Kansas City Nonprofits Forced To Cop With MAGA World After DEI

Another local reaction to election consequences, new legislation and federal rules . . .

The KC Shepherd's Center received a memo from AmeriCorps in February notifying the center it needed to delete mentions of DEI to keep its Senior Companion program open and funded.

"The lesser of two evils in this case was to close the program,” said Janet Baker, executive director. "The impact [of that] on the individuals in the program is gut-wrenching."

Baker said the center chose to close the program altogether because it didn't want to compromise its values to keep it open.

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'Lesser of two evils': KC nonprofit cuts federally-funded program to keep from removing DEI language