WHAT WE’RE READING ELSEWHERE
After two years of historically large declines in the poverty rate, the share of Americans living in poverty made its largest single-year jump on record last year, thanks to rising prices and expiring pandemic aid programs. (New York Times)
The Center for Reproductive Rights is taking legal action against three states – Idaho, Tennessee, and Oklahoma -- where it says abortion bans have jeopardized care for pregnant people. (Washington Post)
Thanks to their explosive growth, donor-advised funds accounted for most of the public charities in the United States in 2021, the last year for which complete data is available. (Inequality.org).
A California nonprofit is creating “safe sleep villages” in a new approach to the state’s homelessness crisis. (Los Angeles Times)
Georgetown University and the Jesuits are giving $27 million to a fund for descendants of enslaved people whom the Jesuits sold off in 1838 to pay a debt the school owed. (Washington Post)
The Colorado Sun, an online newspaper, is going nonprofit five years after launching as a for-profit/nonprofit hybrid. (Nieman Lab)
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt told CNN that the group has had to increase security since Elon Musk accused it of trying to undermine X, formerly known as Twitter. (CNN and Atlantic)
An anti-hunger campaign by the Michael Kors fashion house is marking 10 years of social-media appeals and merchandise sales that have raised about $7.5 million to feed children in the developing world. (New York Times)
Church attendance continues to decline, and more clergy are dissatisfied, while giving and volunteering are on the upswing, according to a new survey. (Religion News Service)
A Saudi-funded foundation that aims to pour up to $1 billion annually into anti-aging research has opened a North American hub in Boston. (Boston Globe)
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Cybersecurity. The Kyndryl Foundation supports nonprofits that are expanding an inclusive cybersecurity work force, including support for organizations and programs that provide cybersecurity training and career support to underserved communities, and preparing nonprofits to be cyberattack-smart, including programs that train nonprofit employees to prevent cyberattacks and develop training materials. Preference goes to groups in Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Texas. Grants generally range from $100,000 to $250,000. The application deadline is November 6.
Legal help to advance justice. The Impact Fund provides grants to groups seeking to advance justice in civil and human rights, environmental justice, and poverty law. Most grants are for class actions, but funding has also been provided for multi-plaintiff and environmental justice cases that aim to significantly affect a larger system or lead to significant law reform. The grants may be used for out-of-pocket litigation expenses such as expert fees and discovery costs but not for attorneys’ fees, staff, or other overhead. Rapid response grants are also provided for urgent financial assistance of up to $10,000 for sudden out-of-pocket litigation expenses for public interest impact lawsuits. Grants generally range from $10,000 to $50,000. Letters of inquiry are due October 10.