Philanthropy Today

The Education Department is investigating five universities’ scholarship programs for undocumented students or racial minorities as possible civil rights violations. The probe was prompted by complaints from the conservative Equal Protection Project. Most of the scholarships at issue target undocumented students or those covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, who cannot receive federal grants or loans to attend college. The schools named in the complaint are the University of Louisville, the University of Nebraska Omaha, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University. (Washington Post)

• Background from the Chronicle: Faced With Anti-DEI Complaint, Gates Foundation Opens Scholarship to White Students

More on Higher Education

• Harvard College Closes Diversity Offices, Reassigns Staff to New ‘Harvard Foundation’ (Harvard Crimson)
• Nearing a Deal With Trump, Columbia Expels and Suspends Student Protesters (Washington Post)

Gaza Aid

• Why Israel’s Chaotic New Food Program in Gaza Has Turned So Deadly (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
• The For-Profit Companies Behind Israeli-U.S. Nonprofit Gaza Aid Plan (Washington Post)
• More Than 100 Aid Groups Sign Open Letter Warning of Starvation in Gaza (Associated Press)
  
  • Background from the Chronicle: Nonprofits Are Taking a Stance on Gaza — and Paying the Price

Cuts and Closures

• Dublin, Ohio-Based Library Nonprofit Laying Off 80, Hiring 30 Others, Amid Fears of Federal Cuts (Columbus Dispatch)
• Merge, Adapt, or Close? How Might Nonprofits Respond to Tough Times? (Devex)
• Trump Administration Improperly Withheld Head Start Money, GAO Says (Washington Post)
• NPR to Cut Its Budget by $8 Million to Provide Relief to Vulnerable Member Stations (Texas Public Radio)
  
  • Background from the Chronicle: What We Know — and Don’t Know — About the Nonprofit Layoff Crisis

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