Daily News Roundup: Jewish Nonprofits Hit by New Round of Bomb Threats

More Bomb Scares Target Jewish Community Centers: At least 10 facilities across the country received threatening phone calls Monday, the fourth such wave in the past five weeks, reports the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Paul Goldenberg of the Secure Community Network, which advises Jewish organizations on security, said the “same serial caller” appears to behind the successive rounds of threats.

NYC Philanthropies Battle Trump Immigration Curbs: The Brooklyn Community Foundation created a $1 million fund to support “civil resistance” to the president’s travel ban and aid undocumented people facing deportation, the New York Post writes. The New York Community Trust has also granted hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups offering legal and other help to immigrants. Read a Chronicle article on foundation opposition to the president’s immigration proposals.

Also on the immigration front, the Partnership for a New American Economy, an advocacy group led by Michael Bloomberg, is launching a nationwide pro-immigration push, enlisting a number of congressional Republicans and allies of President Trump’s for advertisements and events supporting reforms and targeting red states and agricultural regions, Politico reports.

Nonprofit Hospitals Face Brunt of Florida Budget Cuts: More than two-thirds of Gov. Rick Scott’s proposed $298 million cut in supplemental state payments for treatment of poor patients would come from nine nonprofit medical centers and one public hospital, writes the Naples Daily News. State officials said the targeted hospitals should lose the extra funding because they lag behind for-profit peers in providing charity care.

Arts Leaders Gird to Fight Cuts in Culture Funding: News reports of a White House budget memo proposing elimination of the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting set off a wave of advocacy among arts figures ranging from symphony and museum heads to a Broadway producer whose husband is an adviser to President Trump, writes The New York Times.

1960s Bequest Grows Into $28 Million Windfall for R.I. Grant Maker: The donation represents the share of a trust that banker Frederick Wilcox willed to the Rhode Island Foundation in 1965, the Providence Journal writes. Mr. Wilcox specified that the gift be paid upon the death of his daughter, Nancy Mattis, who passed away last year after building the trust from $1 million to $48 million through investments.

Queens Tenants Sue Charity Landlord Over Shelter Plan: Residents of low-income housing run by the New York School of Urban Ministry are seeking to block the Christian nonprofit from evicting tenants to turn the three-story, dormitory-style building into a homeless shelter, the New York Daily News reports.