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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Political Engagement and Maintain Public Trust

NonProfit Quarterly

The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the Johnson Amendment—the provision in the code that prohibits 501c3 organizations from engaging in partisan electoral and political activities. Additionally, the Johnson Amendment helps safeguard public trust in 501c3 organizations.

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

There were remarkable and numerous attempts to make litigation a non-charitable activity which would then be taxed. Specific issues addressed by MNA Following is a recap of specific issues MNA addressed in the context of our Public Policy Agenda. This will come up again. If it seems long, well… it was a long session.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

As Quart writes, “Whether this omission was conscious and sneaky or such a universal form of falsification that Wilder didn’t need to actively suppress anything is unclear” (33). That markets work and public policies fail. Simply put, the Wilders did not make it on their own.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

This is neoliberalism, which is best understood as a politics in which the state acts to support the concentration of wealth among an elite few through its taxation, spending, and regulatory policies. But even absent open dictatorship, US government today is less a democracy than a plutocracy, ruled by the wealthy few.