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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. See Regan v.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

When I started at Justice Funders, the majority of philanthropic assets were held in private foundations where a family board made decisions about how resources should be allocated.” “But These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities.

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Civil Society Undermined by Conflict, Disinformation, and Repression of Protest

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s very powerful conservative foundations that are sending money, sending their experts. Areas for advocacy could include progressive taxation, such as windfall and wealth taxes, social protection floors, universal basic incomes, union recognition and more effective business regulation” (33).

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Because higher education institutions provide the public good of education to surrounding communities, their property holdings are exempt from taxation in all 50 states. Colleges, universities, and their medical centers are registered with the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organizations.

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Finally, the questions you should ask that have been proven to lead to gifts from wealth

iMarketSmart

A private foundation?” “Do Visual planned giving: An introduction to the law and taxation of charitable gift planning. Would you be interested in learning how to give more at a lower cost by using the best assets for the gift?” After agreeing to a task, things change. Now, questions can be blunt.[26] Through a company?

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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.

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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. But the rules governing the attraction of wealth to wealth are not laws of nature, nor are they immutable. When the wealthy establish foundations and contribute money to these foundations, they receive tax benefits.