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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We We need] the means to build associations that are powerful enough to successfully challenge the economic powers that be. Mutualism is the right to associate let loose in the economy. This must be rectified.

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Finance: AMA Pushes For Charity Care Accountability

The NonProfit Times

Image from [link] Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to support greater oversight of nonprofit hospitals and standardization of charity care policies so financial assistance reaches patients in need. Hospitals are eligible for nonprofit status, which exempts them from income, property, and sales taxes.

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Why Tennessee Needs a Statewide Nonprofit Association

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Here’s Why Tennessee Needs a Statewide Nonprofit Association. In most states, a statewide nonprofit association provides holistic services to nonprofits, including services such as statewide public policy and advocacy support, training and technical assistance, and research. Source: Independent Sector.

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Co-op Leaders Consider Future as International Year of the Co-op Nears

NonProfit Quarterly

It is also when the National Cooperative Business Association Cooperative League of the USA (NCBA CLUSA), the US national co-op association, hosts its annual Cooperative Impact conference in Washington, DC. a nonprofit association that helps educate co-op developers, presented her research findings.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

That same year also brought pushback from the local physicians’ association and the Ministry of Health over the responsibilities SABSA workers were taking on—prescribing, asking for lab tests, and making specialist referrals. The Quebec law is even more recent—the category of solidarity cooperatives was created in 1997.

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How to Fix the Nation’s DAF System—a $250 Billion Question

NonProfit Quarterly

The arguments of historic precedent and bias toward settled law strengthen this view. There is no question that support for the established treatment of DAFs is very strong among the businesses, trade associations, and professionals that profit from it. Congress famously is known to move slowly. But it can be moved.

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

To penalize nonprofits for carrying out their mission in a courtroom or a legislative hearing represents a misunderstanding of the nonprofit’s right and responsibility to associate, to petition government and to speak. Every success represents the power of association. HB307 ultimately passed and was signed into law.