Event Recap – Dean’s Forum | Seeing Through the Fog: The Hidden Consequences of Executive Orders

On April 2, 2025, Dean Jodi Sandfort hosted a conversation with Ben Brunjes, from the Evans School, and Tiffany Gourley Carter, from the National Council of Nonprofits, to discuss the hidden consequences of recent federal executive orders, specifically how these changes are impacting nonprofits (here and abroad), and small businesses. This administration has relied heavily on a constant barrage of executive orders and memos to make these changes and intimidate, confuse, and disable opposition. With more than 70 executive orders in the first month alone, much of the policy conversation has been on issues like immigration, trade, and healthcare. However, the impact has been much more far-reaching.

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