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Editor's note:
With the arrival of peak hurricane season, more nonprofits are stepping up to help communities in the areas where federal officials have pulled back. Undocumented immigrants in hurricane-prone areas who worry they will be detained if they seek public shelter during a storm are now especially at risk. The Department of Homeland Security told The Associated Press’ Gabriela Aoun Angueira that U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations haven’t issued guidance “because there have been no natural disasters affecting border enforcement.” However, the agency rescinded former President Joe Biden’s policy to avoid enforcement in emergency response sites during storms.
Hope Community Center in Apopka, Florida, is now set to become an alternative shelter and a command center during a hurricane. Its staffers will do door-to-door wellness checks on those who won’t leave their homes, since FEMA suspended that program after it fired about one-third of its workforce this year.
News and trends
South Africa’s most vulnerable struggle to find HIV medication after US aid cuts
Nonprofit clinics closed after US foreign aid cuts. Up to 220,000 face disrupted access to treatment.
By Louise Dewast/The Associated Press
The current jobs exodus signals both a warning and an opening for nonprofits.
By Eden Stiffman/Chronicle of Philanthropy
Commentary and analysis
Philanthropy’s road forward: 6 takeaways from traveling the U.S. in precarious times
Over seven weeks, 22 book tour events and discussions with thousands of funders, the message was clear: the structures of the past are damaging the sector and must change.
By Dimple Abichandani, National Center for Family Philanthropy, for the Chronicle of Philanthropy
For Americans who do not follow evangelical Christian media, James Dobson may not have been a household name. Yet the views he promoted shaped US society for more than 50 years.
By Richard Flory, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, for The Conversation U.S.
Other nonprofit news of note
- Philanthropy’s Sputnik moment (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
- He tried to endorse from the pulpit. He wound up without a church. (New York Times)
- Trump’s next fight with universities: Racial ‘proxies’ in admissions (Wall Street Journal)
- The end of the age of NGOs? (Foreign Affairs)
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