![The Fabulous 413 hosts Sally Loomis of Hilltown Land Trust [not pictured], Claire Higgins of Community Action Pioneer Valley, Jim Hicks of The Massachusetts Review, and Ilan Stavans of Restless Books [not pictured] for a roundtable chat to review how their and other organizations across the 4 counties of western Mass. are attempting to remediate in the fallout of these recissions.](https://image.staticox.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnpr.brightspotcdn.com%2Fdims4%2Fdefault%2F6286afd%2F2147483647%2Fstrip%2Ftrue%2Fcrop%2F1169x720%2B0%2B0%2Fresize%2F880x542%21%2Fquality%2F90%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%252F43%252Feb%252F8398023445f59c7700c87be1aafa%252Fscreenshot0.jpg)
Since Jan. 21, we have been hearing about cuts to agencies that have been funded by the federal government for decades. As public programs, businesses and federal departments survey the carnage, the dominoes continue to fall. From the USDA to the NSF, health to the humanities, infrastructure to academics, the Library of Congress to the NEA, it seems like no industry is immune to the withdrawal of important grants.
It was only a matter of time before the many arts and service organizations that we speak to here on The Fabulous 413 were also affected. So today, we speak with people from a wide swath of the local organizations who have either seen their federal grants and funding disappear or are unsure of where their federal funding may end up.
We hear from Sally Loomis of Hilltown Land Trust, Claire Higgins of Community Action Pioneer Valley, Jim Hicks of The Massachusetts Review, and Ilan Stavans of Restless Books for a roundtable chat to review how their and other organizations across the 4 counties of western Mass. are attempting to remediate in the fallout of these rescissions.
