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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

JUNE 12, 2023

.” Often, it’s a specialty issue that triggers the challenge: hospitals not paying property taxes yet having such a large real estate footprint, or nonprofits owning agricultural land and getting a “discounted” ag rate on their taxes yet not being ag producers. HB307 ultimately passed and was signed into law.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

pollinator gardens) into areas under commercial, residential, agricultural, or other uses can offer meaningful benefits. agriculture and forestry), land reduction and management opportunities lie in adopting innovative products and increasing the productivity and biodiversity features of their working lands.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

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Nonprofit Statuses: 501(c)(3) vs 501(c)(4) and more!

The Charity CFO

JULY 10, 2023

They’re focused on “public good” activities, like: Educational Scientific Religious Sports Public safety Etc. Federal tax law gives these groups an advantage by making donations to them tax-deductible, allowing donors to reduce their tax liability while helping these nonprofits stay afloat.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image Credit: Photo by Darla Hueske on Unsplash Travel across the United States today, and you’ll find in many small towns a towering grain elevator or a similar agricultural edifice looming over the rusty train tracks. Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association.

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Land Rematriation: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez, Donald Soctomah, Darren Ranco, Mali Obomsawin, Gabriela Alcalde, and Kate Dempsey

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mali Obomsawin: I would like to acknowledge that I’m a citizen of a nation that is not one of the nations in so-called Maine, so in terms of federal Indian law sovereignty, it does not apply to me in that context. They don’t just happen automatically without some of that Land Back politics, law, policy kind of thing.

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Co-op Leaders Consider Future as International Year of the Co-op Nears

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Narvaéz Ojeda emphasized the “fundamental” role of public policy in supporting cooperatives and remarked on the importance of institutionalization and participatory decision-making. 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.

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Legislative Tracker - Health & Human Services

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. To interrupt this pattern, public policy must, at minimum, implement policies that tax wealth to cut down on the excessive concentration of wealth over time.

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

SEPA became the first “social economy” law in Asia to address traditional-market failures and bring social objectives into a broader range of government-supported economic enterprises. The first legally registered worker cooperative was the Alternate Drivers’ Cooperative, which formed in 2010 before passage of the FAC law.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

They should all be taught the leadership skills that are critical for success in their field, regardless of whether their program is focused on agriculture, business, field work, bench science, public policy, public health, or any combination thereof. Here are three keys to meal sharing: 1. Manifest your values.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Accounting seems detached from causes such as fighting racism, resetting unjust laws, or upending false cultural narratives. Admittedly, my slogan doesn’t stir hearts and minds (and doesn’t get many laughs, either).

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What Does Finance for the People Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Road to Public Banking in New York For decades, private banks driven by profit have funneled public money into harmful practices like fossil fuel development and speculative real estate. The same holds true for credit unions, which are barred by state law from holding any public deposits, thanks to bank lobbying.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Until it was.

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2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. Try to make grants available for nonprofit Research and Development into Compressed Agricultural Fiber and Cross-Laminated timber for carbon-sequestering construction materials.

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Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

It started with the early rise of the agricultural industry built on chattel slavery, when cotton was king of the exported cash crops—although tobacco, sugarcane, and rice were good business as well. This is why we must organize the South: to set the country back on a path toward building a multiracial democracy. To finally win the Civil War.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. Law professor and activist Dean Spade has noted that the students he teaches often seek to be “nonprofit executive directors” even as they lack a clear idea of what they want to do. Emily Kawano et al.,

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

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Trending Sources

Nonprofit Statuses: 501(c)(3) vs 501(c)(4) and more!

Webinars

How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

Land Rematriation: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez, Donald Soctomah, Darren Ranco, Mali Obomsawin, Gabriela Alcalde, and Kate Dempsey

Co-op Leaders Consider Future as International Year of the Co-op Nears

Legislative Tracker - Health & Human Services

Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

Sharing Meals

Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

What Does Finance for the People Look Like?

Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power

Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

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