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Faith Leaders Push $1B Grant Boost After Worship Attacks

5/24/2026

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Faith Leaders Urge

Leaders and faith groups urge bill to raise Nonprofit Security Grant Program to $1 billion after attacks on houses of worship.
FEMA continues processing FY 2025 Nonprofit Security Grant Program awards after a Department of Homeland Security shutdown delayed funding.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) said fewer than half of 12,000 applications have been funded.
Rabbi Jen Lader and Robert McCaw warned DHS guidance linked grant eligibility to immigration enforcement.

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Rob Base Dies

Rob Base’s 1988 hit “It Takes Two” peaked at No. 3 on Billboard’s Dance/Club Songs chart and earned platinum certification.
The artist Rob Base, half of the duo Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, died at 59 after cancer.
FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program continues FY 2025 award processing despite a DHS shutdown delay.
DJ E-Z Rock, Base’s longtime partner, died in 2014 at 46 from diabetes complications.

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Faith Leaders Urge

Leaders and faith groups urge bill to raise Nonprofit Security Grant Program to $1 billion after attacks on houses of worship.
FEMA continues processing FY 2025 Nonprofit Security Grant Program awards after a Department of Homeland Security shutdown delayed funding.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) said fewer than half of 12,000 applications have been funded.
Rabbi Jen Lader and Robert McCaw warned DHS guidance linked grant eligibility to immigration enforcement.

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