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Oppose HB 391: Fees on Nonprofit Property

MNA Association

in House Taxation, Room 172. All fees would be calculated based on square footage (sf) of property improvements, instead of assessed value. Improvements means the “buildings, structures, improvements, and alterations now constructed or at any time in the future constructed or placed upon the Land.”

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

A young adult explained how Yale’s expansion into the neighborhood was a direct agent of violence, both raising property values and pushing youth into dangerous enemy gang territory. The greater value of campus land is in its nonprofit tax- exempt status, which serves as a financial shelter for profitable research and private investors.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The fundamental premise of the Build and Fight Formula is that we must abandon our deficit-based perspective of scale and pivot to a perspective of bounty—one that appreciates the value of a multitude of autonomous organizing projects. Unfortunately, Mayor Lumumba died, from obscure causes, on Tuesday, February 25, 2014.