Overview
- Sens. James Lankford and Jacky Rosen unveiled the bill proposing $1 billion for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, up from about $300 million, which is open to all faith-based and other at-risk nonprofits.
- The plan would let grants pay for trained security personnel in addition to upgrades such as cameras, reinforced doors, gates, barriers, and metal detectors.
- The measure directs the Department of Education to write new campus rules to counter antisemitism and requires social media companies to disclose how they moderate antisemitic content.
- Major Jewish organizations, including the ADL, AJC, JFNA, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, joined Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox movements in endorsing the legislation.
- Backers also target access issues after Trump-era rules barred applicants tied to DEI programs, certain boycotts, or services for unauthorized immigrants, which some nonprofits say deterred them from applying.