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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

.” Often, it’s a specialty issue that triggers the challenge: hospitals not paying property taxes yet having such a large real estate footprint, or nonprofits owning agricultural land and getting a “discounted” ag rate on their taxes yet not being ag producers. MNA fights to protect tax exemption, and rightfully so.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

pollinator gardens) into areas under commercial, residential, agricultural, or other uses can offer meaningful benefits. agriculture and forestry), land reduction and management opportunities lie in adopting innovative products and increasing the productivity and biodiversity features of their working lands.

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Nonprofit Statuses: 501(c)(3) vs 501(c)(4) and more!

The Charity CFO

This can cover a wide range of activities, from: Helping less fortunate community members Hosting educational courses Helping mediate area disputes Fighting neighborhood deterioration They can also advocate for public policies and laws that benefit the people they serve, as long as this isn’t their primary or sole activity.

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Legislative Tracker - Health & Human Services

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Please note that Tennessee Nonprofit Network monitors all bills that impact nonprofits and the communities they serve, but we only take positions on issues impacting the entire nonprofit sector and align with our public policy agenda. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here. Did we miss any important bills?

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Land Rematriation: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez, Donald Soctomah, Darren Ranco, Mali Obomsawin, Gabriela Alcalde, and Kate Dempsey

NonProfit Quarterly

Federal land policy in Maine,” Public Policy in Maine, Ballotpedia, accessed September 5, 2023, ballotpedia.org/Federal_land_policy_in_Maine#Land_and_Water_Conservation_Fund. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 2022). Allison Kanoti et al., Allison Kanoti et al.,

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

Although cooperatives have existed in Korea since the early 20th century—the Nonghyeop agricultural cooperative being one of the largest cooperatives in the world—before the FAC, it was hard to launch a cooperative at the grassroots level in large part because forming a cooperative required at least 200 members and $300,000 in capital.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Department of Agriculture, not to mention public opinion, supported programs and services that would preserve small farms. Farms, especially small farms, were failing. They couldn’t get credit to buy a tractor.