Stay Alive, Stay True: How Nonprofits are Navigating Trump-Era Threats — Faustina Yick
Together, these stories reflect a hard truth: no money, no mission. As Christa Velasquez, nonprofit lecturer at the University of Chicago, puts it: “If [nonprofits] don’t have the money, they can’t do their work.” Diversifying funding is no longer optional— it’s a strategic imperative.
Implications of Frozen Federal Funds for the Illinois Finance Authority — Austin Yang
Many IFA grants are now jeopardized by President Trump’s sweeping federal freeze mandates from earlier this year. The order drafted by the Office of Management and Budget mandated freezes across trillions of dollars in federal grants. Although the initial decision was subsequently rescinded in response to a legal and public backlash, these developments upended the lending sector. For the non-profit sector working with the IFA, it meant disruptions and uncertainty across a range of climate-related projects.
The CTA Needs to Keep Funding Homelessness Outreach, Other Cities Should Too — Natalie Floreancig
Most would agree that public transit is not an ideal place for people to be sheltering. Sleeping on trains can be both physically harmful and dangerous. However, it is still essential that infrastructure is developed specifically with the goal of making trains safer and more comfortable to sleep on, not because this is a permanent solution but because, as Jacob Wasserman, the Research Program Manager for the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, said, “transportation has to bear the burden of failures in other social realms”.