The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) is investing $4 million in Medicaid family planning programming in order to counteract the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood in Trump’s budget bill. The funding will go towards critical services that many Illinoisans rely on, like contraception, sexually transmitted infection (STI)[Read More…]
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Growing pains: You Matter 2 stays true to its mission despite funding challenges
No good deed goes unpunished — or so the saying goes. Area nonprofits are feeling the sting of those words as they find their funding being cut, frozen or eliminated altogether. You Matter 2, a nonprofit in Flossmoor that offers programming to empower and educate south suburban youth, is one[Read More…]
Nonprofits chilled by federal budget freezes and cuts
In freeze tag, players must freeze if the person who is “It” tags them during the game. Nonprofits all over the country experienced something very similar on Jan. 27, 2025, when the Trump administration issued an order to freeze grant money and contracts, effective at 5 p.m. the next day.[Read More…]
Preckwinkle issues statement on DOJ cuts to violence prevention funding
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle issued the following statement Thursday, April 24, after she received notice that the Trump Administration intends to cut funding Cook County is using for violence prevention programs. “I strongly oppose the Trump Administration’s recent decision to cancel Department of Justice funding that supports life-saving[Read More…]
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