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From Band-Aids to Blueprint: How Nonprofits Can Engineer Systems Change through Advocacy and Public Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

It's about shifting power dynamics, dismantling harmful policies, and creating a new blueprint for a more equitable future. And yes, the crux of systems change is built on advocacy and public policy. If your organization is not involved in advocacy and public policy, you can’t truly say you are a systems change organization.

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  Freedom To Fight For DEI: How Legal Battles Affect Leadership Policies, Commitment

Fundraising Leadership

These issues demand response and action in the workplace now and require deep understanding of the laws, processes and practices in order to be successful in achieving parity and equity in leadership across gender, race and identity. “ “ Prevailing in an anti-DEI climate requires intention and effort.

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Co-op Federation Seeks to Shift Worker Co-op Movement into a Passing Gear

NonProfit Quarterly

In Chicago, speakers surveyed the growth of the past 20 years while setting forth goals to bring worker co-ops fully into the economic mainstream through movement infrastructure, public policy, and culture building. Increasingly, worker co-ops are making public policy gains.

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Finance: AMA Pushes For Charity Care Accountability

The NonProfit Times

Under legal and regulatory requirements in the Affordable Care Act, Internal Revenue Code, and state laws, nonprofit hospitals have broad flexibility in defining their own eligibility criteria for patients to qualify for financial assistance, as a result criteria vary across hospitals, according to information from the AMA.

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How Much Do Americans Trust Nonprofits? It’s Complicated.

NonProfit Quarterly

Americans have less trust in nonprofits to advocate for public policies and conduct nonpartisan voter engagement. There are clear pathways for nonprofits to increase public trust in the sector (7). Without the public’s trust, everything we do to advance our collective missions becomes harder, if not impossible.”

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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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How India’s Gig Worker Unions Are Fighting for Change

NonProfit Quarterly

According to a 2022 report by the Indian government-backed public policy group NITI Aayog , the number of Indian gig workers is expected to rise to 23.5 Indian labor law leaves millions of gig workers ambiguously defined. million by the decade’s end.