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Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online

An appeals court is allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to withhold millions of dollars in climate-related grants to nonprofits. At issue is up to $625 million under the Biden-era Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that the Environmental Protection Agency froze in mid-February. Upon the initial judge’s order to release the funds, an E.P.A. official said the court “does not have jurisdiction” to reinstate the grants. Another ruling on the same day ordered several federal agencies to release environmental-related grants, in a lawsuit pursued by six nonprofits. Those agencies did not comment. (New York Times)

Harvard saw a surge in online donations in the 24 hours after its president announced the university would not comply with Trump administration demands to make big changes at the institution. The institution received more than 3,800 online donations totaling more than $1 million, more than 40 times the average intake of other April days. Laurence H. Tribe, a professor emeritus, says he has heard from many people who want to give. “I’m getting a huge, huge response from people,” he said, “not only alumni and not only former students of mine — of whom there are thousands — but also from people who never had a thought about Harvard that was positive in their lives.” (Harvard Crimson)

More on Trump vs. Harvard

• Before Trump Vs. Harvard, This Is What a University Had to Do to Lose Its Tax-Exempt Status (Boston Globe)
• Is Harvard’s $53 Billion Endowment Big Enough to Offset Federal Funding Cuts? (Wall Street Journal — subscription)

More News

• Salvation Army Faces Class-Action Suit Over Denying Addiction Medications (Stat)
• San Antonio Partners With Nonprofit to Relieve $60 Million in Medical Debt for 45,000 Residents (Texas Public Radio)
• ‘I Would Get Way More Views If I Didn’t Help Thousands Of People’: MrBeast Defends His Philanthropy‑As‑Content Strategy (Fast Company)

Opinion

• What the Houston Landing’s Closure Says About the State of Nonprofit News (Poynter)
• Maine’s Nonprofit Donors Should Be Afforded Privacy (Portland Press Herald)

Cuts, Freezes, and Layoffs

• Freedom Riders Faced a Mob at This Bus Station. DOGE Wanted to Sell It. (Washington Post)
• DOGE Cuts New York State Cybersecurity Nonprofit Funding by $8 Million (Albany Times Union)
• DOGE Cuts at National Endowment for the Humanities Hit Pittsburgh Museums and Cultural Sites (WESA)
• Museum Exhibits, Humanities Programs Across Indiana in Peril After Federal Grant Cuts (Indianapolis Star)
• Atlanta Public Broadcaster Conducts More Layoffs Ahead of Possible Federal Cuts (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Abrupt Layoffs at a Hartford, Conn., Nonprofit Has Residents Demanding Answers (Connecticut Public Radio)
• Advocates Worry Over Possible Cuts to Head Start (Axios)
• Workers Protest Abrupt Layoffs at Guggenheim Museum (Hyperallergic)

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