DEI Initiatives in the Crosshairs of the Administration: What Nonprofits Need to Know to Mitigate Their Risk
by Jeffrey S. Tenenbaum, Esq. and Kevin Serafino, Esq.
Tenenbaum Law Group PLLC
Article reprinted with permission
Shortly following his inauguration in January, President Trump signed a flurry of Executive Orders (“EOs”) implementing a wide array of administration policies. One of the EOs issued January 21, entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “DEI EO”), is designed to ban both public- and private-sector programs encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”). Another, entitled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing, (the “EJ EO”), terminates environmental justice programs within the Executive Branch and targets federal contractors and grant recipients that advance DEI and environmental justice.
The FSAE Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee has assembled articles and resources for organizations to begin or strengthen their DEI initiatives into a comprehensive 
