Station Archive

On tonight's show:

• Louis Armstrong Orchestra, Star Dust
• The Bud Freeman Trio, Three Little Words
• Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Long Gone (From the Bowlin' Green)
• Artie Shaw And His Gramercy, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
• Terry Pollard, Emaline
• Nat King Cole, When I Fall in Love
• Billy Taylor, Poinciana
• Hank Mobley, If I Should Lose You
• John Coltrane, Naima
• Arnett Cobb, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
• Oscar Peterson, C-Jam Blues
• Frank Sinatra with Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra Ella Fitzgerald the Lady is a Tramp
• Joe Henderson, Miles Ahead
• Wolfgang Haffner, Children of Sanchez
  

The Trump administration is hammering away at the federal government by eliminating jobs, cancelling programs, freezing spending and generally creating confusion. Today on Davisville we look at one part of the fallout in Yolo County -- the effect of the spending freeze on local nonprofits -- by talking with Jessica Hubbard, executive director of the Yolo Community Foundation.

Yolo has about 200 nonprofits, not counting hundreds of small ones like school PTAs or neighborhood associations.

“The biggest thing right now … is uncertainty," she said. Some local nonprofits have been hit by the spending freeze, particularly ones working in the areas of food and the environment, and “a huge number of nonprofits [worry] about the impact of the freeze, or anticipate that those freezes or potential cuts will impact them down the road.”

We talk about reactions, Hubbard's advice for nonprofits and donors, the effect on nonprofit workers and volunteers, giving across the political spectrum, similarities to the turmoil caused by the pandemic, and where all this might be headed. The foundation releases its latest State of the Yolo Nonprofit Sector Report in mid-March.

(Photo shows a storm over Yolo County in winter 2018)