Mayor Daniel Lurie is poised to cut millions of dollars in nonprofit government contracts this year, potentially curtailing services the city considers vital — helping domestic violence survivors who don’t speak English find new homes, hosting street fairs for families in the Tenderloin, or offering doulas in the Bayview, where Black families suffer high infant mortality rates.
When proposed cuts to those programs appeared in the budget documents that departments offered Lurie in February, they did not specify how many nonprofit workers would lose their jobs. Instead, more clinical terms couched the bloodletting: “community-based organization grant reductions” or “CBO primary expenditure changes.”
The true impact is more blunt: The proposed cuts would result in at least 1,050 layoffs, nonprofit leaders tell The Standard. It’s likely an undercount, as the most organized advocacy groups represent fewer than half of the city’s 700 community organizations (opens in new tab)…