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Planned Parenthood will cut its national staff and shift more resources to its local clinics. The nonprofit will send an additional $70 million to its 49 clinics across the country, which an executive said would help them expand their services. Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, dozens of abortion providers have shuttered, putting more pressure on those remaining. In turn, Planned Parenthood will cut its national staff by 10 percent to 20 percent, which a staff union “said would be about 80 to 140 people.” Simultaneously, the organization will launch a Black Health Equity Initiative aimed at reducing health care disparities. Anxious staffers were told about the reorganization in March, and learned in April that layoffs were coming. Pink slips will go out in mid-June. (Daily Beast)
A new nonprofit is punching above its weight in the fight to prohibit gender surgery for transgender minors. Do No Harm was launched in January 2022 by Stanley Goldfarb, a professor emeritus and former associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school who is an outspoken critic of diversity and inclusion efforts in medical education and practice. Passages from its model legislation have made it into bills in Montana, Arkansas, and Iowa. It has hired lobbyists and works with a “patient advocate” who has repeatedly testified about having her gender-transition surgery reversed. After more than a year of active lobbying as a 501(c)(3) group, the group established the separate Do No Harm Action as a political nonprofit this year. Do No Harm projected revenues of $910,000 in 2022, more than $1.1 million in 2023, and more than $1.5 million in 2024, according to public records. Representatives of the group declined to comment. An assistant professor of pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine said the organization’s model legislation contains “a lot of recycled false claims about gender dysphoria, standards of care, safety, evidence, and medical authority which seems like it’s right out of the disinformation playbook.” (Associated Press)
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- Audiences Are Coming Back to Orchestras After ‘Scary’ Sales Last Fall (New York Times)
- There Are More Nonprofit Digital Newsrooms, but the Pace of Growth Has Slowed (Nieman Lab)
- With Climate Panel as a Beacon, Global Group Takes On Misinformation (New York Times)
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