SUN JOURNAL • December 24, 2020
Across the state, nonprofits big and small have spent the past nine months pushing through the pandemic, ramping up to feed kids, save animals, and help elderly Mainers even as those same organizations cancel fundraisers, drop major annual events and find their regular supporters just can’t support them right now. It’s been tough. And it could stay tough in 2021. The latest federal stimulus bill could help, with more money for the Paycheck Protection Program, incentives to encourage charitable giving and tax credits to help nonprofits that lost money in 2020 but still want to keep employees. But while that bill passed Congress this week, the president called it an unsuitable “disgrace” and had not signed it into law as of Friday.