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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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.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
APRIL 28, 2025
By Maria Di Mento University of South Carolina Peter and Bonnie McCausland unveil the newly-renamed McCausland College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Peter and Bonnie McCauslands donation will back paid internships, neuroscience research programs, and faculty fellowships.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
APRIL 22, 2025
The law permits most colleges and universities to increase spending from their endowments in light of financial pressures, the author argues. The law permits most colleges and universities to increase spending from their endowments in light of financial pressures, the author argues. By Ellen P.
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. Ambassador to the United Nations Douglas Rutzen President & CEO International Center for Not-for-Profit Law Rutzen has quietly put out political fires in back rooms around the world. Cook, Ph.D.
Jeff Brooks
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Parkinsons Law. Law of Diminishing Returns. This is especially true for writing, as this post from Publication Coach says, at 9 mental models to help you write smarter, not harder. (I I left out one that I didnt think applied to fundraising writing as well. Tasks expand to fill the time available. Youll work faster. Occams Razor.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
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.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Sector-specific fundraising needs informed by unique data, such as managing alumni giving at universities or grateful patient programs for healthcare organizations. Legal compliance to remain aware of and abide by applicable AI laws and regulations. Collaboration to learn from other organizations committed to responsible AI use.
The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Foundations and universities have often been targeted for not just their large endowments but also for support of controversial topics and opinions. Organizations suspected of violating the law are rightly subject to criminal investigation and prosecution. Vice President-elect J.D. Section 4 of H.R.9495
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 14, 2025
Some states have a specific statute for worker co-ops; some of these laws may include provisions for minority nonworker members. An EOT uses existing trust law (specifically, the noncharitable perpetual purpose trust) to create a vehicle that can lock a mission (namely, benefiting employees) into the structure of the business.
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 18, 2025
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NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 16, 2025
While guardianship laws are often presented as tools for compassionate interventions, as implemented they frequently result in forced confinement in institutional settings in which patients may lack access to adequate care, housing options, or genuine recovery-oriented services.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 25, 2025
But this tendency is, fortunately, not universal—and some foundations and DAFs are stepping up. DAFs are far more loosely regulated than foundations, have no payout or transparency requirements stipulated by federal law, and they grant donors greater flexibility and autonomy to move and manage money. It’s no wonder why.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Moreover, the reliance on AI-driven tools has contributed to the militarization of police forces, which further alienates communities and distances law enforcement from community-based approaches.15 The Brink , Boston University, February 23, 2023, www.bu.edu/articles/2023/do -algorithms-reduce-bias-in-criminal-justice/.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
According to the Food Policy Network —a project of the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future—of the more than 300 food policy councils in the United States, a third are grassroots coalitions, while another 40 percent are nonprofits (or housed in nonprofits). Learn new structures Food Policy Councils take different forms.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
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. The 1800s saw the emergence of the Underground Railroad as well as the formation of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
Unlike big commercial banks, most public banks (and all California public banks under state law) will be nonprofits and use their earnings from loan interest and fees to reinvest in local economies and large-scale community-wide projects. While not yet prevalent in the United States, public banking is common globally. Are you ready?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 9, 2025
Casey, New Pluralists, Nellie Mae, The Kresge Foundation, New Commonwealth Fund, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Joyce Foundation, Prudential, Best Buy, Omidyar Network, Comcast NBC Universal, and The Communications Network. Her TED Talk on How Second Chance Laws Can Transform the Justice System has been viewed more than 1.1
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 28, 2025
In this time when people are being detained and deported, losing jobs, when the laws of the land are drastically shifting, how dare we take a moment for a deep breath? And yet we must.
iMarketSmart
JULY 11, 2025
Maximizing Impact with Limited Resources: Leveraging Marketing and Technology to Scale Planned Giving NCGPC Planned Giving Day 2025 Conference Session – July 17, 2025 Location: Washington College of Law, American University | Washington, DC Event Website In this session at Planned Giving Day 2025, MarketSmart’s Jeff Giannotto and Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s (..)
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. 5 This brings forth other pressing questions, such as: How are AI datasets acquired in the first place? Hao Liu et al., Inez Ruiz-White et al.,
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
For instance, in Paraguay, Riquelme said that co-ops, by law, must set aside 10 percent of profits for a co-op education development fund. In Puerto Rico, Ramirez similarly noted that Commonwealth law mandates that one percent of co-op profits be invested in new co-op development. That’s “phenomenal longevity,” he noted.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 16, 2025
Epsteins 2019 arrest for sex trafficking and sex crimes involving minors brought his relationship with the university to the forefront. Ito resigned just a few months later, the first of several tactics MIT leadership used to restore public trust in the university. Both Ito and MITs president at the time, L.
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. It needs universities. A 50-Year Foundation of Federal Investment The modern era of US cancer research began with the signing of the National Cancer Act in 1971. It needs industry.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
After months of quiet preparation, we went public with a community forum at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Student Center in late January 2009. My own role was webmaster and lead researcher. From there, we quickly became a trusted source of opposition and information on the Olympics and their impacts on host cities.
Candid
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Public charities primarily deliver programs to advance social well-being and by law may not engage in partisan political activities. public charities all have two key things in common: They are, by law, nonpartisan, and they exist to work toward the public good. Public charities represent 1.5 million of the 1.9 million U.S. nonprofits.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
If you were the president of the womens chess club at your university, that should count extra for you, right? Notes Shannon Vallor, The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2024). AI is not inherently a tool that must be used to consolidate wealth and power.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
The incident, involving a 26-year-old Syrian asylum seeker slated for deportation, reignited debate about Germanys deportation laws. Sometimes the refugee doesnt understand they are in a different country where they have to respect the laws and traditions, he reflected.
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.
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.
Fundraising Leadership
JANUARY 10, 2025
Read more updates on DEI in Take The Lead Science Daily reports, "Our society benefits when we have women as well as men as leaders in politics and business," observes Rachel Godsil, a professor at Rutgers Law School, co-founder of Perception Institute, and one of the paper's authors. "It
Fundraising Leadership
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Dr. Lily McNair, Take The Lead Board Chair and former President, Tuskegee University, says, I know from my own experience that organizations are stronger and more successful when women have an equal voice in leadership, says McNair. Learn more from Kathleen Turner at Power Up Conference 2024. Watch a round up of the Power Up Conference 2023.
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. Few colleges or universities have a single endowment fund. Harvard Universitys endowment, worth $53.2
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 30, 2025
Indeed, the organizations founding comes out of a successful campaign 35 years ago, in 1990 , to defend the Community Reinvestment Act a law passed in 1977 to counter redlining , by creating a legal affirmative obligation for banks to invest in low-income communities.
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.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 17, 2025
After Harvard University refused to comply with the administrations unprecedented demands for policy changes control, the administration froze more than $2 billion in federal funds for the university and threatened to revoke its tax-exempt status , which the IRS is planning to do, according to an April 16 CNN report.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 3, 2025
She has deep expertise in affirmative litigation, policy advocacy, and public law and previously served as special counsel to then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, focusing on civil rights, consumer fraud, and education issues. The key takeaway: The law remains firmly on the side of anti-discrimination efforts.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 8, 2025
Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, explored the critical role of legal strategy in protecting philanthropic work dedicated to racial justice in a challenging climate. A panel moderated by Tanya Kater Hernndez , Archibald R.
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