The First One Hundred Days of the current Trump administration have been a 24/7 rollercoaster of developments, large and small.
We had been warned during the campaign and transition that the opening weeks would be a reprise-on-steroids of the 2017…

“History teaches,” wrote the authors of Project 2025, “that a President’s power to implement an agenda is at its apex during the Administration’s opening days. To execute [it] requires a well-conceived, coordinated, unified plan and a trained and committed…

Recent political rhetoric and high-profile threats have sparked anxiety across the nonprofit sector. Many nonprofit leaders have reached out to us with one central question: Can the federal government revoke our tax-exempt status because of our values, programs, or advocacy?…

This year “…will not go down in the record books as a quiet or uneventful one.” See Another Reminder to Pay Withholding Taxes, FPLG Blog.
“For the philanthropy community, the new political reality poses enormous possible challenges, particularly…

“For years, reform of the state’s grantmaking policies and procedures has been high on the wish list of California’s nonprofit community.”
We wrote optimistically about this important development in Major Legislative Push in CA To Reform Grantmaking (February 27, 2023).…

These days, there are few issues on which average Americans as well as lawmakers with diverse political affiliations can find common ground. There is a strong consensus, though, that messing around with FEMA is a terrible idea.
Yet here we…

Fixing the bureaucratic mess of the beleaguered Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) had been a major achievement of the Biden Administration.  It was welcomed by the nation’s 501(c)(3)s and many of their younger employees who had hoped for loan…