“As I am sure there are many hard conversations happening in board meetings across the many Island nonprofits, the Yard’s board felt it was the right thing,” Yard board president Michele Sasso said. On the Island, several other nonprofits have also been hit or are worried about a decrease in grant funding, including groups assisting the Island’s homeless and food-insecure. The collaborative counsels and works with the hundreds of nonprofits around the Island. The collaborative also keeps track of the number of nonprofits on the Island, and is finding they have grown considerably. With more nonprofits and less grant funding, some are seeing donations go to more essential services as national funding draws back.