Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online
The country’s largest liberal foundations have launched a quiet effort to raise at least $250 million to support groups pushing back against the Trump administration’s agenda, according to sources for the New York Times. The money could go to “groups or individuals that file lawsuits against the government, provide security and safety for activists, or underwrite news media organizations or nonprofits seen as essential to the functions of democracy.” At the center of the effort is Deepak Bhargava, a long-time activist and philanthropy leader who is working closely with John Palfrey, the president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, sources said. (New York Times)
Background from the Chronicle: Tonya Allen, Deepak Bhargava, and John Palfrey: United in Their Determination to Give According to Their Values
- N.C.’s Leon Levine Foundation Announces Plan to Spend Down Billions, Then Dissolve Itself (Charlotte Observer)
- Giving Back or Getting Back? The Rise of Retributive Philanthropy (Phys.org)
- Tacoma, Wash., Nonprofit Fighting for Refugees Now Taking Aim at Trump’s Travel Ban (News Tribune)
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