How to Build a Climate Funding Strategy in the Age of Trump
As federal climate policy is dismantled, grant makers need to end their silence and get to work.
By Jacob Harold
Contributor
For Nonprofits, Trump’s Cuts Echo Reagan Era, but With Striking Differences
Philanthropy experts see Trump’s approach to the nonprofit sector as unprecedented for its lack of plan and philosophy as well as sweeping and questionably legal implementation.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Emergency Fundraisers Offer a Lifeline to Groups Who Have Lost Foreign Aid
As the U.S. funding freeze cascades through the international-development ecosystem, nonprofits are fundraising to help organizations struggling with the cuts.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
MacArthur Foundation to Increase Giving for Two Years in Response to ‘Crisis’
The move was prompted by the Trump administration’s freeze on federal foreign aid and the now-suspended freeze on federal grants.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
‘Don’t Tell Your Strategy’: Bernice King Has Advice for Nonprofit Leaders
“I think everybody has to start looking at language,” says the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. “It doesn’t mean you have to go do away with your core mission, but you’re going to have to wordsmith to get through this season.”
By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer
Amid USAID Cuts, a Ukrainian Aid Worker’s Plea to Philanthropy: ‘Stand With Us’
On the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian nonprofits are facing yet another test of endurance.
By Anna Pantiukhova
Contributor
Fearing Retaliation, Loss of Funding, Many Nonprofits Stay Quiet on Trump
The flood-the-zone strategy coming from the White House has had a chilling effect on nonprofits, according to a new survey from the Communications Network.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
A Warning for Progressive Groups? Trump Yanks $50 Million From a Climate Justice Nonprofit
The Climate Justice Alliance was among 11 organizations chosen by the EPA to distribute $600 million to nonprofits. It was the first to be completely defunded.
By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer
How Nonprofits Can Build a New ‘Progressive Era’ in a Second Gilded Age
Jane Addams showed how the seeds of social change can be planted at the local level even as the wealthy gain power and economic inequality grows.
By Eboo Patel
Contributor