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 Shock and Awe strategy. A key feature of the plan this time included rolling out…

“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 cadre of personnel….”
On Inauguration Day 2025, the second Trump administration launched Shock and Awe…

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?
The short answer: no, not without due process and not based on ideology alone.
At…

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 501(c)(3)s which have, in the past, safely relied on government funding and grants of…

“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). “The stage is now set for action….”
Months earlier, in the fall of 2022, the…

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 are, just two months into the new administration, with executive orders in place doing just…

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 forgiveness in exchange for ten years’ service in the nonprofit sector.
There were fears, though,…