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Emergency Assistance for select NGO's affected by USAID

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19 Feb 2025 • 1 min read

This week Colby and Gayle are interviewing HRF fellows and other ecosystem partners affected by USAID to provide Good Ancestor donors an executive summary of the funding opportunities created by the treasury freezes at USAID that has locked up both 2025 funding orgs were promised as well as 2024 payments for work already completed. We organized and compiled these in a funding doc. If you are interested in this doc, please contact us directly.

Board member Gayle Young, is a mentor to the international freedom fellows

Fellows told stories about their funding loss and gave pitches

It remains to be seen how it shakes out but in the short run many good human rights, and democracy related orgs are in crisis having lost 20-60% of their budgets from organizations like National Endowment for Democracy downstream of USAid.

Journalism on the topic:
Wallstreet Journal breaks down spending at USAID
Pro Publica on strange things afoot at USAID via Peter Marocco

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