The 3CG Shift - Beyond the Signature

What We Cover

Each edition of The 3CG Shift cuts through the noise to highlight Executive Orders, agency actions, and government updates with direct implications for your workforce, funding, operations, or strategy.

We don’t cover everything—only the moves that matter.

David White, Founder and CEO of 3CG, introduces The Shift — a monthly, practical breakdown of executive orders and federal actions shaping the work of mission-driven leaders. A Rhodes Scholar and Stanford Law graduate, David has led at the highest levels of finance, labor, and organizational strategy, including as former Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and CEO of the Screen Actors Guild. His mission now? Helping leaders turn complexity into clarity and action.

Every Executive Order shapes the ground you walk on — whether you feel it yet or not. Our mission? To help you see it, understand it, and move smartly through it.

EO Signal Boost: Executive Orders Decoded and categorized for what really matters.

Executive Orders and agency actions move fast — and not all of them matter equally.

Our EO Signal Boost filters the noise, surfacing the critical shifts shaping immigration, labor, leadership, and DEI today.

When you know where the real signals are, you don't just react — you move with intention.

From this month's boost, we dive into three critical domains shaping today's reality — immigration, labor, and DEI — each carrying direct, urgent impact.

Immigration Policy Shifts

Recent Executive Orders are reshaping immigration policies — with major implications for nonprofit, business, and public sectors alike. Changes include expanded and evolving enforcement priorities, stricter eligibility requirements, changes to humanitarian programs, and on-the-ground actions that have the potential to reshape due process rights.

Nonprofits serving immigrant populations may see funding cuts, increased compliance hurdles, shifts in client eligibility, and changes in demand for services from undocumented as well as documented immigrants. Employers sponsoring or employing immigrant workers should also be alert to changing verification and sponsorship requirements.

The key questions:

1. What financial, programmatic, and operational effects can organizations that serve immigrants anticipate?

2. How will the executive orders and actions affect employees, volunteers, clients, and customers across sectors?

👉 Watch for: Changes in DACA-related policies, programmatic and compliance audits for federally funded programs, closer scrutiny of legal immigration pathways such as H1-B visas, increased enforcement actions at workplaces, and new federal grant language around immigration services.

Labor & Unions

The Administration’s Executive Orders will have a direct impact on workers, unions, non-profits, and companies. The proposed changes will be felt in the federal workforce as well as the private sector.

Indeed, if challenges to the Executive Orders do not succeed, we are witnessing a dramatic reshaping of the rules governing the workplace in every industry and every community in the nation.

The first set of Executive Orders examined raise two fundamental questions:

1. Are the proposed changes affecting federal workers, and private sector workers as well, bringing about the promised savings claimed versus the cost to the framework that workers, unions, and employers have counted on to manage and resolve disputes over the past century?

2. Do the Executive Orders collide with the Constitutional separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches?

Nonprofits depending on DEI grants could face major funding changes. Organizations tied to federal contracts should prepare for adjustments in grant language, compliance expectations, and donor conversations.

The key questions:

1. How will nonprofits and mission-driven groups adapt to a new funding environment?

2. Will private-sector equity programs shrink under these new signals?

👉 Watch for: Agency-level instructions, grant guideline shifts, and the broader ripple effect on community-centered funding priorities.

In moments of uncertainty, your steadiness becomes the message. It's not about knowing what’s next—it's about helping others move through it with clarity.