by Allie Fiske | Feb 2025 | members-resources
The executive actions taken during the first weeks of the new Trump administration have garnered a great deal of attention and raised numerous questions for community action agencies (CAAs). Through a series of executive orders (EOs) and memos, the administration...
by Allie Fiske | Jan 2025 | resources
Following the 2025 presidential inauguration, the White House released a myriad of new executive orders (EOs) on a host of issues. Many of these orders contain broad directives and it will take time for the practical implications of these actions to become clear. The...
by Allie Fiske | Dec 2024 | resources
Everything’s bigger in Texas, even the impact of the state’s legal challenge to federal overtime rules. On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Final Rule on Defining and...
by Allie Fiske | Dec 2024 | resources
Recent court decisions resulted in a range of challenges to anti-discrimination initiatives in grantmaking by nonprofit organizations. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action in higher education in its 2023 Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA)...
by Allie Fiske | Dec 2024 | resources
For the first time since 2007, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a new Grants Policy Statement (GPS). The GPS, which is incorporated as a standard term and condition in a grantee’s Notice of Award, provides information on the award process...
by Allie Fiske | Oct 2024 | resources
Recipients and subrecipients of federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other federal agencies can soon expect greater uniformity in the rules that govern the administration and use of those funds. HHS published an Interim Final...
