{"id":334552,"date":"2025-08-11T01:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334552\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T01:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:35:16","slug":"equal-justice-usa-to-shut-down-baptist-news-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334552\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal Justice USA to shut down \u2013 Baptist News Global"},"content":{"rendered":"

Equal Justice USA has announced the \u201chard news\u201d<\/strong> that it will shut down due to the Trump administration\u2019s revocation of more than $3 million in federal grant funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter dozens of meetings and hours of analysis and deliberations, the leadership of this organization \u2026 came to the difficult decision to wind down EJUSA\u2019s operations,\u201d CEO Jamila Hodge and board chair Lenny Noisette announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lenny Noisette<\/p>\n

The closure will affect nearly 50 employees and conclude more than 30 years of service aimed at breaking cycles of trauma through social, racial and criminal justice programs including dedicated work to end the death penalty and assist victims of crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the work is ending prematurely,<\/strong> it is not the end of the movement we\u2019ve built together,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThere is still so much more to do to move this country away from its reliance on a punishment framework that is racist and harmful to a system that is rooted in healing and true justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

EJUSA\u2019s demise is the result of the Trump administration\u2019s decision to withhold more than $800 million in Department of Justice grants to hundreds of organizations dedicated to violence and crime prevention.<\/p>\n

Center for American Progress<\/a> estimated more than 365 such awards were canceled in April in order to align federal grant making with the president\u2019s political agenda: \u201cAs a result, critical services that states and localities rely on for their public safety are in jeopardy. Since taking office, the Trump administration has shown through its words and actions that slashing federal government investments is a priority without regard for what keeps people safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of Government Efficiency<\/strong> is responsible for many of the cuts, including the elimination of awards related to education, consumer protection, refugee resettlement, veteran\u2019s services and behavioral treatment, the center said. \u201cThe DOJ\u2019s recent grant terminations will have devastating impacts, forcing organizations to reduce services, scramble for new funding, cease operating or\u00a0lay off\u00a0workers.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Republicans got into the act in June with a DOGE Subcommittee hearing titled \u201cPublic Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/p>\n

\u201cRadical, left-wing Democrats have bankrolled NGOs to advance their destructive agenda at the expense of American taxpayers,\u201d said U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>, R-Ga., chair of the subcommittee. \u201cFrom the Green New Deal scam to facilitating mass illegal immigration and the resettlement of illegal aliens across the United States, NGOs have expended billions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars in pursuit of agendas that most Americans oppose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal legislators \u201cmust also act to shut down<\/strong> the pipeline that keeps this money=laundering machine running,\u201d she said. \u201cOur DOGE subcommittee is going to expose the NGO scam and continue bringing long-overdue transparency and accountability to those who abuse taxpayer dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump targeted federal support for science and medicine in an Aug. 7 executive order<\/a> that claims to seek to end the \u201coffensive waste of tax dollars\u201d in order to improve American life. The National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health were singled out in the ideological directive suffused with culture-war rhetoric.<\/p>\n

\u201cFederal grants have funded drag shows in Ecuador, trained doctoral candidates in Critical Race Theory, and developed transgender-sexual-education programs,\u201d the president claimed. The order connects NIH to the MAGA conspiracy theory that a lab in Wuhan, China, created and spread the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Placing presidential appointees<\/strong> in charge of the grant-making process will help end such abuses, according to the order. \u201cIn short, there is a strong need to strengthen oversight and coordination of, and to streamline, agency grantmaking to address these problems, prevent them from recurring, and ensure greater accountability for use of public funds more broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Vera Institute of Justice<\/a> described the DOGE hearing and continuing grant revocations as examples of the administration\u2019s \u201cwar\u201d on nonprofits. \u201cNonprofits have long done essential work to keep communities safe, but Trump has established a clear playbook to coerce and control them: strip their federal funding, investigate and intimidate them, and threaten their charitable tax status.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, the National Council on Nonprofits recently launched \u201cNonprofits Get It Done,\u201d an advertising campaign to educate Americans about the vital role the organizations play in serving the nation.<\/p>\n

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Diane Yentel<\/p>\n

The campaign also urges public action<\/strong> to convince lawmakers to support nonprofits as vital to American society.<\/p>\n

\u201cNonprofits are deeply embedded in the daily lives of every American. This campaign shines a light on the people and organizations doing the work and calls on all of us to support them,\u201d President Diane Yentel<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

The effect of EJUSA\u2019s closure can be measured by its accomplishments to date, including securing more than $4 million in community-based crime survivor support, helping abolish capital punishment in 11 states, supporting restorative justice efforts in 14 communities and advocating for policies that provided $500 million for public safety and mental health programs.<\/p>\n

Shutting down was \u201can incredibly hard decision\u201d<\/strong> necessitated by \u201ca ruthless attack on life-saving work,\u201d Hodge added. \u201cWhile this chapter is ending, the work we have dedicated our professional lives to and the vision you\u2019ve helped build is far from over.\u201d<\/p>\n

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