(TNS) Some Kentucky nonprofits have dramatically curtailed services and laid off staff because of federal funding cuts, nonprofit officials told the Lexington council Tuesday.

Danielle Clore, chief executive officer of the Kentucky Nonprofit Network, an advocacy group for nonprofits, said the loss of federal dollars and the consequences of future cuts are creating chaos in Kentucky’s nonprofit community.

“It’s certainly creating uncertainty and destabilization for nonprofits,” Clore told the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council’s Budget, Finance and Economic Development Committee Tuesday.

Nonprofits have been hit with a combination of cuts from President Donald Trump’s administration, a $9 million rescissions package that claw backed already allocated funding and other cuts in the Big

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