NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

SEPA became the first “social economy” law in Asia to address traditional-market failures and bring social objectives into a broader range of government-supported economic enterprises. The first legally registered worker cooperative was the Alternate Drivers’ Cooperative, which formed in 2010 before passage of the FAC law.

Public and Social Policy

The Charity CFO

JULY 10, 2023

They’re focused on “public good” activities, like: Educational Scientific Religious Sports Public safety Etc. Federal tax law gives these groups an advantage by making donations to them tax-deductible, allowing donors to reduce their tax liability while helping these nonprofits stay afloat.

Public and Social Policy

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. Try to make grants available for nonprofit Research and Development into Compressed Agricultural Fiber and Cross-Laminated timber for carbon-sequestering construction materials.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Accounting seems detached from causes such as fighting racism, resetting unjust laws, or upending false cultural narratives. Admittedly, my slogan doesn’t stir hearts and minds (and doesn’t get many laughs, either).

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Until it was.

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

It started with the early rise of the agricultural industry built on chattel slavery, when cotton was king of the exported cash crops—although tobacco, sugarcane, and rice were good business as well. This is why we must organize the South: to set the country back on a path toward building a multiracial democracy. To finally win the Civil War.

Manufacturing

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. To interrupt this pattern, public policy must, at minimum, implement policies that tax wealth to cut down on the excessive concentration of wealth over time.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mali Obomsawin: I would like to acknowledge that I’m a citizen of a nation that is not one of the nations in so-called Maine, so in terms of federal Indian law sovereignty, it does not apply to me in that context. They don’t just happen automatically without some of that Land Back politics, law, policy kind of thing.

Nonprofit governance and management

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. Law professor and activist Dean Spade has noted that the students he teaches often seek to be “nonprofit executive directors” even as they lack a clear idea of what they want to do. Emily Kawano et al.,

Public and Social Policy