House Stimulus Bill Includes Sweeping New Benefits for Nonprofits

Plus, nine in 10 foundations say they support nonprofit advocacy efforts, and a tech company pledges $100 million to coronavirus response [Philanthropy Today] Are you working remotely? Many organizations provide access to premium Chronicle content in the office. If your group is one of them, you can maintain that access when you’re at home. Read this helpful [FAQ]( to see how. Your account is easy to set up and will provide you access wherever you are. Government and Regulation [House Stimulus Bill Includes Sweeping New Benefits for Nonprofits]( [Image]( CAROL M. HIGHSMITH ARCHIVE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS By Dan Parks The legislation would greatly expand nonprofit eligibility for loans and other benefits, but President Trump and Republicans who lead the Senate have shown no interest in the legislation. ADVERTISEMENT [advertisement]( Research [Nine in 10 Foundations Say They Support Nonprofit Advocacy Efforts]( By Alex Daniels and Dan Parks However, the report by the Center for Effective Philanthropy also found that many foundation leaders run into internal resistance to their policy work from legal counsel and board members. Grants Roundup [KaJ Labs Pledges $100 Million for Pandemic Response in U.S. and Africa]( By M.J. Prest Some of the grant making recently announced to address health, education, and economic relief in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, in addition to new grants for a range of causes unrelated to the pandemic. Opinion [When People See Nonprofits Persevering, They’ll Know the Nation Will Persevere]( By Andrew P. McIndoe This is the moment to experiment with fundraising and programs — and let fundraisers and others take on new opportunities, writes the head of development at the Heritage Foundation. Podcast [How Nonprofits Should Approach Grant Makers Post-Covid-19]( John Palfrey, who heads the MacArthur Foundation, also talks about how to balance short-term urgent needs with long-term sustainability. Paid for and Created by GolfStatus [Five Advantages Of Using An Event Website For Golf Fundraisers & How Nonprofits Can Get A Free One]( From making communications and marketing more streamlined to connecting with donors on a personal level, GolfStatus’s Golf for Good program works with nonprofits to help golf fundraisers save time and resources while keeping processes easy for organizers, volunteers and sponsors. Nonprofit News From Elsewhere The pandemic has further complicated the task of making sure everyone gets counted in the 2020 census, and advocates for marginalized groups are having to get creative. Racial-justice group Color of Change threw a drive-through catered meal for participants in New Orleans who pledged to fill out the census form. Elsewhere, celebrities with credibility in minority groups have urged people to participate, and in-person events have gone virtual. At stake is billions of dollars and political representation for areas with high concentrations of minorities, who are chronically undercounted in each census. ([Vox]( A daily Zoom call has become a lifeline for 200 arts groups in New York trying not to slip into the abyss during the pandemic. Leaders of large and small institutions, from tiny experimental theaters to cultural behemoths like the Metropolitan Opera, meet virtually every weekday to plot their survival, swap advice, and launch collective efforts on lobbying for public funding, navigating insurance issues, finding new sources of revenue, and eventually planning their comebacks. One venue director called the collaboration between New York’s huge and minuscule organizations unprecedented. ([New York Times]( Coronavirus Related News and Opinion Doctors Without Borders Dispatches Team to the Navajo Nation ([CBS]( Sidwell Friends Cites Its Religious Values in Seeking Government Money ([Atlantic]( This Bill Gates-Backed Program in Seattle Is Sending at-Home Covid Tests to Anyone Who Wants One ([Fast Company]( Jazz Community Comes Together to Help Unemployed Musicians ([NPR]( Covid-Related National Service Cannot Just Be Gap Year for Privileged Youth (Opinion: [Ozy]( Other News Gun-Control Group Everytown Starts Faith-Driven Push Ahead of Election ([Associated Press]( Facebook Is Quietly Helping to Set Up a New Pro-Tech Advocacy Group to Battle Washington ([Washington Post]( What Everyone Else Is Reading [Nonprofits Led by People of Color Win Less Grant Money With More Strings (Study)]( A look at winners, finalists, and semifinalists in an Echoing Green fellowship program found that budgets of nonprofits led by whites were 24 percent bigger than those of groups led by people of color. [Foundation Requests for Proposals for Covid-19 Relief (May 12)]( A compilation of requests for proposals for nonprofit groups focused on health care, food insecurity, the arts, transgender people, African American communities, and more. [Chief Equity Officers Are the Next Step in Promoting Equity at Foundations]( More grant makers are appointing senior-level people to focus exclusively on ways to help share power and promote diversity and inclusion. (PREMIUM) [Cutbacks at Social-Service Groups on the Rise, Poll Finds]( Many are still waiting for federal aid, with 69 percent saying they had applied for a Cares Act Paycheck Protection Program loan, but half have not gotten any money. (PREMIUM) [Nonprofits Won’t Survive Unless the Federal Government Helps More Medium-Size Groups (Opinion)]( The Paycheck Protection Program excludes nonprofits with more than 500 employees at a time when their services are more critical than ever, say two nonprofit leaders. 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How to Make Smart Financial and Program Decisions in the Covid-19 Era [Join Our Webinar]( — Nonprofit leaders today face extremely difficult decisions, such as how to reimagine fundraising events, whether to lay off workers, and how to determine the immediate, near-term, and long-term needs of their organizations and the communities they serve. How is the crisis changing organizations, fundraising, philanthropy, and donor relations? What can we learn from the recent past, and what steps can nonprofits take to survive and even improve? Join the Chronicle of Philanthropy and Women In Development New York on Tuesday, May 19, to get insights from a wealth manager who works closely with high-net-worth donors, a program officer from a large foundation, a veteran fundraising executive, and an expert on measuring outcomes and conveying impact. 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