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Colleges are looking to donors to make up for lost federal grants, although it’s unlikely that philanthropy can totally replace those funds, which can reach into the billions. In their appeals, the schools are walking a fine line between urgency and not offending donors who may be supporters of President Trump or projecting instability. In the long run, the administration’s attacks have made some university officials wonder if higher education needs to rethink its funding model. (New York Times)

Since passing a near-total ban on abortions in 2022, Oklahoma has poured millions into crisis pregnancy centers and nonprofits supporting new mothers and children. The Oklahoma Life Foundation is in charge of doling out about one-third of the $18 million in the state’s Choosing Childbirth program. It vets and oversees the nonprofits, including one that runs a nurse-staffed call center to direct women to “life-affirming” providers. (Frontier and StateImpact Oklahoma)

• Background from the Chronicle: Reproductive Rights

More on Harvard and Higher Education

• Harvard Is Asking Corporations to Fill Its Federal Funding Gap (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
• Trump Administration Threatens to Cut All of Harvard’s Funding After Finding Treatment of Jewish Students Violated Civil Rights Law (Boston Globe)
• The Fallout From Trump’s Attack on Harvard Is Rippling Through Clinics, Labs, and Research Centers Across the Country (Boston Globe)

More News

• With Federal Support Uncertain, States and Nonprofits Scramble to Safeguard Access to Vaccines (CNN)
• Why Food Banks Are Worried Now (New York Times)
• Little Rock Couple Donate 105 Works of Art to The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (Northwest Arkansas)
• NYU Tax Law Group Defends Nonprofit Donor Disclosure Statute (Bloomberg Tax)

Local Nonprofits Under Pressure

• Nonprofits in Tucson Bemoan Millions in Expected Federal Funding Cuts (Arizona Daily Star)
• Knoxville, Tenn., Nonprofit Sees 300 Percent Rise in Demand for Food Assistance (WATE)
• ‘It Hurts to Turn Families Away’ | David and Nicole Tepper Foundation Grants $10 Million Relief to Food Pantries (WCNC)
  
  • Background from the Chronicle: Nonprofits and the Trump Agenda

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