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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

This money is effectively sequestered until the government deems a project worth investing in, which often means the money goes to wealthly, mostly White developers for megaprojects that do more harm than good to the surrounding communities. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging.

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Drivers Cooperative-Colorado: Building a Social Co-op for Rideshare Drivers

NonProfit Quarterly

Social cooperatives share the same goal as other cooperatives, including following a principle of one person, one vote in organizational governance. DCC aims to obtain more contracts with local government agencies to provide increased service to people with disabilities, people living on low incomes, and elderly people.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

In the first half of the 20th century, the crisis of rural electrification ended when the government enabled neighbors to access loans for building their own electric co-ops. Mutualists do not expect governments to solve their problems for them, but Horowitz stresses that enabling public policy is necessary for mutualism to flourish.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Political Engagement and Maintain Public Trust

NonProfit Quarterly

Taxation with Representation of Washington , which held that the Section 501c3 prohibition of substantial lobbying was constitutional, concluding that an organization’s right to speak need not be subsidized. See Regan v.

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Can Taxes Reduce Inequality? What a Study of State and Local Taxes Tells Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) published Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, its seventh study on the topic since 1996 and its first since 2018. What Is State Taxation Like Today? A Progressive Path Can state taxation be progressive?

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

NonProfit Quarterly

First, democratic funds like Seed Commons, 4 Ujima Fund, 5 and the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund gave us a new model for how communities could steward and govern capital together. Two things changed how wealth was managed. New policies were passed that mandate that corporations and private foundations pay land taxes to local Tribes.

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Legislative Update – March 22

MNA Association

in Senate Taxation. The bill was heard in House Taxation and we await their decision. The bill will be heard in House Taxation on 03/24/2023. MNA will oppose and we encourage you to reach out to committee members. The bill will be heard 03/23/23 at 8:30 a.m. Please consider reaching out to the Committee in support.