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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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Commentary: The Stakes in Washington For Nonprofits In 2025

The NonProfit Times

In 2017, the last time Republicans took a whack at major tax reform, the GOP implemented a new tax on large university endowments to offset some of the costs associated with cutting taxes for individuals and businesses. Revenue from tariffs might only go so far. Prominent Washington, D.C.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Richard Wolff, cofounder of the nonprofit media organization Democracy at Work and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, elaborated on the CBO data. 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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Looking for Tax Money in All the Wrong Places: Structural Racism at the IRS

NonProfit Quarterly

That study, published by Stanford University, is authored by seven economists from Stanford, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and the Office of Tax Analysis at the US Department of Treasury (“Stanford study”). times the rate of non-Black taxpayers.”

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Congress Is Considering a Tax Bill That Doesn’t Restore the Expired Charitable Deduction. Let’s Change That.

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

ACTION ALERT On January 16, the chairs of the House and Senate tax committees announced a bill that includes series of tax breaks for families, businesses, and individuals, but that does not yet include restoration of the non-itemizer (universal) charitable deduction. billion over ten years, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

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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).

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

We successfully testified against six attempts to tax nonprofits, including property taxation of all healthcare organizations, unique taxes on nonprofit agricultural land, and the most perplexing of all, a bill that would charge unrelated business income tax on certain litigation expenses. Sadly, we saw more of this in 2023.