tax Bill Is Latest Blow to a Reeling Sector

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Government and Legislation

The Tax Bill Will Add New Money Woes to a Reeling Nonprofit Sector

By Ben Gose July 3, 2025

Individuals and corporate donors could cut back — just as safety-net charities face a sharp rise in demand.
Technology

How Common Sense Media Is Fighting for Kids in the Age of AI

By Eden Stiffman July 7, 2025

Support from big grant makers, an eye for earned revenue, and a CEO who both courts and critiques tech leaders have helped to fuel the group’s success.
Foundations

Ford Picks Yale Law School Dean to Succeed Darren Walker

By Alex Daniels July 1, 2025

Heather Gerken, dean of Yale University Law and former Obama adviser, is expected to focus on social justice, democracy, and equity.

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Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online

Cautiously, philanthropists are finding ways to counter the Trump administration’s attacks on nonprofits. They are writing bigger checks, giving more to donor-advised funds to obscure their beneficiaries, replacing some rescinded scientific funding, and shifting their focus to foundational issues, such as promoting democracy and the rule of law. They are also starting to build coalitions to defend themselves. (Financial Times — subscription)

Background from the Chronicle: Philanthropy Opens the Vault: Payouts Are Surging in Response to Trump

Cuts and Closures

Opinion: Texas Philanthropist Slams Trump’s Nonprofit Cuts: “It’s Devastating.” (Houston Chronicle)
How the Trump Administration Is Already Cutting Off Climate Research (Washington Post)
Alaska Nonprofit Sues Trump Administration Over Canceled Grant (Anchorage Daily News)
Terminated NIH Grants Are Being Reinstated Almost Entirely in Blue States (Stat)
- Background from the Chronicle: Nonprofits and the Trump Agenda

More News

Planned Parenthood Must Choose Between Abortion or Millions in Federal Funding (New York Times)
- Background from the Chronicle: Reproductive Rights
How the Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively Saga Led a Billionaire to Shut Down His Foundation (Forbes)
Inside the L.A. Zoo’s Messy $50 Million Breakup (Los Angeles Times)

Global Aid and Activism

The End of the Age of NGOs? (Foreign Affairs)
International Charities and NGOs Call for End to Controversial Israeli-Backed Aid Group in Gaza (Associated Press)

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