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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Political Engagement and Maintain Public Trust

NonProfit Quarterly

Establish and affiliate with a 501c4 organization that, under federal tax law, is not subject to a public charity’s lobbying limits and can engage in political campaign intervention so long as it is not its primary activity. See Regan v.

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2023 Montana Legislature: Week One

MNA Association

MNA’s primary focus is on bills related to the nonprofit sector generally including Appropriations, Taxation, Ballot initiatives, Voting/Elections, Campaign Finance, and Lobbying. In addition we will be monitoring proposed changes to the Montana Constitution in the context of the MNA Public Policy Agenda.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

After World War II, NAM was joined by the Foundation for Economics Education and the Mount Pelerin Society, named for the community near Geneva, Switzerland, where the group was founded in 1947. That markets work and public policies fail. But the link with religion was not merely metaphorical. It was also strategic.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

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Why You Should Focus Your Fundraising Efforts on Generating Gifts of Wealth (from Assets) Not on Disposable Income (from Credit Cards, Checks, or Cash)

iMarketSmart

Of course, fundraisers should also educate themselves.)[19]. Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy, 14, 169-195. [4] Visual planned giving in color: An introduction to the law & taxation of charitable gift planning. When asked for an explanation, the fundraiser can share a story that teaches. Version 5.1.

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Meet the New Global Tax Haven, the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

There are many reasons, including public policies—both on the expenditure side (that is, government support for education, childcare, healthcare, and so on) and on the revenue side (that is, how progressive or regressive taxes are). What accounts for such extraordinary concentration of wealth at the top in the United States?

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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.