Universal Charitable Deduction Could Become Permanent Under Senate Proposal
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 17, 2025
The Senate released its updates for "The One Big Beautiful Bill." " Here are some of the changes that would most affect nonprofits.
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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise
The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate first-ever standards to govern disposal of coal ash and limit the wastewater discharge of toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Cook, Ph.D.
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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
In the first half of the 20th century, the crisis of rural electrification ended when the government enabled neighbors to access loans for building their own electric co-ops. A small change to employment law in 1974 enabled over 10 million workers to share in the profits of their employers. Another way is still possible.
Reclaiming Heritage: The Global Push for Repatriation of Looted Artifacts
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Communities want back artworks and artifacts that are of exceptional importance,” says Elizabeth Marlowe , director of museum studies at Colgate University. These recent changes shift the burden of proof onto universities and museums displaying Native American remains and belongings.
Study Reveals In-Depth Analysis of the State of Global Generosity
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 18, 2025
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Bill To Pull Tax Exemptions Headed Back To Congress
The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
9495, putting the bill through “regular order” by being granted a Rule from the House Rules Committee, which the bill will definitely get at today’s Rules Committee meeting, according to Mark Micali, vice president of Government Affairs at The Nonprofit Alliance in Washington, D.C. House Rules Committee will consider H.R Section 4 of H.R.9495
How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. If governments can work with a publicly owned bank that makes modest profits and reinvests those profits in the communities that own it, they can participate in a restorative local economy. It turns out, quite a lot.
The Next Generation of Mutualism
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
The left has often undercut a notion of a mutualist future by insisting that every problem needs a large centralized government solution. To ensure mutualism thrives in the next generation, communities need laws, regulations, practices, and capital markets that encourage solidarity and investment outside of any given silo.
Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 2, 2025
That was the moment, according to Boal, when these artists came to understand that art which sees audience members merely as passive observers could itself be as oppressive as landlords or bosses handing down racist, classist, or sexist rules and laws. Through this process, TONYC helped to shape city policy and practice between 2013 and 2019.
Sharing Meals
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
For example, the Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC) is the backbone network for the people, businesses, government agencies, and community organizations that make up Rhode Island’s food system. About 20 percent are seated within government. Here are three keys to meal sharing: 1. Manifest your values.
From Fixers to Builders
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 9, 2025
In September 2024, two months before the American public voted Republicans into control of every branch of the US national government, that question was definitively answered at a private, non-political gathering of philanthropic foundation executives and their communications officers. million times. Banks aspire to build wealth.
The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
It has been very common for governments to request AI models that can identify fraud in a public benefits systemfor instance, in the applications they receive for childcare benefits or unemployment benefits. If you were the president of the womens chess club at your university, that should count extra for you, right?
Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 24, 2025
3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. Yale Universitys latest estimates also propose that the countrys failing mental health systems cost the United States $282 billion every year. 2/ www.rochester.edu/newscenter/native-americans-government-authorities-and-the-reproductive-politics -403792/. Hao Liu et al.,
How does your nonprofit involve the local community in its programs and initiatives?
Blue Avocado
MAY 13, 2025
Karen Sailer from Eagle River Historical Society Meet Your Community Where They Are Learning Rights Law Center achieves its mission of education equity by working closely with community groups, organizations, and service providers to conduct Know Your Rights trainings and start legal intakes. Our community partners are vital to our success.
Why the social sector is vital to healthy, thriving communities
Candid
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
The memo referenced Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) this umbrella term refers to organizations or corporations that operate independently of government and do not operate to make a profit (although used more commonly for organizations operating outside the U.S.). million jobs, nearly 10% of the non-government labor force.
Cancer Research in the US Is World Class Because of Its Broad Base of Funding—with the Government Pulling Out, Its Future Is Uncertain
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 5, 2025
That law dramatically expanded the National Cancer Institute, an agency within the National Institutes of Health focusing on cancer research and education. In comparison, the federal government has typically contributed roughly five to eight times more than philanthropy to cancer research each year. It needs universities.
How the Trump Administration Is Undermining Civil Rights Law—and How Nonprofits Can Fight Back
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 14, 2025
Image Credit: Katelyn Perry on unsplash Through executive orders , regulatory rollbacks , and court fights , the Trump administration is not only dismantling civil rights protections it is turning the laws written to protect marginalized groups into tools of oppression. Their purpose has never been colorblind neutrality it has been justice.
Unite in Advance: Philanthropy Coalition Launches Solidarity Campaign
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 8, 2025
The onslaught of executive orders; revenue and funding freezes; and investigations against universities,law firms, and businesses demonstrate a pattern of attacks foundations may see next: attacking individual institutions to silence a sector and forcing concessions that seek to limit our freedoms. It is not new. Silence isolates.
Queer and Fighting for Climate Justice in Southeast Asia
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Image credit: Bùi Hoàng Long on Pexels In September 2023, Aidil Iman Aidid, a Malaysian youth activist, was invited by a group of students at a university in Kuala Lumpur to give a speech on his climate justice advocacy. In 2022, Singapore repealed a law that criminalized sex between men.
How the State of the People Power Tour Is Building Power and Amplifying Black Voices
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 19, 2025
Seven of the tours 10 stops are in states that are disproportionately impacted by regressive policies, such as voter suppression laws and the refusal of state governments to expand Medicaid , even though more than half of Black and Latine children rely on Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for their healthcare coverage.
What San Antonio Can Learn from Its German Sister City amid a Rise in Migration
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Photo courtesy of Roco Guenther As the morning light filters through the windows of temporary shelters and government housing scattered across the city, refugees like Yulia Ihnatieva from Ukraine begin their day. The government recently expanded border patrol checkpoints as part of a hard line on illegal migration.
How to Convert a Business to Worker Co-op Ownership: A 10-Step Process
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 22, 2025
Another recommendation, for both owners and employees: review the Legal Guide to Cooperative Conversions, published by the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Several have appeared in this book—CDI, the ICA Group, Project Equity, and the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives. Whether short or long, it’s sure to clarify plenty.
US Colleges and Universities Have Billions Stashed Away in Endowments—a Higher Ed Finance Expert Explains What They Are
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 1, 2025
With the Trump administration seeking to cut federal funding for colleges and universities , you might be wondering whether the endowments of these institutions of higher education might be able to fill those gaps. But beginning in 2018, the federal government imposed a 1.4 Few colleges or universities have a single endowment fund.
Advocates Respond to Civil Rights Rollback at National Conference
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 30, 2025
Making Sense of the Backlash NCRCs conference, as has been noted in NPQ before, attracts a broad audiencein addition to community organizers, it attracts bankers (especially from community development departments) and even government officials. What we are witnessing is a tremendous backlash against what those protests exposed.
From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 10, 2025
21 Integrating Data Ethics and Diversity into the Narrative In the United Kingdom, organizations can use personal data without consent under a rule known as lawful basis. 45 In regions lacking data privacy laws, researchers from high-income countries may perform studies they would avoid in their home countries.
When Academic Freedom Falls, Civil Society Is Next
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 29, 2025
Image Credit: Kbra Arslaner on Unsplash Across the United States, universities are raising the alarm about what they see as a campaign by the Donald Trump administration to assert political control over higher education. Federal officials had previously warned 60 institutions that their civil rights policies could jeopardize their grants.
The Trump Takeover of the US Institute of Peace—What Nonprofits Need to Know and How to Prepare
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 17, 2025
Credit: Something Original on Wikimedia Commons On March 17, members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) forced their way into the US Institute of Peaces (USIP) offices, under President Donald Trumps directive, despite its status as an independent nonprofit. As USIPs former Executive Vice President Tara D.
The Legal Landscape of DEI: A Conversation with Jill Habig
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 3, 2025
Image credit: designer491 on iStock The Trump administration began fulfilling a key campaign promise immediately after taking power: the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government and beyond. The key takeaway: The law remains firmly on the side of anti-discrimination efforts.
Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
27 In an interview with Lanclos, Jared Bostic, deputy Geographic Information Officer with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, noted how he used GIS to record “tornado swaths” and “mapped an impact summary,” calculating the affected population, households, and businesses.
In Defense of Philanthropic Freedom
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 17, 2025
While the current targets appear to be organizations associated with the progressive left, former IRS official Lois Lerner acknowledged the government targeted groups on the conservative right between 2010 and 2012. Applications for 501c3 status were delayed or denied because of a group’s political perspective.
Beyond Wishful Thinking: How to Build Lasting Youth Political Infrastructure
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 9, 2025
The idea of the Green New Deal was transforming what people thought was possible or practical for the government to do. That starts with the basics: What are the institutions of government and how do they work, really ? It felt like a hopeful moment. Understanding the Current Moment The past decade has seen a lot of youth mobilization.
Foundations Rally Behind Call for Unity
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 21, 2025
Credit: Photo by Diva Plavalaguna on Pexels The list of institutions negotiating with or capitulating to the Donald Trump administration seems to grow longer every day, including universities , law firms , and companies that have quietly scrapped diversity programs. and Catherine T.
US Nonprofits Risk Losing Tax Status over Israel Criticism
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 18, 2025
Others argued the bill would give nonprofits more power to fight back than under current law. These groups have been instrumental in pushing for laws and policies that penalize criticism of Israel, often conflating such criticism with anti-Semitism. Some of this is already beginning to take shape.
Why Harvard’s Decision Not to Comply with the Federal Government Matters
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 17, 2025
In making the statement, Garber made clear that the university would not be threatened into complying with unreasonable demands made by the federal government, even if that meant losing federal funding dollars. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.
Commentary: The Stakes in Washington For Nonprofits In 2025
The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Senate and is on track to retain control of the House, even if by a slim margin, which would allow Congress to bypass the Senate filibuster and enact certain tax and spending laws with simple majorities. Trump proposed more than $7 trillion worth of tax cuts on the campaign trail, and it remains unclear how they might be paid for.
How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 20, 2025
The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, if the version passed in May by House Republicans becomes law, make an already inequitable economy even less equitable. The progressive political sphere and the nonprofit universe need to quickly get way more savvy about digital media and content creation,” Harrell-Edge added.
How Poverty Violence Shows Whose Lives Are “Worth” More in America
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 19, 2024
On a rainy day, Echol Cole and Robert Walker sought refuge inside the truck because segregation laws forbid them from sheltering inside a building. A University of California, Riverside paper published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in America.
Building Together: How to Create a Worker-Led Workforce Development System
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 4, 2025
Despite the workforce system’s call for universal access, very few women living on low incomes get access to public programs. In this project, frontline worker organizations and workforce development programs linked arms to integrate training and education on organizing and labor law into existing job training programs.
Our Bodies, Our Data, Our Destinies: Native American Women Harnessing Technology for the Benefit of Our People
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 10, 2025
We are forming collectives that enable our sisters and brothers to gain access to reproductive and gender-affirming care if and when their tribal governments (though legally sovereign nations) are located in states that have imposed legal restrictions on such services. 8 IJC uses technology to enhance the health impact of our work.
In This Time of Crisis, Social Justice Philanthropy Must Change Its Tune
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 16, 2025
Students, activists, and local governments pressured institutions to withdraw investments from companies profiting from the regime. As activist and Seattle University law professor Dean Spade has noted , Nonprofitizationis understood to be a response to the revolutionary movements of the mid-20th century.
Critical Coalitions
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JULY 22, 2025
Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc. Dwidar Jul.
Arab and Muslim Advocates Fight Back Against Federal Repression
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 15, 2025
The US government is kidnapping and abducting people from our community, Linda Sarsour, a nationally prominent author and a Palestinian American organizer from Brooklyn, told NPQ. The report also indicates that law enforcement encounters increased from 295 in 2023 to 506 in 2024a 71.5 This is a very disturbing trend. percent increase.
A Renewed Case for Funding the South
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
In a memo issued on January 24 by Charles Ezell, the acting director of the US Office of Personnel Management, federal departments and agencies were directed to take action to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and environmental justice office positions within sixty days. Who Is Hurt the Most?
Farmers Are Finally Getting Critical USDA Web Pages Back
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 3, 2025
In February, Earthjustice, an environmental law firm, and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the Environmental Working Group (EWG).
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