📣 New Executive Order Expands Federal Oversight of Grantmaking 📣
A new Executive Order gives federal agencies greater control over how grants are awarded and used, emphasizing cuts to diversity and equity efforts and allowing grants to be canceled if they don’t align with government priorities.
📣 NEA Cancels Creative Writing Fellowship 📣
Publisher’s Weekly reports that the Trump administration has cancelled the longstanding NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, which has historically supported writers with up to $50,000 in awards, citing updated federal grantmaking priorities.
📣 New Guide Counters DOJ Memo Targeting DEIA Efforts 📣
In response to the DOJ’s July 29 memo discouraging equity initiatives among federal grantees, the Legal Defense Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Democracy Forward, Latino Justice, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and National Women’s Law Center, have released a fact sheet outlining what recipients can, and still lawfully, do to support equal opportunity.
📣 Upcoming Panel: The Future of Equal Opportunity 📣
Join the Aspen Institute on September 4th, 2025 from 2:00-3:15 p.m. ET for The Future of Equal Opportunity, a virtual panel discussion on how to protect and strengthen workplace equity in today’s shifting policy landscape. Register here.
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