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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Political Engagement and Maintain Public Trust

NonProfit Quarterly

Balancing Free Speech and Nonpartisanship Nevertheless, the prohibition against political campaign intervention remains the law, and 501c3 organizations must comply with the Johnson Amendment or risk their tax-exempt status and the imposition of other penalties under federal and state laws.

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The Societal Role of Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair The field of social entrepreneurship often takes its normative foundations for granted. Social enterprises seek to address social problems using business strategies. Understanding how social innovation directly affects people’s lives is essential.

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Nonprofit Legal Compliance in an Unfriendly Political Environment

NonProfit Quarterly

Its board actions might be reversed because they were not taken pursuant to the organizations bylaws or applicable corporate laws. Ensure activities are operated consistent with all applicable laws , including Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code and any licensing, registration, zoning, and contractual requirements.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By 1948 Cafritz had amassed such wealth from real estate development that he incorporated a foundation bearing his and his wife’s name. It is also one of several DC-area foundations profiled in a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) on “ Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People.”

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The State of Prison Reform: A Conversation with Nazgol Ghandnoosh

NonProfit Quarterly

In this interview with NPQ , The Sentencing Project’s codirector of research, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, discusses the series, particularly the last installment, which examines how mass incarceration deepens inequality and harms public safety. That hasn’t become law, but that’s the momentum that’s happening around that issue.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. The IRS is currently completing its rollout of the new law. By Cinthia Schuman Ottinger & Jeff Williams. A Key to New Insights and Practices.