Santa Cruz volunteer organization facing budget shortfall

Santa Cruz volunteer organization facing budget shortfall

The Santa Cruz County Volunteer Center is facing budget challenges in part due to federal budget cuts. Still, with National Volunteer Week, the organization is counting on community support to keep its services running.  “You feel good, you know, really and truly. It just makes me feel like I'm doing something in the Santa Cruz County. Sue Benazo donates her time as a receptionist at the local volunteer center, an organization that, since 1967, …

Biden let California get creative with Medicaid spending. Trump is signaling that may end

In summary California uses Medicaid to pay for a range of nontraditional health care services, including housing. The Trump administration wants to scale back those programs. In 2022, California made sweeping changes to its Medi-Cal program that reimagined what health care could look like for some of the state’s poorest and sickest residents by covering services from housing to healthy food. But the future of that program, known as CalAIM, could…

Fight or flight? Some California nonprofits won't remain silent in face of Trump budget slashing

LOS ANGELES — With the Trump administration slashing budgets and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status for nonprofits, some Southern California social justice organizations have gone into a defensive crouch, hoping to wait out the passing storm.

‘We can’t stay silent’: McGarvey tells Ky nonprofits to push Congress

Speaking to a room of dozens of people representing Kentucky nonprofits, Democratic Rep. Morgan McGarvey of Louisville expressed his concerns about how decisions in Washington are impacting local groups.(Breya Jones / LPM)Speaking to a room of dozens of people representing Kentucky nonprofits, Democratic Rep. Morgan McGarvey of Louisville expressed his concerns about how decisions in Washington D. C. are impacting local groups.“I look around thi…

Looks like democracy, smells like authoritarianism - Epicenter NYC

Nonprofit organizations around New York (and around the country) are preparing to go to the legal mat over threats that the Trump administration will attempt to revoke their tax-exempt status or otherwise mire them in official actions like investigations into their services and offerings. That’s especially so if these offerings run counter to Trump’s extraordinarily broad war on “DEI,” which can encompass everything from LGBT+ rights to the envi…

We won't be silent - Cowra Guardian

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