Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

There is tremendous pressure on the groups to provide services to their communities amid a flurry of Trump administration policies that affect immigration, higher education, and potential cuts to federal health care programs, advocates say.

When a progressive group posted in support of Palestinians in Gaza, it saw funding evaporate. Similar fissures are reverberating across the nonprofit world.

Funding shortfalls and the growing public perception that Spanish-speaking people are “potential invaders and potential criminals” are putting Latino organizations in crisis mode, said Frankie Miranda, president of Hispanic Federation.

After Edward Blum’s complaint to the IRS about the Gates Foundation’s “illegal” scholarship program for students of color, the Seattle philanthropy giant said it would change the scholarship’s eligibility criteria to include all races.

In reaction to the Trump administration’s efforts to cut federal grants to some nonprofits, more foundations are offering emergency support.

Progressives have criticized the orders for being vague and attacking a concept — DEI — that does not have an agreed-upon legal definition. Conservatives argue that race-based grant making amounts to illegal discrimination.

Claire Dunning, author of “Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State” talks about how the 1964 war on poverty expanded federal grants to nonprofits to provide social services in low-income communities and how Trump appears to be dismantling that strategy.

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The philanthropic response to the federal government’s defunding of nonprofits has been sluggish, but emergency funds are starting to emerge. The Chronicle of Philanthropy provides a list.

In the battle to influence public opinion, democracy funders have fallen behind. Here’s how to change that.