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Some organizations, says Stahl, are considering what it would mean to dissolve themselves and start up again as a limited liability company. In some ways, this would make moving money easier, especially for organizations that do international work. But it would also significantly reduce transparency around donations and how money is being spent. Moving an organization\u2019s headquarters\u2014and its bank accounts\u2014to another country could theoretically protect its finances, but there\u2019s no guarantee that it would be able to get money back into the US to continue work on the ground there. (Shortly before Trump\u2019s inauguration, a Canadian law firm hosted a webinar for nonprofits considering relocating their headquarters to the country.)<\/p>\n
Reich says that several organizations are already talking about what ways an attack by the administration could be challenged legally. \u201cNonprofits will probably win in court and that will be in a year or two,\u201d he says. But by that point the administration will have had ample time to spread narratives like the one shared by Ngo\u2014as well as, perhaps, to tie up their resources in defending themselves in court. \u201cThe point is destroying [nonprofits\u2019] reputations,\u201d says Reich, \u201cand having the power to dictate how and where money gets spent.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the uncertainty in the field means that foundations and funders are now looking to move money out more quickly\u2014both to support organizations that may be feeling the pain of other donors pulling back and to ensure that the sector is ready for a more difficult operating environment than ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re moving money to meet grantee needs and needs in communities,\u201d says John Palfrey, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which is a member of Unite in Advance. Palfrey noted other government funding cuts, including to the US Agency for International Development and other federal grants, have meant that organizations like the MacArthur Foundation are already racing to disburse money to their grantees to help plug the gaps.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are telling the organizations we work with to be adamant with founders, that if they don\u2019t fund us now there may not be a sector left,\u201d says Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery, acting director of the Charity and Security Network, which works with nonprofits that operate in challenging conditions.<\/p>\n
Subramanian-Montgomery says her organization has advised the nonprofits it works with that they shouldn\u2019t comply in advance, but that some organizations are already \u201cremoving stuff from their website that could make them at higher risk.\u201d She says she\u2019s worried, however, that even the threats of defunding could cause people to \u201creally start self-censoring, then changing programming completely,\u201d she says. \u201cThen there wouldn\u2019t even be a civil society to push back on government policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
But what that civil society could look like is up in the air. \u201cThe Trump administration is going to set the sector on fire,\u201d says Reich. \u201cIt\u2019s going to need to be rebuilt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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