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August 13, 2025
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From: Philanthropy Today

Subject: New Trump Order Targets Federal Grants

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  • U.S. President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn after taking questions from reporters before boarding Marine One on August 1, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
    Government and Regulation

    New Trump Order Injects Politics Into Federal Grant Decisions

    By Alex Daniels August 13, 2025
    Each agency will have a political appointee to ensure its grants advance the president’s priorities, and agencies will be free to terminate grants for any reason.
  • A tie-dye station at a youth-organized "Tie Dye and Trash" clean-up event with Mountain Youth, at Eagle River Park in Eagle, Colo.
    Foundation Giving

    When Locals Lead Grant Making: 20 Years of Results From Colorado

    By Maria Di Mento August 13, 2025
    El Pomar Foundation’s unique grant-making program offers a blueprint for community-based, locally led giving.
  • Ali Noorani, the new president of the Barr Foundation, poses for a portrait.
    Grant Makers

    What You Need to Know About the Barr Foundation’s New President

    By Stephanie Beasley August 13, 2025
    Ali Noorani, who will start in December, currently heads the U.S. democracy program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

TRAINING

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    Today: August 14 at 2 p.m. ET | Register Now

    Amid so much disruption in the nonprofit world, some funders are rethinking how to get money to the field quickly and effectively by investing in nonprofits’ capacity. Join us for the webinar How to Secure Capacity-Building Grants to learn from two funders who invest in organizational capacity as they explain ways to identify grant makers, craft compelling proposals, and build relationships with nonprofit associations that offer these grants to members.
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    October 8 at 1 p.m. ET | Register Now

    The nonprofit sector today is under deep strain — the work feels more urgent than ever, and the way forward is anything but simple. Join us for Leading Nonprofits Through the Twists and Turns, an interactive workshop with Melanie Ho, founder of Strategic Imagination. You’ll have a chance to step out of survival mode, explore ways to manage change, and understand how to lead well as complexity becomes the norm.

FORUMS

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    Today — September 9 at 2 p.m. ET | Register Now

    Join us for the forum Making the Case for Investments in Data to learn from Jacqueline La Gamma of Northwell Health, Lindsey Nadeau of UNICEF USA, and Kristin Richardson of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as they share proven ways to persuade leaders to invest in data tools and analysis. They’ll explain how to start out small and build up to bigger budgets over time, and they’ll offer tips on how to demonstrate return on investments.

Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has scrapped plans to invest heavily in education, racial justice, and social issues and now focuses its grant making on AI, technology, and the sciences. The switch has roiled staff members, who accuse Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan of bending to political pressure. Meanwhile, the couple is being urged to speak out about White House budget cuts that could undermine CZI’s biomedical research spending. (Vanity Fair— subscription)

  • Background from the Chronicle: Silent, Defiant, Private: Big Philanthropies React to Trump’s DEI Order

More News

  • Trump Administration’s Cuts to Foreign Aid Threaten Trend Toward Giving Cash Directly (NPR)
  • Nonprofit Sues DHS After Trump Administration Revoked Legal Status for Migrants Who Entered the U.S. Under Biden-Era App (Boston Globe)
    • Background from the Chronicle: Nonprofits and the Trump Agenda
  • Trump’s Kennedy Center Boss Accused of Being MIA From Six-Figure Job (Daily Beast)

Dream Keeper Scandal

  • New Details Emerge in Dream Keeper Initiative Nonprofit Scandal (San Francisco Standard)
  • S.F. Nonprofit Embroiled in Dream Keeper Scandal Warns of ‘Complete Shutdown’ (San Francisco Chronicle)

Note: In the links in this section, we flag articles that only subscribers can access. But because some journalism outlets offer a limited number of free articles, readers may encounter barriers with other articles we highlight in this roundup.

EDITOR'S PICKS

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    Fundraising

    How a Midlevel Program Can Boost Giving in a Time of Uncertainty

    By Rasheeda Childress
    Midlevel donors are a reliable, although sometimes overlooked, source of revenue — and terrific candidates for planned gifts.
  • Leon Levine, at center, founder of Family Dollar, holds the stock ticker tape on the day Family Dollar went public in January 1970.
    Foundations

    What Is More Urgent Than Today? Why Some Foundations Are Choosing to Wind Down

    By Alex Daniels
    Among the main reasons philanthropists decide to spend down: the desire to make an immediate impact and fear that future generations won’t adhere to their wishes.
  • A member of the Press runs as police shoot less-than-lethal munitions during a "No Kings" protest in the one-square mile area where daily protests have been occurring in response to a series of federal immigration raids in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 14, 2025.
    Opinion

    How Funders Can Protect Grantees — and Themselves — From Civil Society Attacks

    By Carroll Bogert
    At a time of escalating threats to journalists, grant makers should bolster the security of nonprofit media outlets but also can’t ignore their own risks.
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