Press Forward made almost $23 million in grants to 22 organizations aimed at bolstering the infrastructure for local news. The grants were the culmination of a request for proposals process that began accepting applications in November 2024, and elicited 559 proposals.
As nonprofits fall under the bludgeon of President Donald Trump's federal spending cuts, groups in Silicon Valley are working to provide resources to soften the blow. The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley is offering up to 10 hours of free legal services to help nonprofits navigate shifting federal grant rules, funding freezes, restructuring and other advice nonprofit leaders are seeking.
The 91-kilometre Future Circular Collider (FCC), which would span the French-Swiss border and pass beneath Lake Geneva, is forecast to cost around 15 billion Swiss francs (US$19 billion) to make - if it gets built. The machine has the backing of the European Strategy Group, a group appointed by CERN's council to gather input from its member states and the physics community.