Private donors gave more than $125M to keep foreign aid programs going after US cuts

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Private donors mobilized over $125 million to sustain foreign aid programs after the Trump administration froze U.S. assistance in January.

Project Resource Optimization coordinated the effort, identifying 80 cost-effective programs and awarding over $110 million in charitable grants by September.

Despite the emergency funding, nonprofits had to drastically cut budgets and some programs were entirely terminated.

NEW YORK — When the Trump administration froze foreign assistance overnight, urgent efforts began to figure out how to continue critical aid programs that could be funded by private donors.

Multiple groups launched fundraisers in February and eventually, these emergency