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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

.” 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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One month to go

MNA Association

You can message the committee by choosing (H) (H) Taxation on this form. TAX TREATMENT OF NONPROFITS HB870 – Revise tax rate for agricultural property owned by certain nonprofits HB870 proposes to require a property tax on agricultural land owned by certain nonprofits. Please reach out to members of the committee in opposition.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

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. A small change to employment law in 1974 enabled over 10 million workers to share in the profits of their employers.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

The rules governing the attraction of wealth to wealth are not laws of nature, nor are they immutable. Slavery became the economic engine of the United States, fueling wars and building industries, including agriculture, banking, small business, and manufacturing. Wealth is also extracted from the earth—from mining to fracking.

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Building a Solidarity Economy in the South (and Beyond)—Cooperation Jackson

NonProfit Quarterly

The practices rely on dynamics of collective care and social reproduction that are not primarily compelled by subjugation to the law of value within the capitalist system. See Amna Akbar, “Non-Reformist Reforms and Struggles over Life, Death, and Democracy,” Yale Law Journal 132, no. 8 (June 2023): 2497–577.

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

These successes transformed our agricultural practices, so that rather than relying on large commercial farms, regenerative farming practices gained prominence, creating food sovereignty. These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. 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.