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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

These restrictions are the result of policy shifts that have quietly undermined the right to associate In principle, people in the United States have this right—Article 20 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that all people should be able to freely form associations to meet their collective needs.

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Class Not Dismissed: Mamdani, Nonprofits, and the Fight for Economic Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

The precariat, as University of London researcher Guy Standing outlines , can be understood as a social class defined by unstable employment, income insecurity, and an erosion of rights. It is a group that is increasingly organizing on its own behalf.

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Commentary: The Stakes in Washington For Nonprofits In 2025

The NonProfit Times

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. The threat of increased taxation feels more real than in decades, given how the sector has been scrutinized by Congress lately.

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How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Why Economic Development Subsidies Are Racist—and What to Do About Them

NonProfit Quarterly

Most often, school districts are passive losers to abatements legally controlled under state law by cities or counties.) Indeed, some of those first laws echoed verbatim anti-slum and blight ordinances from the Progressive Era. The data this reporting rule created is critical for defenders of public education.

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Civil Society Undermined by Conflict, Disinformation, and Repression of Protest

NonProfit Quarterly

Areas for advocacy could include progressive taxation, such as windfall and wealth taxes, social protection floors, universal basic incomes, union recognition and more effective business regulation” (33). Meanwhile, the right to protest “is under attack, even in longstanding democracies” (6).

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

HB307 ultimately passed and was signed into law. Join us in a shout out to Senator Greg Hertz , thanking him for his work in shepherding this bill successfully through to the Governor’s desk, where it was signed into law. Transparency within appropriate boundaries generates trust, which is the hallmark of the nonprofit sector.